Taylor Swift won de grootste prijs van de avond op de MTV Video Music Awards en kreeg de Video of the Year Moonperson voor haar single-take productie “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Op het podium uitte de artiest trots op de technische eisen van het project. Ze beschreef de uitdaging om één continu shot te behouden en het zorgvuldige werk dat nodig was om edits te verbergen in het stuk.
Dolly Parton ontving een hartelijke hulde van Swift, die de country-legende prees als de ultieme showgirl en haar storytelling crediteerde als een blijvende bron van inspiratie.
I want to thank and dedicate this award to one person, without whom just this wouldn’t be happening, and that person is the ultimate showgirl, Dolly Parton. Every single song that she wrote, her storytelling was so vivid and so rich. It was like listening to her songs. It’s like watching the best music video you have ever seen in your life every single time you hear what she has written, and she handled this thing with such grace and joy and love and gratitude for the fact that she got to do this, and everything that happened in her life or her career, she channeled back into love, and gratitude and appreciation for her fans. I am lucky I got to be one of them, and I will always be one of them. I love you all so very much, and I think that we were all very, very… I think we were all very lucky to share this planet with Dolly Parton for a time, and thank you for this amazing moment. I love you all.