Kanye West’s Outburst on the VMAs Proves he is a Terrible Role Model

September 14, 2009 By 9 Comments

I don’t often jump into the fray of pop culture, but I have to confess, I think Kanye West is classless.  His social skills are suspect and I am disturbed his celebrity means there are kids who look up to him.  Or maybe they did.

If you didn’t see his latest antics, you could initially watch the replay on Youtube, but the video has been pulled, I imagine as a result of copyright. At MTV’s Video Music Awards last night, Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech to basically say Beyonce should have won.

Reasons Kanye West should not be a role model:

1) He is a sore loser

2) He is a bully and thinks belittling others is appropriate

3) He clearly doesn’t know when to keep his thoughts to himself

4)He is the disastrous combination of a narcissist and an egomaniac

5) He is wasting an amazing opportunity to focus his talents for good

This is a performer who has a following – there are people who love his music – and he is taking that genuine opportunity to use his celebrity for good and stomping on it.

I’m all for free speech – but there is a LINE.  How dare you interrupt anyone when they are accepting an award – let alone a 19 year old.  From what I have seen, Taylor is very close to her mom.  If I was Taylor’s mom, it would have taken all the restraint I possessed to not jump on that stage and yank him down. Forcibly.

That said, clearly Beyonce is the Anti-Kanye.  When she won likely the most coveted award of the night, she remembered her feelings as a teenager at the VMAs and brought Taylor out to have ‘her moment’.

Fortunately, there are Beyonces in the world to overshadow the Kanyes.

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  • http://cheatymonkey.com Haley-O (Cheaty)

    GREAT POST!! Kanye seems to scandalize every award show — wasn’t there an episode like this at last year’s MTV awards? Publicity stunt or TRUE SORE LOSER. You decide. ;)

  • http://asouthernfairytale.com rachel-asouthernfairytale

    YEs YEs YES!!!!! You said it perfectly.

    Beyonce was the picture of class and grace last night and Kanye… his classlessness is beyond description.

  • Danielle

    @haleyO Thank you! If it was a publicity stunt, he needs to fire his publicist…..I can’t imagine there is ANYONE thinking that was a good move….it isn’t like he was taking on ‘someone his own size’ – she’s a teenager for heaven’s sake. :)

    @rachel – thanks friend!

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  • http://www.likeawarmcupofcoffee.com Sarah Mae

    How did Taylor finish?

  • http://www.barefoot-memories.com/ Carey

    http://twitpic.com/hoijk that’s the “apology” Kanye put on his blog afterwards, after Taylor’s mom got to him backstage (GO MOM!!). I’ve got a friend in the music industry in LA, and he says it was all staged. He saw stage hands talking on headsets & ushering Kanye around backstage at just the right moment like it was on queue. I guess we’re all talking about it this morning, just like they wanted, Kanye gets to keep his reputation for being a tool (he did the SAME THING in 2004 & 2006, so this is nothing new), Beyonce got to look like a queen later, Taylor got her moment & more attention than a simple Thank You speech would have ever gotten, and she “coincidentally” was singing that SAME SONG live just a few minutes later. (that was an AWESOME production they pulled off for that song, btw!!) Kanye is a huge buttface, but oh well… the world will never be free of them sadly. We need more Taylor Swifts!

  • http://kweenmama.wordpress.com kweenmama

    I didn’t see the award show (they bore me) but the Kanye West outburst was all the talk on the radio this morning. The general consensus was that he is a total loser.

  • http://shortpumppreppy.com Short Pump

    Bravo! I couldn’t agree more. Someone needs to wash his mouth out with soap…

  • http://www.meladramaticmommy.com Melanie @ Mel, A Dramatic Mommy

    I tend to agree with Carey that this was all scripted. If it wasn’t a stunt, it was definitely wrong and inappropriate. However, since I’m trying to find the good in people, I’m going to see’s Kanye’s actions as those of a man who has no idea how to deal with and channel the grief associated with losing his mother (which, I’m guessing, is what prompted Jay Leno to bring her into the conversation when Kanye was on the show).