SZA Skipped the 2024 MTV VMAs but Shared Her Red Carpet Look From Afar
SZA had an impressive seven nominations last night’s MTV VMAs, but the singer didn’t attend the Elmont, New York ceremony. Instead, she shared her red carpet look on her Instagram Story: a blue hooded two-piece set. She won Best R&B Song and thanked MTV in her post.
She didn’t explain further why she wasn’t at the show, but she did repost an Instagram reminding people to be gentle with others, as they know very little about other people’s lives.
SZA was up for Song of the Summer (“Saturn”), Video of the Year (“Snooze”), Artist of the Year, Best Collaboration (“Rich Baby Daddy” with Drake and Sexyy Red), Best Hip-Hop Song (“Rich Baby Daddy”), and Best R&B Song (“Snooze”).
In May, SZA spoke candidly to Dazed about her music being labeled as R&B. “The only reason I’m defined as an R&B artist is because I’m Black,” she said. “It’s almost a little reductive because it doesn’t allow space to be anything else or try anything else. Justin Bieber is not considered an R&B artist; he is a pop artist who makes R&B, folk music, or whatever his heart desires. I simply just want to be allowed the same opportunity to make whatever I want without a label, [without it being] based on the color of my skin, or the crew that I run with, or the beats that I choose. I want ‘F2F’ to be seen as what it is. I want ‘Nobody Gets Me‘to be seen as what it is. I want ‘Kill Bill’ to be seen as what it is.
“At the same time, it’s nothing to get bent out of shape about, because it’s just how people are processing you,” she added. “As long as I don’t process myself that way. I don’t necessarily box myself into anything. I’m just trying to make music, trying to vibe out and enjoy the experience.”
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