23 times boobs were literally all we could see at the VMAs

The MTV VMAs are always entertaining for fashion lovers. And this year's big red carpet style trend? Boobs.

That's right. Why wear clothes when you can just show your breasts in all their glory? From sideboob to cleavage to man-boob realness, here are 21 times boobs were literally ALL we could see at the VMAs.

Cassie served business-casual boob realness.

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HOW DOES THAT BLAZER STAY OPEN???

And Amber Rose threw it back to the '80s in her boxy power suit with heaps of cleave.

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Kim Kardashian, naturally, gave us both cleavage AND the illusion of being actually naked — hello, transparent black dress with nude lining!

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Then Nicki Minaj showed Kim how it's DONE in a cobalt blue boob-halter with transparent side panels.

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"That's not a boobalicious outfit… THIS is a boobalicious outfit."

Fifth Harmony held a contest to see how much boob they could all collectively show off. We have sideboob, deep-V boob, transparent boob, velvet boob, and shiny satin boob.

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TRUE STORY: When first I saw this thumbnail, I thought this was a group of Kardashian impersonators.

ANOTHER TRUE STORY: To the girl in the velvet one-sleeved strangler situation, I salute you. It was twelve million degrees in New York yesterday; you must have been sweating like crazy.

Laura Perlongo basically wore a khaki shrug along with her pregnant belly and boob chain.

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She also attended on the arm of her fiance, "Catfish" producer Nev Schulman — one could argue that he is the biggest boob of them all.

Halsey freed the nipple, and her entire chestal area, in a see-through silver jumpsuit.

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She brought *even more* boob to her VMAs performance — this time of the underboob variety.

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Britney served sculptural implied side-boob in this amazing one-sleeved dress.

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And Baddie Winkle KILLED IT with her "Toxic"-era Britney bedazzled bodysuit.

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ICONIC BOOBS 4 EVER.

And RIP all of us: we cannot forget Teyana Taylor's AMAZING underboob in the "Fade" video.

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Watch the entire thing here. It's amazing.

An of course, there was man-boob too. Exhibit A: Ty Dolla $ign.

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G-Eazy, here looking like all of my college boyfriends, was just like "Shirt? Whatever, look at my chesticles."

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And 2-for-1 boobs: Jeremy Scott and his medallions, and Stella Maxwell's IMPLIED beaded nipple corset.

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TRUE STORY: Last September I covered Scott's show at New York Fashion Week, and he swept into the backstage area, pointed at me, and shouted "YOU! ARE PERFECT." Truly I felt blessed.

This is Joe Jonas and his band, DNCE. There is a lot of surprise boob in this photo, including SURPRISE OVERALL DUDE-BOOB.

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And there we have Sarah Barthel serving bondage boobs.

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And of course, Rihanna's boobs kept it 100 in a transparent green fringed jumpsuit with both cleave AND sideboob.

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Talk about a high degree of difficulty!

Rita Ora brought her 2004 Hot Topic finest out to play.

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What is even happening here? Transparent black mesh lace-up bralette lunacy?

Ariana Grande's ruffled top feels like a boob-censorship bar.

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YOU CAN'T UNSEE IT.

This is a person called Zara Larsson. Her boobs are called JOAN and COLLINS.

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DYNASTY FEELS.

Ashley Graham can do no wrong — this bedazzled, beaded full-body condom is just making ME want to wear a naked dress at all time.

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Take a moment to be amazed at the fact that this is JWoww from "Jersey Shore."

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Then take a moment to be astonished at how much keyhole boob is on display in this Morticia Addams-esque dress.

And, sigh, I guess we also have to talk about Farrah Abraham's comic book cleavage.

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*silently hands her a Beautyblender*

Which was *your* favorite boobs-centric fashion moment at the VMAs?

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