Taylor Swift wins 2024 VMA for Video of the Year, thanks to Travis Kelce

Taylor Swift gets another Moon man! The pop star ended her big VMA night by accepting the award for Video of the Year for “Fortnight.” In her acceptance speech, Swift thanked her boyfriend Travis Kelce, who was her biggest supporter and made everything feel “magical.”

“When you watch that video, it seems very sad, but it was actually the most fun,” she said. “I'll always remember that when I finished a take and said cut and we were done with that take, I would always hear someone cheering from across the studio where we were shooting it, and that one person was my friend Travis.”

“Everything this man touches turns into joy, fun and magic, so I want to thank him for bringing that to our shoot,” she said of Kelce.

At the beginning of her speech, Swift thanked her video collaborators, some of whom she invited on stage. She also thanked the video's co-stars, including Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles.

“I always try to thank the fans for making my life what it is. For making the Eras Tour what it is,” Swift said. “For making the Department for Tortured Poets what it has become. It's all thanks to you guys for doing this and voting for this award.”

Swift ended her speech by urging her fans and viewers to register to vote – just one day after she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris following her debate with former President Donald Trump.

This win is Swift’s third consecutive award for Video of the Year, after winning the trophy for All Too Well: The Short Film in 2022 and “Anti-Hero” last year. She also took home the trophy in this category in 2019 for “You Need to Calm Down” and in 2015 for “Bad Blood” with Kendrick Lamar.

Swift also won for Female Artist of the Year and Best Pop. “Fortnight” won for Best Collaboration, Song of the Summer, Best Director and Best Editing.

As she and Malone accepted the award for best collaboration earlier in the evening, Swift remembered the victims of 9/11 and thanked Malone for his “incredible talent” and “such unfailing politeness.”

“Taylor is absolutely one of the kindest and most talented people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Just the amount of work, care and love she puts into everything she does for the music video,” says Malone. “I saw her strapped to the operating table and she directed the music video from there. It was pretty awesome.”

“Fortnight,” which Swift directed herself, begins in black and white with her tied to a bed frame… against the wall of a mental institution. She takes a pill, is released, and meets herself. As the clip progresses, she even becomes Post Malone, at least with his tattoos. It ends, fittingly, in the rain, with her holding Post Malone's hand on a phone booth.

The other nominees for Video of the Year were “We Can't Be Friends (Wait for Your Love)” by Ariana Grande, “Lunch” by Billie Eilish, “Paint the Town Red” by Doja Cat, “Houdini” by Eminem and “Snooze” by SZA.