http://variety.com/2015/music/news/miley-cryus-vmas-mtv-host-2015-1201544351/

Cyrus (http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/07/miley-cyrus-mtv-video-music-awards-host) announced the news on Twitter: "MTV won’t let me perform…So I’m hosting (http://www.gossipcop.com/parents-television-council-miley-cyrus-vmas-host-interview-mtv-video-music-awards/) this year’s VMAs.” This year’s VMAs airs on Aug. 30 at 9 pm.

http://www.celebuzz.com/2015-08-08/miley-cyrus-calls-out-taylor-swift-over-bad-blood-video

In an interview with Marie Clare, Cyrus seemed to be generating interest and controversy for this year’s Video Music Awards by calling out Swift as a flawed conventional role model. “I don’t get the violence revenge thing,” she said. "That’s supposed to be a good example? And I’m a bad role model because I’m running around with my t--ties out? I’m not sure how t--ties are worse than guns.”

http://t.co/QniE6k0NNl

It was Kanye West, and not Miley, who looked to be having all the fun on Sunday night, says Jon Caramanica. "As a host, she was flamboyant and awkward, preening in loud, shimmering outfits that mirrored the psychedelia of the GIF-and-Instagram-influenced art that filled the show’s interstitial bits," says Caramanica. "And she poked fun at her reputation for extreme behavior, whether in jokes delivered on stage or in pretaped sketches. Ms. Cyrus’s wackiness felt authentic, but her presence was unpolished, and at times she seemed to be caught off guard by the specifics of her responsibilities.” PLUS: The whole night was confusing and frustrating (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/mtv-vmas-2015-tv-review-818910), watch Miley brainstormed Instagram ideas with Andy Samberg and Ike Barinholtz (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/30/miley_cyrus_instagram_sketch_at_the_vmas_andy_samberg_and_ike_barinholtz.html), one of the rare surprises was Miley’s nipple (http://deadline.com/2015/08/miley-cyrus-flashes-mtv-video-music-awards-1201510476/), Twitter users bash Rebel Wilson (http://entertainthis.usatoday.com/2015/08/30/twitter-bashes-rebel-wilson-for-police-brutality-joke-at-vmas/) for her police brutality joke, Miley's boring stunts (http://www.salon.com/2015/08/31/miley_cyrus_mechanical_mtv_party_machine_even_by_low_vma_standards_her_manic_eroticism_and_boring_stunts_failed_to_connect/) failed to connect, and why Kanye's acceptance speech was the greatest of all time (http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/08/30/kanye_west_s_vmas_acceptance_speech_including_declaration_that_he_s_running.html).