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Kanye Surprises No One
Date: 15 September 2009
By Johnny Mayo
Now this is not the easiest article to write, considering that anything new, topical and copyrighted gets pulled from YouTube within minutes of being posted, so unfortunately the videos I watch as I write this will probably not be available to you on YouTube as you read it. But in time, you will see, and hear, of what happened at last night’s VMA awards.
Long story short. Taylor Swift, a sweet looking 19 year old Avril Lavigne Mark II, who I must admit I had not heard of before tonight and now having researched her music a bit don’t think much of anyway, won the award for best female video for her single ‘You Belong With Me’. The crowd cheered, Taylor smiled and everyone felt warm and happy as she took to the stage to start her speech. Everyone seemed content.
Everyone apart from Kanye West.
He spritely popped up from his seat like a gypsy from a cave, took the mic and shouted "Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time” referring to her slightly above average but still shot screen by screen video ‘Single Ladies’, which was also up for the nomination. Cue the chorus of boos.
Beyonce, acting like a class act, later gave her acceptance speech for her own award win that night over to Taylor allowing her to finish her piece, which made the audience stand up to rapturous applause. I would like to think that the standing ovation was not so much for the good hearted nature of Beyonce, but more for the people of the world to unite around one common opinion that transcends all boundaries, borders and races - Kanye is a dick. For his little stunt he got ejected from the ceremony and you can only imagine the gems that were spewed from his mouth backstage.
In a way I’m glad it happened, because - like we all were, I was waiting for Kanye’s opinion. If he doesn’t rubber stamp it with his dick, it doesn’t happen.
You would have thought that the stunt he pulled at the 2007 EMA’s would have made him realise that there are times in life where you have to sit down and shut up.
When the flashy, unoriginal ‘Touch The Sky’ video lost, and quite rightly, to original and artistic Justice V Simian competitor ‘We Are Your Friends’, Kanye took to the stage and spewed out the following from his mouth:
"Fuck this! My video cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it, I was jumping across canyons and shit! If I don't win, the awards show loses credibility. Nothing against you” as he looks towards the gate crashed Justice V Simian duo, “but….hell man."
While after a few too many vodka and limes, Kanye, who was by his own admission had been getting a bit “sippy, sippy”, said that he had not even seen the ‘We Are Your Friends’ video and that “Possibly it could have been quite good, but no way better than 'Touch The Sky'”. Wait, it gets better, and I quote: "That is complete bullshit, I paid a million. Obviously it's not all about the money, but the response it got transcended everything, it really made great TV. It took a month to film; I stood on a mountain; I flew a helicopter over Vegas. I did it to be the king of all videos and I wanted to walk home with that award."
Now that was a stupid thing to do, but it got even worse with the unfortunate arrival of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I can’t put the video up here, but stick “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” into Google and witness the tsunami of shite this man can create in less than a minute.
Without wanting to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t watched it, take note of the perfectly mannered and well handled face of Mike Myer’s when Kanye gives his infamous one liner that managed to turn the plight of thousands of people into all about HIM. Mission accomplished, Kanye.
So with these previous events considered and the debacle that occurred last night, Kanye was quick to make an apology on his blog about stealing Taylor’s thunder, but it seems to have mostly fallen on deaf ears with most of the gene pool being of the opinion that this man wastes oxygen.
Kanye, just once, for the sake of your career, which we know you went through a lot for (most notably a windshield), please sit down and behave yourself.
