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Halsey, Benson Boone, Lisa, and Lenny Kravitz Will Perform at the 2024 VMAs

Halsey, Benson Boone, Lisa, and Lenny Kravitz Will Perform at the 2024 VMAs
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By Tomás MierAug 21, 2024
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The VMAs are getting even more legendary. On Wednesday morning, MTV announced that Halsey, Benson Boone, Lisa, and Lenny Kravitz will perform at the Video Music Awards on Sept. 11 in New York.

Boone has had a massive year thanks to his hit track, “Beautiful Things.” He’s up for three awards including Best New Artist and Best Alternative. Halsey — who returned with “Lucky” this summer — is up for Artist of the Year after winning Best K-Pop in 2019 for “Boy With Luv” alongside BTS. She last performed at the awards show in 2016, when she joined the Chainsmokers for a rendition of “Closer.”

Lisa will make her VMAs solo performance debut next month after releasing “New Woman” with Rosalía last week anddropping “Rockstar” earlier this summer. She became the first solo K-pop star to win a Moon Person thanks to her single “Lalisa” in 2022. (Blackpink performed “Pink Venom” onstage that year.)

Meanwhile, Kravitz will perform at the VMAs for the first time in over 25 years after taking the stage in 1993 for a performance of “Are You Gonna Go My Way” alongside John Paul Jones, and in 1998, when he joined Madonna for a rendition of “Ray of Light.” The VMAs have yet to announce what he’ll perform, but he’s up for Best Rock for his single “Human.”

The new performer announcement comes about a week after the VMAs revealed that Camila Cabello, Chappell Roan, GloRilla, Sabrina Carpenter, and Rauw Alejandro will also hit the stage at the awards show at the UBS Arena in New York City. MTV also revealed last week that pop icon Katy Perry will take home the Video Vanguard trophy and perform a medley of her hits as well.

The VMAs dropped its list of nominees earlier this month, with Taylor Swift leading the charge with 10 total nominations, many of which were for Tortured Poets Department single with Post Malone, “Fortnight,” including for Video of the Year. Malone picked up nine nods, Ariana Grande has six, as does Eminem and Carpenter. The Artist of the Year category includes Swift, Grande, Eminem, Carpenter, Bad Bunny, and SZA.

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Pierre Lapointe, Grand duke of broken souls

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Pierre Lapointe, Grand duke of broken souls

Many years ago, while studying theatrical performance at Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, Pierre Lapointe was given a peculiar exercise by his teacher. The students were asked to walk from one end of the classroom to the other while observing their peers. Based solely on their gait, posture, and gaze, they had to assign each other certain qualities, a character, or even a profession.

Lapointe remembers being told that there was something princely about him. That was not exactly the term that this young, queer student, freshly emancipated from the Outaouais region and marked by a childhood tinged with near-chronic sadness, would have instinctively chosen for himself. Though he had been unaware of his own regal qualities, he has spent more than 20 years trying to shed this image, one he admits he may have subtly cultivated in his early days.

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