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Watch Arcade Fire, M.I.A & More Perform At Youtube Music Awards

Greta Gerwig stars in a Spike Jonze-directed live video for Arcade Fire’s ‘Afterlife’.

Watch Arcade Fire, M.I.A & More Perform At Youtube Music Awards

The first ever Youtube Music Awards took place last night with a ceremony in New York.

With Eminem, Tyler, the Creator, M.I.A and more performing, the show also included a live video directed by Spike Jonze for Arcade Fire’s ‘Afterlife’.

Featuring Greta Gerwig and a whole lot of interpretative dancing, watch ‘Afterlife’ below a list of Youtube Music Awards winners:

Video of the Year: Girls’ Generation ­- I Got a Boy
Artist of the Year: Eminem
Response of the Year: Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix ­- Radioactive
Youtube phenomenon: “I Knew You Were Trouble”
Youtube breakthrough: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Innovation of the Year: DeStorm ­- See Me Standing

Arcade Fire - ‘Afterlife’


Eminem, ‘Rap God’:

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