It’s official!
Pink will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards.
Dive below for details…
Producers for the August 27th extravaganza announced the news moments ago.
As for why the star picked, the network said it’s her:
“trailblazing impact on music, pop culture, fashion and philanthropy.”
The Pop rebel will also perform at the event, which takes place live from The Forum in Los Angeles.
With this honor, Pink joins the coveted list of past Vanguard recipients including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West and Rihanna.
In another cool MTV tie-in, the channel will exclusively air the broadcast premiere of the ‘What about Us’ video.
? @Pink IS THE 2017 VIDEO VANGUARD RECIPIENT! ? pic.twitter.com/1cgyERRDVM
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 15, 2017
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Congrats to Pink!
Some may raise eyebrows, but we feel it’s deserved. She boasts a catalogue, videography, and success narrative that has been underrated for years. As such, we’re totally here for her receiving her dues.
I hope that MTV VMA’s comes to understand that this award needs to be given out on rare occasions, They dont have to scurry every year looking to “give it away” to just anybody.
What records are these artists breaking with their videos?
Im sorry but PINK does not make Iconic videos.
Beautiful gowns, But mediocre videos.
stop giving this award to just anybody, It loses its value.
My thoughts exactly. It’s like they feel like they have to give it to someone every single year so they just pick someone who wouldn’t have otherwise gotten it. It’s cheapening the award.
Totally co-sign. They’re starting to get like the Grammys-just giving them to anybody. Pink should NOT be getting this award before Usher, Missy, or even Christina Aguilera, bottom line.
Just in time to set up promotion for her album(white privilege)
Well deserved! Pink has amazing, thought provoking videos!
They should create a Janet Jackson Dance Vanguard Award.
You ain’t never lied!
for real tho! but MTVs shady assses will never name two of their awards after TWO jacksons lol.
I was hoping for J Lo to be honest but P!nk is cool.
I hope she performs “There You Go” and “Party Started”. Those were my jams.
JLO’s a video beast and this is just another missed opportunity to acknowledge that! Usher (who wouldn’t be a candidate now) is also way more deserving!
I’m sorry , Pink’s visuals simply do not measure up to those of all the past artists deserving of winning this award! No disrespect, but it’s a reach! Nothing she’s done since ‘Missundaztood’ has left that kind of lasting impression!
i agree..i respect her art, however .Pink does not have any iconic or culturally impacting videos……
total bullsh*t. Usher should have been next in line, regardless of his, um, condition lol. but pink? foh, she doesn’t have one iconic video that i can think of or even remember.
they overlook him.
Then Chris brown…why give it to an obvious copy of MICHAEL like an Usher. …its too predictable
y u bring chris name up for?
lol b*tch please, only thing usher copied from MJ is that DIAMOND plaque he got, can chris say that lmao? he’s made a career out of copying MJ AND usher so sit. giving it to that clown would have been more obvious than those bruises he left on rihanna’s face lol.
Whatever,
I’ll be to busy watching Game of Thrones.
Pink does deserve this. She has some great videos as well. She’s one of the biggest underrated pop stars out there. She is amazing.. Awesome..
Impact? She´s successful but her eras are uneventful and her music is safe, easy and predicable. This award is kind of meh anyway especially in this day and age when the industry has gone to the pits.
Her eras are not uneventful. She’s one of the best performers out there & she has quite a few great videos. She’s underrated which is why her impact seems subdued. She found a lane & she took off with it..
How awesome ?? is that!! I’ve always loved her sound..
People who deserve the award because they’ve made bigger visual impact:
Usher
Ciara
Chris Brown
Missy Elliot
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Black Twitter
Kelly Rowland (use for Motivation, nothing else)
Blue Ivy (not a Bey Stan, just a fan, but “Blue” and “Formation” cameos got more press)
Micheal Jackson (after death, still better than all artist after 2005)
Kelly Rowland though?!
ONLY for “Motivation”, that was one of the years best videos and still better than most out today.
All acts who mimic And steal from Michael does not deserve that award. …
The acts you listed are wanna be copies of Jackson. .pink is not a copy of him.
if thats the case, then anybody who received it after Janet didn’t deserve it lol. and pink is not iconic or has any impact so she dont deserve it either lol.
All of those acts do not copy MJ, that was a reach, one of them is a damn group of people dumb ass.
Kelly and Ciara? And no Christina Aguilera? Who’s Black twitter??
Y’all just had to put Beyoncé’s name first damn smh she was the 2nd of this generation to get it
she got one it already.
It’s crazy Missy hasn’t received this award yet. Her videos are always so ahead of their time.
Missy has seem to retire too early..in her prime .pink has an album out today…..and been out for over 20 years…even before Missy….MJ had 50 sold out shows when he died….she retired too early
pink has no impact. nobody knows her lmao.
Well deserved, Pink is so underrated!
She does have great videos (Try, Stupid Girls, Lady Marmalade, Family Portrait, …) and her performance will be good as usual (I bet she will f***** fly though, it’s overused at this point and takes away the uniqueness of her Grammy performance).
Hope Christina Aguilera gets the award next year.
Pink. ..has. Been around since signed to laface records…. .she has crossed rnb sales to rock…..her acrobatics skills landed her on Oprah….I have never seen usher or ciara fly on ropes while soaking wet not missing a beat….they study n COPY MJ
Why should they get his honor.
She has self written song about abuse like the one she wrote about the dad., stupid girls was a song to help you dumb b****** ……she don’t just sing about sxx…..she had been underrated and so have some of her live performances
??? What do live performances and lyric content have to do with her deserving the VIDEO (<–key word) vanguard award?
she has no impact or iconic videos. her videos are cheap and forgettable. this is a VIDEO award stupid, stop trying to sell that basic d*** lmao.
I like Pink but outside of maybe stupid girls, does she really deserve this award? If it were an lifetime achievement award then fine, only Beyonce,JT,Usher and herself have been more consistent out of the TRL generation.
As far as her being one of the best performers of the generation, I’ve seen singers stand still and and just sing. Those singers vocals were more entertaining than Pink’s tired acrobat act she’s been doing since about 2010. Pink is totally an icon. Mizunderstod is still one of the finest pop albums crafted from Pop’s last golden age(1999-2007) but video wise nah. Too many artist are being overlooked for album promo in the last few years.
Though she wasn’t on my radar for this, let’s not act like she hasn’t made some fun and far out there videos. “Just like a pill”, “lady marmalade”, “family portrait”, “stupid girls”, “please don’t leave me”, “u + ur hand” “blow me one last kiss”… She never got in her videos playing a girl girl, doing what already has been done just modernize it, she really has an outsider, odd ball side that shows off in her music videos. She danced in them, she got emotional and she had fun in them. Here’s hopes that she is rejoined with 4 other ladies for a few seconds of her hit single that got pink her first Grammy and MTV award and many other awards and fame.
lol pink is tired and she does not have iconic videos. flying on a trapeze doesnt make you an icon. if thats the case then they should give it to any circus clown lol.
Pink is usually underrated as a vocalist hence she has only 3 Grammys but her videography isn’t iconic nor it has the wow factor. Yes no one can have as iconic videos as Mj, Madonna and Britney but still. Christina, Missy and Usher should’ve gotten theirs by now! Seriously even Rihanna got hers…And not to be shady but Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have more iconic videos than P!nk. (Bad Romance, Just Dance, Born this way and Poker face) and (California gurls, Firework, Roar and Dark horse)