NEW YORK — Rapper Kanye West displayed a complete absence of class by interrupting Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for her award for best female video at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday. West took the the mic from Swift’s hand in order to point out that Beyonce had one of the best videos “of all time.”
The Associated Press quoted Swift’s reaction after the show: “I was standing on the stage and I was really excited because I had just won the award. And then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage. And then I wasn’t so excited anymore after that.”
Swift looked visibly hurt and confused at the interruption:
The incident did have a silver lining, thanks to Beyonce who showed some true class. The AP reports: “Toward the end of the evening, when Beyonce won video of the year for ‘Single Ladies,’ the pop star promptly invited Swift out on stage to properly ‘have her moment.’”
The AP reports that West was asked to leave the show after the outburst, which he did. He has reportedly apologized on his blog, which is how you apologize when you’re a douchebag.
All of this makes us wonder, is there any real reason to actually hold VMAs, other than to promote the next installment of the cinematic shitheap Twilight franchise? Considering the “M” in MTV went the way of the dodo years ago, shouldn’t the network just concentrate on other crap like “My Super Sweet Sixteen,” “16 and Pregnant” and “16 and Fucking Annoyed by Ashton Kutcher”?
FYI your video of the “event” doesn’t work, been removed and what not.
Does he do drugs? Was he hi? Drunk? What possible motive could anyone have for doing that?
There’s a theory that MTV told him to do something crazy to get people talking about the show.
I actually feel really bad for Taylor Swift. She’s a good influence on young girls and she deserved her moment of recognition.
I’m glad you addressed this. I laughed out loud about douchebags apologizing on blogs.
His awkwardly trying to use his mom’s death as an excuse on Jay Leno the next day was a big eyeroll moment for me. I mean, my father died around the same time his mother did and you don’t see me hurting people’s feelings on national television because of it. Ugh.
I actually thought Taylor handled it really well. I would have cried!