Kanye’s overreactions to opinions and inability to recognize awards shows, MTV’s award shows in particular, as meaningless television time filler and mindless entertainment makes him appear as an overzealous primadonna. However, his actions in theory are admirable. Why shouldn’t we demand that awards go to the most deserving artists, instead of allowing behemoth companies to play political charades dictating the voting results? Did you listen to his drunken rant? He understands artistic genius. He viewed Mrs. Knowles-Carter's work as pure genius. He seriously believes acknowledgment of an artist’s work should always be thoroughly examined and profoundly judged. Kanye is seriously mad about art and the thoughts and work that goes into its' creation. He is trapped in a world, where good art always trumps the power of money. Is that such a bad thing? In a music culture dominated with Beatles faux-fanaticism and Michael Jackson bandwagon grieving, Kanye’s M.O. has become to acknowledge the greatness in our contemporary artists. Isn’t that a worthy cause?
Caption: Beyoncé actually did make one of the greatest music videos of ALL TIME. She was completely successful at making a video that draws the viewer in and make them want to watch and listen. I don’t even like contemporary R&B or Pop R&B, but I was drawn into that video singing the lyrics in my head.Now, the method Kanye used made Taylor a casualty in his ongoing war against MTV. Kanye is like an artistic David and MTV is part of the corporate Goliath. Kanye believes MTV cheats artists out of what they deserve for the love of gain (money and favors). He is correct in his assessment of MTV, but don’t just stop there. All award shows rely on sponsor dollars, so they all use favors to pay their “sponsorship debt.” No award show is holistically unbiased in awarding a nominated artist. I digress, back to Kanye. Not thumbing up Kanye’s idiotic actions and disagreeing with his hilarious, tasteless interruption of an acceptance speech, I do appreciate Kanye’s idealism for correctly acknowledging great art and perpetuating great art into the forefront of our larger culture context. What is there not to like about the man’s heart that wants everything to be accurately understood and appropriately appreicated?
With the incident being totally overblown and the backlash overhyped, Taylor wins a new single with a great producer, Kanye can cut an album about being hated and his road to redemption (always platinum seller), Beyoncé being the selfless good girl (always a good celebrity move, especially after unleashing your sex-kitten) wins back favor from conservative parents, who believe she is oversexed, and MTV’s award shows ratings skyrocketed in an era where award shows are dying. It seems the only true casualties in this incident are Real News, who wants to deliver us from global ignorance, and Americans for not engaging into more important social discourse and commentary outside our celebrities.
We need to wake-up. As long as Kanye continues to make good music, I will continue to buy his work. Him hopping on-stage spewing his idealistic opinions about genius art is not damaging enough for me to stop buying his albums. I personally believed Taylor earned the award, and Kanye should understand her struggle to stardom. He also needs to reexamine what makes a good female pop video- purity, naively flirtatious, innocent, friendly, and feminine. Beyoncé’s video was feminine, but I don’t want my five-year-old niece to view it.
Lastly, if we allow our morals to dictate our product purchases, we would all own as much as Jesus did when he died.
**Racism was a term used by Europeans when viewing other ethnicities as subhuman or chattel. Racism is a term that perpetuates itself on the basis of people’s ignorance far beyond its’ actual definition. After the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans and other minority groups ostracized by the European control structure earned a seat at the human race table. "Human" is a race. Americans continue to use the archaic term when in fact racism no longer exists. All people are, for better or worse, considered to be a part of the human race. African-American is a label used to identify your ethnicity and nationality. The same is said for Asian-American, which usually breaks down into Chinese-American, Japanese-American, etc. African-Americans unfortunately suffered the complete wiping of their ties to Africa during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and African-American Holocaust, which is best defined as the great destruction of African civilization from an extensive loss of life. Ethnicism is the correct term when someone’s ethnicity is ostracized and utilized as a flag to hinder their self-determination.
With the incident being totally overblown and the backlash overhyped, Taylor wins a new single with a great producer, Kanye can cut an album about being hated and his road to redemption (always platinum seller), Beyoncé being the selfless good girl (always a good celebrity move, especially after unleashing your sex-kitten) wins back favor from conservative parents, who believe she is oversexed, and MTV’s award shows ratings skyrocketed in an era where award shows are dying. It seems the only true casualties in this incident are Real News, who wants to deliver us from global ignorance, and Americans for not engaging into more important social discourse and commentary outside our celebrities.We need to wake-up. As long as Kanye continues to make good music, I will continue to buy his work. Him hopping on-stage spewing his idealistic opinions about genius art is not damaging enough for me to stop buying his albums. I personally believed Taylor earned the award, and Kanye should understand her struggle to stardom. He also needs to reexamine what makes a good female pop video- purity, naively flirtatious, innocent, friendly, and feminine. Beyoncé’s video was feminine, but I don’t want my five-year-old niece to view it.
Lastly, if we allow our morals to dictate our product purchases, we would all own as much as Jesus did when he died.
**Racism was a term used by Europeans when viewing other ethnicities as subhuman or chattel. Racism is a term that perpetuates itself on the basis of people’s ignorance far beyond its’ actual definition. After the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans and other minority groups ostracized by the European control structure earned a seat at the human race table. "Human" is a race. Americans continue to use the archaic term when in fact racism no longer exists. All people are, for better or worse, considered to be a part of the human race. African-American is a label used to identify your ethnicity and nationality. The same is said for Asian-American, which usually breaks down into Chinese-American, Japanese-American, etc. African-Americans unfortunately suffered the complete wiping of their ties to Africa during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and African-American Holocaust, which is best defined as the great destruction of African civilization from an extensive loss of life. Ethnicism is the correct term when someone’s ethnicity is ostracized and utilized as a flag to hinder their self-determination.
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