VMA ratings were up this year, but still not great
MTV pulled its biggest audience in three years, but ratings were still far off the broadcast's peak in 2011

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The looming promise of potential Doja Cat antics, another Taylor Swift record break, and a long-awaited NSYNC reunion may go a long way, but nothing can fully resuscitate the half-alive corpse of the once-vibrant Video Music Awards. We’re really never going to get another 23-year-old ingenue pretending to bleed out on stage mid-performance, huh? We probably won’t even get a pithy little meat dress (or Cher being forced to participate in said meat stunt) ever again. Sad.