But Where Is Taylor Swift's Apology?
A lot has happened in the last two days (NOTHING has happened in the last two days*) since Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. He posted an apology on his blog (PUNCH THE KEYS, YOU THE MAN NOW DAWG). Deciding that an ALL CAPS blogpology written by an assistant would not be sufficient, he then went on Jay Leno last night and apologized again, to Taylor, to his fans, and to his mother's ghost. Obama has now called Kanye a "jackass" and he's probably going to have to issue his own apology.
But where is Taylor Swift's apology?
Obviously, Kanye West was wrong about a lot of things in this situation. For one, it was simply rude to interrupt a young woman in the middle of a speech, and to steal her moment from her. For two, he was wrong to think that there was any integrity in the MTV Video Music Awards. For three, Beyonce won in the end anyways, so that made him look Triple Dumb Cereal.
But on the other hand:
Kanye has always been a wide-mouth can. And "Single Ladies" IS far superior to whatever the Taylor Swift song is that won I don't even know. And most importantly, his outburst has created one of the funniest Internet memes in awhile. e-Silver iLinings. So it's not like nothing came out of this. Besides, the man has apologized on late night television, which seems to be the one thing America wants more than anything else. Constant televised remorse.
And where is Taylor Swift's apology? She was on The View this morning (after which Kanye apologized anew) and I heard no apology from her.
Sure, she is the one who was wronged in this situation, but amends were made. Beyonce gave up her Beyonce Time so that Taylor could have more Taylor Time. If anything, this whole thing has made Taylor Swift more famous than ever. She should be thanking Kanye. But since public thank yous never seem to gain much traction, she might as well at least get an apology in there. For one, she can apologize for continuing to call herself a country singer. I HEARD YOUR SONG, TAYLOR SWIFT. That is a sub-grade Kelly Clarkson song is what that is. That is Avril Lavigne without the skateboard-flavored lip gloss.
Secondly, she can apologize for pretending like it was the fans and not herself who were injured. WILL NO ONE THINK OF POOR TAYLOR SWIFT'S FANS? No, David Blaine. None of these self-less heroics, please. Her fans were not really injured. If anything, no one was injured. And if she would like to apologize for making it seem like someone was injured when no one was injured, that would also be acceptable.
But, at the very least, she could apologize for tying up the already unreliable F train!
MAKE IT RIGHT.
P.S. Kanye's blog seems to be down. CHARLIE SHEEN SHOULD WRITE A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT!
*Seriously, like, I know that we are all just trying to figure out how to keep our eyes occupied until they fall out of our heads and return to dirt, but so much attention has been paid to this NONTROVERSY that it's almost as if there were not two American wars being fought in the Middle East, a pandemic flu infecting millions, and a collapsed global economy. It's almost as if MTV were still relevant!
Posted by Gabe at 3:30 PM in Backlashes, Fake Feuds
Tags: Apologies | Kanye West | MTV Video Music Awards | Taylor Swift | The View
I'm guessing Kayne ate the marshmallow.
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Taylor, on the other hand, ate half the marshmallow, saving the other half, in her wide eyed innocence, in case the man never returned with the second marshmallow, in which case she knew she would have to depend on part of the remaining half of the marshmallow for sustanence and use the rest to break off bits and lay a carefully spaced trail so as not to retrace her steps when finding her way to the end of this ridiculous run-on sentence. Smart kid.
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Don't you need to have eyes for wide-eyed innocence?
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Kanye's (insane) blogpology 1 + apology 2 + Jay Leno + Obama's future apology + Michael Calderone's journalistic breach apology + Taylor Swift's (never going to happen) apology = distraction from the real story...internet meme is right, Summer IS one of the hugest bitches of all time.
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Ol' Dirty did it better.
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Now why did I get a -9 when I put the same comment on a similar post?
WTF you guys?
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timing, child. now brush off those knees and come in for dinner.
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Timing, wtf, go fuck yourself.
I was there the day that shit happened pointing out ODB as king of stage-us interrutpus.
Fuck you and your sense of timing gramma.
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I don't like Kanye. I don't like Beyonce. I don't like Taylor Swift. You're probably thinking I don't belong in this post. But boy oh boy, do I like The View. That Kate Gosselin is so not a reprehensible person.
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this might not be cool to say outright, but
thanks for asterisked footnote Gabe. seriously.
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I think Taylor Swift is not very happy for Kanye.
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Why are Leno and the View Harpies so surprised and thrilled that these people "kept their commitments?" "Waaaaaah, Kanye embarrassed himself and made me more famous than I ever would have been without him. I'm definitely not going to do any previously scheduled major television appearances today. Just leave me alone!"
Also, what the fuck is up with Taylor Swift's teeth?
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Yeah, OK, Taylor you win miss benevolence of the year but WHY THE FUCK IS KATE GOSSLING THERE?
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Taylor Swift is from Pennsylvania. You know, where most country singers hail from.
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I dunno; I find the idea of "what's the big deal, she's no one special" to be a shitty argument. If anything, it makes Kanye look worse since he's "defending Beyonce's honor" against this teen pop chick who probably won't last another year.
But I agree, there are many more important things going on now than this. But the battle for a public option didn't have Kanye involved. We only got Joe Wilson, and that's already old news.
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I just read Missinfo and he did apologize, after the show, over the phone, and the conversation is confidential. Now its time to get ur humble on Kanye? Im done.
Btw...can he just tell Beyonce he is madly in love with her already and spare us this nonsense!!! Liquor + Unrequited love + crazy fashion = the last season of Gossip Girl. O how life imitates bad CW television!
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kanye's been trying to come up with an apology lately, but shit's ROUGH nowadays.
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#1 Oh Kanye! You are all sorts of crazy bananas. Don't you know you don't mess with pretty white girls with a country music which means nascar which means big league chew fanbase?
#2 What? is the View always awful? I had heard it was but that is the most I've ever watched of it.
#3 Didn't Taylor Swift write a song about breaking up with a Jonas Brother...which one, Ricky or something? She was "news" after that. Kathy Griffin talked about her in her act so you know that means popular (see #4)
#4 Kate Gosselin? Wtf? Who is watching her kids? Just Kidding Kate, no gives two shits about you anymore. (or at least not for much longer *fingers crossed*)
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My biggest problem is girl looks like a goddamn porcelain doll and yet the two songs I've heard from her are both about how some guy doesn't want nerdy ole Taylor. Bitch, there is no dude who would not kill to bend you over a chair, cut the bullshit.
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Yea... bend her over a chair to look for their matching promise rings.
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She is not an attractive girl. At all.
IM HUMBLE O, of course!
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Taylor Swift is a Red State Sweetheart. She was the top selling artist of last year and her album is on track to be one of the biggest of the decade. She doesn't play very big in urban markets so I can see how you would kind of not know who she is or how it is that Beyonce could lose to her but she's young, new and super popular. Have the awards ever really been about which video is really the best?
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Finally some sense. I get the feeling nobody here really knows how popular Taylor Swift is (Taylor Swift is very popular).
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I don't really care about Taylor Swift, I don't really like Kanye, and I hate Jay Leno. But I am kinda sick of seeing people say (even tongue-in-cheek) that Kanye was doing Taylor Swift a huge favor. She sold more albums in the US in 2008 than anyone else. And her album is currently the second best-selling of 2009.....and Michael Jackson had to die to slip past her into #1!
It is quite possible that more people woke up this morning and said "who is that black guy who is yelling at Taylor?" than said "who is that girl that Kanye is yelling at?".
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I have been listening to College Dropout for two days straight. This is the best thing to ever happen to America.
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Living outside the US, I am genuinely befuddled as to why Kanye interrupting someone at the fucking VMAs is such a Big Deal. I've still never heard any of her songs (is she America's new sweetheart or what?), and asking what his dead mom would think is awfully absurd. Seriously, Leno/the View/Mr President/every blog on my google reader, I've had enough of this high school musical. Cut it out now.
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Can we also talk about how weird it is that we (well not we) give awards for music videos to the artists of the songs... rather than the directors of the videos, or anyone who had anything to do with the creative process of the thing in question?
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1. A radio station in FL actually pulled all of Kanye's music from the airwaves. No word on if they still play Chris Brown's music.
2. While some are all "omg poor Taylor it's like Kanye stomped on a puppy!!!!" -- he did not, actually, stomp on a puppy. Move the eff on.
3.
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Would everyone have been ok with it if Willie Nelson had taken the mic to interrupt her and say: "stop calling this country music." ?
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I am holding out for that cable channel, Gabe. Constant Televised Remorse. A place where any celebrity, whether young, old, black, white, tween, TV Star, or Vampire, can come and try to make things right with the viewing public. Extra points for tears.
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Yo Taylor, I'm sure you're real sorry and I'mma let you finish, but my apology for interrupting you was one of the best apologies of all time! OF ALL TIME!
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There's only so much political fervor that a pop culture blog can incite in terms of pointing out the futility of the general population to get their minds off of some stupid awards show incident. I'd estimate that amount to be somewhere around none at all.
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Wow. I hadn't actually watched The View clip at first. But holy crap - "I just got my first condo!" I'm astounded. Is this something that everyone else achieves except me? And it's her first? Wow. Is that early, or late in the white celebrity game, for her to get that first condo now? Should we be tweeting our congratulations to her for this? I don't know how to feel.
It's not like announcing you got your first Platinum Record, or an achievement of yours. It's announcing the monetary consequences of your achievements. Are there teenage girls (boys?) out there, jumping around on their beds, hugging their sister (while their mother gasps in amazement), thanking their lucky stars that Taylor FINALLY got her first condo - that elusive accomplishment they'd been praying she would achieve?
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It's just conversation. Quit anazlying the shit out of everything.
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None of this interrupting, country music calling, pop music nontroversy makes me angry. I mean, why are we surprised at all this?
What will make me angry? An Obama apology.
If Obama apologizes for calling Kanye a jackass, I will freaking blow my lid. An apology from the Prez will give Kanye so much legitimacy his head will likely asplode.
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"Hopefully, Kanye...... if he's watching....... will know what to do"
That is way more ominous than you hopefully meant it to be, Whoopi.
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Well im interested in this whole,"I video tape everything," Taylor said,i wouldn't mind gettin my hands on a few of those tapes if you know what i mean LOLOLOLOL (GET 'CAUSE IM A GUY AND STUFF)
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LEAVE TAYLOR ALONE!!!!
LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!
Oh...sorry...we haven't started to crush Taylor Swift's spirits and turn her insane yet with constant judging her every outfit and weight fluctuation. Give it three years?
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whoooooooo cares? taylor swift sucks and kanye has made some of the biggest hits of the past decade. this doesn't give the guy the right to blah blah blah but really the MTV awards sucks balls of dog shit and it wouldnt matter if kanye had run up and dropped a pound of ass on the microphone.
obama, seriously? in canada this would likely spark a non-confidence motion and bring down parliament.
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LEAVE CANADA ALONE!!!!
LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!!
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Remember when MTV used to have a sense of humor about itself? I think the real tragedy is that America thinks the VMA award is prestigious enough to get up in arms when one mega-rich popstar steals the limelight from another for 45 seconds.
P.S. Adam Yauch did this better than Kanye in 1994.
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Taylor Swift had a perfect opportunity on The View to rise above and say that despite the fact Kanye's actions were wrong, she still forgives him. But she didn't do that; and that is why people are still talking about this. She is painting herself as a big victim, and that makes me mad.
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I didn't watch the VMAs the other night [I had to watch paint dry. It's a hobby of mine.] so I heard about this thing the next morning. My brother, who actually likes Kanye, was in hysterics. "Of all time. OF ALL TIME!!"
Also, I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT in all her porcelain doll sweetie pie straightedge glory, but I still felt bad for her. Just my $0.02.
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Feels good! Obama and I finally agree on something!
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I guess nobody has the balls to say what needs to be said: "KANYE WAS RIGHT!"
Have you seen that Beyonce video? Magical!
Probably the best thing to grace anybody's eyeballs in the last ten years and more than likely for the next ten.
Don't you worry Mr. West, history will vindicate you.
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Has nothing to do if he was right or not. He had no business being on that stage.
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how can this man have any relevance as a gangster ? he was punked out by a 19 year old white girl on national tv . now he must grovel , make excuses and beg her forgiveness . this , of cource means that he must be her b-aaach in the afterlife . lolololololol
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“So Kanye, what would your mother who recently died think about what you did?”
Nice one Jay! Come back from that one Kanye. Your mom’s not only dead but she’s disappointed in you. Imagine the look on her dead mom face when she hears about this one.
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“So Kanye, what would your mother who recently died think about what you did?”
Nice one Jay! Come back from that one Kanye. Your mom’s not only dead but she’s disappointed in you. Imagine the look on her dead mom face when she hears about this one.
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Barack Obama doesn't care for Kanye West.
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Jarvis did it better.
Whoops, I mean, 'Yo Kanye I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish but Jarvis's stage invasion was the greatest of all time. Of all time!'
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Best post I've seen regarding the incident.
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I think the people complaining about the interruption are the same people yelling at town hall meetings.
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Yeah, you hate this controversy so much you're doing the inevitable > milking.
Nice job Fox News Gabe.
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Yeah, you hate this controversy so much you're doing the inevitable --when the original controversy has been milked dry, do the the "the wrong person is actually in the wrong!" switcharoony and SHOCK EVERYONE AGAIN!!!! OMG-- milking.
Nice job Fox News Gabe.
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I don't know how you can call one video superior over the other if you haven't seen both.
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Seriously taylor deserved that award and seriously she should go and say sorry kanye... sry for wat? she didnt do anything to him what he did is his consequence and his apologies aren't sincere its just a publicity thing. And if you seen taylors video it's very the style of the average teen now so that's why she won because it was very true, and i think that the people whjo dont support her dont really dont like country because of the whole long thing ago with black people and country WFT
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Gabe wears short skirts, Talor wears t-shirts, Gabe's cheer captain and Taylor's in the bleachers.
But no one seems to care about that.
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It's so refreshing to finally come upon a blog where people actually don't act all high and mighty about this. Seriously, every other blog you go, people act like Kanye killed Taylor. And if someone points that out, then everyone's like "SO BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KILL HER THAT MAKES IT ALRIGHT?". Well, no, it doesn't make it alright, but somewhere in Cambodia, a child just lost a limb by accidentally stepping on a landmine. So that makes Taylor Swift's "problems" seem non-existent in comparison.
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I just can't wait until they collaborate for a song on Taylor's (or Kanye's) next album. It will combine auto-tune and synthesized steel guitar. It will win a coveted "spaceman" at the MTV video music awards. It will probably be called "Sorry Doesn't Cut It." Most importantly, it will finally finish what Bubba Sparxxx started in bridging the gap between country and hip-hop--the two genres that are typically the exceptions to people's "I like all music except..." preference on Facebook.
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You, sir, are a fucking jackass. Burn in hell.
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If i am obama i will order that kanye west should be shoot in the ass for what he did to swift. He is so Suck. If kanye west read this i will say" KISS MY BIG BLACK ASS!!
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Anyone who thinks Taylor Swift won't be around in a year has no knowledge of music writing skills. This kid will be around a long, long time.
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