This year's MTV Video Music Awards slipped past relatively quietly, especially in comparison to last year's Kanye West/Taylor Swift fiasco in which West stormed the stage, grabbed the mike from Swift while she accepted her award and -\nFeel like you've heard this before?
That's how I felt when Taylor Swift and Kanye West once again took the stage during this year's VMAs. This time, neither was interrupted, although their songs did refer to each other and the notorious soundbyte incident.
Swift sang a new song "Still an Innocent," which includes the lines, "You're 32 and still growing up now ... / You're still an innocent." (West was 32 at the time of last year's debacle.) And Kanye, in interviews about his VMA song choice, "Runaway," said, "I threw a Molotov cocktail on my career last year, in a way, and I had to come back as a better person."
Kanye, who's been hard at work planning his comeback, has an impressive upcoming roster that includes a 40-minute music video for "Runaway,"- which would compete to be the longest music video ever made - his highly anticipated album Dark Twisted Fantasy, and his G.O.O.D. Friday project through which he has released one new track every Friday, to mostly successful results. (Check out his remix of Justin Bieber's "Runaway Love.")
Taylor Swift likewise will be continuing her reign as country-pop princess with the release of her third album, Speak Now, scheduled for mid-October. The first single off that album, "Mine," has already spent several weeks in the Billboard Top 10, and it's been predicted the rest of her album will continue to do as well, cementing her dominance of radio airwaves.
With such exciting works on the horizon for both artists, I resented that this year's VMAs wrangled every last drop of PR from last year's West/Swift drama. So if you're interested in catching VMA highlights, skip the Swift/West melodrama. Instead, YouTube Eminem and Rihanna's stunning opening act, a rendition of "I Love the Way You Lie," and don't forget to see a few pictures of Lady Gaga's controversial "meat dress" that sparked outrage from animal activists everywhere.
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