Taylor Swift made the “entire position shimmer” on the 2022 American Tune Awards on Sunday as she gained six trophies on the rite together with the award for “Artist of the 12 months.”
Swift, who gained her 7th “Artist of the 12 months” award in her profession, was the primary artist within the rite’s 50-year historical past to win 40 AMAs on an evening that featured wins by means of different icons together with Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar and Harry Kinds.
The rite, hosted by means of Wayne Brady, additionally featured a tribute to the 2022 “AMA Icon Award” winner Lionel Richie the place Stevie Marvel and Charlie Puth performed a lot of songs from Richie and the Commodores.
The pair later closed the musical tribute with a efficiency of “We Are the International” along Ari Lennox, Smokey Robinson and others.
However the evening belonged to Swift, the most-awarded artist in AMAs historical past forward of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, who took house wins for her “All Too Smartly (Taylor’s Model)” song video and her album “Crimson (Taylor’s Model).”
Swift, in her “Artist of the 12 months” acceptance speech, touched at the choice of albums she’s launched in recent times and the way it’s tied to her lovers’ urge to listen to the song she makes.
“You inspired me and I discovered that the extra song I made and the extra song I put out, the happier I used to be, the extra I simply saved that channel open and simply saved growing, saved making issues…,” Swift stated.
″So I’ve the lovers to thank, necessarily, for my happiness and I really like you greater than I will be able to say, I can’t categorical how incredible it’s to me that I nonetheless get to do that and that you simply nonetheless care.”
The AMAs, which came about at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, additionally integrated extra severe moments the place stars mirrored at the fatal mass capturing at a Colorado Springs’ LGBTQ nightclub on Saturday.
The AMAs “New Artist of the 12 months” winner Dove Cameron, who identifies as queer, addressed the capturing all over her acceptance speech and highlighted the significance of queer visibility.
“I need to remind you that you’re made completely proper, and you’re so cherished and so held,” Cameron stated.
Kim Petras, the primary brazenly transgender musician to succeed in the highest spot on Billboard’s Scorching 100, took a second from an on-stage presentation to statement on homosexual golf equipment raised her and the way she hasn’t stopped pondering in regards to the tragedy.
“My middle is going out to you,” Petras stated.