MTV Announces First VMA 2021 Performances: Watch + Listen

MTV Announces First VMA 2021 Performances: Watch + Listen Scheduled to air live from Brooklyns Barclays Center on September 12th Olivia Ro...

MTV Announces First VMA 2021 Performances: Watch + Listen

Scheduled to air live from Brooklyns Barclays Center on September 12th Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X, Camila Cabello, Machine Gun Kelly and Lorde have been tapped to perform at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.

Sharing details about some of the confirmed artists, Rodrigo will sing Good For U, Cabello will perform Dont Go Yet, Machine Gun Kelly will play his new single  Papercuts and Lorde is set to offer up a world premiere performance of a song from her new Solar Power album. No particulars have yet been leaked about what Lil Nas X has in store.

With additional performances to be confirmed, Rodrigo, Lil Nas X and Machine Gun Kelly are all up for Moon Man trophies this year with the first two artists nominated for five awards each, the former picking up looks for Artist of the Year and Song of the Year (for Drivers License), and the latter vying for Video of the Year and Video for Good (both for Montero). Meanwhile, Machine Gun Kelly is up for Best Alternative Video for My Exs Best Friend.

Other top nominees at this years VMAs include Justin Bieber, who leads all artists with seven, and Megan Thee Stallion, who picked up six. Doja Cat, Billie Eilish, Drake, BTS and Giveon also received five each, along with Rodrigo and Lil Nas X.

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Author: Brad LeBeau

Photo: Milan Alicia Miller