Jerry Abbott
March 23rd, 2010, 08:58 PM
Taylor Swift is an interesting young music composer, singer and actor of recent note. Only 20 years old at present, she began her professional career at 14, and has twice done what no country music artist had ever done before: she wrote the first country song ever to hit #1 on the Mainstream Top 40, "Love Story," which now holds the record for the most paid downloads in history, and less than a year later she did it again, with "You Belong With Me." Swift's music has the guileless energy often associated with the early careers of those exceptional musicians who go on to become legendary.
YouTube has several videos of West's TNB disruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, but many of them, including MTV's version (of course), have disgusting, irrelevant preliminary stuff, such as nigger-ass-kissing and niggers-jumping-around.
Here's the CNN story.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/14/mtv.music.video.awards/
Briefly. Taylor Swift won the award for best video by a female performer and was about to deliver her acceptance speech, as adorable as only a young white woman can be, when Kanye West jumped onstage, grabbed the microphone away from Swift, and gave the world his opinion that the Black female singer Beyoncé Knowles had made a better video and should have won the award, instead. Swift was too shocked by West's behavior to continue her speech.
I despise rap in general, and Kanye West's rap is not an exception. West did a typically Black thing: he saw a White person getting an honor, and he grew racially covetous. It was a robbery, similar to a purse-snatching. Kanye's other purpose was to transfer public attention away from the White singer, Taylor Swift, to the Black singer, Beyoncé. So in addition to being a glory-thief, Kanye West was also being a racist. Kanye West was barred from the assembly for making a disruption, but its Black-racist nature, obvious though it was, went unmentioned.
Beyoncé later won the award for Best Video of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", and she called Swift up on stage so that she could finish her acceptance speech, which West interrupted. This might have been well-intended. However, once a special moment is broken, it can't be recovered—a fact that a veteran performer like Beyoncé would have known very well.
There's also the possibility that it wasn't well-intended. The idea for both West's interruption and Beyoncé's decision to let Taylor Swift resume her speech might have been to show that Blacks can "measure" the honors which Whites get, taking them away and putting them back, just as they like. In other words, if the Blacks steal something from us Whites, there's nothing that Whites can/should do about it. And if the Blacks decide, in their infinite graciousness, to give it back, then we Whites should consider ourselves lucky.
MTV told journalists the West-Swift incident was not planned -- a point it had to stress after a walkout by singer Eminem at last year's event turned out to be staged.
I don't believe it. Not for one minute. That event was almost certainly planned by somebody, whether or not MTV was corporately part of the plan. But judge for yourselves.
"I remember being 17 years old, up for my first MTV award with Destiny's Child, and it was one of the most exciting moments of my life," Knowles said, referring to the girl group with which she had her start. "So I would like for Taylor to come out and have her moment."
Notice that Beyoncé used her chance to call attention to the fact she was three years younger than Swift is now, when she won her first MTV award. The Black performer was putting herself one-up on the White performer, under a pretense of graciousness. And her comment was just oh-so-prepared, practiced in tone. It does sound as if the whole event was prearranged, with Swift being intentionally left in the dark, and with the purpose of showing that Blacks are privileged to be the gatekeepers of any honors that they might permit to pass to White performers.
You might like the video of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me."
YouTube- You Belong With Me Taylor Swift FULL HD Official Music Video
It's a high school girl's romance fantasy song, in which a modest "nerdy" teenage girl falls in love with the quarterback on the football team, who happens to be her next-door neighbor. His girlfriend is the captain of the school's cheerleading squad—pretty, powerfully popular, drives a flashy red car, and mean as hell. The song is all about how true love wins out over appearances, as the nerdy but honest girl wins the boyfriend's affections and inflicts a resounding defeat on that snooty cheerleader.
Those of you who are alert to metaphor might have noticed some intriguing parallels. Imagine Taylor Swift to be the girl-next-door (the role she actually does play in the song). The bad ol' cheerleader is Kanye West. The "boyfriend" is the glory that Taylor Swift deserves, but which Kanye West takes away. I hope that, in coming years, Swift climbs to heights that neither West nor Beyoncé can even imagine. Say to the altitude of popular music's TRUE king: Elvis Presley.
YouTube has several videos of West's TNB disruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech, but many of them, including MTV's version (of course), have disgusting, irrelevant preliminary stuff, such as nigger-ass-kissing and niggers-jumping-around.
Here's the CNN story.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/14/mtv.music.video.awards/
Briefly. Taylor Swift won the award for best video by a female performer and was about to deliver her acceptance speech, as adorable as only a young white woman can be, when Kanye West jumped onstage, grabbed the microphone away from Swift, and gave the world his opinion that the Black female singer Beyoncé Knowles had made a better video and should have won the award, instead. Swift was too shocked by West's behavior to continue her speech.
I despise rap in general, and Kanye West's rap is not an exception. West did a typically Black thing: he saw a White person getting an honor, and he grew racially covetous. It was a robbery, similar to a purse-snatching. Kanye's other purpose was to transfer public attention away from the White singer, Taylor Swift, to the Black singer, Beyoncé. So in addition to being a glory-thief, Kanye West was also being a racist. Kanye West was barred from the assembly for making a disruption, but its Black-racist nature, obvious though it was, went unmentioned.
Beyoncé later won the award for Best Video of the Year for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)", and she called Swift up on stage so that she could finish her acceptance speech, which West interrupted. This might have been well-intended. However, once a special moment is broken, it can't be recovered—a fact that a veteran performer like Beyoncé would have known very well.
There's also the possibility that it wasn't well-intended. The idea for both West's interruption and Beyoncé's decision to let Taylor Swift resume her speech might have been to show that Blacks can "measure" the honors which Whites get, taking them away and putting them back, just as they like. In other words, if the Blacks steal something from us Whites, there's nothing that Whites can/should do about it. And if the Blacks decide, in their infinite graciousness, to give it back, then we Whites should consider ourselves lucky.
MTV told journalists the West-Swift incident was not planned -- a point it had to stress after a walkout by singer Eminem at last year's event turned out to be staged.
I don't believe it. Not for one minute. That event was almost certainly planned by somebody, whether or not MTV was corporately part of the plan. But judge for yourselves.
"I remember being 17 years old, up for my first MTV award with Destiny's Child, and it was one of the most exciting moments of my life," Knowles said, referring to the girl group with which she had her start. "So I would like for Taylor to come out and have her moment."
Notice that Beyoncé used her chance to call attention to the fact she was three years younger than Swift is now, when she won her first MTV award. The Black performer was putting herself one-up on the White performer, under a pretense of graciousness. And her comment was just oh-so-prepared, practiced in tone. It does sound as if the whole event was prearranged, with Swift being intentionally left in the dark, and with the purpose of showing that Blacks are privileged to be the gatekeepers of any honors that they might permit to pass to White performers.
You might like the video of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me."
YouTube- You Belong With Me Taylor Swift FULL HD Official Music Video
It's a high school girl's romance fantasy song, in which a modest "nerdy" teenage girl falls in love with the quarterback on the football team, who happens to be her next-door neighbor. His girlfriend is the captain of the school's cheerleading squad—pretty, powerfully popular, drives a flashy red car, and mean as hell. The song is all about how true love wins out over appearances, as the nerdy but honest girl wins the boyfriend's affections and inflicts a resounding defeat on that snooty cheerleader.
Those of you who are alert to metaphor might have noticed some intriguing parallels. Imagine Taylor Swift to be the girl-next-door (the role she actually does play in the song). The bad ol' cheerleader is Kanye West. The "boyfriend" is the glory that Taylor Swift deserves, but which Kanye West takes away. I hope that, in coming years, Swift climbs to heights that neither West nor Beyoncé can even imagine. Say to the altitude of popular music's TRUE king: Elvis Presley.