The MTV VMAs Tackle Charlottesville and Suicide
The surprising highlights of the ceremony broke out of pop music’s echo chamber.
In pop, as in other arenas, conflict is the quickest way to cause conversation, as MTV’s Video Music Awards well know. At Sundaynight’s ceremony, Taylor Swift didn’t show up for a confrontation with Katy Perry like she’d been , but she did premiere a sour, super-meta about the small scandals of her career. Remy Ma, the rapper who’s let the latest phase of her public career be dominated by a war of words with Nicki
