{"id":4186,"date":"2024-08-15T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T17:40:54","slug":"shes-devious-untrustworthy-and-a-cheater-kanye-west-reacts-as-taylor-swift-won-more-vmas-in-one-night-than-he-has-in-his-entire-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"\u201d She\u2019s devious, untrustworthy and a Cheater \u201d Kanye West Reacts as Taylor Swift won more VMAs in one night than He has in his entire career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago this fall, there came a VMAs moment that will live forever in infamy. It was the moment in which Kanye West stormed the VMAs stage as Taylor Swift attempted to accept her award for Best\u00a0\u00a0Video<\/span>\u00a0by a Female Artist and told her, \u201cI\u2019mma let you finish, but Beyonc\u00e9 had one of the best\u00a0\u00a0videos<\/span>\u00a0of all time! One of the best\u00a0\u00a0videos<\/span>\u00a0of all time!\u201d<\/p>\n

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On one level, the fact that the scandal would go on to have such legs seems absurd. It was such a petty nothing of a moment! A drunk\u00a0\u00a0celebrity<\/span>\u00a0with a history of being volatile acted out at an awards show: So what? Why was that such a big deal? Why is it so ingrained in our cultural consciousness now, 10 years later?<\/p>\n

But the resulting fallout was explosive. What happened at the 2009 VMAs helped define Twitter as the conversation driver it is today. The story foreshadowed Kanye West\u2019s eventual transformation into a pop culture villain, which would be realized with West\u2019s embrace of Donald Trump and Trumpism. It set the narrative that Taylor Swift would always be a pop culture victim, for better or for worse. And the way it has influenced their two images in the decade since follows the lines of major schisms in American culture.<\/p>\n

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So as the 2019 MTV VMAs arrive, let\u2019s take a look back at the 2009 VMAs and their long, long shadow.<\/p>\n

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Kanye West arrived on the red carpet of the 2009 VMAs clutching a bottle of Hennessy. In pictures of the red carpet on Getty Wire, you can see the level in the bottle gradually dropping as he makes his way up the carpet and drinks more and more. Kanye wasn\u2019t performing that night, but he was nominated in multiple categories, and he was seated in the front row. According to Billboard\u2019s oral history of the evening, he passed the bottle around to fellow\u00a0\u00a0celebrities<\/span>\u00a0as he waited for the show to start.<\/p>\n

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Taylor Swift arrived on the red carpet in a fanciful glass pumpkin-shaped Cinderella coach, wearing a glittering silver gown. She was in the process of crossing over from the country music scene to mainstream pop, and for the first time, she\u2019d been invited to perform at the VMAs to sing \u201cYou Belong With Me.\u201d She was also up for an award, for the \u201cYou Belong With Me\u201d\u00a0\u00a0video<\/span>. The coach and gown were a deliberate reference: Taylor was Cinderella, and the VMAs were the ball at which she could make her entr\u00e9e into the world of pop music.<\/p>\n

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Taylor was nominated in only one category, Best\u00a0\u00a0Video<\/span>\u00a0by a Female Artist. Her big competition was Beyonc\u00e9, whose\u00a0\u00a0video<\/span>\u00a0for \u201cSingle Ladies (Put a Ring On It)\u201d was one of the most acclaimed of the year. But Beyonc\u00e9 was also up for the far more prestigious\u00a0\u00a0Video<\/span>\u00a0of the Year award, for which Taylor was not nominated \u2014 so when Taylor won the Best Female Video award before the ceremony had even reached its first commercial break, most people didn\u2019t interpret her win as Taylor definitively beating Beyonc\u00e9. It was more likely that Beyonc\u00e9 would get her moment later in the night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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