MTV Europe Music Awards 2014: Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande win big

 

Joel Ryan/Invision/AP Singer Ariana Grande accepts her Best Female Artist award.

The awards, founded in 1994, adopted a time-travel theme for their 20th anniversary. Giant balloons of the planets floated in the arena, and Grande performed her song “Break Free” from a flying pod while wearing a white mini-dress reminiscent of the animated TV show “The Jetsons.”
But there were few of the unscripted-feeling moments that made past shows stick in the memory — Kanye West crashing the stage after losing in 2006, Miley Cyrus smoking a joint in Amsterdam last year.
Even former bat-chomping hell-raiser Ozzy Osbourne — introduced by guitar hero Slash as a man who “scares the hell out of most people, and all bats” — seemed an elder statesman as he accepted a Global Icon accolade