The iHeartRadio Music Awards are taking place tonight on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and the nominees embody acquainted favorites reminiscent of Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Harry Kinds, Jack Harlow, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, and Latto, amongst others. Additionally on the docket is Phoebe Bridgers, who was available to current Swift with the iHeartRadio Innovator Award.
Previous to accepting the Innovator Award, the ceremony aired a celeb-packed montage video in Swift’s honor, with Dolly Parton, Justin Timberlake, Selena Gomez, Simu Liu, Miles Teller, Jonathan Van Ness, Ice Spice, Ed Sheeran, and extra singing her praises. Then as she accepted the Innovator Award, Swift walked onstage and gave Bridgers a large hug. “I really like you, Phoebe… OK, I’m actually flattered by this award, so thanks a lot to iHeart for giving this to me…”
Swift went on to level out that she by no means deliberately sought to “innovate stuff,” however what she did do is take probabilities on concepts the place there was no “business knowledge” proving that these concepts already labored. “I by no means a single time awakened within the morning and thought, ‘What am I gonna do right now? Gonna go innovate some stuff. Issues should be innovated, and I’m gonna be the one which does it,’” Swift joked. “However what I did do is attempt to make the appropriate choice for me on the time, whether or not or not it had ever been efficiently carried out earlier than. I believe possibly that could be the important thing.”
Whereas strolling the iHeart pink carpet, Bridgers spoke extremely of her good friend and collaborator: “She means the world to me. I believe that’s she’s such an integral a part of everybody’s life; everybody looks like they’ve a private relationship together with her. She rocks. She’s one of the best.”
Bridgers, after all, is opening for Swift on the Eras tour beginning in Could, and will likely be together with her for 12 stops. Bridgers can be releasing a brand new boygenius album, the document, with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, this Friday. That album occurs to incorporate a music known as “We’re In Love,” which references Taylor’s lately re-recorded “This Love.”
Watch Bridgers current the iHeartRadio Innovator Award to Swift, and watch Swift’s acceptance speech beneath.
