Earlier this morning Taylor Swift appeared on The View to discuss her career, the VMAs, and, of course, the now infamous Kanye Incident. That is, when Kanye West interrupted Taylor’s Best Female Video Award acceptance speech to let the world know that, not Swift, but Beyonce deserved the award instead. Which, while this blogger might technically agree on, was beyond rude and a total jackass of a move. In other words, standard Kanye. Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to hear Kanye’s side of the story on his blog, Leno, and just about any other platform he’s found himself on.
So now we have Taylor Swift’s reaction. Responding to questions from The View, Swift detailed her thought process of the event: “I think my overall thought process was something like, ‘Wow I can’t believe I won. This is awesome. Don’t trip and fall. I’m going to get to thank the fans, this is so cool — oh, Kanye West is here. Kanye West is here, cool haircut, what are you doing there? And then ouch, and then I guess I’m not going to get to thank the fans.”
Soon after, Swift was backstage fighting back tears. “I’m not gonna say that I wasn’t riled by it. I had to perform live five minutes later, so I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform.” And that’s exactly what she did. Minutes later she charmed those in attendance with a spectacular rendition of “You Belong With Me”.
As to Kanye, who on Leno promised a face-to-face apology, Swift remarked, “he has not personally reached out or anything.” Ouch.
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Comments
Dudez
September 15th, 2009 - 1:00:32 PM
Ahh, whatever. She's just playing up the victim card. Wah-wah, you didn't get to finish your speech (actually: you did). Anyway, it's the VMAs, not the Nobel Peace Prize. Who cares.
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Jill
September 16th, 2009 - 3:00:32 PM
Who cares, first off she is a young girl who won an award and did not get to have her minute in the spotlight because of a jerk who cries and whines when he doesn't get his own way. Second he is always make rude comments or having little fits when things dont go his way. Third even if she got to give her speech later (thanks to Beyonce) it doesn't take the sting out of what he did. He is a jerk and should be banned from the award shows or better yet hopefully next time he does it to someone like pink who will knock him out. I would enough seeing that.
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