Taylor Swift Speaks Out on Kanye Incident
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After Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards - during which Kanye West brazenly interrupted Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech to say that Beyonce deserved to win - the 19-year-old singer spoke to reporters about the incident.
"Well, I was standing on stage because I was really excited because I had just won the award," she began. "And then I was really excited because Kanye West was on stage. And then I wasn't so excited anymore after that."
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After the bizarre incident, she said celebs reached out to her backstage. (Some even Twittered. Pink, for instance, wrote: Kanye west is the biggest piece of s*** on earth. Quote me.")
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Said Swift, "I've been getting so many text messages and everybody's been really nice. So I've had a really, really fun night. It's been interesting definitely. It's definitely been an interesting night."
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She said she doesn't have any ill-will toward the rapper, 32, of whom she said she was once a fan.
"I don't know him, and I've never met him, so..." she said. "I don't want to start anything because I had a great night tonight."
She also thanked Beyonce (who won Video of the Year), who invited her on stage as she accepted her award to give an acceptance speech.
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385forget taylor okai. she had everything. unlike kanye, her mother didnt die. so stfu homos.
I will never understand how in the world anyone could listen to Taylor Swift sing...She is one of the worst singers i've ever hear in my life!
i dont know why taylor won an award anyway she cant sing a lick.
U people should stop arguing over this silly incidence. It has happen & is past. come to thing of it, Swift isn't border cos d most important thing to her is that she has won & received d "award" & there's nothing any body can do about it, not even West. so let's drop d shit and thing of something else...d future
No one really cares who won; it's not benefiting neither one of us. The rich get richer and the poor gets poorer. There are bigger things to worry about then this.
Let put it simply: You can take a monkey out of the jungle but you cant't take the jungle out of the monkey!!!
why are we trippin over Taylor Swift and Kanye, they are both billionaires, we are normal people who don't have time to waste our breath arguing about two people who are just .0000000000000002% of this whole artificial bullshit world we call Hollywood. face it, none of them write thier own songs, none of them sing as well as we think, none of them work harder than the average American family. In my opinion, they're both great but there's worse things going on in the world besides "boohoo, I cant get my shiney piece of painted plastic or he stole my very first moment to accept an award that I don't even deserve because I didn't do shit for it." Beyonce deserved the award. Taylor won it. More people liked her, so they voted for her. Kanye was drunk, became a huge ass and made an ass of himself. People are trippin. LIVE YOUR LIFE! YOURS! YOUR LIFE! Taylor and Kanye can take care of themselves, we are the ones that need to worry about feeding our families or going to college or making a name for ourselves, they have it all figured out. They don't need us to worry about them So in digress: worry about YOU
I seriously think that its squashed, whats the point in arguing about it. it's over. I mean Kanye was an ass yes but if Taylor can't take getting her feelings hurt then she doesn't belong in hollywood, people are gonna say far worse things than drunken comments not even directed towards her. I say that they were both wrong, they fixed it, now shut up and let it die.
Why does White Americans look at everything through Race blinders. It was not about race keep race out of it bigots.
Taylor is actually trying to get over it. It is blogs like this that won't let it die down. She never asked to be in this kinda spotlight. She did the right thing by saying nothing about the situation except what she was thinking. If she would have mouthed off to him them she would have been doing the same disrespect to him that he did her. It is called having class and knowing when to keep your mouth shut. Something Kwest hasnt learned. Oh and Beyonce, I like her a whole lot now. I didn't really know her before. It is not about whether who deserved what award, is about respect that is supposed to be between fellow musicians and artists.period. She is talented and so is Beyonce, they are just talented in there on genre. Taylors song happened to be liked by people in the pop genre. Get over it. Tpain was at the CMT awads, You didnt see anybody there dissing him for being at a country music award show. Whether he up for an award or not.
Kayne is douche! For those of you claiming he had the "right" to speak his opinion, you are WRONG! He did NOT have that "right" at that moment because it was TAYLOR'S time on stage. He should have waited until after the show, if and when he was interviewed, to share his thoughts. He is an ignorant racist bully who alienated his own fans by not respecting their votes. How do you think this would've gone down if a WHITE person got up on stage and complained about a BLACK person winning an award over their white friend?!?!? The hypocrisy is laughable.
To the poster who said, ". . . taylor needs to get a backbone n know that there are far more ppl other than kanye west who hate her guts. all the man did was speak his opinion." Excuse me, but who lacks a backbone here . . . the girl that is taken off-guard by an unbelievable arrogant and rude creep or the jerk that takes the limelight away from a 17 year-old girl. She wasn't "retarded" and she wasn't without a backbone . . . quite frankly you're getting her mixed up with Kanye.
No matter if Beyonce deserved to win or not, Taylor DID receive the award. No one deserves to be rudely interupted and by Kanye doing what he did - it showed poor manners. And as for what Kiki posted: Beyonce IS very talented, but I wouldn't say the most talented person. She has more years and experience under her belt than Taylor does. In many eyes, Taylor would be more talented. She's younger, writes her own songs and has a beautiful voice to back it up. That girl has so much heart and emotion and for Kanye to rudely get in the way of what she rightly deserves is horrible. Who are you to say that she didn't deserve the award? Who is ANYONE to say she doesn't deserve the award?
September 16, 2009 - 4:51pm Baby Says: is this little white girl retarded or something? what..she cant stand up for herself? its not a life n death situation ppl. taylor needs to get a backbone n know that there are far more ppl other than kanye west who hate her guts. all the man did was speak his opinion. if u dont like it...dont fuckin watch it. DUH...its not rocket science. i dont feel the least bit sorry for this little girl, because instead of speaking out n sticking up for herself...she let this country victimize her...oh im only 17...bullshit...when i was 17...kanye west or not...his ass wouldve gotten laid out...ok? get over...its not world war 3...really...they both are millionaires at the end of the day...n i agree with 1023...lady gaga shouldve DEFINITELY won. *********************************************************** LOL.... that's what I'm saying! This girl needs to get a grip, suck it up and get over it. I would have told him "Well mofo, Beyonce didn't win and I did, so shut up, sit your behind down, and deal with it". By the way, Lady GaGa should've won.
HE'S AN ASSHOLE
Not that big of a deal - Let a white man say something about a black in a public say like Joe Wilson for informing the President was lying about his health care and he is a racist. BTW AP ran a fact check on the Presidents speech and he was lying. The country has lost it's moral compass - right is wrong and wrong is accepted. I am sick of the bull. Let a person no matter their color stand on their character.
Before the VMA awards people weren't mentioning Kanye West...now we all know how pathetic he really is. Taylor had a bully in her face, and Beyonce attempted to make it better. I guess he had to get on stage somehow...Hit KW where it counts, in his wallet.
Taylor and Beyonce were gracious while Kayne was ghetto rude and showed no manners. Kayne needs to seek AA and stop taking swigs on the red carpet. In fact, he needs to do us all a favor and just plain disappear.
If you think Beyouce should have won the award then so should have a lot of other actors won the oscars. Take it up with academy with their slanted views on talent.
his momma should come back from the dead and slap him up side the head for being rude,