Did Kanye's Stage Rush of Taylor Swift's Award Acceptance at the VMAs Piss You Off?

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Permalink Reply by Enoch 7th Prophet on September 14, 2009 at 9:24am

Peace!
I no longer have a TV in my apt. Its been about 4 or 5 months now. I did read what happen to the young lady. Kanye need to be punch in the face! more then once. If that was my sister. He blames it on the Hennessy he was drinking on the red carpet. Enough is Enough. No more excuses. He needs to be dealt with along with other artist who try and push the blame off on other thing ie. drugs.....Kanye,beyonce,Jay-z,Rhininna (sp), and other who mis-inform our youth will soon pay the price.

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Permalink Reply by R.Jenkins, Visual Artist on September 14, 2009 at 12:08pm

Necessary and political? I'm not exactly sure what Kanye is trying to prove, represent or stand for, but I do know that if he continues to display behavior like this he will end up with less airtime across all media. Kanye needs to get a grip on the reality of the entertainment industry, learning that anything is possible as well as the fact that he does not own stock in anything other than his own music and companies. While I enjoy this artists' music and style I have grown quite despondent towards his actions and ill spirited performances, rants and displays of ignorance.

Blame it on nothing more than his arrogance, the Henny - that's an enabler which he uses as an excuse, masking the fact that while a musical genius, his public displays have become insensible, scrupulous and down right deliberately questionable.

My mouth was wide open as he climbed on stage, created his own space via someone else's award winning moment and totally projected a message of impulsive confusion. Are you serious? Did this guy really 'climb on stage'... Where was security?

Now, do we believe that Taylor Swift deserved to win this category - does it really matter? She will place the moon man on her mantle along side the rest of her many other awards. (Possibly along with the thoughts of how barbarically ghetto this moment became for her? ) Thank you Beyonce for having the class and professionalism to let us all know that despite what you may feel, you are way above the rah-rah BS!

Just a small thought.... -R.Jenkins

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Permalink Reply by Jon Vee on September 14, 2009 at 12:15pm

Regardless of what it was he calls himself doing it is giving our youth the wrong message. There are times when I start to believe my mother and think this man has some kind of brain damage. Whenever my mother says that I just look at her and laugh at her but when he does things like this OMG. It was rude....and to me these entertainers are getting away with far to much. Our children grow up thinking this is the way we have to be in order to be like them. Now no doubt teaching starts at home but these kids these days do whatever it is they think has to be done in order to make out there. You are right Enoch it has to be dealt with. Just think now if someone came along and interupted there children and there world like that it would be hell on wheels to get those people to stop. It's like what we do we do because of who we are. Poor Poor excuse.

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Permalink Reply by Urban Bush Woman on September 14, 2009 at 12:21pm

Kanye needs to be shot down and castrated!!! At the very least, he needs his ass kicked. That really wasn't about Beyonce. He didn't rreally care about Beyonce losing the award. It was about him getting attention because immature children do that when no one is paying them any attention. He has a history of stealing the moment to get people talking about him. I don't believe it's ever about them moment with him. It's always about him. "George Bush doesn't care about black people" translation "I'm gonna say something bold right now. Here's another moment for y'all to notice me and talk about me so my records sales will increase." What would his mother think if she were still here? (God rest her precious soul). Screw Kanye!!!

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Permalink Reply by Anonamas on September 14, 2009 at 12:50pm

Kanye has personally put the last nail in his music career coffin with his actions... people are tired of his inflated ego.. I feel really bad for that Taylor Swift - from my understanding that was her first award and to have that experience be deminished, is ashame - Kanye took something from her she can't get back again. I have to give Beyonce props for giving Taylor her time to speak which made Kanye look even more foolish..LOL

It's good he apologized - but I hope this will be a lesson in humilty for him and make him a humble person.

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Permalink Reply by stephan on September 15, 2009 at 12:15pm

I'M INFURIATED BY HIM. What he did to that little girl was beyond uncalled for and unwarranted. What he did will stick with her forever. She will never forget winning that award, nor will she ever forget being blatantly disrespected on national television. What he did went above and beyond normal asshole behavior. And as many people have already stated, he wouldn’t have done that had it had been someone else on that stage. Had it had been P!nk, Lady Gaga, or Kelly Clarkson he wouldn't have pulled that crap. He acted against someone who wouldn’t have defended herself against him, I already didn’t like him before this but until he is ready to act his age and gain some maturity I’m no longer listening to any of his music.

And again Kanye walks away the most talked about (I hope he’s happy with himself) person of the night. But wasn't this supposed to be a tribute to MJ? Was nothing else that happened more important than this dude? Excuse me, but did no one see P!nk singing the hell out of her song while swinging from a trapeze? And oh, let me not forget Madonna's speech at the beginning that was incredible, and Janet Jackson's duet performance with MJ on the big screen.

(also please check out these videos and tell me what you think of beyonce’s video and of kanye?)


http://globalgrind.com/content/986527/Kanye-Gets-Emotional-On-Jay-L...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtM89C4ot7Q (Beyonce’s “single ladies” video/ choreography form Fosse from the 1960’s performed by the ORIGINAL DANCERS!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-SlfHHd3qI&feature=related (this is originality right? But before I’m called a hater; I love Bey and her video I just know it can’t be accredited to her being original when the choreography is from a broadway play from the 60’s)

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Permalink Reply by Enoch 7th Prophet on September 15, 2009 at 1:19pm

I have an MTV insider that confirms that Taylor sold more albums then beyonce and kanye. So she deserves to win.. His time is coming. Trust me.

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Permalink Reply by Moon on September 15, 2009 at 1:25pm

I am a fan of Kanye West and agreed with what he said when he took the mic from Taylor Swift. She did not deserve being awarded or even categorized with adult performers when her target audience is that of the age of my daughter to older teens. I felt bad for Taylor because it was embarassing but I am more disturbed with the ever-growing trend of people accepting mediocrity as common and though Kanye was not making a revolutionary statement, his action was, indeed revolutionary. I think we confuse decorum and apathy. We mistake politeness with desensitivity. When most folk react to Kanye West, I feel it is because he has no sense of social strictures and has been economically successful in spite of this. While most of us believe that pandering to others, being nice and polite to the fault of totally assimilated our authentic self, Kanye is someone who says things off of the top of his head, reacts on impulse and creates without fear of repercussion. Though I believe that Kanye is currently experiencing a mental breakdown because of the things he is going through given the recent loss of his mother, I believe that the general public has totally projected their own sense of restriction on someone who they believe has not stayed in his place. What is most disturbing to me is to read other African-Americans referring to him as a nigga who stepped out of his place or embarassed by him as if he represents all black people.

Taylor Swift will be ok, she is now America's Sweetheart, America's Victim and nothing sells better than victimhood. I just hope that Kanye finds his way through this.

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Permalink Reply by stephan on September 16, 2009 at 12:14am

I don't see how Taylor's target audience determines whether she can, should, or deserves to be nominated for an award.

1. Her album "Fearless" outsold those who she was nominated against.

2. She's won 22 awards and counting with only 2 studio albums under her belt; all of which she's done before the age of 20. Not to mention the other 13 awards she has been nominated for that she actually didn’t win, and we all know that simply being nominated is an honor within itself.

3. If that's not enough to be deserving of that award than I don’t know what would be.

4. I don't see how any of this makes Taylor or her music mediocre nor do I see Kanye's actions as revolutionary. IMO everything he had to say in regards to this award or any other award he's been upset about over the years can be said with some type of decorum. In most cases it is not what is said that is the problem it is how it has been said. In spite of anything that Kanye is going through in his personal life, he needs to acknowledge that none of that gives him the right to be anything less than professional when he needs to be; being a celebrity is in fact his profession. He is in the lime light and under the scrutiny of the media and his fans at all times. We continually give this man a pass when he has done nothing to deserve one. Also those other African Americans who have called Kanye a “nigga” have actually used it in his case in the way it was intended, not as a racial epithet, but to mean ignorant and ignorance is exactly what he portrayed. And Taylor will be ok because she has the support of America for a reason. First because she is nice, sweet, and talented; all of which are qualities that people are drawn to. Second because even though she was disrespected by a grown man she has yet to speak ill of him. Taylor is a classy young woman, and Kanye maybe a great arist but as kelly clarkson said "I’m not even mad at you for being an asshole…I just pity you because you’re a sad human being."

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Permalink Reply by Moon on September 16, 2009 at 9:11am

I don't agree with your arguement. If selling albums is what necessitates the winner, then Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana should have been nominated and won. She has outsold Taylor Swift easily.

Clearly to me, Taylor Swift is being groomed to be the next Kelly Clarkson but has neither the voice nor stage presence. Regardless, that is not even the point I'm arguing. My point is that Kanye's disruption was not worthy of all of this outrage, in my opinion. He said Beyonce's video was the best of all time. Don't know what he means by best of all time, but I do know that the viral popularity of that video has exceeded any of all time. There are THOUSANDS of variations of the dance routine and that song. That song and dance routine in the VIDEO spawned so much in our pop culture that there is no precedent. The award was for video. Not album sales. Hence, I agree wholeheartedley with the point behind Kanye's action. Taylor Swift's cd sales can not rival the popularity of the VIDEO "Single Ladies".

I won't even address your comment about using "nigga" the way it was "intended". The offensive nature of that statement reflects my point in that we have assimilated so fully to accept the oppressors expectation of us that any type of action that contradicts the expectation of us being docile and accomodating causes immediate outrage.

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Permalink Reply by Moon on September 16, 2009 at 9:25am

Another thing, the VMAs on Sunday was TV at its greatest as an entertainment tool...in one night, we got Janet Jackson evoking tears and all of this feeling in her hommage to Michael, you have Kanye coming out on stage, Lady Gaga and those outfits and Lil Mama's crazy ass coming on stage during Jay-Z and Alicia's performance...that show was a nonstop fest...can't forget Pink on the trapeze. The WTF moments were neverending!

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Permalink Reply by stephan on September 16, 2009 at 3:50pm

Ms. K, you don't have to agree with me, everything i have said has been in my own opinion. I'm not trying to convert the gentiles, Lol.

Hannah Montana is a character, not a person. Miley Cyrus shouldn't be up for an award under that name, for any song on that movie’s soundtrack; unless that award was geared towards soundtracks. And from what I’ve read Taylor Swift has the number 2 album this year and was only beat out by Michael Jackson's thriller.

Kanye's comment and opinion over Beyonce not winning best female video becomes a mute point when Beyonce won video of the year. To me, winning "best female" means that I out shined one section of people. This would leave it up to common sense to then mean that winning “video of the year” would take away a persons sex and stand them victorious over both sexes. Beyonce walked away with not only the better award, but "THE AWARD" of the night. Had Kanye not have jumped the gun with his antics he would have seen that for himself. Or maybe he wouldn’t have, but the ultimate point that I am trying to make is that he was wrong for being disrespectful to that young girl on national television. He acted less than an intelligent human being by simply running on impulses. He failed to think of the consequences of his actions and any impact of his words. If his intent was to be someone standing up for justice or to be a revolutionist than he was prepared to be bombarded with all the flak he is receiving right now. This, in this case, would make every bit of it warranted.

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