Kanye at the Video Music Awards

The VMA awards took place last night however I have decided to split my blog into two parts as there was one incident which deserved a section of its own.

The Kanye West episode has dominated the news, blogs and radios stations all day today and if you still haven’t heard about it you must be living under a rock!

Here is a quick summary of what happened; Taylor Swift was announced as the winner of Best Female Video (to be fair most people were expecting the award to go to Beyonce). Taylor headed to the stage and started her acceptance speech and all was well until Kaye West stormed the stage.

Watch the incident in full here;



It is well known that Kanye is opinionated, judging by his past behaviour at the European Music Awards back in 2006.

However in this instance he went just that little bit too far. Regardless of what he thought about the results, storming on stage to announce who he thought was the more worthy winner was not right thing to do. This move just succeeded in making him look more arrogant than ever.
Shortly afterwards Kanye and his entourage were escorted out of the award ceremony.

West did later apologised via his Twitter page:

"I'm so sorry to Taylor Swift and her fans and her mom. I spoke to her mother right after and she said the same thing my mother would've said. She is very talented! I like the lyrics about being a cheerleader and she's in the bleachers! I'm in the wrong for going on stage and taking away from her moment"

There is however another theory about Kanye’s behaviour, he was pictured earlier in the evening with side piece Amber Rose and a half empty bottle of Hennessy...

Beyonce who did look shocked during Kanye’s outburst later ended up winning the most prestigious award of the night; Video of Year. During her acceptance speech she graciously called Taylor back up on stage to have her moment again.

Watch it here;

Beyonce wins Video lets Taylor S gives her acceptance speech
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Even this moment has caused tongues to start wagging with many saying that Swift should have publicly thanked Beyonce for bringing her back up on stage.

Another argument is that MTV should have given Taylor Swift another opportunity to accept her award later in the show? If Beyonce had not called her up, would she have missed out completely?

What do you think of Kanye’s behaviour?
Was Kanye drunk?
Did Taylor deserve to win the award?
Should MTV have taken more control?

The debates over this could go on for days!