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Sep 11
2007
09:02 PM ET
'Graduation' means never dealing with MTV again
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Um, I believe Kanye played the race card when he said maybe his skin wasn’t right to win an award and when he said, “Give a black man a chance”. I agree with other posters–his ego is rather fragile for one so large. And his new song is just another one cobbled together from snippets of better songs. I’m sure he’ll come running back to MTV or who ever else will give him some camera time.
HAHA THAT PIC LOOKS LIKE A BANNER FOR GAY MARRIAGE!!!
ah, kanye, the misunderstood genius. i used to like him and look past his ego. i can’t do it anymore. i think “stronger” is a weak song, and i have had it with him. who cares if he’s cutting ties with mtv? not like they play videos anyway. oh, and the NEW IMPROVED VMA’s were the worst thing i’ve ever seen. predictable winners, WAY WAY WAY too much justin (who i DO like, btw), and rocky performances. MTV just proved how completely irrelevant it now is. what a mess, and not even a hot mess, just a MESS.
EW needs to do a cover story on the irrelevance of MTV and how this was the worst vma’s ever. they’d make it really good journalism
Kanye: I wish i could quit you 50
50 cent: Let’s go to the club and talk about this later
First off, I want to agree that Sunday night’s VMAs were a complete A.D.D. catastrophe! Whoever came up with the idea to have the random surprise collaboration performances in the Fantasy Suites started off with a good idea. UNTIL Mtv chopped those performances down to mini sets, much like they do with their videos during TRL. A good idea was turned into scattered dreams. NOW, with that being said, I get Kanye’s frustration, only so much in that MTV did give him almost EQUAL as much airtime as both 50 Cent & JT, only that Kanye did not get to perform in the Pearl Theater’s mainstage. Sure Mtv gave him TWO performance slots with him doing both “Stronger” & then “The Good Life” with T-Pain in his suite, but Kanye EVER the sore loser, saw JT get to perform both “Lovestoned”& “Give It To Me” w/Timbaland & Nelly, AFTER he performed “Ayo Technology” w/50 & Timbo in his suite as well. Kanye’s a hard worker & promotes his craft wholeheartedly, but always lets his ego get the best of him.
The CD : The MP3 as MTV : YouTube.
Thats where the music video can be saved, but I’m not sure I want it to be. Yes, Music Television should be about music, but isn’t it true that the music video had a pretty negative affect on music? Isn’t it fairly responsible for the fact that singers of late are more likely to be good looking than musically talented?
Britney’s facial expression summed up the problem with MTV in the first place. It was as if she suddenly realized that she had never deserved to be there, and knew everyone else was thinking the same thing.
I’ve gotten more musical fulfillment out of 2 years of youtubing than 20 years of MTV by ignoring the music videos that come up when I search for my favorite artists and instead clicking on the live performances. I’ve never gotten the chills from a music video. This wasnt just Britney’s last chance, it was MTV’s…and they are both completely irrelevant. Fortunately for Britney, I think she may know it.
Finally, I can’t be certain how sincere Kanye’s remarks concerning Britney actually are, since its been well documented how Kanye felt she was unworthy to open the show & that she hasn’t had a hit in the past few years. AGAIN, he was claiming Mtv set her up, BUT how can we be so sure he wasn’t again exercising his ego when he said that statement, since he knew it would make HIM look good after he knew MTv denied him the opening slot & Britney pretty much tanked? We can’t be sure, but anyone who has a brain should be able to understand Kanye is smart & knew how to AGAIN spin this to his advanatage. Also, completely agree with t3hdow, about the Hills girls presenting jT with the award & him simultaneously ripping into Mtv and them for being reality “stars”. The VMAs were once about awarding prizes for videos, & yeah since Mtv doesn’t really show them anymore, perhaps its time to morph the VMAs into the CSSAs:Crappy Scripted Soap Awards! AND Kanye will be back with Mtv before his next cd.
I agree with all, Mtv is irrelevant and hosting a Video Music Award is downright ridiculous. I think YouTube and Yahoo should combine forces and host their own since that is where I see all my videos from.
Kanye won’t be done with MTV, however, even Timberland, the “Maestro,” had the same concerns about Britney opening the show. He felt that she wasn’t ready to open the show. I actually do feel that MTV exploited Britney. They knew that we expected to watch the trainwreck that was going to happen even though we hoped to see something spectacular from her.
Heres the link to the radio show where he talked about all this. Sorry it’s so long. He definitely thinks a lot of himself, but I think people misinterpret some of his huge ambition and obsessive perfectionism as a big ego. I do think the press has portrayed him unfairly. ehttp://www.z100.com/cc-common/
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Evidently, Kanye is serious. He was a scheduled guest for TRL on Tuesday, but failed to show up.
More power to Kanye. Yes, the man has an ego the size of the moon and it got bruised… but he’s also undeniably talented and quite clever. If he says he wants no more to do with MTV, I’ll still support him. Besides, MTV is so over.
Yay! Debacle, JT calling MTV out, Kanye saying he’s done with it — maybe the tyranny of soul-destroying reality tv will finally be over! An utterly blasphemous duet between Marilyn Manson and Kathy Griffin would be more uplifting than one more minute of SoCal teens fretting about hair!
I gave some serious consideration to buying is new album, as I enjoyed the last two and his new single. However, his insistence on acting like a spoiled, whiney little beyotch has changed my mind.