Anything goes at the MTV Video Music Awards and with Miley Cyrus hosting this year's show, the world isn't quite sure what half-dressed and explicit shenanigans will ensue. Show executive are both elated and worried about what the Bangerz singer has in store for Sunday's awards seeing as how she's paraded around in skimpy outfits and has spewed profanity on television over the last few weeks. It's only regular day-to-day behavior for Cyrus and the network is fully prepared to take on whatever impromptu happenings occur (ahem, twerking on Robin Thicke) by delaying the awards in its entirety.
"We have [planned] a lot of wide camera shots and a lot of audience reaction shots. And we have a delay so we're prepared for her," executive producer and MTV president Van Toffler told Billboard . "Hiring Cyrus was a "no-brainer," he said. "She feels like the perfect host. She's that that great marriage of music credibility, candor, she uses social media so well to express herself and she's provocative and chaotic and unpredictable, everything we want for this show."
The 22-year-old singer told The New York Times that Toffler contacted her about the gig. "He's leaving, and so he can't get fired. He was like, 'I want to do something crazy-I want you to host the VMAs, because I want that to be my last shebang."
Toffler revealed that viewers can expect prerecorded pieces and candid moments onstage among other unexpected occurrences, adding that there's no room for change in the show's sequence. The "Wrecking Ball" singer told the NYT that the show will be a "raw" and "psychedelic" experience. "I didn't want this VMAs to be like they've been in the past. Last year there wasn't even a host, so there was no energy."
The former Disney channel child star recruited the help of Jen Stark to craft an introductory set piece as well as Seth Rogen and his team to provide jokes for the night."I'm not a stand-up. That's what it always feels like-like everything's flopping and dying out there," Cyrus said. "So my intro is fun skits."
The MTV Video Music Awards air Sunday at 9 p.m., live from the Microsoft Theater.
