{"id":68331,"date":"2016-08-28T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=68331"},"modified":"2016-08-28T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:40:10","slug":"beyonces-formation-wins-video-year-mtv-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2016\/08\/28\/beyonces-formation-wins-video-year-mtv-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Formation&#8221; Wins Video Of The Year At MTV VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Kanye West&#8217;s &#8220;Famous&#8221; had won, would West have interrupted himself to call Beyonce&#8217;s video more deserving?<\/p>\n<p>We will never know, because Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Formation&#8221; was predictably named Video Of The Year at the MTV Video Music Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Formation,&#8221; which won for numerous technical categories earlier in the night, beat out &#8220;Famous,&#8221; Drake&#8217;s &#8220;Hotline Bling,&#8221; Adele&#8217;s &#8220;Hello,&#8221; and Justin Bieber&#8217;s &#8220;Sorry&#8221; for the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>The night proved to be a massive one for Beyonce.  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