Camila Cabello brings Miami Beach to the VMAs stage. C, kisses and hugs The pop star took to the stage at the 2024 Video Music Awards to deliver an emotional and soothing performance. A mix of them Magic city The songs “June Gloom” and “Godspeed”.
Cabello's performance began with a video of the singer — with bright blonde hair — singing “June Gloom” before Cabello, in real life, this time with brunette hair, approached a laptop and closed the performance to sing her new song “Godspeed” live.
Cabello sang from inside a giant transparent box surrounded by dancers wearing ski masks as she performed to a camera projected onto a large screen. “We live in a ghost world/We live in a past life. If everything could stay the same/Wouldn't that be nice?” she sang.
Throughout the show, Cabello's emotions ran high. By the end, she grabbed her laptop, threw it on the floor, and destroyed it before coming out to sing the end of the song to the crowd. “Let you go, and I'll feel like more of me,” Cabello sang, before shaking her head at the drama in the song, which is rumored to be about her ex Shawn Mendes. “I wish you the best, but away from me.”
On the red carpet, Cabello looked like she was inspired by a funeral, wearing a lace dress with a cross around her neck. “I’m in the ‘Godspeed’ era, and that song is about letting go of everything that doesn’t serve you,” Cabello said of her outfit. Billboard“So today I will hold a funeral for everything negative, everything that does not serve my interests.”
“Death to negative things, death to people and situations that try to bring you down,” she added.
The “Godspeed” performance comes just days after Cabello released the song Magic city A copy of her album C, kisses and hugsThe song features four additional songs. Cabello said on social media that “Godspeed” was “the first song I ever wrote for this album,” and that the four new songs featured on the new album Magic city This version represents the “spirit of this album”.
This year, Cabello is nominated for Best Pop Song against Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Tate McRae and Taylor Swift. Her video for “I Luv It” with Playboi Carti is nominated for Best Trending Video against Beyoncé, Chappelle Rowan, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion and Tinashe.
Cabello made her last VMAs appearance in 2021, when she appeared on stage with Family She also performed “Don't Go Yet” with Mendes at the 2019 awards, where the former duo won Best Collaboration and Best Cinematography for the song. Cabello has won the Moon Person Award four times. She also won Video of the Year for “Havana”, along with Artist of the Year, in 2018.
Among the artists who performed on stage at this year's VMAs were Cabello, Anitta, Benson Boone, Halsey, Chappelle Rowan, Karol G, Rau Alejandro, and Sabrina Carpenter. The 2024 VMAs will be broadcast live on MTV from UBS Arena on Long Island.
