{"id":21230,"date":"2021-09-13T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/?p=21230"},"modified":"2021-09-13T11:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:00:56","slug":"madonna-kicks-off-2021-vmas-they-said-we-wouldnt-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2021\/madonna-kicks-off-2021-vmas-they-said-we-wouldnt-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Kicks Off 2021 VMAs: &#8216;They Said We Wouldn&#8217;t Last&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21231\" style=\"width: 1320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21231\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21231\" src=\"http:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vmas_021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1310\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vmas_021.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vmas_021-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vmas_021-5x5.jpg 5w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Shearer\/MTV VMAs 2021\/Getty Images for MTV\/ViacomCBS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/awards\/9628356\/madonna-2021-vmas-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <strong>Billboard.com<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2021 VMAs<\/strong> kicked off Sunday evening in <strong>New York City<\/strong> with a cold open from the Queen of Pop, <strong>Madonna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In a pre-taped video, Madonna paid homage to her culture-shifting history with the network and its signature awards show in particular.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAround 40 years ago I came to New York City with nothing but $35 and a pair of dance shoes.<br \/>\nForty years ago, another underdog arrived in New York City hoping to create something revolutionary. An all-music channel premiered in the middle of the night and called itself MTV. We found each other and formed a bond that changed my life, changed music and created a whole new art form. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s only one place to be tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True to her word, <strong>Madonna<\/strong> followed up her video segment with an in-person appearance at the 2021 VMAs. Strutting out of the stage at Barclays Center in Brooklyn in her <strong>Madame X<\/strong> finery, Madonna declared:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They said we wouldn&#8217;t last, but we&#8217;re still here motherfuckers. Happy 40th, MTV.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Madonna&#8217;s then-controversial performance of <em><strong>Like a Virgin<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0at the inaugural 1984 VMAs went a long way toward pushing the pop singer into the realm of headline-grabbing superstardom. And of course, her infamous kiss with Britney Spears at the 2003 VMAs is one of the show&#8217;s most iconic moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>2021 VMAs<\/strong> kicked off Sunday evening in <strong>New York City<\/strong> with a cold open from the Queen of Pop, <strong>Madonna<\/strong>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/2021\/madonna-kicks-off-2021-vmas-they-said-we-wouldnt-last\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[279,110,669],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/vmas_020.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFGP-5wq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21233,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions\/21233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.madonnatribe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}