{"id":168164,"date":"2025-08-23T03:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T03:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:29:17","slug":"mariah-carey-will-receive-this-years-mtv-video-vanguard-award-not-everyone-is-happy-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168164\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey will receive this year’s MTV Video Vanguard Award. Not everyone is happy about it."},"content":{"rendered":"

Mariah Carey is set to receive MTV’s Video Vanguard Award at next month\u2019s Video Music Awards<\/a>, which will mark Carey\u2019s first-ever Moonman.<\/p>\n

The honor, which is given to an artist who has made an outstanding impact on pop culture and music videos, has previously been given to artists including Michael Jackson, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Missy Elliott and most recently, Katy Perry. In 1991, the award was renamed the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award in honor of the \u201cThriller\u201d hitmaker.<\/p>\n

While many fans believe MTV\u2019s recognition of Carey is long overdue, not everyone shares the sentiment.<\/p>\n

Following MTV\u2019s announcement on Thursday<\/a>, fans flocked to social media to share their thoughts on the media company\u2019s chosen Vanguard Award recipient. For every handful of comments praising Carey\u2019s accomplishment, there were a few that criticized whether she was actually deserving of it.<\/p>\n

Fans further illustrated their points of view by naming other pop stars they feel are more deserving of the award, like Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should\u2019ve been ariana or taylor,\u201d an X user wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and Adele were also mentioned as being better suited for the award.<\/p>\n

\u201cLady gaga you\u2019ve been robbed again,\u201d wrote one X user<\/a>, while another added<\/a>, \u201cWE WANTED MILEY CYRUS BRO.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others believe that Carey hasn\u2019t necessarily made \u201ciconic\u201d videos and that the award should\u2019ve gone to another artist who came up in the ’90s but are happy for her nonetheless.<\/p>\n

One X user wrote<\/a>, \u201cShe’s never won a single VMA and no shade, she doesn’t make iconic videos. 5 maybe. This should’ve went to someone else. Busta Rhymes, TLC, or Christina Aguilera. Congrats though, cause shes been in the game for a long time,\u201d and another added<\/a>, \u201cShe\u2019s the best singer of 90s, but her videos weren\u2019t so good at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

But troves of Lambs \u2014 Carey\u2019s fandom’s name \u2014 came to her defense, calling for the \u201cimmediate\u201d end to all of the \u201cMariah Carey disrespect.<\/a>\u201d The majority of Carey fans weighing in on the discourse have called out younger, more critical fans for not being alive when the pop star was coming up in the music industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids on this app are trying to say Mariah Carey, THE MARIAH CAREY, doesn\u2019t have an iconic music videos\u2026 please do not speak on years that you were not old enough to experience when that shit was happening,\u201d an X user wrote in support of Carey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another fan shared a similar sentiment<\/a>, writing on X, \u201cIf you were not at least 10yrs old in 1990 when Mariah Carey debuted please excuse yourself from the conversation of her IMPACT. An entire decade of non-stop pop dominance and iconography\u2014it was something to witness in real time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since breaking out in the music industry in the \u201890s, Carey has dropped more than 100 music videos. She released her debut music video, \u201cVision of Love,\u201d in 1990 at just 20 years old. Her subsequent music video releases, like 1995\u2019s \u201cFantasy\u201d and 1996\u2019s \u201cAlways Be My Baby,\u201d marked Carey\u2019s first and second times directing.<\/p>\n

Carey was also heavily involved in developing the concepts for several of her more narratively-driven music videos. In 1997, Carey released the James Bond-themed music video for her 1997 single, \u201cHoney<\/a>,\u201d in which she played seductive special Agent M<\/a>. The music video for Carey\u2019s 2005 breakup ballad, \u201cWe Belong Together<\/a>,\u201d sees the singer elope with her younger ex-lover, played by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller. For 2009\u2019s \u201cObsessed<\/a>,\u201d her single that seemingly calls out rapper Eminem<\/a>, the stalker-focused music video includes references to Carey\u2019s favorite movies, like Mean Girls and The Devil Wears Prada.<\/p>\n

For what\u2019s widely considered one of her \u2014 if not most iconic \u2014 music videos, Carey reteamed with director Brett Ratner for 1999\u2019s \u201cHeartbreaker<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this comes out good, can I get a freaking MTV Video Award or nomination at least?\u201d Carey joked during an episode of Making the Video<\/a>\u00a0in 1999. \u201cIt\u2019s so ambitious. I don\u2019t know how much of the original concept is going to end up actually being on MTV, so we\u2019re gonna have to see. I mean, I\u2019m really working hard here, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking a comedic approach to the song\u2019s lyrics, Carey plays a woman who reluctantly goes to confront her cheating boyfriend at a local movie theater. There, she gets into a physical altercation with the woman he\u2019s seeing, Carey\u2019s alter ego, Bianca<\/a>, before eventually catching him in the lie. The music video, which also incorporates animation, reportedly cost more than $2.5 million to produce, making it one of the most expensive ever made.<\/p>\n

With \u201cHeartbreaker,\u201d Carey also unknowingly pioneered an enduring fashion trend<\/a>: low-rise denim jeans. Dissatisfied with the fit of her then-high-waisted jeans, Carey\u2019s late stylist, Tonjua Twist, decided to chop off the top section with scissors, spawning the low-rise look that would become a favorite among aughts-era celebrities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mariah Carey is set to receive MTV’s Video Vanguard Award at next month\u2019s Video Music Awards, which will…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,26514,1018,18078,975,22015,67,132,68,96391,75216,96392],"class_list":{"0":"post-168164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-mariah-carey","10":"tag-michael-jackson","11":"tag-mtv","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-music-videos","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-vanguard-award","18":"tag-video-music-awards","19":"tag-video-vanguard-award"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115075964257977358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}