So, I went to the VMAs last night...

This is long, my bad. I don't really have any crazy tea to spill, but this is my full experience of my crazy weekend.

Let me begin this by saying I went to a VMA pre-party the night before which featured performances by Bebe Rexha (ngl, I wasn't feeling it), Phantogram (amazing), and Tove Lo (also amazing). I was sponsored and catered by Taco Bell (which is ridiculous) and I ended up throwing up bean burritos at 5AM after a night of binge drinking.

I mention this because I need to set the mood where my hangover and body was cured by all the slayage I had witnessed last night. I've been to the VMAs before - first time was 2009 (Kanye/Taylor moment, Gaga slaying, etc) where I joanne-level scammed Russell Brand into giving me a ticket when I met him (he was hosting) by lying and saying that VMA was my 18th birthday (it wasn't) and the second time was 2013 (here's a shot of me being thirsty for Zayn), but this is the VMA I really needed to be at - It's Rihanna, Bey, and Britney in one night. I literally couldn't have built a better lineup for me.

So I prop my hungover ass up, try to look decent, and head to Madison Square Garden. I had to be there at 6 and the show didn't start until 9 so I'm sitting in the holding room bored out of my ass, trying to not let this hangover consume me. We get let into the pit section around 8 and I am immediately shook and cured from just seeing the set. I couldn't really take pictures during the show because they warned you that if you get caught holding your phone during performances they'll kick you out and my phone ended up dying anyway, but here's one little video I took of me being there. The set is SO small, I saw a couple clips of it on TV and it looked huge and that's a lie lol. Where I was standing was right between the main stage and the part where everyone was getting their awards - I was only a couple feet from everyone which was a lot to process.

The first "celebrity" I see is Farrah Abraham, dressed as Wonder Woman, running around to everyone like a cat in heat and after that all the real famous people started to roll in.

The show is about to start and I can see Rihanna standing there in her HBA outfit and I already know this is gonna be a night where I am mentally and physically shook. She does her first medley and it's a lot of fun and the whole audience is really feeling it, it was a great start. The reggae portion of her set was probably the best, crowd-wise. It got everyone super hype. The third set was also a blast. Her last set left me speechless vocally. When she was singing Diamonds, I literally felt a wave of goosebumps fall through my body. She killed all the performances, it was great that she performed all through the night to keep the energy in the place alive.

Ariana and Nicki were second and while aesthetically, I was slayed, Side to Side completely killed the audience's vibe after Rihanna. No one knew the song except me and 1 other person next to me and you could feel that no one really cared for it. She should've done Into You, it would've brought the house down. Also, there was a point where Nicki was standing there with her back towards us and I could see every nook and cranny of her ass up close..and it was really a lot to take in lol.

Alicia Keys does her poem speech and Fifth Harmony was in my direct line of sight and I'm cracking up at Lauren acting like she was at church with every line she spoke. This was her.

Next up was Future and that was by far the worst performance of the night (besides the hosts and skits that were highly unnecessary). For how hyped up Future's music is, hoooollly shit does he give NO energy. That Future performance was a test of my willpower to stand there and survive. Right before he started, this random girl and I both started freaking out like "omg this is about to be so wild" and then he finished and we both looked at each other like "well, that was a thing that took place."

Kanye comes out and just seemed like he was having a total blast being there. During commercial breaks, he's literally talking to everyone and cuddling in his seats with Kim, it was so cute tbh. I was happy that Kanye was happy and the world is a better place when Kanye is happy. He was getting heckled by some drunk asshole across the stadium which he responded to during his speech but overall, a good night for Yeezy. The music video was fun to watch too. Teyana Taylor killed. It was fun to hear the whole arena catch their life and then go into sounds of confusion when she became a cat lady.

Nick Jonas does Bacon outside the arena and the part where he's in the diner was entirely pre-taped, just in case it didn't seem obvious lol. DNCE shows up in it and they were sitting in the audience in the theater while it was airing, the only live part was the end when he's performing outside with Ty Dolla $ign.

Commercial break hits and we see the set people bring out a billion electric fans and that's my cue that it's Beyonce time and I am internally losing my shit. You can feel the crowd just losing their minds in preparation. Beyonce comes on and I'm so close to her that I can see the makeup on her skin and I am destroyed. Hold Up to Countdown made my skin stand up. When she came back near me and did Formation, I felt like my soul was gonna fly to the ceiling. She fucking did THAT. Best performance of the night, but you didn't even have to be there to feel that.

Fifth Harmony won an award and the whole time I thought Ally was gonna fall. She tripped on her dress 3 times throughout the night, the audience kept getting nervous for her lol. That would've been tragic (and hilarious ngl). There's a part of the show (I think during a commercial break) where Dinah was right in front of me so I just called her name and said hi. She was really sweet and said hi and said that she was really sweaty. I didn't know what to say to that so I just laughed lol.

At this point, they announce Britney is next and I am S H O O K. I get the feeling from reading comments about the show that Beyonce killed the vibe for Britney at home because she was so good but that was not the case for the audience at the show. I feel like that Beyonce performance just helped keep the vibe going and everyone around me was super excited. Britney comes on and I'm gonna be embarrassing here but I started tearing up lol. I wasn't like hardcore crying or anything but it just made me emotional! It was just a sensory overload from seeing Rih all those times and then Beyonce killing me and once Britney coming out of that silhouette bringing me back to life (also probably me being the stan that I am). I'm in the audience dancing and lowkey wiping away baby tears lol. I was S C R E A M I N G. I thought she completely killed. I 100% felt like this clip of Tinashe describing the performance.. I couldn't wait to get back and come here and talk about it and then I log on and all of you are shitting on it lmfaoooo. I guess it just came through differently in person. Everyone around me thought she killed and I guess it was hard to feel the energy from the TV. It wasn't Beyonce or Rih but it was probably the third hypest performance of the night. I also noticed that G-Eazy was trying to kiss her, I couldn't tell if that was staged or not I just remember actually saying out loud "omg they're gonna kiss!" and then she completely deads him. It was hilarious.

I watched the Olympic gymnasts get really excited because they took pictures with Kim Kardashian, it was really cute. They were really excited to be there - I was happy for them. Actually throughout the night, it seemed like everyone in the audience was trying to get a picture with Kim. There were literally lines at some points of the show of people waiting to get selfies with her, like a meet & greet. 5H were on one of the lines lmfao.

Chainsmokers and Halsey come out and perform and I thought it was a mess vocally for Halsey. It sounded like screeching in the arena. I also read that singing Chainsmoker was also tragic but I thought he was lipsyncing the whole time there. I didn't hear his mic feed at all in the arena - I only heard the backing track, but I guess his mic feed came off on TV.

Jimmy Fallon does that Ryan Lochte skit and it's getting an eh reaction. I was watching Kanye and he really couldn't care less.

and finally, Drake comes out to give Rihanna that award and it's the most adorable thing on the planet. He's reading his little speech and I'm in direct view of the teleprompter and I read that he's gonna say he's in love with her before he said it and I gasped lol. It diiid look like she was curving him both times he went for the kiss though. When Rihanna was giving his speech, he was standing right on top of me in front of me and I was in direct view of his ass. Gotta say it looks solid - a 9/10.

All and all, it was a iconic life-shaking concert for me. I was extremely close and didn't have to spend a dime. I got to watch performers that I love do their damn thing. I don't even wanna watch the regular show on TV because I don't want to ruin the memory, since what I've been reading was that it was just okay. I was sitting on the train, heading back home, exasperated from what I just witnessed. I'm forever eternally slayed.

edit: I forgot to add that I saw Mac Miller & Ariana sitting kissing the whole time, just a lot of PDA, and ngl it was pretty gross lol.