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Making A Joke About The Stale Nature Of Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes Is The New Making Kanye/Taylor Swift Jokes

noah | November 4, 2009 6:00 pm
noah | November 4, 2009 6:00 pm


Above, a preview of a promo for this week’s Saturday Night Live, which will feature Taylor Swift performing and hosting. Why do I have a feeling that Swift’s eye-rolling at Bill Hader’s insistence on making a Kanye joke doesn’t necessarily mean that there won’t be three or four or 10 references to the notorious Video Music Awards incident during the 90 minutes of this week’s program? Oh right, because of SNL‘s writing staff, which never met a joke it couldn’t bludgeon to death. [MTV] More »


Taylor Swift Is Sick Of Talking About The Video Music Awards, But Lil Mama Sure Isn’t

noah | September 21, 2009 11:00 am
noah | September 21, 2009 11:00 am

90713084-500x3441Unsurprisingly, the news cycle of Kanye West’s interruption of Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards stretched into a second week, with some morning-radio DJ pressing and pressing the issue during an interview with Swift while she primly asked him to please talk about something, anything else. He, being of the clueless mook ilk, refused, so finally, instead of letting him finish—during which the DJ was apparently going to ask Swift for a psychological evaluation of the design-conscious MC—she basically handed the phone to her publicist and said “you deal with him, because I sure don’t want to anymore.” This is the same young lady who everyone felt needed rescuing a scant eight days ago? Seems like she has at least some moxie. Clip after the jump. More »


50 Cent Tries To Play The Part Of “The Sensitive One”

noah | September 16, 2009 10:00 am
noah | September 16, 2009 10:00 am

fiftycentThe Kanye West/Taylor Swift/Beyonce kerfuffle from Sunday night’s Video Music Awards is theratening to take over the entire work week, with the outspoken MC yesterday calling the blonde country singer to apologize after she appeared on the morning yakfest The View and people still looking for the damn thing on YouTube. (All this post-publicity, it should be said, isn’t really helping dampen my cynicism about the whole thing.) Who better to bring up the rear on a big old manufactured media event than 50 “Curtis Jackson” Cent, who in flusher times two years ago tried to hold his own against Kanye sales-wise and failed—and who yesterday appeared on Canadian music channel MuchMusic to defend Swift’s honor? More »



MTV Host Gives MTV News “Exclusive” Scoop On Her Actions At MTV Video Music Awards

noah | September 15, 2009 9:45 am
noah | September 15, 2009 9:45 am

lilmamaMeanwhile, the post-Video Music Awards mea culpas continued with pint-sized MC Lil Mama’s statement on her joining Jay-Z and Alicia Keys onstage at the end of Sunday night’s show, which honestly might have been more notable for how many people said “really? huh, I missed that” in its aftermath than for anything that actually happened. “I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,” she said in a statement released to MTV. (Who, by the way, employ her as host of their dance-off show America’s Best Dance Crew.) “I admire them and look up to them as role models. ‘Empire State of Mind’ had my emotions running high. In that moment I came up onstage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY.” Somehow, she didn’t manage to mention that her latest song—which leaked, OMG, yesterday!—is out. And funnily enough for someone who tried to engage in a little spotlight-stealing, it’s called “See Me Everywhere”! I mean, what are the odds? More »


Kanye West Is Still Sorry

noah | September 15, 2009 9:00 am
noah | September 15, 2009 9:00 am

kanye-lenoSchticky talk-show host Jay Leno may be not so into having musicians as regular guests on his primetime-killing program, which premiered last night. But as it turned out, booking musicians for the opening installment of his new show proved lucky, as one of the people scheduled to perform was none other than Kanye West, whose outburst at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards was still burning up the Internet when he stopped by Jay’s studio yesterday. So he took some time out to apologize to the public yet again, and this time he even got a “what would your mother think?” upbraiding by the late-night king himself. More »


Kanye West: Back To Reality?

noah | September 14, 2009 3:00 am
noah | September 14, 2009 3:00 am

58335174Six-ish hours later, and I’m still unsure if the Kanye West/Taylor Swift brouhaha at tonight’s Video Music Awards was a work or a shoot. That is, whether it was the result of a genuine outpouring of emotion on Kanye West’s part, or just a way for the VMAs to sneak up behind the rest of the cable lineup and command the television-watching nation’s attention—no small feat on the night of competing entertainments like regular-season football, the True Blood finale, the US Open women’s final, etc., etc. (Apologies for my continued breaking into wrestling terminology for this, but it really fits: You have one performer who has a history of raising hell and another who has what’s likely the sweetest, most innocent persona in all of Radio City Music Hall; Performer A interrupts a triumphant moment for Performer B, causing strife; audience reactions that inevitably result in “buzz” for your various media properties ensue.) More »



Barack Obama Thinks “Single Ladies” Was Just OK

noah | September 14, 2009 2:26 am
noah | September 14, 2009 2:26 am


OK, not really. But the amazing thing is that this went up, say, about an hour or so after the whole Kanye West run-in happened, in the midst of Viacom’s endless whack-a-mole game with people ripping the whole blowup to YouTube. Well done, Internet. We can let you stick around for another day. [YouTube via DailyHuff / Earlier] More »


Kanye West: “I’M IN THE WRONG”

noah | September 13, 2009 11:39 pm
noah | September 13, 2009 11:39 pm

58335146While Taylor Swift was in the press room talking about Kanye West running in and interrupting her acceptance speech, Kanye was updating his blog (perhaps because he’d been kicked out of the show shortly after the whole thing went down?) and he had this to say: More »


2009 Video Music Awards Winners

noah | September 13, 2009 11:30 pm
noah | September 13, 2009 11:30 pm

58337158The complete list of winners at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards, held at Radio City Music Hall in New York: More »



Idolator Live-Blogs The 2009 Video Music Awards: Pop Goes The Post-Pop World

noah | September 13, 2009 10:30 pm
noah | September 13, 2009 10:30 pm

58331854Welcome to Idolator’s third annual liveblog of MTV’s Video Music Awards, an annual tribute to the televisual representation of pop music that inspires waxing poetic about The Old Days and generalized bitching about the state of the channel’s programming alongside the occasional water-cooler-worthy music-related moment. Tonight we come to you from the basement of Radio City Music Hall, which was the venue for the inaugural occasion of Moonman-bestowing—hosted by Bette Midler and Dan Aykroyd, in case you want to think about how far we’ve come— and which will, tonight, play host to performances by the likes of Jay-Z, Lady GaGa, Beyoncé, Pink, Taylor Swift (pictured), and Green Day, as well as a show-opening tribute to the late Michael Jackson undertaken by his younger sister Janet. Will I be able to handle this task while not on a couch? Find out after the jump! More »


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