Kanye West: Stealing Taylor Swift's VMA moment
Why the rapper interrupted the country singer's acceptance speech at MTV's Video Music Awards
Kanye West
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In case you needed confirmation that Kanye West is a jerk, said Popcrunch, "feast your eyes on Exhibit A: The outspoken rapper interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video at MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards to declare that Beyonce’s popular "Single Ladies" music video" should have won instead. (watch Kanye West interrupt Taylor Swift at the VMAs) MTV should have blackballed West long ago—let's hope this latest outburst does the trick.
Give West a little credit, said Tamar Anitai in MTV.com. The rapper "slllliiiightly manned up and took to his blog—you know, instead of calling Taylor directly?—to apologize, proclaiming, 'I'm not crazy y'all. I'm just real.' Real attention-hungry?"
"No one should really be shocked," said Tom O'Neil in the Los Angeles Times, that Kanye West ruined Taylor Swift's MTV VMA victory by grabbing the mic from her and "rudely" shouting, "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!" This is the guy who stormed out of the 2004 American Music Awards when he didn't win "best new artist," and who interrupted another acceptance speech at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards to say that his video should have won—West "has a long history of throwing the best tantrums over award shows . . . of all time."
What Kanye West took, said Hollie McKay in Fox News, the "ever-classy" Beyonce Knowles gave back. When Beyonce's hit "Single Ladies" "eventually got all it deserved by taking on the big one —Video of the Year"—she dedicated her time to Taylor Swift and "had the emotional teen idol return to the stage" to give her acceptance speech uninterrupted. West had to watch on TV because MTV bigwigs kicked him out—so in the end everybody got what they had coming.
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Posted by Unknown, Monday, September 14, 2009, 9:43 am The sad thing is, what Kanye said was true. Beyonce did have one of the best videos of all time. Unfortunately, while the rest of us were saying that to ourselves, he had to have a 5 year old tantrum and look like an idiot....as usual.
Posted by Styx, Monday, September 14, 2009, 9:51 am Maybe that's true, but in all fairness, Beyonce won the Video of the Year award. Giving her the Best Female Video would've been redundant, as she won the Best Video Period. Taylor had an excellent video, as well. Beyonce did a very noble thing, giving Taylor her time that West stole from her. Some things are not acceptable. It's one thing to disagree with an award, it's a completely different thing to essentially humiliate a young girl Taylor is 19, West is 32 on national TV. Manners, decency, respect. Foreign concepts? I think so. Classy.
Posted by Styx, Monday, September 14, 2009, 9:53 am Taylor is 19, West is 32 should be in parenthesis, sorry for that. It seems the comments eat parenthesis.
Posted by No More Invites For West, Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:36 pm Anyone wanna bet Kanye will be crying racism as the reason he was booted from the show by MTV bigwigs?Folks, next time you wonder why the youth of today is so stunted in their mental development, be sure to thank MTV and the record companies for shoving douchebags like Kanye West down our kids throats as stars. Would it kill these thugs to behave in a manner that DOESN'T embarass their familes and, yes, feed the racial stereotype they so protest against. Nice work West. You've left no room for doubt that you are an INTERNATIONAL Arse!
Posted by popcorn playa, Monday, September 14, 2009, 12:41 pm Kanye West ... geez..... how could he be so heartless.
Posted by jennifer, Monday, September 14, 2009, 1:04 pm the sad thing is that, even with such a dck move, his popularity won't suffer... like every other time he's acted the fool. it's too bad stunts like this don't actually result in sort of negative consequence. pathetic.
Posted by DB, Monday, September 14, 2009, 1:09 pm Why... do we care about this? I'm actually kind of appalled at myself for clicking this link. In a time like this, who really gives a shit? It's a music video. A music video. What?
Posted by Benay, Monday, September 14, 2009, 3:08 pm Bottom line: Kanye is a douche, and Beyonce has abounding class!
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