8 Musicians Who Publicly Made Idiots Of Themselves

4. Kanye West

Kanye-West-600x300 We€™ve all had that moment where we've disagreed with the result of an award but we€™re almost never in the position to voice our opinion at the award ceremony itself and (hopefully) we have enough grace and tact not to ruin the winner€™s big moment. Kanye West was in that position and lacked the social graces to let Taylor Swift have her deserved moment in the spotlight when she won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video in 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K21rLBEfeM Swift went onto the stage to collect her award only for West to perform an impromptu stage invasion and utter the sentence that instantly became a universally recognised symbol of idiocy and West being a total jackass: €œYo Taylor. I€™m really happy for you and I€™mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time€. If West was voicing annoyance at losing the award himself, we would chalk up this attack of stupidity to plain egotism but since he was of the opinion that Beyoncé should have won, it€™s hard to work out the logic of this. Maybe he fancied Beyoncé. Or had some kind of grudge against Swift. Either way, he made a total idiot of himself and became an international laughing stock.
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JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.