Kanye West and Kim Kardashian arrived at the VMAs together, posed together for a bit, then posed solo. They actually have that down to a science at this point, with Kanye mostly standing behind Kim, or off to the side so she can pose solo. Before we get into Kanye’s thing, let’s talk about Kim’s look – a sheer minidress and wet-look hair. I hate the whole look! She’s worked so hard at losing all of the weight and I understand that she wants to show it off. But the minidress looked cheap, and the hair wasn’t great either.
As for Kanye… MTV gave him four minutes. And it wasn’t a full-on Kanye-rant, #NoDisrespectToBenAffleck, but there were some Klassic Kanye moments. It started when Kanye walked on stage to his song “Famous,” and the now-famous line “I made that bitch famous.” Since Kanye is often his own worst enemy, I was sitting there thinking, “Please don’t make the entire speech about Taylor Swift, please please please.” It would have been interesting gossip, of course, but it would have played into the narrative that he is obsessed with Taylor. In the end, Kanye did say something about Taylor, but it was a great/funny point. In the midst of talking about why he did the “Famous” video like he did, he said: “Like people come to me like ‘damn, that’s right, take [it to] Taylor,’ like bro, I love all y’all. That’s why I called her.”
I also enjoyed the “I see you Amber” moment (because Amber was there, and she acknowledged him with a nod and a smile), and “My wife is a G.” And the moment he talked about inspiration:
If you feel like you’re seeing people dying right next to you, you might feel like, what’s the point? Like life might be starting to feel worthless in a way. I know times for me, I sit down and talk to older rich people, you know, aka white. they tell me don’t compare yourself to Steve Jobs, don’t compare yourself to Walt Disney. My friend Zakaya told me, there’s three keys to keeping people impoverished, that’s taking away their esteem, taking away their resources, and taking away their role models. My role models are artists merchants, less than 10 that I can name in history: Truman, Ford, Hughes, Disney, Jobs, West.
[Transcript via USA Today]
Kanye then introduced his new music video for “Fade,” which is a really good song and a really great video. It features Teyana Taylor dancing Flashdance-style and it was sexy and weird and amazing. You can see the NSFW video here.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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