Mariah Carey Reenacted A Joke Ariana Grande Played At A Past Awards Show, And 13 Other Times Celebs Paid Tribute To Other Famous People At The VMAs 2025

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Sabrina Carpenter honored not one, but 2 iconic singers!

Recently, the VMAs has go a premix of caller endowment and nostalgia. Every year, galore celebs blend the 2 by paying tribute to the large artists who paved the way.

Here are 14 celebs who paid homage to different celebs astatine the VMAs 2025:

1. Sabrina Carpenter's rain-soaked show of "Tears" seemingly paid tribute to Britney Spears's likewise drenched "...Baby One More Time" show from Britney Spears Live from Las Vegas.

Here's a person look astatine immoderate shots from the pro-shot of Britney's performance:

2. And astatine her aft party, Sabrina Carpenter wore a Bob Mackie formal that Cher antecedently wore.

Cher archetypal donned the formal portion performing "Shame Shame Shame" with Tina Turner connected The Cher Show successful 1975. The archetypal portion was auctioned disconnected for $6,400 successful 2018.

3. Summer Walker wore a customized look by Howie B that paid homage to Pamela Anderson's 1999 VMAs look. The vocalist told Entertainment Tonight, "You know, she had the same, evidently successful pink, for her VMA look."

Ivy Supersonic designed Pam's OG hat. In 2022, the decorator told The Hollywood Reporter that, aft seeing the hats she made for Pam's then-husband Tommy Lee's "Get Naked" euphony video, the histrion asked for a pinkish feathered chapeau of her ain for the VMAs. Ivy said, "So I [made the hat], and I didn't truly cognize what to expect because, well, you know, Tommy wasn't ever dating Pam. And truthful I gave the [pink] chapeau [to Tommy], and helium was like, 'Oh dude, it's sick. Pam's gonna emotion it.' ... Dude, she wore it! I was like, that's dope"

4. Tyla wore a Chanel SS93 RTW that was antecedently modeled by Claudia Schiffer.

5. Audrey Nuna, who's the singing dependable for Mira successful KPop Demon Hunters, recreated her animated character's sleeping container Met Gala look from the movie.

6. Ejae (Rumi) and Rei Ami (Zoey) besides wore looks inspired by their KPop Demon Hunters characters. Ejae told Access Hollywood that their inspiration was, "The HUNTR/X successful KPop Demon Hunters, it was 1 of their achromatic leather outfits... Their combat outfits."

Rei Ami added, "So precise leather, precise badass."

7. Frankie Grande's carnal people suit — which was hand-dyed by his stylist, Mandoh Melendez — seemingly channeled Aaliyah's iconic Roberto Cavalli formal from the 2000 VMAs. It was the past VMAs the vocalist attended earlier her decease successful 2001.

Frankie's sister, Ariana, reportedly sampled Aaliyah's opus "4 Page Letter" connected her 2024 way "True Story."

One much information astir Aaliyah's iconic look: Bretman Rock really wore the nonstop formal to the 2021 VMAs. At the time, helium told Variety, "We pulled it from a Roberto Cavalli archive. I'm fortunate capable to person worked with Roberto, truthful helium conscionable fto maine get it for the night. I similar to unreal that it inactive smells similar Aaliyah, and I conscionable anticipation that Aaliyah is looking down astatine this small brownish Phillipino lad [who is] giving her formal justness 21 years later."

8. Yungblud, who was precise adjacent to the precocious Ozzy Osbourne, wore a peculiar accessory successful tribute to him. He told E! News, "He's present with me. I've got his transverse on, Ozzy forever, man."

In an Instagram tribute to Ozzy aft his decease successful July, Yungblud wrote, "I volition ne'er hide you - you volition beryllium successful each azygous enactment I sing and with maine each azygous clip I locomotion connected stage. Your transverse astir my cervix is the astir precious happening I own. You asked maine erstwhile if determination was thing you could bash for maine and arsenic I said past and arsenic I volition accidental present for each of america the euphony was enough. You took america connected your escapade - an escapade that started it all."

9. Yungblud besides performed a medley of covers successful tribute to the Prince of Darkness alongside Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Nuno Bettencourt. A fewer days prior, helium tweeted, "They've asked maine to wage tribute to you astatine the @vmas connected Sunday night. I'll effort my champion to bash you arrogant Oz. Tune successful from up there. I emotion you forever."

Jack Osbourne, Ozzy's son, introduced the performers via video with his 4 kids. He said, "I cognize for definite it would marque maine incredibly blessed to spot these large musicians transportation connected his bequest and assistance animate the adjacent procreation of rockers... In the words of our Papa, 'Let's spell crazy!'"

10. Doja Cat opened the amusement with a heavy '80s-inspired show of "Jealous Type." She introduced it with a video that channeled Max Headroom.

MTV / Via Twitter: @PopCrave

Max Headroom, aka "the archetypal computer-generated TV presenter," was a quality that Matt Frewer portrayed passim the '80s. He starred successful the TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, the UK bid The Max Headroom Show, and the US bid Max Headroom. He's besides remembered due to the fact that of the infamous Max Headroom awesome hijacking, wherever an unidentified idiosyncratic disguised arsenic the quality concisely hijacked the awesome of 2 Chicago TV stations successful 1987.

Here's a side-by-side of Doja vs. the archetypal Max Headroom:

11. Ariana Grande's 2nd look of the nighttime — a stunning Tamara Ralph Haute Couture gown — seemingly referenced her quality Glinda successful the upcoming Wicked: For Good.

It's nary astonishment that Ariana has continuously gone all-in with her Glinda-inspired looks! She dreamed of playing the iconic Broadway relation for years. For example, successful 2011, she reportedly tweeted, "Loved seeing Wicked again...amazing production! Made maine recognize again however severely I privation 2 play Glinda astatine immoderate constituent successful my life! #DreamRole." Two years later, she repeated the sentiment successful a Kidd Kraddick successful the Morning interview.

And erstwhile manager Jon M. Chu told her she got the role, she cried and said, "I emotion her truthful much. I'm gonna instrumentality specified bully attraction of her. Thank you truthful much!"

12. Forever putting immoderate feud rumors to rest, Ariana Grande presented Mariah Carey with the Video Vanguard Award.

13. Mariah Carey joked astir however dense her archetypal Moonman was, seemingly referencing Ariana's akin prank astatine the Palm Springs International Film Awards past December.

Here's the moment Mariah was seemingly referencing:

14. And finally, portion accepting the inaugural MTV Rock the Bells Visionary Award, Busta Rhymes paid tribute to the precocious VJ and writer Ananda Lewis. He said, "I privation to thank, and I deliberation we each request to acknowledge, the unthinkable pistillate that loved america precise overmuch erstwhile we came to MTV during the '90s. An unthinkable pistillate that loved me, and she loved us. She loved the culture; she lifted america up. I emotion her precise much. I miss her precise much. The late, great, incredible, royal empress Ananda Lewis."

In the '90s, Ananda was 1 of the astir fashionable hosts connected MTV. She became an "it girl." In 1999, MTV's then-senior vice president for accumulation Bob Kusbit told the New York Times, "In the past, our endowment was sometimes conscionable beauteous radical who could work cue cards. But erstwhile we brought Ananda to MTV, we decided we were going to bash a batch much unrecorded television, and I was archetypal and foremost funny successful her quality to bash unrecorded TV.''

She went connected to have a glittering vocation arsenic a broadcast writer and speech amusement host. And arsenic if that wasn't awesome enough, she had a secondary vocation arsenic a carpenter and contractor. Sadly, she died successful June 2025.

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