VMAs Presentation and Taylor Swift Tribute

Whoop.

Drop it like it's hot.

What up, VMAs?

Unlike this next presenter, I've had many names: Snoop

Doggy Dogg, DJ Snoopadelic, Snoop

Scorsese,

or Snoop DiCaprio when I choose to act.

Speaking of dominating movie screens, this next starlet has been doing it

for over 10 years, and she's here to deliver a very special

award. Please start clapping now for the star of

the upcoming

film Varity, Miss Dakota Johnson.

Taylor Swift... Thank you, Snoop Dogg, by the way.

Taylor Swift is a storyteller.

She is an architect of emotional landscapes filled with the most

intimate and intricate detail.

She captures universal feelings with a style and endowment that is

entirely and singularly her own.

She does it in her writing, her performing, and her work behind

the camera as a director.

Taylor has spent the majority of her life on set telling

tales and building worlds.

She isn't just one of the most decorated artists in the history of the VMAs,

she is the single most recognized video director in this show's

history.

She is a visionary with a relentless drive for perfection

in everything she does, and still holds the artistry and

the cardinal virtue to never lose sight of the ineffable magic spark

at the center of it all.

Take a look.

It is my absolute pleasure to introduce the recipient of the

first ever VMA Artist Director Honor, my

girl, Taylor Swift.

You were on my mind. You were just haunting the thoughts.

Now I can't sleep at all.

Please come back. Let me out of my prison. Save my heart from this prison.

It's falling into you.

You knew it from the way I gazed. Your tears, a scar.

Don't you need to see your hands?

Your touch, your heart. You

can't run now, you're mine. 'Cause I'm your voice.

Got to be the secret smile you've been dreaming of.