Sabrina Carpenter took the stage tonight on the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards at Lengthy Island’s UBS Area to carry out her Man’s Best Friend lower “Tears.” She emerged from a manhole right into a throwback New York Metropolis scene. Round her, dancers and drag queens held up indicators with messages of trans solidarity on them. The quantity culminated in some choreography full with literal waterworks. Watch it occur under.
Carpenter is within the operating for 9 awards tonight, having earned nominations for Video of the Yr, Greatest Album, Greatest Pop Artist, and plenty of extra for “Manchild.” Earlier this 12 months, Carpenter received her first-ever Grammy Award, Best Pop Solo Performance, for the Short ’n Sweet breakout hit “Espresso.”
Tonight was Carpenter’s second time performing stay on the VMAs, having made her debut eventually 12 months’s occasion to sing a medley of Brief ’n Candy singles. Additionally slated to take the stage this night as musical friends are Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, amongst others.
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