Sunday, September 20, 2009

Banned For Life?

The commodity and publicity of the famous Kanye incident at the VMA's has still not expired. Instead, radio stations are using it as a great prize give a way. Local station, Z102.9, has a prize for the ninth caller once they catch the name and artist of the song that Kanye interrupts. For example, "I Wanna Touch You" by Fall Out Boy was playing and in the middle of the song Kanye's voice comes on saying that Beyonce's video was the best. Then, the caller calls in and wins the Fall Out Boy CD and Beyonce's CD. Awesome. Wanna know what's ridiculous to me? Jay-Z told a British radio station that while it was rude of Kanye West, he shouldn't be condoned as much as he is. "He's just a very passionate person" Jay-Z said. Passionate enough to come up and take the mic away from a poor little Taylor Swift getting her first award? I think not. I agree with the polls, Kanye should be banned from award shows for life. Or maybe not forever, but for a while until he can mature up. Part of me thinks he did it all for publicity. Clearly, everyone has been making a big deal of it. Celebs are all getting asked their opinions, most sane T-Swift fans think that Kanye is foul. Even our own president, Barrack Obama, says the celeb is disgraceful. Some artists however believe that West wasn’t that out of line, since rude, obnoxious actions have long been the norm at awards shows. Think back to Super Bowl XXXVIII when Janet Jackson's boob got exposed, nasty right? Yet, the publicity from that never ended. While most parents were upset, Justin Timberlake went up in popularity. That's exactly how this thing is going down. Either way it was still really rude, and I vote he's banned for awhile.

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