The MTV Video Music Awards 2012 are currently underway at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. As ever, That Grape Juice will be providing you with performances as they occur!
Check out performances from Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Pink, Frank Ocean, and more below. Keep refreshing, as we’ll be updating minute-by-minute:
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Rihanna was OK. Why she performed “Cockiness” I’ll never know. As usual tho “We Found Love” was LIFE
P!nk’s backgrounds were way too high, she doesn’t need all that s***
When i Heard Cockiness i was like that f*** why she choose this s***
and we found love she was missing some notes she sounded like a goat yet people was getting all hyped I cant and couldn’t and i refused it was straight fuckey
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I remember when I was a kid and used to get excited that this show was happening. Now that I’m officially old and rock is dead… who cares? Kids these days.fans who miss the show., watch MTV VMA 2012 All Performance Video Here
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I LIKED BOTH P!NK AND RIHANNA !!
Rihanna was horrible she sounded all pitchy and missin some notes
Pink did good i liked her performance
Pink is ALWAYS on point
Why Rihanna, why?? This was your chance to steal the show!!! Why did you blow it?
DEAD
LMFAO they almost had to escort Rihta Ora off the stage
“Ma’am, ma’am the audience isn’t allowed to be up here”
‘OH no I’m a presenter’
“MA’AM PLEASE HAVE A SEAT”
She looked so odd. I could feel the “who is she” looks everyone was giving from all across America.
lol i honestly felt bad for her. My sister said “wow she put that wig on fast” thinking it was Rihanna post-performance. I had to let her in lol
@JER DEAD, say it ain’t so
Lol, not surprising, but she must of been from far away, Rih is far prettier!
Did u see Rita Ora try to fight Demi lovato for the attention? Everyone was look at her like, who is this ugly ass? LOL at her thirsty desperation – she changed to present an award. Who does that? The dress look like a cheap Lady gaga knock off, all those feathers and s***.
In fact, Rita look as basic and ugly as Demi lovato, they looked like sisters. Rih killed it. As usual.
I know, they had to drag Rita off the stage. Let see if RIP enters the charts of the back of this. It is shocking this flop gets to present an award at the MTV.
kill yo self
Rihanna,
You kill yourself. I am enjoying yourself. Your life should end as you have proven to be miserable. The good thing about you killing yourself, is that you do to read my comments. So get to it.
In think Rita changed to the white, because she knows Rih wears white alot on and she got feedback that she was the tackiest and sleaziest on the night. All girls – even Rih went classy and she looked dumb with her boobs out. That is why she changed. Either way, she was the worst dressed on the night
Love Rih’s performance…S*** as b****!! Did anyone checked on Drakesha to see if she was ok?
“ass”
“check” can’t even spell, from dancing and typing at the same time. lol
YOu aresoooo f***** funny DRakesha Ahahaaa!!!
Oh my ears, and oh my eyes. Rihanna b**** i pretty sure there are several seats available
RIHANNA SALYYYYYYYED
BEST !!!!!!
THE SYNTHS THE MOVE STAGE PRESENCE CONTACT WITH AUDIENCE ENTRANCE THEATRICS CLOSING
IT WAS FLAWLESSS
Rihanna I love you but you need to swim back to the U.k to get the weed you smoked to make you sound so good with coldplay, and drink some water on the way!
GREAT DANCING BY THE WAY! I loved the choreo, (except her runnin in the crowd!)
why the f*** you nasty people hate this girl so much
I think riri shuld focus on dancing more like britney n janet voice wise they werent great but performing was really good
Agree!
Go PINK!!!! Rih never was an singer, but it was just OK!!!
Oh the queen of all queens is on Miss Frank Ocean. With that raggedy ass band on his head.
take a note from your screen name _____________. thank you
Lmao!
OMGOMGOMFUCKNGAAAAWD U SLAY THE F*** OUTTA DAT GIRL LMMFAOLOLOL!!!! #READ
That read was EPIC chile
Lmao Stop it LOL!!!
WTF is this Frank Ocean. Honey boo boo you are not Prince or Robin Thicke. What a typical R&B snooze. Your introduction fo the mainstream should have been hott, not boring commercial break.
Frank killed it
Im being harsh, but she will kill a DVD for someone else but not realease her own. She will come on stage sounding like she needs a glass of water fast! She needs to get her priorites straight! I was expected an Ama performance but this was… weird. It had good dancing but I can’t excuse her singing and sonding hoarse, constricted and in pain.
Also! What exactly does her vocal coach do? Because she odes have one and she sounds the same every day, some days better or worse. Does he just smile and nod all day, sigh, yes men can suck my d***.
He vocal coach needs to be fire! I love Rih…even though her voice wasn’t so great, but at least the dancing and stage was pretty good.
I know! He has her going out there sounding like this day after day and then makes it up by lettign her sound good every tenthy time! Her choreographer however…
That called being in check!
THE CROWD LOVED IT!! …I DIDNT THINK IT WAS BAD AT ALL…SHE WAS OUT OF BREATH AND PPL IN THE CROWD WAS GRABBING HER AND SHE STILL HELD HER OWN….BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGHT FOR ME SO FAR AND NOT JUST SAYING THAT CAUSE I AM PART OF THE NAVY…..BUT HEY WE ALL GOT OUR OPINIONS
I was hype about her performance. She looked so pretty! 🙂
OMG U SEE RIHANNA DANCING , SHE WAS GETTING DOWN WITH HER BAD SELF!!……THEN SHE JUST WALKED IN THE AUDIENCE AND SANG HER HURT OUT…BEAUTIFUL!!!
She was dancing her heart out with ASAP! LOVE IT!
u r so stupid. u call that stiff mess dancing?
btw typing the caps wont make the performance seem less boring that it is
Rihanna’s was good, i liked her attitude on stage but why she performs We Found Love and not Where Have You Been, i love to see Rihanna voguing her v*****.
C’mon Vogue…..
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Where’s Taylor’s performance??????? She actually made me buy her single after the show with her showing of Never Getting Back Together.. 🙂
Because We Found Love was nominated throughout the night. The same reason Beyonce performed Single Ladies in 09 when at the time it was almost a year old. Artists tend to perform the song that is nominated, doesnt take a rocket science to think that… sorry bout it.
She performed those songs way too much. I’m glad she switched to something more hiphop.
you people on here live to hate the more you hate rihanna she makes more money
No she is not! Rihanna’s day is over no body on her but you and it’s not hate it’s fact. Rihannat was up there looking cute nothing more and she did it for Chris Brown. The worst performance so far of the nigth was hers and wait till tomorrow when the reviews comes out and they ask was she not suppose to sing along with that? Holding a mike and moving is not talent!!! But y’all dont know nothing about that kind of stuff… Terrible!!!
chile we stating FACTS, no hate
A damn MESS
WTH is all I have to say about Rihanna’s performance
Drake boo boo umm I’m need you to give Nicki back her shirt. WtF the whole young money crew up on the stage for?
Rihanna was terrible! She moved and could not sing along with it, stop giving her credit for doing nothing!!! If that’s all you want from your artist you so call stan for than you need help! Pink should have open the show cause that’s what it should have sounded been like…
Do you really think rihtards know the meaning of “good vocals”, “stage presence”, “good choreography”. Hell no! They see us, the BeyHive, using them and they repeat it like f****** monkeys. They don’t know nothing about music, talent and history. That’s why they’re known as rihtards! R****** could p*** on herself on the stage and they’d call it epic. LOL.
Yessssssss you gave facts True they really do have low standards they are not in any position to criticize others specially when it come to talent i lol at them everyday all day
Nobody likes they Beyhive. Nobody imitates the beyhive. Nobody befreidn the Beyhive. We mock you on twitter, laugh at the face that ur alll flamboyant queens and now basic descriptions of performances are us imitating you HAHHA were not ur fve were original!
ONE DIRECTION>>>>> RIHANNA PERFORMANCE
yassss PINK!! SHOW THEM HOW TO GIVE AN ENERGETIC PERFORMANCE W/O SOUNDING LIKE S***!!! 🙂
I liked Rihanna’s “Cockiness” performance! * looks around–just me? *
However, WFL…..no.
Darn! I cannot see the videos.
DEADDDDD!~!!! YASS NICKI SLAY RIHOENA AND KATY PERRY & BEYAWNCE!!! MTV AWARD WIN!!!!
Go suck d*** b****
P!nk did a great job! She had a lot of energy, she definitely raised the bar. She had the crowd going too! Despite the great performance, I’m STILL not here for the song though. 😀 😀 Anyway, congrats to her. She did great 😎
THEY SNUB RIHANNA OUT OF TWO AWARDS….IF SHE DONT WIN VIDEO OF THE YEAR I AM GONNA FREAK…… F#CK MTV, THIS IS BULLSHI#!!
I don’t blame MTV. Who is deciding the winners are the “people” (aka stans).
yeah I’m sorry but Rihanna served the best video of her career and one of the best pop videos in years. “Starships” is some Murder Inc 2002
I’m sorry but having One Direction perform followed immediately by The Wanted presenting… is that a read? I can’t tell. The fact that they weren’t asked to perform while One Direction was is shade IMO.
2 chainzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz true
Bad production though TRuuuuuuuuuuu (2 chainz)
Bandwagoners can dislike my comments as much as they want to, but the truth is that Frank Ocean’s vocals were forced and pitchy and that his stage presence was lacking. Sorry…
TRUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
People have bad taste…he hit his notes ,voice sounded strong didn’t waver,squeal,stutter,or crack
he had the most talked about performance of the night slaying your favs like i said he would
u been so condescending towards Frank, i dont trust ur comment
OMG!..those kids One Gaytion are terrible, if i have at least one dislike i’m going to see what I was afraid of that on this site there are basic b****** who loves these basic artirts.
those skinny white boys were cute as hell tho. Had me robbin the grave goot lawt they better not ever put that mess on TV again
Oh God!..you are one of those b******.
eat it up
As usual, Rihanna was terrible and proved that the only reason she is on stage is because she gives good head backstage.
There Was Nothing Bad About It, It Just Bored Me A Little.
She Has Definatly Improved Since ’05 Tho.
P.S. I Liked Cockiness Way Better Than We Found Love Performance.
this whole show is a damn mess……WHERE IS BEYONCE WHEN YOU NEED HER.
She’s at home having all the seats b****
Aww don’t get mad cus r**** sucks
#webadumad
OMG!…this guy Frank is not material for me, i thought he was a phenomenon since you all were crazy about him, he’s a vocalist, he’s very talented, what the f***, he fails to impress me, sorry and i don’t like a man singing like a woman.
S****** Blonde, no one care what you like. You don’t even belong here. You’re like that pesky dork that is always bothering the cool kids. No one likes you.
He be singing about sucking d***
but you steady asking someone to kiss your ass… what’s the difference?
Frank has more bass in his voice than most male singers ,he sings mostly in falsetto this one song–f*** it b**** stick to watching p***
“sings like a woman” ??? Were u talking about Prince???
Just say it´s not your cup of tea, but singing like a woman???
WHERE IS BEYONCE ?
Refrigerating breast milk from blue ivorys mother b****, not sit your tired ass down!
If you say so….that would have been BEYONCE show if she was there don’t act brand new boo
I see you you Nicki,and congratz on winning best female video award,you just made history for a female rapper to win in that category.
yessss B****
Sorry a real rapper acheived this already in 1999, a Miss Lauryn Hill. Oops
speak on it ayo!
Frank has no business even being there. Save him for LOGO.
You are super pressed, huh? now tell me, how are you familiar with the LOGO station?
F*** WHY YOU HATING??? WOULD U LIKE IT IF IT WAS TECHNO??
I know I would like it if it was good
Rihanna dance performance on stage she’s not a dancer but she pulled it off good job. Pink be jammin gotta give it to her the ladies were really good.
I want to know how the DUde feel about Frank Ocean song cause i know it about him…I know he knows the song is about him. Frank Ocean said homie broke up with him and Frank was thinking about forever. When i hear this song it make me think of my ex Peanutt.
If Rihanna was not there, this awards would tank. Who do they have? Rita Ora? Demi lovato? One direction? The wanted? Who are these m************? Do any of them sell records IN AMERICA?
Anyway…. Rih killed it. She dance s*** like Janet J and Britney. Asap rocky killed and WFL killed. Most star worth performance of the night. If Rih was not there, who would of watched it?
LOL x10
You delusional twit, you.
vma’s ratings drop by 50%. It has been sky high for past years when she was not there.. Remember? she has not been the highlight of the VMA’s for years and they were doing fantastic.
OMG ALICIA KEYS GRRRRRRRRRRRLLL
NO NO NOOO!!!!!!!!!
The day Rihanna served better vocals.
LOWER THAT DAMN KEY!!!!
I am dying.
That was nails on a chalkboard while someone drowns a damn cat!!!!!!!!
I AM EMBARRASSED for you Alicia because that was NOT fire
Jealous hater!
B**** that performance was a flop and a damn shame. I’ve never heard Alicia motherfucking Keys sound like she’s chewing on gravel and that was not hot at all. Don’t even try. If you thought her vocals slayed then you need to have all the seats
Co-sign! Just because she’s “Alicia Keys” doesn’t mean that people are going to support mediocre music with an even worse live arrangement of the song. She needs to try again.
LOWER THAT DAMN KEY!!!!
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lol, yes!!!!
jer and you are a rihanna fan???making that comment???? I can’t and I will not!!
Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, and Gabby Douglass just slayed everyone’s whole entire life.
Damn…3 successful black women. That was FIRE.
Damn. Alicia’s Vocals< Nicki's Verse tho
DO YOU SEE ALICIA & NICKI GIVING A PERFORMANCE OF SOUL STIRRING MUSIC, F***??? GABBY DOUGLASS GOLD MEDALIST!!!! WHO CAN TOP THAT???? NOT VAPID LYRICS AND GYRATING FULL OF EXPLETIVES AND ASKING HOW YOUR P**** TASTE!!!! REAL MUSIC
>>>>
Alica has officially lost her voice. She sounded tired and strained. I cannot believe someone told her that that performance was hot and actually let her go out there and embarrass herself like that. Her new single is more like “Girl Going Down” than “Girl On Fire”. Next.
Alicia
Shut the f*** up, you stupid b****. No one who is an admitted fan of a talentless tart like Rihanna has room to critique another singer — especially one with talent; which, again, is something that your favorite lacks.
I’m tired of you people spamming my comments every time I post. Rihanna is not a reflection of my overall musical taste and I’m a fan of her music because it’s actually quality Pop music. Get some class and a life. That performance was not good and you will deal with it, b****.
YOU BETTER GO IN because that performance was by far the worst of the night. And that says a lot
Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz were a waste of space. I still don’t know why they were there to begin with 😕
Thank goodness Rihanna won something, that would have been too wrong for MTV to keep using girl like that.
this show sucks just when y’all thought it was safe
goes to show they needed BEYONCE
I don’t give a phuck who thumbs down its the truth
#phuckyoFAV AND YOU
OMFG SHE DID IT!!!!!!!!! THAT REIGN WONT LET UP!!!
VIDEO OF THE MOFO YR QUEEN RIH RIH!!!
I LOVED Frank’s performance–period.
YESSSS JOB WELL DONE MTV NOT LETTING THAT H** GET TOO MANY AWARDS 🙂
2 VIDEOS OF THE YEAR MOONMANS ….UMBRELLA AND WE FOUND LOVE!!!!!!
SO SHE WON “VIDEO OF THE YEAR”??????? EH.
WELL, ALL OF MY FAVES HAVE WON – INCLUDING KING BEY – SO IT’S ALL GOOD.
CONGRATS RIRI!!!!!!!
I COULD ONLY WISH THAT YOU WERE “WINNING” IN YOUR PERFORMANCE BECAUSE IT WAS ABSOLUTE S***!!!!!!!
VMA’S was wack!!! Really come on people!!! They got to do better!!! Thats was short no excitement at all!! Rihanna pretty girl but wack singer,,, the worst singer!! Stick to dressing like a model. Talor Swift performance ws better than that.
WTF was that????????????? That s*** went off as fast as it came on WTF!!!!!!!!
S*** WAS WACK!!!!!
Omg @benron u used to go hard 4 Rihanna n b well delusional but now giving pink beyonce n Chris credit wow. N shading Rihanna. Yasss l Iove it ! Rihanna performance. Oh it just came back on……..no. The dancing ain’t bad I’m mad her background dancers putting way more hips n stuff in it. Her dancing with ASAP was probably her best. But my favorite was probably Alicia with nicki n gabby them 2 made it.
I’m glad I didn’t bother to watch. Just about everyone there is wack.
I think people are way to hard on Rihanna and just wanna hate I thought it was a really good peformance she does not have the best live Vocal but she killed the choegraphy and put on a good show and peformance well done to her
Wow. Takes so little to impress some people. Her dancing was not at all good. Her performance, overall, was her typical brand of lackluster.
Love Keven Heart!! Jokes was funny!!
I only watched the AK performance, and I cried. So proud of my girl !
Riih was stiff and moving a lil too slow for me. I was ready for her to pick up the pace but she never did. I liked the cockiness performance but we found love was just HORRIBLE! Frank ocean sounded a hot mess. One direction was singing too low and they were singing a knock off version of one of the nsync songs. IMO. pink’s voice was horrible and she can actually sing, the only person who excited me was 2chainz performance. And Chris brown was lookin at pink like “B**** you stole my move” when she flew across the stage. This vma’s was just a big ass NO! And I also couldn’t listen to Kevin harts jokes because he was REACHING like hell. But when he came out with the midgets that was hilarious.
Oh, almost forgot, Rita looked good.
LOL not a “big ass NO”….LOL 🙂
pAnk and her douchb= bag husband claimed CB stole her performance on some old awrd show so I guess she was trying to repay him. pAnk is a horrible performer so I can only imagine what her performance was like! ewww in advance.
Rihanna = Best performance of the night. She slayed.
I actually preferred Rihanna’s vocals tonight over her body movements. Even though Rihanna tried playing it smart by doing a lot more simple gesturing, her moves were so … #Awkward! That island girl is soooo stiff. It’s not s*** at all! Alicia was ok! I don’t know why everyone wanted to beat up on her, but she was reaching for those notes though … I’m not sure if she got a hold of all of them. Still, I’ve seem alot worse this week though! Overall, the night was just very blah…
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I don’t know what to think about that comment…lmao. If you preferred her vocals and her vocals were nonexistent then her dancing was sure crap. best shade ever!
LOL … Basically
Vocals <<<<
Dancing <<<<<<<<<<<
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Alicia Keys peformance was the best imo I loved she sounded amazing and Nicki’s rapped slayed as well
ALICIA GUUUURRRLLLLL SHE GAVE ME EVERYTHING… STILL DONT AGREE WITH THE SHITY BAD LACEFRONT MINAJ COLAB BUT WELL GOTTA LOVE U STILL. AND FOR ALL THE HATERS. #BITCHPLEASEHAVESEVERALSEATS. PERIOD 😉
Hott look Alicia keys!! Song wise not so hOtt..she needs to ready next single & she know the song not hott, that why she ask for a Nicki minaji Hit.
The best part of the show was changing the channel 😐
DEAD!!! come ‘on ALICIA love u 2 bits mami…but dis performance was just wack! gosh…not a nicki fan but she slayed her verce nd helped dis song/performance!! congrats to her…no female rapper has ever! won in dat category!!!
No that is not true Lauryn Hill won in 1999, people need to do research before posting
Green Day_____the best performance of the night.
Taylor Swift’s skinny ass commanded the stage better than Rihject.
Pink and Frank killed it imo.
Rihanna was ok the vocals were iffy but the dancing was on f****** point!! yaaas BITCHSLAY!
AND MY BOO NICKI LOOKED CUTE! ALICIA I COULDA PASSED ON THAT S***
lil wayne was trash!!!!
Rihanna wasn’t that bad until the note at the end of WFL…wtf. Well, not surprising. Alicia sounded strained and like something wrong with her throat. Not a good performance on her behalf either. I’m glad I didn’t waste time watching this award show and was watching the convention. #Obama’12
Finally watched some of the performances. I thought Frank Ocean’s performance was pretty good, Rihanna danced ok but her vocals were horrible and scarce, she was not out of breath she just couldn’t hit any notes. Alicia managed to sound okay.
alicia & 1D slays the night
nah see how yall gon’ clown the fine ladies Alicia and nicki but give that boy with that frog in his throat some credit. F*** outta here? N**** sounded like he was choaking on a hair ball.
check it
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this isnt an awards show,
its a PR circus.
I will continue to be shocked by rihanna fans commenting about other artist perfromances. Rihanna no words. This girl proves everyday how she is just the makeup, the fashionable clothes and assisting producers. Producers and songwriters but she can never deliver what they give her. Tran wreck !!!!and to use rihanna and slay in the same sentence is a shame.
Alicia keys was great. I enjoyed her performance, especially gabby sher made me smile even harder. One direction has one tone and one alone. don’t care about them.
Overall the VMA’s was the worst award show so far. damn shame.
sidenote. rihanna begged for votes so much for the VMA’s and she only got ONE. where the navy at. She should be ashamed. She never wins big. 3 VMA’s off 6 f****** albums. BIGGEST SHAME
thank you!!!!!!!! exactly shes nothing but a cute face that’s all
Alicia gave substance to an otherwise senseless show. She is so much better and totally on another level of performing and entertaining. I know some people can’t appreciate that because they’re more into other aspects of being entertained. I am so glad Alicia was there to actually bring it back to the music and not the flaunting of bodies and suggestive lyrics as so many of those artists choose to do.
I’m so here for all Rihanna shade! Love this site!
Good job, Alicia!
They saved the best to last with having Taylor swift closing the show. She was easily the best of the night!?
Queen Taylors- we’re never getting back together is amazing!!!
I will say that last night was easily her best performance!
I have to admit that I do like the song!
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Side eyes and snickers at the navy.
The only thing she slayed in was fashion.
That is it. Standard fare horrible Rihanna performance. The navy and the delusions.
If she was such a big star why were ratings cut by almost half this time around?
No performance was good last night im glad I watched the DNC and the awards later.
It was tacky almost like a childish ebt award.
Stop with the lies pink and Alicia were terrible too and they are worlds more talented than than the rest…was just a terrible show
Thank you. Alicia was not good. It was just gabby and nicki that made the performance distracting from good vocals. That’s the T.
LOL I’m only happy that Breezy won two awards for TUTM. I have yet to acutally see the show and MTV has pulled every video performance off-line!
For me, Alicia performed well but that was not her best performance.Nicki Minaj saved her and her song.Rihanna,for me quite a great act to open the show.FYI,i’m a BeyHive.She opened the night in her own style.Although her performance was not as good,but she slayed the night as the opening act.This year VMA was not as good as last year,with performances like Adele,Lady Gaga and Queen Bey especially.And i think Nicki was not a good choice to win the award.
Damn so MTV pulled all the live perfromances? I’m really beginning to hate MTV! LOL
theyre on MTV.com thats why… only a few keys away >_>
Those performances were all a damn MESS!! Beyonce, gaga ,Britney etc was missing but congrats to the winners and OF COURSE Congrats to Beyonce for winning her 12 VMA award 🙂
I like Rihanna but come on, her dancing was so off i kept thinking of Britney Spears’ opening number from the ’07 VMA’s. It wasn’t as bad but still it kept reaminding me of that.
why were all the video deleted i was looking forward to it. xandyshopp1 google me