Jelly Roll and Post Malone took the stage during Sunday night’s (September 7) MTV Video Music Awards to perform “Losers.”
The MTV Video Music Awards are took place Sunday at Elmont, New Yorks, UBS Arena. The fan-voted awards ceremony honors music videos representing numerous genres. Jelly Roll and Post Malone were among those recognized with nominations. Jelly Roll’s nods included Best Country Video for “Liar,” and Best Hip Hop Video and Best Video for Good for “Somebody Save Me” with Eminem.
Post Malone, who has previously won 6 VMAs, was up for Best Collaboration for “Pour Me A Drink” with Blake Shelton.
During Sunday’s ceremony, Jelly Roll and Post Malone not only were nominees, but were asked to perform. The pair are currently overseas for the European leg of their world tour so performed virtually.The duo sang their hit song “Losers” from a stage in Hanover, Germany.
Watch their “Losers” performance in the following video:
About “Losers”
“Losers” was a track featured on Post Malone’s sixth studio album F-1 Trillion. The song peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, and made it to No. 12 on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart.
The song was written as a message to people who consider themselves “losers” or who have been labeled as such. It offers encouragement to those that they are “never alone.”
In an interview with CBS’s Anthony Mason, Post Malone opened up about his desire to reach those who feel lonely or isolated.
“Four years ago, I was on a rough path…[wrestling with] loneliness…Getting up, having a good cry, drinking, and then going living your life, and then whenever you go lay down, drinking some more and having a good cry. Just like, ‘I gotta wake up tomorrow and do this again’. And I don’t feel like that anymore, and it’s the most amazing thing…It’s important [to tell fans they’re loved] because not everyone knows it, you know, there’s a lot of very lonely people.”
Post has often talked about his own feelings of lonliness and his esire to help his fans.
“I don’t want people to feel how I felt, and I know they do. I’m here and I’m on-stage and I just want everyone to feel welcome and to feel loved, and that’s the most important thing to me”.