Katy Perry sits in a director’s chair in New York City’s Times Square in this pic pro­mot­ing the 2009 MTV VMAs, which will air live on Sun­day, Sep­tem­ber 13, 2009 @ 9PM ET/PT.

Leighton Meester, Cobra Star­ship, and Tay­lor Swift all taped their own ren­di­tions of West Side Story’s “Tonight” to hype up the VMAs. Each artist col­lab­o­rated with Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights) to rework the lyrics to make them more VMA-specific.

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