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What a weird coincidence: WME co-CEO Dave Wirtschafter represents both Kanye West and Taylor Swift. OK, he’s on the teams repping these singers. But still…
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Too funny!
The whole thing was a publicity stunt.
Yes, between crop circled hair boy and rat face girl.
Who gives a shit?
A jackass or two or four. Does Wirtschafter also rep politicians?
That’s actually pretty funny. I’d suspect most politicians have agents.
Ive been trying to convince people that this whole thing was a pubicity stunt…and this info seals the deal. It was meant to get people to tune into Lenos new show so see if Kanye would appoligise.
Why is this surprising?? Wirschafter reps premier talent for the agency; it’s only reasonable to assume he’d be on the team of two of the firm’s biggest music clients.
Taylor had already been booked on The View, Kanye had already been booked on Leno. Duh.
They must think we’re all idiots.
All I know is – he is a genius. Whoever does Taylor Swift’s PR is brilliant and ruthless. Joe Jonas is still nursing wounds.
But Kanye’s still a jackass, right?
Yes he is. For doing that anyway. No one deserves to get their mic/public special moment like that taken away from them!
Kanye West knows exactly what he was doing. He posed on the red carpet holding Cognac, so he could blame the alcohol if he had to. I don’t know if the reaction was what he was expecting but the whole thing had to be pre-planned.
He was probably watching Obama the week before get interrupted and he thought that if he did that to someone then he’d get as much publicity.
Then the whole Leno saying sorry on the debut show.
Then Obama calling Kanye a jackass… when really he wanted to call the Congressman a jackass but calling Kanye was close enough since they both did the same type of interruption.
I’ll go with the publicity stunt theory on this one. Jay doesn’t normally ask questions like, what would your mother say about this?
Remember, this is the same network that on an awards show earlier this year had Bruno bump his junk into Eminem’s chin as if the rapper was being pranked, but Slim Shady was in on the gag the whole time.
BTW, my eight-year-old stepdaughter is the only reason I know who Taylor Swift is.
Not that it matters at all, but I promise you that Wirtschafter had nothing to do with this. Obviously, a good agent should be a strong advocate for their clients, but he loves Taylor Swift to a degree that approaches (and probably blows right by) unhealthy. He would never allow her to be publicly slighted like that. When I saw it happen, I was half waiting for a low slung hurricane of weathered skin, brittle hair and out of style children’s clothes to tackle Kanye off the stage.
I just want to finish what I didn’t, and say – Taylor Swift’s songs are the epitome of mediocrity and they all sound the same. And if she didn’t look like the prom queen, or have publicity stunts like this, the only CD she would sell is to her Mom.
Haha. Truer words.
Not so much…there are a lot of younger adolescent and teenage girls that love her music and don’t care if it does have repitition. So what? I have listened to her quite a few times myself and she is good. She’s young and she has a lot of guts to be able to sing out in front of people like that with little professional experience from when she first started! And she is definetely BRAVE to keep going on after Kanye took her spot light and completely humiliated her! That was sooo wrong!
I can’t believe any of you would actually think that was setup. Kanye sees something, and then he acts on it before thinking. The only thing on his mind was, “How in the WORLD can this video I’ve never heard of be beating Beyonce’s amazing video.” Then he thought it must be a setup to promote Taylor, and jumped up there.
He wasn’t even thinking of the possibility that Beyonce was getting Video of the Year, so of course they’re not going to give her two at this point in her career. So they gave it to Taylor who probably came in second.
Taylor was already booked on the View because they already knew she was going to win the award, not because of Kanye. I watched his interview with Leno and believed him when he said he didn’t know anything was wrong until he handed her back the mic and she didn’t say anything.
He’s just in his own little world sometimes and this was a slap in the face for him. Everything’s not a hoax people. Life happens.
If she knew she was going to win her award, Beyonce knew she was going to win hers…Jay-Z, Beyonce’s husband was making a talk show appearance with Kanye the next day…it’s not hard to connect the dots.
The VMAs were going to be deadly boring otherwise and MTV wouldn’t just let that happen. If there were other stunts throughout the night, I’d say Kanye’s moment was spontaneous…but that was IT for the event.
And on MTV/Viacom, yes, everything is a hoax, or at least an artful simulation. They sure were when I worked events for Nickelodeon.
I agree that this was not a hoax. Nobody in Hollywood is that creative. Kanye is, what the president said, a jackass.
Who knows if this was a stunt or not.What is evident about Taylor Swift’s winning the Best Female Video award is, it was all about politics and not talent.MTV is known for giving people awards just so they can show up for VMAs, and that’s could be the reason for Swift winning Best Female Video.I mean, how could Taylor Swift get the Best Female Video award, and Beyonce gets Video Of The Year? Doesn’t Video Of The Year mean that you had the best video male or female? Beyonce a female, so how could she have the overall best video, but not win Best Female Video?
WME reps everyone in music. Yawn.
50 bucks says that comment was from kanye’s agent
The entire episode was a complete FAKE from start to finish.
We ran the facial analysis software on their micro-expressions… and the AUs were demonstrating complete dishonesty … and pre-arranged fraud from every one of the actors involved. (You can see the micro-expressions for yourself by freeze-framing the videos.)
But … it was still a good stunt, and they made it work for them. So it’s OK. All’s well that ends well.
Hahah. Someone watches a little too much LIE TO ME.
Facial analysis depends on how left or right brained you are. Some people are natural lie detectors. The moment was real.
You’re an IDIOT, Michael.
Kayne should also apologize to his idol Beyonce for embarrasing her too. He displayed stupid improper stage ettiquette. Miss Piggy should be on is case too.
“Life happens”? Seriously? I would hardly call this sort of thing, or for that matter anything related to Kanye West or anyone else in that sort of bubble “life”.
I doubt it’s a publicity stunt, why would Kanye West want to be so hated? It makes no sense, someone with his ego wants love not hate…
explain to me what good it is for an agent if one artist says he needs to “take time off” and some radio stations pull his music while the other goes on being as adorable as ever? the damage kanye did to himself far outweighs whatever attention taylor swift has garnered. granted, both will be tranistory, but give me a break that this was planned.
kanye west has a past and he certainly lived up to it. and anyone who cries conspiracy theory had better learn how to spell “apologize” if they want the slightest bit of credibility…
Only you would even know this! That’s why I read your blog.
That is FUCKING BS!!!!!! do you seriously think someone would make Taylor Swift go through that?!?!? Get a life you guys and stop to consider the fact that kanye West is an Asshole with no feelings
If its a hoax whomever publicist to kanye just made more people hate him
Not exactly genius
Kanye was trying to show people how they should act when he doesn’t win.