Serious question: where are all these videos being shown these days? I know the old joke about how the ‘M’ in MTV used to stand for ‘music’…but I watched the opening 10 minutes of the VMA re-broadcast (total waste of time) and I realized that I hadn’t seen any of the videos up for awards. Then it hit me: I wouldn’t know where to go to watch them if I wanted to!
The same place as everything else: Youtube.
He’d have to learn how to type first. If the spelling is correct, someone did it for him.
I would have preferred “Taylor Swift’s video sucked” but “Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time” isn’t bad. Kanye West spoke “truth to power” and what’s wrong with that?
Yeah, OK. In other words, MTV now holds an awards show honoring videos they don’t even show anymore. 
Missed the edit window
This is what happens when you combine a few elements. Take a complete lack of civility, a lack of intelligence, raging ego, and a desire for the spotlight. He probably can’t remember the last time someone told him “no”. The fact that anyone pays attention to him, much less touts him as a “brilliant artist” tells you much about the disconnect between the group of people that take him seriously and the one that doesn’t.
I followed the link. Clearly he did it himself. The website was kind enough to put it in “sentence case” for him though. Perhaps he can buy some remedial tutoring on puctuation with all that “bank” he has.
Can someone give me a brief explanation of Mr. West’s statement on his blog about his giving his award to Outkast?
It was boorish, childish, nonsensical and self-indulgent for a start.
I think he was mad that “Thug Story” is better than anything he has ever produced.
Hmmm, the troll support usually shows up within 20 posts. It took 44 this time. I assume the next support post will mention how Kanye was “keepin’ it real”.
Preference of one over the other is opinion not truth. I’m not sure there is any “power” to be speaking to.
It is a trend. The VMA’s had madonna and Britney french kissing two years ago. They had Sarah Silverman bashing Britney after that, and that kept the interest up. Then Sacha Baron Cohen teabagged Eminem. And now this.
Some publicist found out, and he’s quite right, that nothing keeps the interest in a show going like some juicy personal controversy. Drawing in a high number of celebs is no longer enough; drawing in celebs in really expensive clothing or really skimpy clothing no longer enough.
No. Nowadays you gotta have a celeb trainwreck to keep people interested.
Not to turn this into a gender thing, but there’s no way he would have gone up there and taken the mic from a guy, in defense of a guy.
Total paternalistic machismo going on here. It’s disgusting.
Good for her.
My fiancee was watching the VMAs in the bedroom while I watched the much more culturally relevant and socially responsible Sunday Night Football in the living room.
“Hey, come here!” she yelled, “Kanye West is doing something stupid!”
“Busy!”
“You missed it!”
“Don’t worry, there will be another one along in a minute.”
Oh, good, an easy one. Wait six years and they’ll be on VH-1.
I’m another one voting for staged. The VMAs stage one stupid, try-to-be-jaw-dropping event for each award show. Sometimes all the participants are not clued in. I don’t think Eminem was in on the teabagging and I’m not sure poor Taylor was in on it either, because she really did look like she wanted to cry.
Then again, she and Beyonce wore matching dresses and the camera was set up juuuust right for the two up on stage, and both Beyonce and Taylor are actresses. . …
Totally staged.
I just wonder Kanye West is relevant at all. He speaks like an idiot, his “music” is comprised of 5th grade grammar and vocabulary, and he constantly makes an ass out of himself.
Is having him in the spotlight some sort of social experiment some marketing exec is performing: “Let’s find the stupidest shit we can, market the hell out of it and see if the masses buy it. How low can we go?”
**Biggirl, **I don’t think I should Google “Eminem and teabagging” here at work. What are you talking about?
(Yeah, I’m an old fart, who’s not up on the times. :))
Kanye was an ass. I vote not staged.
Well, it was a good idea, but the N-word got resurected (again) last night.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1621389/20090913/west_kanye.jhtml
Sascha Baron Cohen did a promotional bit for Bruno at last year’s VMAs by putting on a harness and fake wings and having himself lowered from the ceiling (nude, or nude-ish) onto Eminem.