First, this blog is actually from a newspaper article and not the actual blog site. His actually blog site requires you to pay money or join his group. So please only read the blog and not the article. His blog begins about halfway down the article.
Kanye West is an American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He has released several albums including: The Blueprint, The College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation. He has won several awards such as MTV’s Hottest MC in the game and a total of 12 Grammys. During the 2009 VMA award ceremony, Kanye West ran on stage after an award was presented to Taylor Swift for the Best Female Video. He began to protest that the award should have been given to Beyoncé saying “I'm sorry, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time.” Later, Kayne West posted an apology to Taylor Swift. The blog, however, has since been taken down, and the only way to actually see his blog is from news articles. It is written in all caps and is simply a string of sentences expressing his feelings.
Did writing in all capitols help or hinder the sincerity of his apology? Should we blame him for speaking his opinions? Do you think that there were some unnecessary comments? If so, which ones? From reading his apology, can you conclude that he's truly remorseful?
http://www.mahalo.com/kanye-west-blog-apology
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/09/kanye-west-apologizes-to-taylor-swift-.html
I don’t think he was sinceer in his apology. He was motivated to write what he did by embarasment, and to redeem his reputation. He says in his apology that Beyonce’s video was still the best. If he was really sorry, he should have focused more on the apoligizing than trying to still state his opinionl. I do not think that WRITING IN ALL CAPS HELPED HIM. Writing only a few phrases and emphasing what he really wanted to say would have made more of an effect. I don’t think you can blame anyone for expressing their opinions. However, I think there is something to be said for the timeing of the expression that opinion. Not only did he embarrass Taylor, but Beyonce probably was not very pleased with it either. He is only remorseful for one thing, that is the embarassment he felt, not for opinion he expressed.
ReplyDeleteI think that writing in all caps hindered the sincerity of Kanye’s apology. It came across like he was yelling or overly excited. And the excessive use of exlamation points made it seem less sincere and more juvinile. There were tons of unecessary comments in the blog, it was more of a stream of conciousness than an apology. Also , the comments seem to be completely random and half of them have nothing to do with an apology. I don’t think that Kanye is remorseful at all. In the blog he comments on how Beyonce’s video is the best and then goes on to justify his actions by saying “WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD!!!! EVERYBODY WANNA BOOOOO ME BUT I'M A FAN OF REAL POP CULTURE!!!”. Its apparent that he didn’t think of what to say before he typed it, he just wrote it as it popped into his head. If he was truly sorry, he would have sat and thought about how he wanted to apologize to Taylor Swift and then written a coheasive and formal apology letter (one that wasn’t in all caps and had complete sentences). I think that Kanye did this because he realized that his actions pissed people off and he wanted to make sure that he didn’t fall out of the public’s good graces.
ReplyDeleteI think the writing in all caps only hindered the apology, that is if he was trying to look apologetic. I think when you write in all caps it gives a sense of shouting to whatever is being said. You cannot really blame Kanye for speaking his mind but in doing so I believe it makes it seem like he is not sorry at all. From his comments it seems like he maybe regrets stepping on stage and saying that but it doesn't seem like he sees anything wrong with what he stated. It was unnecessary that he mentioned what he tried to do involving Outkast and the 2006 awards because when it comes down to it, the award is determined by the the voters and they decided on who they viewed as the rightful winner. Kanye is just one in many opinions.
ReplyDeleteI believe Kanye wasn't very sincere in his apology to Taylor Swift. The capitols used made it seem forced, informal and unprofessional. Kanye has every right to freedom of speech like all of us do. However, the timing of his "opinion" was extremely inappropriate. I also think his comments, "Welcome to the real world!!!! Everybody wanna booooo me but I'm a fan of real pop culture!!! No dispresepct but we watchin' the show at the crib right now cause . . . well you know!!!!" were irrelevant, immature and made it seem like he took this apology as a joke.
ReplyDeleteHis attitude throughout the whole apology made is seem as though he was forced into making this apology and was laughing about it. I also thought it was disrespectful to say he would apologize to Taylor "2MRW." In my opinion if he was truely sincere he would have apologized right away. The way he uses the abbreviations such as "2MRW" and words like "BOOOYAAAWWWW" make this apology very unprofessional and insincere. He presents himself in this apology in the same way he presented himself when he disrespected Taylor on stage.
I think that West is somewhat sincere in his apology to Swift. The fact that he put up this post in all caps gives it a feel of insincerity though. I think that if West put more thought into this apology, it would have ended up as a more refined and thoughtful apology. As the article says, this post was put up soon after the incident, I think that it was an impulsive apology instead of a sincere, well thought-out one.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I think that everyone is allowed to express their opinions but because we live in civilized times, there has to be a social filter on what we say. Since West is a celebrity, I think that he is expected to maintain composure and not have these outbursts of randomness. West also is known to have a massive ego so I also don't think that this is out of the ordinary for him but it is out of the ordinary for normal people.
I think that in this apology, as I said earlier, West wants to be sincere and truly remorseful but the post has thirteen-year-old-shouting voice, which fails to convey any remorse.
I think he feel really sorry on his rudeness to Taylor, otherwise a straightforward person like him wouldn't post such a blog. But what makes me confused is his apologize was no where to find the day after. Probably because he realized right afterwords that the whole thing is not such a big deal except for Taylor and her fans. And we can easily tell, from his words, that he insisted on his view that Beyonce is the best and didn't regret what he had done. As he said he is real, only the way he practiced it turns out way too much. Hope he could reconsider his behaviour, next time he yelled out his opinion.
ReplyDeleteI think this blog makes him seem as though he is drunk. He constantly is changing the subject of his thoughts and I think all caps and a bunch of exclamation points just makes him look like he is rushed and not really being sincere. I believe he is dumb for speaking out on national television like he did. He can have his own opinions but he shouldn't have spoken them at an awards ceremony like he did. I have seen shows where he apologized and I do believe he is sorry for acting as he did even though I dont think this blog gave off the impression of remorse very much.
ReplyDeleteWhat Kanye West did to Taylor Swift was awful so I’m glad he apologized. However, the fact that it was over a blog lowers the sincerity of his message to her and his fans in my eyes. A formal ‘face to face’ apology is always the best and most sincere way to confront someone if you really do feel remorseful for what you’ve done. It is also very hard to listen to someone apologize when they make public mistakes so frequently like Kanye. A few years back he made a comment about how George Bush is racist and he’s always talking bad about other artists in the industry. It is hard to even like someone, less forgive them when their bad actions and choices seem to be a daily occurrence. From what I know about him, he seems like an extremely ignorant and confused man. I’m pleased to see that he actually apologized, but I also think he could have made his apology much more sincere and meaningful for Taylor’s sake.
ReplyDeleteEven though I personally disagree with Kanye's medium in which to apologize, I feel like admitting he was wrong was quite the difficulty. A person with an ego as large as his has difficulty in situations like this. Using Twitter as his way of apology was, well, unprofessional. Official apologies are necessary in situations like this. It is genuinely Kanye's apology, however, because I can guarantee a publicist would never issue a statement like this. Writing in all capital letters is not surprising to me, as all of his other tweets are written the same way. But as I said earlier, there is no reason for such an unprofessional apology. He's outspoken and his opinions will never stay to himself, so you have to respect them, no matter how ill-received they are. His actual apology to Taylor herself was minimal, but actually led to him talking about Beyoncé again. Not a very smart move in my opinion. He also states that he gave his award to Outkast in the past, trying to portray himself in a positive light. I do think he's remorseful, but not for Taylor. He's more remorseful that he managed to destroy his public image in less than a minute.
ReplyDeleteThis blog post is as rushed and poorly thought out as his actions. He
ReplyDeletequotes the lyrics from the wrong perspective saying "being a
cheerleader and she's in the bleachers" when the lyrics are "She's
cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers." He repeats his comment about
how they awarded the VMA incorrectly and that Beyonce was the best of
a decade. The only thing he believes he did wrong was interrupting
her, not including in his mind the things that he said. He says "I am
still happy for Taylor!!! BOOOYAAAWWWW!!!!" this just shows how cocky
he is, saying "BOOOYAAAWWWW!!!!" at the end makes is sound like
someone bet him that he wouldn't say he was happy for Taylor. He then
goes on to suggest that she should give her award to Beyonce because
that is what he did? And he is Sorry? I don't think so. I honestly
don't even believe that he respects her as an artist because he's "a
fan of real pop culture" compared to the fake pop culture that Taylor
performs. The use of all CAPS shows a lack of professionalism. He
using them to stress his sincerity, and takes even more away from his
message if that was possible. Hopefully his CAPS lock is just broken.
And for his sake, I hope he didn’t read this after he wrote it and I
hope he was still drunk. The blog post mentions that Taylor was
talking about how hard it is for country artists to crossover to MTV,
just a little bit of added irony.
I don't think that Kanye is very sorry for what he did. I believe that the only reason he posted that blog was to regain his fan base and to seem like he is trying to apologize for his act. The all caps and exclamation points seemed to make it less sincere in my opinion. His phrases aren't very thought out and most of the stuff has nothing to do with his apology to Taylor Swift. He may be "being real" but that was not the time nor the place to express your opinion. His blog seemed arrogant and somewhat more focused on himself than it was Taylor. He tried to justify his actions more than he did apologize. It was half-hearted at best
ReplyDeleteIn my point of view, Kanye West is not very sorry for what his rude action. His apology on the blog seems to be very unorangized and unprofessional. Even he say he is sincerely apologized to Tayor Swift,and the words he used seem not really sevious about what his wrong doing. West has free speech right, we shouldn't blame him for speaking his opinion,however,to make the comment Beyonce's video is better at that moment when Swift was given the awards on the stage was inappropriate. In the apology, there are too many unnecessory comments. The worst one is that "BEYONCE'S VIDEO WAS THE BEST OF THIS DECADE".In this case, he still does not think he did anything wrong for saying it,he thinks he just took away for Taylor's the moment. Also, it is unnecessary to mention the 2006 awards, "I gave my award to outkast when they deserved it over me", which means Taylor does not deserve the awards. This comment should not appear on apology. Therefore, I would disagree with that he is truly remorceful for his actions.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Kanye was sincere at all in his apology in his post. I think he was posting it because he felt as though he had to, not because he really felt like he messed up. I think the writing in all caps makes the message look urgent, but he puts the entire blog in all caps so it loses its meaning and doesn't focus on specific things. I think if Kanye was honestly sorry he wouldn't have even referred to Beyonce in the blog, but he made it obvious that he still thinks she should have won and had the best video of the decade. I think if he wanted the apology to be sincere he would've realized that was unnecessary to comment on. There is a time and a place for everything and I think that if Kanye were sincere he would have thought out his apology a lot more and seemed honestly remorseful. I think he wanted to apologize for being so rude, but not for what he said. I think that it's great for him to have his opinion, but it was not the time nor place to be stating it. He totally ruined Taylor's well deserved moment. I do not believe Kanye felt one bit of remorse or was one bit sincere in this blog apology.
ReplyDeleteIn this blog, West expressed his sorry to Swift, but just for his showing up on the stage to disturbe her best moment. He still hold his opinion that Beyonce's MV is the best. No matter what he posted on blog, Swift's best moment is gone. He should be more sincere to her. Saying she is a good singer with talent is not enough. From the words in his blog, I can feel that West did not think he did anything wrong. He has confidence on what he said and what he did. The blog was written in caps, which should mean that it is important. However, I feel this apology is not important for him. He did not care the concequences of his behavior. The purpose of this caps blog seems like show his apology to the public as he is a celebrity. He should be truly sorry for what he did to Swift, whose best noght was destroyed. As an audience, I cannot accect his apology which with less remorse.
ReplyDeleteI think that West's actions were very immature and rude. I feel that he ruined a very special moment for Taylor Swift and that he was just trying to cause a scene and steal the spot light. I also feel that his apology was for one reason only, which was to get his fans to forgive his actions, not Taylor Swift. Not only did his apology seem insincere because it was so quick to be released to the public, but also because there seemed to be little thought put into it and that it was written in caps. I think it is very easy to see through the fakeness of the apology and that the only reason he did apologize was for the benefit of himself. I am not sure if Swift forgave West, but I would not.
ReplyDeleteUnder no circumstances should Kanye've not shared his feelings. Everyone is entitled to free speech. However, the way he acted was completely disrespectful. And I think his apology is the same. He seems like he is almost half-way apologizing. He's apologizing for being himself- something no one should feel bad for, and I honestly don't think thats sincere. He seems to be saying "Take it or leave it.. but this is me." Which is completely fine- but an apology statement isn't the place to be saying those kinds of things. The capitolized letters only make me think he's just as much into himself as he was the night he upstaged Taylor. I don't think Kanye should be forgiven for his act of rudeness, he clearly wasn't truly apologizing for what he did.
ReplyDeleteI think Kanye felt really sorry for what he had done when he was writing his blog because his words were so unorgnized which made it clear that he was just writing down what was going on in his mind at the moment. It is understandable that artists or superstars with huge personality like Kanye may do something crazy because they are not ordinary people. What he did obviously had hurt Taylor and maybe as well as Beyonce. But as far as I am concerned, he did not think about his mistake deeply and thoroughly otherwise he would have present his apology more formally without saying that Beyonce's video is still the best in the decade.I think his writing in all CAPS helped to show that he was writing his true feelings.It seems to me that he was just an immature man who had done something immature and we can forgive him just like to ungrown kids.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to me like something a teenage girl would post on her MySpace wall exclaiming over something unfair that had happened to her. Insincere, rude, and immature, Kanye West apologizes, but then contradicts himself when he says, “I’m in the wrong...but Beyonce had the best video of this decade!!” and in several other places. I’m actually pretty disgusted at this guy. Why would anyone give him any respect or praise, when he can’t show the slightest bit of respect for other people, specifically Taylor Swift? The only real part of this apology is what he supposedly posted the next day where he compares himself to Ben Stiller. Even though that second post was only a quarter of the length of the first post, it actually seems like a legit apology. I’m not a big rap fan, and I don’t think I know any of West’s music, but the general impression I get based off his reputation is that he is pretty self-centered and rude. That being said, I was not very surprised at his lack of true apologizing for his mistakes. He obviously doesn’t think what he did was wrong, and his arrogance about that really shows through here.
ReplyDeleteI think Kanye West is not really apologize to Tyler Swift. We can easily figure out that the words and formation he used is not in formal. As i know, Kanye is a guy like that. just do whatever he want. I think maybe that's why people love him. Anyway, his behavior is hurt for Tyler, even for Beyonce. All he tried to explain is that, he did not offense Tyler, just speak out what he is thinking about. He is a normal person just like us. He must have his own voice on each award he interested in.
ReplyDeleteI think writing all in capital letters just screws up this apology. It is really unformal and sort of childish to do this if he really wants to apology to her. As someone had mentioned in the comment, I felt more arrogant than sincere in his apology.
ReplyDeleteI'm not thinking what he said is wrong, but the way how he said it. He can have his own opinion, but the prerequisite is showing repects to others.
It may be better or safer to say your comments in a private situation, especially when you are a celebrity, since your comments will have more power than ordinary people.