MTV awards: West disrupts Swift's speech; tribute to MJ

[woodness03]

Even by the standards of the anything-goes MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West's hijacking of country-pop sweetheart Taylor Swift's speech at the Sunday night ceremony was particularly brutal.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...rds/index.html

Haven't seen this posted yet but a pretty stupid thing for Kayne West to do, but awesome what Beyonce did at the end.

[Mr. Furious]

Yeah, good for Beyonce, that was a really classy thing to do. She's always struck me as a nice person, and (provided it wasn't staged) she seemed mortified when Kanye made his little speech.

I saw this picture on Fark today, and it made me chuckle:

[Simply Madeline]

Taylor Swift doesn't care about black people! Or maybe the MTV music awards don't care about black people. Or something.

[Beachlife!]

Originally Posted by Mr. Furious

Yeah, good for Beyonce, that was a really classy thing to do. She's always struck me as a nice person, and (provided it wasn't staged) she seemed mortified when Kanye made his little speech.

I saw this picture on Fark today, and it made me chuckle:

Thank you, I just spit coffee on my desk.

[Simply Madeline]

Kanye interrupts again

[Canuckistan]

Wow. What a douche bag, interrupting Obama like that.

[Artemis]

LEAVE KANYE ALONE!!!! JUST LEAVE HIME ALONE, OKAY?! ::wipes badly applied guyliner from face and sobs::

[AliBaba]

My coffee-spitting moment comes from Swift herself:

I was excited to be onstage because I just won the award. And then I was excited that Kanye West was onstage. Then, I wasn't excited anymore," she said.

I have to admit I don't really follow pop music, so am not familiar with Ms. Swift, but you got to give the droll comment of the week for that.

Kanye really is just a big damn blow hole, isn't he?

AliBaba

[DemonWolf]

Kanye West does not care about people who get awards.

[Just Jocko]

Originally Posted by DemonWolf

Kanye West does not care about people who get awards.

I think you forgot a word in there: Kanye West does not care about other people who get awards.

Which, IMHO, is getting to be a longer and longer list all the time.

[Tarquin Farquart]

Originally Posted by Mr. Furious

I saw this picture on Fark today, and it made me chuckle:

Nothing short of brilliant.

[Mama Duck]

(Disclaimer: I don't keep up with pop music anymore, so all my examples are dated.)

Ya know, I really, really don't think Kayne West would have interrupted say, Henry Rollin's acceptance speech. I noticed he didn't try this with Eminem. But tiny teenaged girl you know won't fight back. What a doucebag.

[Lainie]

You know, when he burst out with the George Bush comment during the Hurricane Katrina benefit, I was willing to give him the benefit () of the doubt: it was an emotional time, and an emotional subject. Now we learn he's just rude and likes to interrupt people. It actually makes the earlier outburst seem less heartfelt and more opportunistic.

ETA: Mama Duck, for more current references, look no further than Pink's comments that he wouldn't have dared try it when she was accepting an award. There's no doubt in my mind she could kick Kanye's a**.

[Mama Duck]

Originally Posted by Lainie

ETA: Mama Duck, for more current references, look no further than Pink's comments that he wouldn't have dared try it when she was accepting an award. There's no doubt in my mind she could kick Kanye's a**.

Ah, I didn't know Pink was up for an award. He really would not have tried it with her either.

[Hapax Legomena]

I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Kanye is mentally ill. I'm not kidding...his behavior seems to get more and more bizarre all the time but his status is still such that he can largely get away with it. Even by celebrity standards his antics are often over the top and can't be explained just by him looking for publicity. Yeah, he's a d-bag, but sometimes that's how mental illness manifests itself.

[Canuckistan]

Originally Posted by Lainie

[F]or more current references, look no further than Pink's comments that he wouldn't have dared try it when she was accepting an award. There's no doubt in my mind she could kick Kanye's a**.

Pink is someone you definitely want on your side. She strikes me as being very scary otherwise.

[WildaBeast]

Soon after, an apology to Swift appeared on his blog:
"I'm sooooo sorry to Taylor Swift and her fans and her mom," the message said in all caps.

The all caps part made me laugh for some reason. I guess the sort of person rude enough to interrupt someone on stage like that would post messages in all caps, wouldn't they?

[lyra_silvertongue]

Originally Posted by WildaBeast

The all caps part made me laugh for some reason. I guess the sort of person rude enough to interrupt someone on stage like that would post messages in all caps, wouldn't they?

He always posts in all caps. He maintains a blog that is barely more than a stream of conciousness in all caps.

I wish he was at least making music decent enough to back up his "I am the greatest" schtick. I've enjoyed some of his production work and I liked some of his stuff from his first couple solo CDs, but that "Heartless" song makes me want to kill someone.

[BookWork]

I know Kanye kind of stole the show, but did no one else see Lil Mama's own moment of stage crashing?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/musi...s-to-care.html

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by Hapax Legomena

I'm honestly beginning to wonder if Kanye is mentally ill. I'm not kidding...his behavior seems to get more and more bizarre all the time but his status is still such that he can largely get away with it. Even by celebrity standards his antics are often over the top and can't be explained just by him looking for publicity. Yeah, he's a d-bag, but sometimes that's how mental illness manifests itself.

I've heard people say he's bipolar and his handlers who are meant to well...handle him when stuff like this happens.