Poor misunderstood, drunken Kanye...thank goodness that crafty Kim is on his side. Lol. |
Are you forgetting Taylor was a big deal in country music before she crossed over? |
I've been a fan since then too. My older boyfriend loved country and emo. So he loved Taylor swift and wasn't ashamed to admit it. We listened to her (first?) album all the time. Teardrops on my guitar, man. So emo. Ha ha ha. I think she took over for dashboard confessional. Anyways, well now I don't think she acted perfectly throughout this, I think she will come out ahead. I actually hope she's done performing and will just write and produce and bring up other artists now. It's soooo obvious that kanye's wife had a sneaky huge hand in this. I think before, he mostly let his art stand for itself. Lately he resorts to terrible behavior to garner attention. |
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Kim and Kanye should stop harassing Taylor. Taylor was trying to appease those two in the context of a casual yet unexpected phone call. Kim is aging and is now playing the desperate housewife persona. She is a vile woman. This was entrapment. If Kim and Kanye really cared about Taylor's approval, they should have taken a more businesslike approach and made a formal agreement in writing. Secretly recording her during a spontaneous phone conversation was sleazy. |
Just pointing out how ignorant your post is, hip hop knows kanye, everybody else knows Taylor... Country and pop... And guess what... More people listen to country and pop. How famous was Kanye at 15, or even 20? Taylor will beat him in every category eventually ... Except arrests... And beating women. |
I think you make some really good points. The truth is that they were both famous when the MTV debacle happened but they were in different music genres so they had different fan bases. I knew who both Kanye and Taylor were when the whole MTV thing happened and I have to say that I was appalled by Kanye's behavior. I thought he embarrassed not only Taylor but Beyonce as well. I honestly haven't too much of him since that episode and the whole Kardashian connection has not improved my opinion of him. But this nasty song and this vulgar video are surprisingly low moves on his part. |
He had already released 4 multi-platinum albums when the VMA thing happened. He was "pop." He wouldn't have even been at the VMAs if "no one" knew him. It's just factually incorrect to say that no one knew who he was until that incident. Maybe your grandma didn't? He'd been parodied on SNL, South Park, collaborated with a ton of artists. You don't have to like him but he wasn't c-list in 2009. Who cares who did what at 15. |
I can't stand any of the players here, so wondering why I keep reading this thread but yours is an interesting take. Maybe because I'm certain Swift is anything but genuine and can't figure out why that doesn't undermine her success in any way. I gave up my guilty pleasure of watching Access Hollywood during workouts because I swear they had some kind of contract committing them to one TS story every night. It was just numbing the mindless shit they "reported" about her. I think she's pretty crafty in burnishing her image and can't shake the thought that something offensive from Kanye was just the outcome she wanted. Sans the recording of her agreeing to it. |
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He was around 32 at the time...hardly a young adult. He had been around for a while. Certainly long enough to keep his sh*t together during a teenager's bright shining moment of a lifetime....Uh, but he didn't keep his sh*t together. And here we go again with his nonsense... He needs to leave Taylor Swift alone. |
Everybody knows Kanye because he has been arrested and assaults people, like Chris brown... No such thing as bad press. He has mental illnesses and seriously needs help, it's sad. |
He did. |
Saying things over and over doesn't make them true. As of 2009, he'd been arrested twice, and neither arrest was for domestic violence. |
That's really not too hard, IMO. Not for a young, slim blonde girl. |
Oh, I wasn't aware that you won your MTV award (beating out Beyonce) and THEN got famous. Cool to know. Why don't you go ahead and try that .
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