Here’s who won the Best Rock and Alternative awards at the MTV VMAs
Coldplay won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video for their song “Orphans.”
The band beat out blink-182 (“Happy Days”), Evanescence (“Wasted on You”), Green Day (“Oh Yeah!”), Fall Out Boy feat. Wycleaf Jean (“Dear Future Self (Hands Up)”) and the Killers (“Caution”) during the August 30 award show.
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Coldplay have just won the Rock Video #VMAs for their clip Orphans.
Congratulations Legends ? pic.twitter.com/fcdXsIoV4p
— ColdplayXtra (@coldplayxtra) August 31, 2020
Earlier in the night, Machine Gun Kelly received the award for Best Alternative for his song “Bloody Valentine.”
The “bloody valentine” music video, which co-stars Megan Fox, went up against the 1975 (“If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”), All Time Low (“Some Kind Of Disaster”), FINNEAS (“Let’s Fall in Love for the Night”), Lana Del Rey (“Doin’ Time”) and twenty one pilots (“Level of Concern”) in the category.
Check out Travis Mills presenting the award to MGK below.
CONGRATS to @machinegunkelly for scoring the #VMA for Best Alternative! ?? pic.twitter.com/ouwfTQEphj
— MTV (@MTV) August 30, 2020
CONGRATS to @machinegunkelly for winning the #VMA for BEST ALTERNATIVE for #BloodyValentine!! ♥️ pic.twitter.com/qTWpLGNk9G
— MTV (@MTV) August 30, 2020
MGK took to Twitter after his win to thank fans.
“THIS IS THE BEST TWEET IVE EVER GOT!!!! where are the fans at, i’m coming to your fuckn living rooms right now to hug everybody !!,” he tweeted.
“they didn’t play my acceptance speech on TV but i saw someone posted the whole thing online if u wanna see ***i was nervous and shocked anyways BUT…***,” he continued.
THIS IS THE BEST TWEET IVE EVER GOT!!!!
where are the fans at, i’m coming to your fuckn living rooms right now to hug everybody !! https://t.co/uyar8ZkWcu— Blonde Don (@machinegunkelly) August 30, 2020
they didn’t play my acceptance speech on TV but i saw someone posted the whole thing online if u wanna see
***i was nervous and shocked anyways BUT…***
??????????????— Blonde Don (@machinegunkelly) August 30, 2020
You can follow along with the rest of the 2020 VMAs winners here.
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