Video Music Conspiracy: Steven “Grundy” Murphy
I don’t usually care about the happenings of award shows, but Sunday night was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was on Twitter during the Video Music Awards.
I’m not going to bother to report what went down, every news outlet has already rebroadcasted the Kanye Intervention as I like to call it—and don’t get me wrong, I understand the Kanye hate (Kanyate?) but I’d like to make a case for conspiracy.
Full disclosure: I like Kanye West’s music, but despite what my wife thinks, I am not defending him. I am willing to accept Mr. West as a tremendous douche and still buy his CD. I don’t change my tastes for political reasons. I am merely pointing out what I feel is obvious: the whole scene was contrived.
Imagine a world where MTV is losing viewership to on-line audiences and needs to find an avenue to bring the kids back to the set. The network comes to the more colorful personalities for ideas. Lady Gaga might pitch 101 costume changes, Eminem brings a buddy-skit to the table, Kanye West suggests a controversy. Controversy, like sex, sells. West gets his, or rather Jay-Z’s crew in on the scam, namely one Beyonce Knowles. I doubt the only remaining element, Taylor Swift, needed much convincing to be made belle of the ball.
Think about it. Taylor Swift already knew she was going to win, as she had to be promptly escorted down to her literally underground performance immediately thereafter. The extra knowledge of Kanye West delaying her acceptance speech until the show’s finale was welcome news. It only makes her more of a star. True, it involves a bit of acting on her part, but she is a performer after all, they all are. Kanye West had nothing to gain by sticking up for Beyonce. If he were truly going to have an outburst, he would have waited until his Love Lockdown video lost, which it did thrice.
It’s perfect really, that’s why it was faked. The VMAs wrapped up like the final act of a movie, not like a live event. Reality isn’t compelling TV, at least not without heavy editing. The network that brought you scripted reality shows like Laguna Beach just brought you a scripted award show, complete with non-disclosure agreements for the relatively few people involved and wrapped up in a bow before Jay-Z could draw the attention back on himself. The Twitter crowd goes wild and MTV has an audience again…if just for the night.
–Grundy
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I think it was simply a case of an A-hole being an A-hole. I don’t think much happens on that show without being scripted but I don’t think the outburst was a part of a grand scheme.
It was definitely faked, in the same way the Eminem/Bruno controversy was earlier this year. Its almost predictable, its an MTV sponsored award show, something newsworthy will happen.
When Kanye jumped on stage, where were the security? Well of course they didnt grab him because he was meant to be there.
HOWEVER, even if it’s fake or its not, MTV achieved its aim didnt it: The awards were 48hours ago, and, even if we’re only questioning the events, we’re STILL talking about them.
Thats the whole point of controversy. “Kanye West” and “Taylor Swift” are both still trending on twitter, they’re still in the news, bloggers are still talking about it.
I’ve been of the suspicion that it was staged from the start. Kanye’s the only person who can get away with being a douche bag because…well, he is and he doesn’t really give a crap because he’s getting massive publicity for it too and Kanye loves publicity and Kanye and doesn’t care what people think.
I agree with Colleen and the author of this fine post. Kayne isn’t losing any of his fanbase over this and those who don’t like him still don’t. If anyone didn’t already know him, they do now and that’s what counts. Only Kanye could have made this believable because of his past attitudes about awards passing him over.
It may be giving Kanye to much credit for this being his idea, however. It is just as likely that Jay-Z came up with it and even more likely that someone at MTV is the mastermind.
I saw the Jay Leno interview with a Kanye who wasn’t his usual talkative self and looked down most of the time, both tells of bluffing. (Poker is my wheelhouse.) I doubt Leno was told about the conspiracy.
I saw Taylor Swift act on CSI, she isn’t that good of an actress. If it was faked, someone left her out of the circle. I would normally might think it was faked. But this isn’t the first time that Kanye did this. He went up on stage and took the glory away from a band on the European Awards in ‘06. He is constantly whining that if he didn’t win it was an award it was because he is black. I think he is racist but won’t admit it. And I also think he likes Fish Sticks. ha ha, gotta love South Park.
The fact that this was staged and the fact that Kanye West is racist are not mutually exclusive.
Not faked, she was totally pissed. First she was confused then she was clearly mad. She said at the end that she was told to stand by so they must have told Beyonce that she had won the other award. Why would Kanye kill his career over it? The guy is an idiot.
I highly doubt it was faked. The Eminem/Bruno thing was admitted to be a hoax not long after the show. Several media outlets have interviewed both Taylor Swift and Kanye, and both seemed pretty sincere about what had happened.
That said, I don’t think MTV did anything to try and prevent it either.
Nothing like tooting your own horn: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1621715/20090916/west_kanye.jhtml
They were tooting their collective horns about Twitter right after the show.
I think Kayne has something to say about YuBlog too… http://kanyelicio.us/http://yublog.org/
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