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The Kanye West Appreciation Thread
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Quoted for those who want it (courtesy of Rolling Stone):
It's obvious that he's not being serious, come on.
There's a shocker...
Thats why he was pissed.
If true, that's incredibly classy, and shows more character in one action than I've heard of from Kanye's entire career.
Him being a loudmouthed douchebag may be consistant, but that doesn't make it a quality to applaud either.
Although, if Pink had clocked him, we would all be playing the video of it over, and over again, chortling with glee the entire time. I would give it an hour until the video was up on youtube set to the tune of Kanye's "Stronger."
She won Best Video of the Year, which anyone who has ever seen the VMAs before knew was going to happen. They never give Best Female/Male and Best Overall to the same person. It doesn't technically make sense, but they are just trying to spread it around.
It would have been great if Pink had beat the shit out of Kanye. I would loop it forever.
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Ah, I don't watch the VMA's, so I didn't know that in losing the one catagory, she was more of a shoe-in for the other.
Regardless, giving up stage time is still classy.
Yeah, I didn't mean to take away from that. It was still really nice of Beyonce, and felt pretty sincere too. She said she remembered her first night winning as being a REALLY big deal and that she didn't want Swift to miss out.
That was more a dig at Kanye, who goes every year but is complete moron and apparently hasn't seen how transparent the awards are.
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OMG, same dress!
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ZOMG I SAID IT I'M SORRY. I REALLY LIKE HIS GOLDSOMETHING SONG ABOUT WHORES AND SUCH!!
I suppose I can see how Kanye has fun with this because that was a great release for me. The only problem is I can't get away with it because I'm not famous.
Here it is
I'd pay to see this.
This would be the greatest thing out of all great things.
I thank him for inventing the phrase "Little Baby Tourettes".
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I linked that earlier...
taylor swift is still the sweet little country singer.
beyonce is the classy pop singer
kanye is the doucebag "rapper" with "beef," who everyone hates.
all three get their fans to buy more albums, and people who don't generally watch the vmas, or listen to a specific genre of the three, are now talking about them, and listening to them. people are also talking about MTV's VMAs this year. every year they have a stunt like this to promote mtv and the music they actually air. all three artists in this case.
it's one giant marketing ploy, whoever is in charge deserves a medal because otherwise no one would actually care about the vmas besides the teeny boppers who still watch mtv.
i bet if you looks at the itunes numbers ALREADY, songs by all three artists being sold went up overnight.
Color me cynical but I tend to agree with this.
Consider:
- This exposed Taylor Swift to a slew of people who didnt even know her and people are supporting her despite never having listened to her music.
- It gave an opportunity for Beyonce to further increase her popularity by allowing her to give Swift the "spotlight" that was taken from her in a feat of class that almost defies imagination.
- Everyone is talking about Kanye West. his name is on Facebook statuses and Tweets everywhere. There's almost no such thing as bad publicity.
- The MTV VMAs are further publicized, improving their fading position in pop culture and music industry.
It's just too perfect.
That's actually what I was thinking.
And that's all I have to say about that.
"It couldn't just be that Kanye's a douchebag, the whole thing was an inside job!"
Yeah. It really isn't any conspiracy to it. He really is just a giant douche a lot of the time.
sig'd? Or did someone else take it?
EDIT: well I'm using it now
It's not an inside job, but it was clearly setup.
Beyonce just happens to win at the end of the show?
Taylor and Beyonce are both wearing red dresses?
Kanye happens to not understand how the VMAs work(you win earlier, you won't win again later).
Kanye also throws ANOTHER fit at the VMAs, and it has nothing to do with his music, or him not winning?
Taylor has a mic while she's walking from the back?
All three artists involved are heavily rotated on Mtv, even if theyre videos are only on in the morning?
Kanye and Beyonce's husband, Jay-Z, just happen to be the musical guest on Leno's new show tonight?
It's clearly a publicity stunt, not like Bruno falling on Eminem setup, but where they knew how to play with the audience's emotions to get them talking about it. It's marketing 101.
You get rid of this and it's one of the worst VMA's ever(except for Russel Brand who I thought was great again) imo.
Edit: to the above, just because she had a mic and was backstage doesn't mean it wasn't spontaneous - they could have easily let her know beforehand.
Anyway, on my part it's a net gain - I never watch the VMAs or buy music from any of the three, but without all this malarky I wouldn't have video-surfed and seen a video of Lady Gaga's performance. Good stuff.
I'm not saying "OMG CONSPIRACY!"
I'm saying every year Mtv has something like this occur, whether it be Britney Spears "return," her lesbian kiss with Madonna, Kanye last year, Howard Stern's buttman or Limp Bizkit's singer climbing on shit and breaking things. They always have some "stunt" that occurs every year to get the media, and people talking about the show.
Beyonce was clearly going to win Best Video and only people without brains thought otherwise
Seriously? They're both wearing red is a piece of evidence? Holy shit I wore red yesterday too maybe I was in on it.
I am 99% sure that Kanye doesn't understand how anything at all works
Kanye is a delusional douche
A stage manager handed it to her?
All three are fairly successful and thus have their videos and songs played rather frequently
This isn't about you, it's about me.
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Seriously? Your evidence is that ONE OF THE BIGGEST VIDEOS OF THE YEAR WINS VIDEO OF THE YEAR, chicks wearing red, and Kanye not understanding something?
That isn't a setup, that's just Tuesday.