Female artists dominated last night’s MTV Video Music Awards with a certain Taylor Swift – you might just have heard of her - taking home no less than seven awards, taking her overall career total to a whopping 30.
That surpasses Beyonce’s record of 29 and indeed Swift nabbed the most prestigious award, Video Of The Year, for a third year running for her song Fortnight. As befitting her current position of all round cultural leader, it was she who in her first acceptance speech acknowledged the anniversary of 9/11, saying: “Waking up this morning in New York on September 11th, I’ve just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago.
