Los Angeles (CNN) -- What better disposition to rebound off this year's host-less MTV Video Music Awards than Lady Gaga's tough-guy alter-ego: pompadour-sporting, cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling slot the show with a monologue and portrayal of Gaga's modern development unique "You and I" joined by a association of Calderone-clone backup dancers and a customer guitar accompaniment by Queen's Brian May. But onto the awards! To proffer the moonman for best bulge video, Nicki Minaj and Jonah Hill had a consciously ungraceful and inept quid pro quo in credentials to Hill's dramaturgic consequence shrinkage and whether he could still be funny now that he's slimmed down. VMAs diva Britney Spears won the gold award of the eventide for "Till the World Ends" and thanked God, her babies Jayden and Preston and her bruited about beau Jason Trawick in her acceptance speech. We got a glimpse into some of the artists' backstage rituals through interstitial video clips. Lady Gaga's awful egg incubator made another manner as we were told that she was inside, hibernating.
Jay-Z and Kanye West surprised the audience with a execution of "Otis," from their most recent cooperative album, "Watch the Throne." An audience fellow then had a shocker of his own and jumped on-stage before being at once chased off. Demi Lovato and "Glee's" Chord Overstreet presented the assign for best collaboration to Katy Perry and Kanye West for "E.T." Perry cheekily said, "Now's the tempo you want to chime in me, Kanye," referring to his shameful VMA minute with Taylor Swift.
Perry then changed into a thorough violet gown to advance songster Adele's VMAs debut bringing off of "Someone Like You." Perry said Adele is "one of my favorite artists." Kim Kardashian presented Justin Bieber with the best manly video for "Smile." Bieber gave thanks "not only to God, but to Jesus" and shared his earn with his person nominees.
Joe Jonas and Victoria Justice introduced Chris Brown's high-flying shindig performance. He popped, locked and shimmied and shook to a mishmash of songs including Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." His dynamism strictly propelled him into the air, where he levitated and flipped across the captivated audience. Gaga's Joe Calderone then returned to the condition to inject the exaction to "one of [her] biggest inspirations, Britney Spears.
" "Britney taught me how to be fearless. She taught us all how to be fearless," she said. A troupe of dancers performed Britney's biggest hits, including "Baby One More Time," "Oops I Did It Again," "Toxic," "Slave For You" and newer hits "Hold It Against Me" and "Till the World Ends" while Britney watched from the audience before she was presented with the Michael Jackson video vanguard award.
There was almost another Britney VMA touch when she got on originate to brook her bestow from Gaga/Joe. There was a sensuous gawk down that almost ended in a liplock, but Britney indisputable against it. "No, I've done that already," the thrush said. After she accepted her award, she introduced Beyonce's scene of "Love on Top." Beyonce, who had just spilled the beans on her pregnancy on the VMAs red carpet, prefaced the number by saying "I want you to undergo the partiality that's growing core of me" and ended by popping palpable her sequin jacket and rubbing her belly to a happy and cheering crowd.
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