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MTV VMAs 2026: Madonna, Sabrina Carpenter and LISA steal show at star-studded awards in Los Angeles

The West Australian Madeline Cove

28 Sept 2026 11:39 AEST Summary

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Madonna is back, LISA has already pulled off a large win and a tribute brought the room to a standstill.

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Niral Score 27 mundaneloaded

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Sentiment +0.6 hostilefavourable Gender 11.9 no gendered framingframing throughout Sourcing 42 unattributednamed sources Mood 55.2 sorrowjoyful

4 read zero: political diction, generational, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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