I've been meaning to do a post about Kanye West for some time now. I had assembled an array of some of his most ridiculous quotes over the years and was going to list some choice ones. It just never seemed the right time. There wasn't anything happening that made me care enough to post it. Until tonight I find West to be an embarrassingly pompous, arrogant, ugly (and I mean on the inside), insecure windbag. He's said and done some stupifying things: calling himself a modern day biblical figure, likening his music to medicine, claiming to be the voice of his generation... you know, basically the ramblings of a hack with a God complex. I'm sorry but if lines like "“…heard they'd do anything for a Klondike, well I'd do anything for a blonde dyke" is supposed to expose some sort of genius then the term genius is being used in the loosest way possible.
On tonight's VMA's (which were the best I've seen in years) Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift's acceptance speech claiming Beyonce was more deserving. An eruption of well deserved boos rose from the audience. And every time his name was mentioned the rest of the night a chorus of boos could be heard. It was music to my ears. Beyonce was classy enough to call Swift back on the stage when she won for Video Of The Year and let her finish her speech.
Yes, Beyonce deserved to win the award Taylor did, but she didn't. And only someone as morally corrupt and tactfully empty as Kanye West would step up on stage and interrupt a sweet, innocent teenager's first VMA Award moment. Kanye West is pathetic. I want people to stop rewarding his bad behavior. And I'm hoping this will finally be the beginning.