So, this past week, clearly something happened involving Kanye West, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian and a lot of fingers are being pointed a lot of places.
Essentially, the tale of Taylor and Kimye starts years ago, in 2009 when Taylor Swift won an award at the VMA's for her popular music video "You Belong With Me." Taylor came out to accept her award, and Kanye interrupted and took the microphone claiming that Beyonce should have won for her "Single Ladies" video. So here's some clarification for things that have been reported this week now that we've got that major first event covered.
I have found no evidence to prove that Taylor and Kanye planned for him to interrupt her while accepting her award. I'm not sure she would have known about being the owner of it before the ceremony started. I have heard people say this is the event that they planned together; it does not appear to be.
Was what Kanye did rude? Yes. Was way more made out of the situation than was needed, necessary, or wanted by either of their fans? Hell yes.
Taylor wrote a song about how Kanye hurt her feelings and acted immaturely and put it on one the best selling albums in recent years. That could have been meaner but Taylor Swift's habit of writing songs about people isn't her issue: it's that she never keeps it quiet about who she is writing about (I'll come back to this later).
Before this song was published, Kanye issues a formal apology, a fairly sincere seeming one to put on top of that, on Twitter.
Analyzing time: Should Kanye have interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech because she won it fair in square over Beyonce who was very content to let a younger and more naive artist take home the award? No, he should have sat in his seat and kept his thoughts to himself like a good boy. However, Taylor Swift shouldn't have turned the whole ordeal into a seeming war of Kanye West, the big black guy in power in a certain part of the music industry, making a victim out of a young, white country singer from a wealthy family in Pennsylvania.
