Our editors share their memories of the infamous Taylor Swift/Kanye West moment, and how they feel about the whole thing looking back 10 years later VMAs
-- just the first time he'd interrupted a star nearly on his level, and on another star's intended behalf. : Our team only had one person online, so I thought, "Oh, I better sign on to see if I can help." If I remember correctly, it happened pretty quickly after the Michael Jackson tribute, which was supposed to be the big deal of the show. I knew Kanye/Taylor would eclipse that.
3. What's one detail about the entire stage-crash incident that really sticks with you all these years later?: Honestly, how embarrassed Beyoncé looked when they panned to her, and her clearly saying, "Oh Kanye." I also vividly remember seeing photos of Kanye on the red carpet earlier in the evening clutching a bottle of Hennessy with Amber Rose --- that's when things clicked about the machinations behind the situation.
Why didn’t the show cut to commercial earlier -- or literally anything else? Why didn’t anyone sweep Taylor away -- and why didn’t she just leave the stage herself? It was a rare, peeling-back-the-curtain moment of watching a room full of some of America’s most powerful people have absolutely no idea what to do.: Definitely the deafening silence from Taylor after Kanye handed the mic back to her, while the crowd violently booed him.
: "Innocent," a sneak preview of the Kanye-themed song that would prove the lowlight off her third album, 2010's The performance and the song struck a really sour note to me, and was perhaps the earliest indication that this feud had more fuel to it than could really burn out in 12 months' time. : It's the almost immediate backlash that Swift received, how critics said she played the victim too easily.
5. How surprising is it to you that the incident ended up shaping so much about both artists' careers and narratives from there? Would you have believed at the time that it'd still be such a big part of their stories a decade later? : No. Honestly, it's strange to me.
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