Taylor Swift might have skipped this year’s MTV Video Music Awards but the award show holds a significant place in her career.
The 35-year-old pop superstar’s fans opened the discussion about her 2009 VMAs performance once again as the ceremony went on without her.
The 2009 show, as is famously known, was where the Anti-Hero hitmaker’s feud with Kanye West started, however that is not the only importance of the ceremony.
Although the interruption by West took away from the other highlights of the event, it also marked the 14-time-Grammy winner’s first VMAs performance.
Swift also won her first VMA at the show, soon to be followed by many others year after year, after the then-19-year-old took the stage at the Radio Music Hall.
The Love Story songstress performed her hit track You Belong With Me from her album Fearless, on a subway platform for the event.
She appeared in a brown trench coat and a cap covering her blonde tresses, which she later let down, and took off the coat to reveal a red dress as she went into a subway cart.
The performance was to become so memorable that it earned a nomination in a new category at the last year’s show, VMAs Most Iconic Performance.
