Taylor Swift Praises Travis Kelce’s ‘Fun and Magic’ on ‘Fortnight’ Set as She Wins Video of the Year at 2024 MTV VMAs

The votes are coming in — Taylor Swift won video of the year!

At the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, the 34-year-old pop superstar took home perhaps the most coveted Moon Person of the night, video of the year, for “Fortnight” with Post Malone — beating out Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Eminem and SZA.

While accepting the award at UBS Arena, Swift thanked the many people who worked on the music video — plus her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

“Directing this video, putting it together and writing it was the most amazing experience, and that’s because of all the people I got to make it with — and that includes Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles, who were amazing cameos, and that includes my amazing cinematographer [and] Rodrigo Prieto, who goes above and beyond when working with female directors,” she began. “He’s a genius and I can’t believe I got to work with him as well as Ethan Tobman, my amazing production designer, who I worked with on the Eras Tour.”

Taylor Swift and Post Malone accept Video of the Year at the MTV VMAs.

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Swift continued, “Post Malone, who we all love so much. The things that this video, it looks really sad when you watch it, but it was actually the most fun video I’ve ever made, and something I’ll always remember is when I finished the video and I said ‘cut’ and we’d be done with that record, I’d always just hear someone cheering from the other side of the studio where we were recording it, and that one person was my boyfriend, Travis.”

“Everything this man touches turns into happiness and fun and magic,” she added of the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 34. “So I want to thank him for adding that to our shoot because I’ll always remember that.”

She then turned her attention to the Swifties: “And as for the fans, I’m always trying to find a way to say ‘thank you’ for making my life what it is, for making the Eras Tour what it has become, making Department for tortured poets what has become. That’s all you did and voted for this award, so thank you MTV for giving me this opportunity to thank the fans. So thank you for what you’ve done, and the fact that this is a fan-voted award and that you voted for this, I really appreciate it.”

Finally, Swift closed her speech by urging fans to vote — shortly after endorsing Kamala Harris: “And if you’re over 18, please register to vote for something else that’s very important — the upcoming presidential election.”

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at the US Open on September 8.

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Rounded out by her nomination for video of the year, the Department for tortured poets the singer led the night in nominations, with 12.

Along with the other five nominations, Grande (29) was up for video of the year for one of her nominations Eternal Sun visual elements: “We can’t be friends (Wait for your love).”

Inspired by the plot of the 2004 film that inspired the album’s title, Eternal sunshine of a flawless mindthe Christian Breslaur-directed music video features Grande undergoing a memory-wiping procedure of her ex-boyfriend (Evan Peters).

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Eilisha’s “LUNCH” was also a prize. Self directed music video for Hit me hard and soft the song features the 22-year-old singer dancing around and leans heavily on a ’90s aesthetic and vibrant primary color visuals.

Doja Cat, meanwhile, was nominated for “Paint the Town Red.” As well as another 28-year-old singer and rapper Crimson visuals, viral song video, direction IdolNina McNeely, has many demon-inspired characters and themes.

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Hotter than release The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)Eminem was up for video of the year for his nostalgic (and star-studded!) music video “Houdini”.

The rap icon’s heavily nominated visual, directed by Rich Lee, drew inspiration from his early work and featured cameos by Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Shane Gillis and Pete Davidson.

SZA rounded out the video of the year nominations with her visual for “Snooze,” which she co-wrote with director Bradley J. Calder.

The dreamy video inspired by the film follows the singer (34) through several relationships with guys played by Justin Bieber, Benny Blanco, Young Mazino and Woody McClain — as well as a robot.

The 2024 MTV VMAs air on September 11 at 8:00 PM ET/PT live from the UBS Arena in New York City.

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