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Swift comments on the invasion from the West
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 15 September 2009
US country star Taylor Swift has commented on Kanye West’s VMA stage invasion.
As previously reported, West grabbed the mic off Swift as she accepted an award for Best Female Video at the MTV awards event on Sunday night, and then promptly told the show’s audience that Beyonce not Taylor should have got that prize, even though Ms Knowles wasn’t nominated in that category and won plenty of awards elsewhere during the night. Beyonce later got Swift back up on stage when she got hold of the mic to accept one of her various awards.
Anyway, here’s what 19-year old Swift said at a press conference after the event: “I was standing on stage and I was really excited because I had just won an award and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage. And then I wasn’t so excited any more after that. I don’t know him and I don’t want to start anything. I had a great night tonight. I’ve been getting so many text messages and everybody’s been really, really nice. I’ve had a really fun night. It’s definitely been an interesting night”.
Asked about Beyonce getting her back on stage, she continued: “I thought that I couldn’t love Beyoncé more than tonight and then that happened. They told me to stand by the side of the stage and I didn’t really know what was going to go down but I thought it was so wonderful and gracious of her”.
As previously reported, with audience response to West’s mic theft pretty negative, the hip hopper had issued an apology via his blog before the VMAs had even finished. He later wrote a second apology saying: “I feel like Ben Stiller in ‘Meet The Parents’ when he messed up everything and Robert De Niro asked him to leave. That was Taylor’s moment and I had no right in any way to take it from her. I am truly sorry”.
Of course given all the press coverage West’s stage invasion got, worldwide, presumably he’s done Ms Swift a few favours in the international profile stakes.
