Kanye West was made to look even more foolish than his own endeavours have accomplished at Monday’s Grammy Awards ceremony when Taylor Swift responded to a line in one of his tracks claiming to have made her famous by firing back in her Album of the Year acceptance speech.
Without mentioning West or anything he has said or done, the pop starlet announced: “I just want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments—or your fame—but if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, some day when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love who put you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you.”
West’s frankly ludicrous lyric alludes to the idea that his classless interruption of Swift’s Grammy acceptance speech in 2009, in which he rudely asserted that the Best Video award she won should have gone to Beyoncé, propelled Swift into the limelight. West has evidently forgotten he interrupted Swift receiving a Grammy, which is surely an acknowledgment that she must have achieved a reasonable degree of public recognition up to that juncture.
Indeed, Swift might validly argue that she, together perhaps with a certain ample-hipped lady whose celebrity stems from a ‘special interest’ home video, have made West more famous than he deserves to be if based solely on what he is paid to do. Certainly his various exploits outside the recording studio have become better known than any music I can remember him releasing.
I know next to nothing about Taylor Swift, but she has my wholehearted support any time she wants to go up against Kanye West, who has no class or discernible talent and – (now here comes the unforgivable bit) – has no manners. He muscled in on what, for all anyone knew, could have been a young fellow artiste’s crowning achievement. I would hope his mother raised him better.
