I'm fine with Kanye West being some sort of loose cannon, but I really wish he had better aim. The guy needs to pick his battles. West was on stage so fast, and with such indignation, you'd think some major form of injustice was going down. Beyonce really doesn't need anyone to defend her. Plus, she was up for eight more awards! Maybe if the night had ended with Beyonce being shut out -- she won Video Of The Year, for heaven's sake -- one could understand an extemporized moment of disbelief, or one of her colleagues giving her props from the stage. But all Kanye West managed to do was to stomp all over a 19-year-old woman's moment to be on stage and be heard.
Usually, something as branded and crass as a mainstream music-industry event tends to squash individuality and blend everything into a giant ball of gilded banality. But watching West's solipsistic outburst at the expense of Swift seemed to split the show apart at the seams. The moment revealed a gross (though not surprising) underbelly of ego, power, sexism and stupidity. But overall, the incident gave us a glimpse into something most of us already knew: that MTV and the Video Music Awards have very little to do with music. If we were tuning in to watch a spectacle, we got what we came for.
George Bush Does Not Like Taylor Swift - BLOGSTEIN
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LINK THIS VIDEO: - http://j.mp/10pYi8 - "George Bush Does Not Like Taylor Swift - BLOGSTEIN" Monitor Mix Blog NPR - http://j.mp/3LzjFO - Carrie Brownstein is writer former member Sleater-Kinney.
Last night, she inadvertently ended up watching the Kanye West incident you've read Taylor Swift Best Female Video award West jumped grabbed audience Beyonce Cameras cut stunned embarrassed. PLUS - Kanye runs Jane Aldridge - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzA1GNXFXYg - jim carroll aspirin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSA4X_wEoE
JC bukowski - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNa1yAdgtb0 - post - http://bit.ly/s3Yph - "30-second 'Guitar Hero 5 'Love Gives Kurt Cobain Bad Name' causing stir in Cobain Enterprises LLC-Land" 30-second 'fan?' compilation of most improbable 'unlocked' Kurt Cobain performances from new Activision release, Flava Flav, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder David Bowie Really! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBxPASl1m64
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mrjyn mossie (mrjyn)
wrote:
I found it. I included some lagniappe to flesh-out your Jim Carroll piece, just in case you do a follow-up...oops. And thank you so much for not succumbing to the "People Who Died" 'Punline' Blogfrenzy. While you were watching TV, I was collecting them for my blog - http://www.visualguidanceltd.blogspot.com - I'm still missing a "Jim Carroll: A People Who Died"
R.I.P. Jim Carroll
Back in the mid-1990s, my band played for the first time at the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle. We were playing a stage far too big for us -- long and sparse, ill-lit, hollow-sounding and very much unclaimed. We tried to spread ourselves out among the blank canvas of it all, but we felt tiny, and our songs spewed forth into the ether, misshapen.
Jim Carroll was on the same bill as us. He was tall and lithe, with a ghostly, otherworldly mien. Carroll was reading poems with no back-up band, no team, no amp to crank to up to 10. But he didn't have any problems covering the stage, reaching the corners and permeating the room. Carroll died Friday at age 60, but here's a moment to remember him by:
Carrie Brownstein
Here's the disguised Kanye VMA clip - "George Bush Does Not Like Taylor Swift - BLOGSTEIN" - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xahokn_george-bush-does-not-like-taylor-sw_music - OR - http://j.mp/10pYi8 (bitly) - AND I took the liberty to provide a couple of other topical docs, in case you weren't watching TV tonight: - Kanye West - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzA1GNXFXYg
Jim Carroll Talks Aspirin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSA4X_wEoE
Jim Carroll Bukowski - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNa1yAdgtb0
p.s. SK ROX!
nichopoulouzo
mrjyn mossie (mrjyn) wrote:
BONUS: "30-second 'Guitar Hero 5 'Love Gives Kurt Cobain Bad Name' causing stir in Cobain Enterprises LLC-Land" 30-second 'fan?' compilation of most improbable 'unlocked' Kurt Cobain performances from new Activision release, Flava Flav, Bon Jovi, Stevie Wonder David Bowie Really! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBxPASl1m64
p.s. SK ROX!
nichopoulouzo
Monday, September 14, 2009 10:26:47 PM
N N (nonfood) wrote:
"The moment revealed a gross (though not surprising) underbelly of ego, power, sexism and stupidity"
tell me about it...
mrjyn mossie (mrjyn) wrote:
why do you think ap of all people (? organizations) pulled their own video. they never do that.
do you think they're subtly showing drunken solidarity with Kenya and BeyonCE and Hennesy over the Taylor Swift slight-by-proxy, in some sort of corporate conspiracy cabal. Whatever the case may be, your post just doesn't breathe without it, so i'm currently going to my Dailymotion or YouTube http://www.youtube.com/nichopoulouzo channel to fetch you the URL for one of the ones which I have uploaded and disguised by title as a cooking show, so you may reinstate the authority which your piece deserves.
and really, it's okay to tune into bad award shows every once in while. it shows others that you're capable of empathy for their bad taste.
and that haircut you saw happens to be an Emogene. it was all the rage back in the 07s but has since been confined to 'played out' status for mo-suck-ups. I've been told that it is responsible for anywhere from five- to fifteen-extra-thousand illegal downloads per album in the Midwest alone.
nichopoulouzo