MTV VMA music awards best moments.

Taylor Swift�s forgiving tune, Cher�s moment with Lady Gaga, Kanye�s toast to jerks everywhere, Eminem and Rihanna�s fiery opening, Lindsay Lohan�s cameo, and more�watch highlights and view photos of the 2010 VMAs.

Taylor Swift Forgives Kanye West

In an emotional performance, Taylor Swift forgave Kanye West for hijacking her speech at last year's show. A closer listen to her song, however, reveals that her lyrics do have some bite: �Thirty-two and still growing up now.�




Kanye Toasts Himself

In the grand finale of the show, an apologetic Kanye West toasted himself. While this seems like a logical move for the egomaniac, West�s catchy new song �Runaway� actually contains some not-so-flattering (and slightly NSFW) lyrics pertaining to himself. Yes Kanye, we have been putting up with your [expletive] for way too long. It was a �sincere� apology to Swift�which inspired the audience to give West a standing ovation while chanting his name.



Justin Bieber Gets Drummer Fever

Kim Kardashian kicked off Bieber fever by introducing her falsely rumored boyfriend and Best New Artist winner Justin Bieber. The tween sensation�s performance, seemingly designed under the assumption that if there are 9-year-olds on stage maybe he�d look older, had some strange vocals. Whether it was just nerves or lip synching is unclear, but Bieber tore it up with the sickest drum solo his audience had ever seen. An audience of prepubescent girls, that is.




The Return of the Lohan

As the first woman to host the VMAs in 16 years, Chelsea Handler needed all the inspirational spanks she could get before the show. But in a surprise twist to this opening bit, and in her first major role since being released from rehab, Lindsay Lohan showed that not only can she dole out a proper smack to Handler�s rear, but she can also poke fun at her own struggle with alcohol and the law. Here�s wishing Lohan the best of luck in turning her life around. Let�s hope she wasn�t invited to any VMA afterparties.





Lady Gaga and Legend Cher a Moment

Cher, the �oldest chick with the biggest hair� and a dangerously skimpy outfit at the show, presented the biggest award to the biggest winner of the night Lady Gaga. Accepting the Video of the Year award for �Bad Romance�, Gaga gave her little monsters a treat by announcing the title of her new record and singing the chorus to the album�s title song.



Eminem Sets Stage on Fire

After spending the better part of four years away from the stage while fighting an addiction to prescription drugs, Eminem opened the show by rapping �Love the Way You Lie� with surprise guest Rihanna. The real Slim Shady may be back, but he was unable to stand up to accept his awards for �Not Afraid�, because of a flight to New York for a concert.




Jersey Shore Hot Tub Knocks Up Host

Throughout the program Handler made some family-friendly jokes, like the one about Mrs. Bieber giving birth to her 401(k) plan. But it was when she was making crass jokes in a hot tub with the Jersey Shore cast, however, that she seemed to fit in fine. This may explain why by the end of the bit she was pregnant.

Kanye West �paints� his way back onto MTV

Kanye West (left) interrupts the acceptance speech from Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV VMA in New York, September 13, 2009.

Kanye West is �painting� a new picture on MTV today, debuting a video he hopes will offer fans a better image of himself than the one he made at the network�s award show last year when he interrupted Taylor Swift�s acceptance speech.

�It�s not a video...it�s a painting,� the rapper said of his new video, called �Power�, airing tonight.

At MTV�s Video Music Awards in September 2009, West unexpectedly took to the stage of the live televised broadcast when country singer Swift won best female pop video. West grabbed the microphone from Swift�s hands and declared that R&B singer Beyonce should have won instead.




MTV never officially banned Kanye West from their studios after last fall�s VMA Awards, and the network continued to play his old videos. But since then, he has not debuted any new work on MTV, and there has been much speculation on music websites about whether the network would take him back.

MTV�s head of music and talent, Amy Doyle, told Reuters �there�s no beef� with the rapper and that they have moved on.

�We�ve always been supporters of his art and his music, and we�re excited to partner with him, whether it�s his new painting or new album,� said Doyle.

Doyle said the new 90-second video does resemble �more of a living painting� and not a traditional video.

�It�s up for interpretation, like any piece of artwork. It is provocative and will keep people talking,� Doyle said.

And igniting fan buzz is one thing West does best.

After last year�s dust-up at the VMA�s, fans and fellow musicians were outraged. Singer Kelly Clarkson called West �a sad human being,� while �American Idol� runner-up Adam Lambert wrote on his Twitter page, �Kanye needs to chill. He freaks out every year. It ain�t that deep, man.�

West later appeared on a TV talk show to apologise, saying he would took some time off to �analyse how I�m going to make it through the rest of this life, how I�m going to improve.�

Also today, MTV is premiering the new music video for Eminem and Rihanna�s single �Love The Way You Lie,� which airs two hours before Kanye�s.

The two debuts follow a series of similar premiere videos on MTV earlier this year, from Justin Bieber�s �Never Let Go� and Mike Posner�s �Cooler Than Me� to Muse�s �Resistance� and Maroon 5�s �Misery�.

�I think this means that artists still want MTV to be the first place to introduce their music video, and it�s the loudest way to get the video out to fans,� said Doyle.

Katy Perry�s �Teenage Dream� is also on the debut line-up and set to air on Tuesday, August 10.