Why the VMAs aren’t relevant anymore: Hot stars don’t want their MTV

nypost.com:

Billie Eilish? Where was Harry Styles? Where was Megan Thee Stallion?The 2020 MTV Video Music Awards — held Sunday night in New York as the first major live awards show of the COVID era, with Lady Gaga as the big winner — was missing some of the hottest pop stars of the moment.Instead, we got the Black Eyed Peas closing the show, giving us a has-been feeling.While the pandemic no doubt presented unprecedented challenges this year — forcing the awards show to move from Barclays Center to various locations in New York, along with other remote performances — the VMAs has been steadily losing relevance.When you have someone like Eilish — a teen sensation who, back in the day, would have been all over MTV — opting to sit the big night out for.