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Celeb News: Taylor Swift's song of forgiveness for Kanye: 'Ridiculous'
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Taylor Swift's song of forgiveness for Kanye: 'Ridiculous'
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Taylor Swift's song of forgiveness for Kanye: 'Ridiculous' or 'pure class'?
Sept. 13, 2010, 3:45 PM EST
By Kat Giantis
MSN Entertainment
A magnanimous move or a comically overwrought publicity stunt? That's the question being asked in the wake of Taylor Swift's performance Sunday night at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she debuted "Innocent," a song dedicated to Kanye "I'mma Let You Finish" West, who, as we all remember, interrupted her acceptance speech at last year's show.
Taylor Swift (©AP)
The doll-faced popster, sporting dramatic makeup, emotionally evocative bare feet and an angelic white dress, belted out her new ditty after a quick replay of Kanye's onstage award-jacking.
"It's okay, life is a tough crowd,
Thirty-two and still growing up now...
Time turns flames to embers,
You'll have new Septembers,
Every one of us has messed up, too (ohh),
Minds change like the weather,
I hope you remember,
Today is never too late,
To be brand new (ohhhhhh)
It's all right, just wait and see,
Your string of lights are bright to me (oh!),
Who you are is not where you've been,
You're still an innocent"
While the performance would have earned a, "It was a little pitchy, dawg," from Randy Jackson, there was no doubting Swift's earnestness: She wants everyone to know she has graciously forgiven West for ruining her big moment (granted, she was collecting a VMA, not, say, a Pulitzer or even a Teen Choice award. Plus, the incident did give her career a boost, but regardless ...).
The critics, however, were not quite ready to let bygones be bygones.
"Ridiculous" and "pathetic," declared Gawker. "Our eyes have never rolled so hard," opined Zap2it.
NPR was equally unimpressed with the ditty, calling it "unintentionally uproarious."
That, it turns out, was the nice part of the review: "The spectacle of an insanely wealthy 20-year-old singer using the phrase 'who you are is not what you did' to describe not a reformed criminal or a family member who grievously erred and must be forgiven, but to describe someone she doesn't really know whose only misdeed is rudeness at an awards show is just jaw-droppingly self-involved, and adding 'you're still an innocent,' with its implications of purity, borders on the creepy."
But Taylor still has her fans. Entertainment Weekly found the tune "genuinely heartfelt," while Salon called it "a model of pure class."
Kanye, meanwhile, had his own self-referential moment at the end of the show with his song "Runaway," which included the thoughtful lyrics, "I always find something wrong/You've been putting up with my s--- way too long ... Let's have a toast for the d-----bags/Let's have a toast for the a------s/Let's have a toast for the scumbags/Every one of them that I know/Let's have a toast for the jerk---s ... Baby, I got a plan/Run away fast as you can."
Which apparently isn't what happened when West met up with Swift before the VMAs kicked off.
"Kanye got word she was going to do the song about him and wanted to talk it out," a source tells Us Weekly of the apparent tête-à-tête, which reportedly took place in Swift's dressing room. "Taylor felt bad. They talked and everything is good between them now. But they promised to keep what they spoke about between them."
Earlier in the day, Kanye tweeted that he knew his beloved mother was looking down on him from heaven: "I want to make her so happy today."
Sure, that's a nice thought. But we're guessing that from whatever cloud she was floating on, his mom was saying, "Enough already. Can we all just move on from this now? I have better things to do, like get ready for my hot date with Rudolph Valentino."
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http://tv.msn.com/tv/2010-mtv-vmas-s...ory/?GT1=28103
Can't say I disagree.
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I love her new song, it's so amazing and emotional and probably one of the best songs she's ever written.. the real song isn't even out yet and I think it's going to be amazing.. it's not even a hit at Kanye, of course this article posted it to make it sound not-so-sorry, acting like she meant to be a bitch when she didn't. :-/
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I guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your warpath
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind tryin' to get it back
Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into
Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?
And everybody believed in you?
It's all right, just wait and see
Your string of lights is still bright to me
Oh, who you are is not where you've been
You're still an innocent
You're still an innocent
There's some things you can't speak of
But tonight you'll live it all again
You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now
If only you would sing what you know now then
Wasn't it easier in your firefly-catchin' days?
And everything out of reach, someone bigger brought down to you
Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild 'til you fell asleep?
Before the monsters caught up to you?
It's all right, just wait and see
Your string of lights is still bright to me
Oh, who you are is not where you've been
You're still an innocent
It's okay, life is a tough crowd
32, and still growin' up now
Who you are is not what you did
You're still an innocent
Time turns flames to embers
You'll have new Septembers
Every one of us has messed up too
Lives change like the weather
I hope you remember
Today is never to late to
Be brand new
It's all right, just wait and see
Your string of lights are still bright to me
Oh, who you are is not where you've been
You're still an innocent
It's okay, life is a tough crowd
32, and still growin' up now
Who you are is not what you did
You're still an innocent
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Taylor owned that performance, cant wait for the song to release and her fans buy it and make it go umber 1 
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Taylor owned that performance, cant wait for the song to release and her fans buy it and make it go umber 1 |
+100
Hell, I might even buy it.. and I rarely buy songs.
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I found it very odd, but the song is amazing. 
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I don't like her but the song was cool!!! I mean the song not the lyrics
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Let me hear a studio verison of it. 
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Let me hear a studio verison of it.
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It's coming.. will be hitting #1 on iTunes and breaking records again. 
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I really like her but this song is so boring imo :-/
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Terrible, extremely self-righteous, and completely humorless. Worst performance of the night without question.
The LA Times said it best:
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Sparkly guitar? Gone. This is T-Swift all grown up. Her new ballad, which may or may not be about Kanye West, doesn't leave much to the imagination. The performance begins with a clip of West interrupting Swift at last year's VMAs. Look, West's move was a boneheaded one, but it was also tragically overblown. Swift is no damsel -- she’s an international recording star who's selling out arenas -- and if MTV can't take its own awards seriously (see Chelsea Handler), why be shocked when the artists don't? Regardless, Swift would have been better to ignore the moment at the 2010 edition. She also would have been better off not writing this song. "Lost your balance on a tightrope," she thinly sings (bet it sounds perfect on record), her somber eyes letting you know she understands, she really does. "Life is a tough road / 32 and still growing up," the suddenly mature Swift sings. For celeb watchers, West just turned 33. "You're still an innocent," the 20-year-old Swift concludes in the chorus of this embarrassingly self-important ballad. So Swift can dispense advice and bestow forgiveness, but she still has a ways to go as an artist. D
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This is like, my second-most played VMA performance, or just performance in general. 'Paparazzi' from last year, I played the audio/video of that at least a gazillion times, this Taylor Swift one I've played about 8 times today alone and still have it on repeat. It's just too amazing. 
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Terrible, extremely self-righteous, and completely humorless. Worst performance of the night without question.
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The LA times gave Kanye an A+ (Its obvious who side they are on) and they gave Florence an A
Florence performance >>>> Kanye's performance
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Originally posted by What It Seems
The LA times gave Kanye an A+ (Its obvious who side they are on) and they gave Florence an A
Florence performance >>>> Kanye's performance
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I don't care about what they said about Florence and Kanye, I'm speaking strictly about Taylor.
But here's more true tea from a less (maybe, I don't know) biased source, if that's what you want. From the New York Times:
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Choosing to tackle last year’s events head-on, Ms. Swift — a victim, but no naïf — performed a new song, “Innocent,” directed at Mr. West, an extremely savvy insult masquerading as the high road. She performed it with minimal accompaniment, barefoot, and with an unsteady relationship to pitch (neither she nor Mr. West were near their best).
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the song is really great!
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"Our eyes have never rolled so hard,"
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In some ways it's mature of her, but it seems shady.
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