Doechii Presents Lady Gaga With Innovator Award, Taylor Swift Wins Artist of the Year at iHeartRadio Music Awards
variety.comThania Garcia The iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night were a starry affair that honored both new and veteran music stars.
Mariah Carey and Lady Gaga were both present to receive special awards recognizing their decades-long careers in entertainment, while SZA took home the R&B artist of the year award for a third year.
Benson Boone’s “Beautiful Things” was also named song of the year. Presenting Gaga as innovator of the year, Doechii referred to the former as “a lifeline” to her childhood, seeing that she identifies “as an artist, as queer and as a ‘little monster.'” Gaga returned the favor, also lauding Doechii as an innovator.
She thanked her inspirations — “David Bowie, Grace Jones, Carole King, Elton John, Lady Starlight, Madonna, Stevie Wonder, Duke Ellington, Cher and of course, my dear friend Tony Bennett, who taught me to embrace the classics but never be bound by them.” “Winning an award honoring my entire career at 38 years old is a hard thing to get my head around,” Gaga noted. “On the one hand, I feel like I’ve been doing this forever, and on the other hand, I know I’m just getting started.
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