Demi Lovato introduced rock variations of a few of her previous pop hits to the 2023 MTV VMAs, which is going down at New Jersey’s Prudential Middle tonight (September 12).

The pop star is about to launch a brand new album, ‘Revamped’, on Friday (15) that’s comprised of latest reimagined variations of tracks from throughout their again catalogue.

Lovato aired a few of these new variations throughout the VMAs tonight, opening her set with a rock model of ‘Coronary heart Assault’. They adopted that music with ‘Sorry Not Sorry’, which boasted large bursts of fireside on stage and her guitarist sliding to the entrance of the stage on their knees as they performed the instrument.

The star wrapped up their efficiency with a rendition of ‘Cool For The Summer time’, uniting the likes of Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X, and extra in singing and dancing alongside.

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“With ‘Revamped’, I needed to pay homage to the songs that resonated probably the most with followers and performed an enormous position in my profession by respiratory an thrilling new life into them,” Lovato stated in an announcement. “Creating this challenge has been extremely enjoyable and allowed me to precise my ardour for rock music in a brand new manner, and I really feel a lot nearer to my older music due to it.”

Elsewhere on the VMAs, Lil Wayne kicked off the awards present with a efficiency of ‘Uproar’ and ‘Kat Meals’. Olivia Rodrigo adopted him with a rendition of ‘Vampire’ and ‘Get Him Again!’, recreating components of the video for the previous observe.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion additionally gave their new collaboration ‘Bongos’ its stay premiere, whereas Doja Cat aired three songs from her upcoming new album ‘Scarlet’. Nicki Minaj used her efficiency to preview ‘Pink Friday 2’ with a clip of an unreleased music.

*NSYNC reunited for the primary time in a decade to current Taylor Swift with the award for Finest Pop, whereas the pop star praised her collaborator Jack Antonoff when choosing up Track Of The 12 months. “We’ll proceed making music till 2089,” she joked.

Different performances nonetheless to return embrace Diddy, Fall Out Boy, Måneskin, Stray Children, Tomorrow X Collectively and Anitta, and extra.

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