<p>To go back a few posts, because it is the VMAs and “nobody cares anyway” does not excuse rudeness. </p>
<p>If you follow that logic, is it okay to be rude in McDonalds because it is just McDonalds?</p>
<p>ebeeeee, if it were just this one time, one might pity the fool, but this is pretty much a yearly display that Kanye puts on. He is more than just incoherent, he is certifiable.</p>
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<p>I really think that Jay was trying to lighten up the situation - to give Kanye the opportunity to say something funny. He’d apologized already. I think Jay was trying to get him to say something like “She’d have whooped my ***” or “She’d STILL be yelling at me” or the like…you know, some good Powerful Mother humor. But going silent like that was beyond awkward.</p>
<p>Kanye is a bully. I would have like to see him try to grab the mic from Pink if she’d won…
He never would have even tried it.</p>
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She should do exactly what she did.<br>
I was protesting the fact people said she’s classy. No, it’s a PR move.</p>
<p>If Taylor has trouble carrying a tune she can use an autotuner to correct her pitch. For all we know she might use one. Reba McEntire reportedly uses one in live concerts. </p>
<p>I am a big Taylor Swift fan. I don’t know much about Beyonce but I think she did a very nice thing that pretty much made it all better for Taylor. :)</p>
<p>Found it! I knew I saw something somewhere on tv about this autotune thing. Try youtube, and search for “Nova Science Now Auto-tune” It’s pretty funny and very interesting.</p>
<p>NJres, check this out:</p>
<p>[Band’s</a> parody helps keep Auto-Tune alive - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/15/auto.tune.news.iphone/index.html]Band’s”>Band's parody helps keep Auto-Tune alive - CNN.com)</p>
<p>[Obama:</a> Kanye West a ?jackass? for outburst - White House- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32859148/ns/politics-white_house/]Obama:”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32859148/ns/politics-white_house/)</p>
<p>hee hee</p>
<p>Obama agrees with us (but he’s probably sorry he said so).</p>
<p>^Excellent</p>
<p>Mary- I do not think he is sorry he called West a jackass. I think the problem was that when he is off the record he needs to trust the reporters to keep it off the record.</p>
<p>I really like Taylor Swift’s music, and she has the greatest. hair. ever. </p>
<p>But when she sings live, sometimes she is really “pitchy”. Her performance on SNL was almost painful to listen to. I chalked it up to nerves. </p>
<p>At the VMA’s, her subway performance was pretty much on pitch, but I’m not sure how much of that was really live - just seems like it would have been too hard to coordinate, too many potential technical difficulties. Although if she was lip-synching, she did a darned good job! </p>
<p>Katy Perry can be painfully off-key live as well. Her performance in Times Square on New Year’s Eve was absolutely awful - but she was dancing as she sang, and it was FREEZING. Maybe sometimes lip-synching really is the best idea, if conditions aren’t ideal and you’re trying to dance at the same time…</p>
<p>And I loved Obama’s comment, although I don’t think it was fair that it got released when it was supposed to be “off the record.” I guess he’ll learn to never trust the media. But he his comment was right on target!</p>
<p>Beer makers are probably salivating thinking about another potential “beer summit” and free publicity for their product :)</p>
<p>Taylor’s only 19 and Kanye, being as he is 3 years old, might still be too young to join the Root Beer summit. But, you never know.</p>
<p>I hope Kanye’s actions don’t inspire Prof. Gates to jump up on stage when the next Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, grab the mic from somebody who settled a tribal war in Cambodia, and say “Barack Obama’s beer party was one of the best EVER!”</p>
<p>Poetgrl, your comment is great. And don’t you love Obama’s comments, even though I’m troubled by the whole “off the record” thing.</p>