A day after being the first Brazilian to perform on stage and to win an award at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMA), Anitta took to social media, this Monday (29), to report on the last hours after the unprecedented feat. .
“I still haven’t slept since yesterday, because I’m still trying to process everything that happened,” the singer said in her Instagram stories Monday morning.
The hit “Envolver”, which yielded the global top 1 of the most played songs on Spotify and placed it in Guinness, was considered the “Best Latin Song” of 2022.
Through the stories, Anitta reinforced what she said in her victory speech: “For those who are not Brazilians, it is very difficult to understand what happened yesterday. […] I was born and raised in the favelas. And for all of us, things are so impossible. Today, a dream that I had always had in my life happened.”
“I just feel really grateful. All I ever dreamed of in my life was to bring hope to my people,” she added.
To her more than 63 million followers on Instagram, she highlighted how Brazil has a different culture from Spanish-speaking Latin countries, and celebrated the union of people cheering for her at the VMAs.
Anitta shared in her stories videos of people watching the award on big screens and celebrating like football when she was announced as the winner of the category. She also showed a video of her family reacting to the moment (see below).
Simple my family watching the award pic.twitter.com/bp9tyEoE6O
— Anita (@Anita) August 29, 2022
At the end of her testimony, the singer said that she hopes that the unprecedented award for a Brazilian artist was “the first of many others that I hope will come”.
“I hope it doesn’t stop here and that we have a lot of people coming after me. I hope it was just a door I opened”, declared Anitta.
“I am born and raised in the ghetto”
Before taking the stage to receive her award and give her victory speech, Anitta showed her credentials in a performance of “Envolver”, the hit that placed her in Guinness for reaching the global top 1 of the most played songs on Spotify.
In addition to performing the traditional dance move that became a trend on TikTok, the singer from Honório Gurgel ended her performance extolling national funk.
“VMAs! Did you think I wasn’t going to shake my ass tonight?” questioned the singer, exporting her famous phrase “Did you think I wasn’t going to wiggle my ass today?”.
Anitta and her dancers transformed the award stage into a dance to the sound of a potpourri of “Bola Rebola”, “Movimento da Sanfoninha” and “Vai Malandra”.
The performance was named the third best of the night by Billboard magazineand was also featured in other specialized vehicles such as rolling stone and pitchfork.
“I am born and raised in the ghetto”
Anitta competed for the VMA in the category of “Best Latin Music”.
She was not the first Brazilian to be nominated for a traditional category of the award because, in 2020, the young Any Gabrielly, a member of Now United, competed for “Best Group”, but ended up losing to the South Koreans of BTS.
“Girl from Rio” also had tough competitors in the running, such as the Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, who ended up being named “Artist of the Year”.
Becky G with Karol G, Daddy Yankee, Farruko and J Balvin with Skrillex also competed.
Even so, the hit “Envolver” secured the first Brazilian victory in the history of the competition created in 1984.
In her victory speech (read the full text below), Anitta thanked her family and fans and highlighted the importance of Brazilian funk.
“Tonight I performed a genre that for many years was considered a crime in Brazil. I am born and raised in the ghetto of Brazil, and for anyone who was born there, we could never have thought that this would be possible,” she said.
Anitta’s speech on winning the VMAs
My God! I really didn’t expect this, I think I’m going to cry. I just want to say, for those who don’t know, this night is historic. It’s Brazil’s first time here. It is the first time that my country has been at an award like this. I want to thank my family and my fans. Tonight I performed here a genre that for many years was considered a crime in my country. I am born and raised in the ghetto of Brazil, and for those who were born there, we would never have thought that this would be possible. So thank you very much.
anita
Source: CNN Brasil
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