The VMAs are on Sunday. It will be the one-year anniversary of Taylor Swift and Kanye West publicly burying their hatchet when she presented him with the MTV Video Vanguard Award. Think back to that night… Kanye actually felt remorse when he went up there and embraced Taylor. You could see it on his face and hear it in his voice. He was happy they made peace after all those years. Even though he thrives on controversy, he was glad that this controversy had been put to bed. Months later, everything blew up again. The song was “Famous” and Taylor insisted she had never been told about the lyrics, nor had she approved of anything on Kanye’s album. Kanye told everybody that Taylor had given her approval, and no one believed him (well, I believed him, and I felt like I was the only one). Months passed. Kim Kardashian dropped the receipts on Taylor’s verbal consent for the song. The backlash was immediate. Taylor became the Snake Emoji, overexposed, disbelieved and untrusted.
Now here we are. Kanye racked up several VMA nominations for The Life of Pablo, and Taylor didn’t get nominated for anything. Taylor tried to play it like she’s didn’t submit her three eligible videos for nomination, but considering she was exposed as a liar this year, can we really believe that? Isn’t it just as possible that MTV decided that they didn’t want Tay-Tay and the squad at the VMAs this year? That MTV decided to Mean Girl the Mean Girl? Taylor doesn’t want you to believe that. She wants you to believe that all of this is her choice. That she’s not attending this year because she doesn’t want to.
Don’t expect any seat-dancing from Taylor Swift at this weekend’s MTV Video Music Awards – the pop star won’t be in attendance. Although the singer is currently spending time in New York City, Swift will not be in the crowd when the VMAs return to the Big Apple, a source close to the VMAs and Swift exclusively confirms to PEOPLE.
“Taylor was never scheduled to attend the VMAs,” says the insider. Swift, whose last album dropped in November 2014, was not nominated for any awards this time around.
Taylor to MTV: I don’t care enough about the VMAs to attend. MTV to Taylor: You weren’t invited anyway, sweetheart. But it is nice to see some kind of confirmation that Taylor isn’t going to force the issue and roll up with the Snake Emoji Squad just for the hell of it. Because it would totally get awkward. Kim Kardashian is scheduled to attend with Kanye, and Kim is going to present as well. As for Kanye…
Kanye West will have free reign over the stage at this weekend’s MTV VMAs and show producers are expecting something big … they just have no idea WHAT it will be. A source close to production tells us MTV honchos are giving ‘Ye 4 minutes to do with as he pleases. He can rap, sing, dance or even just stay silent … and we’re told show producers are totally clueless which door he’ll pick.
You’ll remember … Kanye won last year’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the show and took the stage for an 11 minute sermon that included talk of a presidential run in 2020. There have been rumors he and Taylor Swift might make nice during Sunday’s show … but sources close to Swift say she has no plans to attend.
I do wonder if Kanye would ever try to re-bury the hatchet with Taylor Swift. Like, is he totally over it at this point and even if MTV was like, “We’d really love to reunite you and Taylor on stage,” Kanye would decline? I think he would decline. Kim made sure of that – Kim didn’t start the war, but she surely ended it. And there’s no going back. As for Kanye’s gift of four minutes… God knows. I bet he will perform, but who even knows?
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*sad trombone noises*
Lmao
The only reason taylor is not going is because she hasn’t got skin thick enough to endure the jokes aimed at her relationship with TH, the feud with Kanye and having to watch Kim on stage presenting while trying to be funny and hip. VMAs would also aim at jokes about her current reputation and perception of her through the media.
And the fact that the media are starting to write articles on her cosmetic work – the Fail has an article on her now very obvious boob job. They are forgetting the very obvious work on her face – nose, lift around the eyes etc…
As much as people have been saying she needs to lay low – she’s proven she can’t, esp with Tom who is just as thirsty as she is.
Only a blind person would deny that she had major plastic surgery…. she used to have very squinty eyes.. that alone would make you suspicious compared to what she looks like now. Boobs are obvious too.
True, all of this. Taylor has no sense of humour, and most of all no self-irony. She is the queen of Humble Bragging, in which she pretends to be a nerdy, goofy, likeable Good-for-Nothing, (all of this while ruling the pop scene and mean-girling her competitors). The reality is, she could never take an harmless joke at herself, let alone be seen at a public event, among her worst enemies, in the middle of the worst backlash of her career, holdin’ her chin up and a good smile. Nope.
@Betti would you mind sharing the link to that article?
All that work at the age of 26 – and with an alleged BF who talks about women with authenticity and honesty. His willingness to parade around with a 26 year old obsessed with her face and boobs before she’s 30 convinces me more than ever that he has no real interest in those boobs – no man who was who TH is pretending to be would be anything but massively embarrassed. This a manufactured farce, which I have no doubt will soon include a huge engagement ring and a splashy wedding. It’s really horrifying.
Tom’s talk about authenticity was only to prop up the image he’s been crafting for years. In the world of celebrity, any talk of truthfulness rings hollow since *image management* is central to their success.
As we’ve been told many times before, believe what they DO, not what they say.
I read recently that Tree Paine (her publicist) was brought in in 2014 to help “fix” her image, which apparently she did if 1989 album & tour sales are any indicators. Now, I think she has a bigger PR problem on her hands and she won’t be able to employ the same strategy this time around. Too many people see through Taylor’s public persona now.
Does Tree have any other clients besides Taylor? Team Taylor does a masterful job when they have actual work or an album to promote, but it all seems to go wrong somehow when it’s just Tay-Tay trying to make her way out in the world.
Tom’s authenticity has taken a huge hit – with me at least. There is very little he has said in the last few months that feels genuine, unrehearsed or without an ulterior motive. Even looking back at some of the past interviews he’s done my BS-meter goes off in a way it didn’t before. I still think he’s a decent guy underneath it all, but the all-out enthusiasm I had for him is long gone.
You nailed it. A permanent victim can never laugh at themselves. She’s always the wronged party even with evidence that she manipulated and used her connections to bury people when she feels slighted. She’s forever 15 and the world is her high school. Now that the receipts have been dropped she needs months of careful PR strategy to even make a debut on a larger scale. Maybe it’s the Emmys but you know she’s thinking about it now.
She wasn’t nominated for the VMAs I doubt an artist with 3 eligible videos and an ego of her size was like “nah we will skip it this year”. Her videos were mediocre and it just came at the wrong time for Taylor. Oh well
Nicole/MI6, blaming others for your mistakes is a classic Narcissist trait. NPD is common in celebs as they are drawn to the public eye, but they rarely seek help as they don’t think they have a problem (it’s been suggested that Lindsay Lohan has similar issues)
All of you on this thread are so RIGHT. Everything used to get spun her way. Not anymore.
Spoiled, narcissistic, controlling brat.
And her face does look totally different. I knew I wasn’t imagining things.
I’m trying to see the plastic surgery on her face and I just don’t see any structural changes. I see age, styling, weight loss, and most significantly, makeup techniques. From a glance, in SOME pictures she does look dramatically different, but then I see pictures from her youth where she looks remarkably similar to what she looks like now. Depending on the picture, her teenage eyelids either look very hooded or about the same as they do now. Her nose today looks much sharper in pics where she has a ton of makeup on (on stage, photoshoots) but looks much softer in (relatively) make-up free pictures, like her Karlie facetiming picture from her birthday and the RI garden Instagram story. In general, I’ve had my mind blown at how different someone can look depending on the makeup technique, so unless someone can show me exactly where her nose got shaven off, I will reserve my judgment.
Is this the point when she expects everyone to say: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! my life makes no sense?”
If someone in that family is smart they’ll make sure Kanye is on his meds and good to go. Something about MTV purposely leaving the door open for anything seems icky but I can’t put my finger on what about it exactly. (And Kanye should be wise enough not to take the bait.)
Taylor wouldn’t know how to let bad press fade out if her life depended on it.
I’ll only really be watching for the “surprise” Beyoncé performance tbh
But that would generate less publicity than if he went off on one of his typical rants. He goes off as the jerk he is than there will be hundreds of articles about it and hundreds more about how that wife of his is dealing with it all. And THAT is what that family wants. A good performance, a nice speech will generate very little attention for the family. They can’t have that.
@Lynnie
I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thought this. Kanye is a grade A a**hole, but I do genuinely think there is some mental illness there. It feels really gross that MTV is trying to capitalize on it. Kim is probably praying to every God available that he just performs and sits down.
Of course MTV is trying to capitalize on it. Otherwise, there would be nothing for anyone to talk about for months afterwards. MTV openly courts controversy for that show. As for the misogynist’s wife, she will capitalize just as much as MTV will. If she was concerned about his mental health, she would have talked him out of agreeing to this.
And yes, I do think the man suffers some sort of mental health problems, which does not excuse his misogyny.
Of course she does.
The lady doth protest too much, or in psychology terms, reaction formation.
Hasn’t Hiddles finished filming yet? Isn’t this the weekend they finally get to play Scrabble again and iron his I love TS shirt together? And then they’ll slip out for a bite to eat at an authentic chain restaurant? Who said romance was dead?
Filming through November. She’ll have to go to him.
Maybe Taytay and TH will be filmed going out for dinner on the night of the VMA’S.
Which is what some of us think she will do, to try remind us that TIDDLES is still *on* and to distract from whatever happens at the VMAs.
Perhaps we’ll get a papped engagement photo from a Gold Coast beach?
If the latest photos from the Thor set are any indication, the Tom-ster should be nothing more strenuous than sleeping this weekend. The guy was looking a little rough around the edges.
Well, if she is going for the purpose of distracting headlines, she had better get on a plane. It is Saturday already in AU.
I always believed Kanye. I also don’t think Taylor was ever expecting a VMA this year. I don’t think Taylor is a saint, she deserves some of the criticism but Kanye isn’t a saint either and just because he was telling the truth it doesn’t make his Famous video any less of a piece of misogonistic dreck. Basically more than one thing can be true at the same time. I am dreading hearing what egomaniacal thing he’s going to do at the VMAs.
Well said, Luca. There’s no one to root for here.
And I think it’s silly to think MTV wouldn’t want Taylor at the VMAs. She brings attention and drama, and MTV loves that.
Yeah exactly they love drama remember all the Miley Nicki Minaj crap drummed up last year? They’d give Taylor an award over Beyoncé again just to recreate the Kanye interruption moment.
So transparent.
I wonder if she’ll show up to the Grammys this year? It would be nice to get a new collection of resting b**ch face gifs when Adele (or Beyonce) scoops up all the awards.
yes and Tom nervously patting her hand mumbling “it’s ok dear it’s going to be ok dear”
I think they will perform together.
Yes!
Can’t wait to see what Kanye has in store. And bey of course!
Why is Kim presenting at the VMAs?
Methinks she was also avoiding the young crowd, the thing about the MTV crowd is they’ll openly boo you and SNAKE! starring Taylor Swift is super popular with that crowd.
They wouldn’t be afraid to boo and throw out some choice words and Taylor has no poker face, you’d see every line of hatred on her face as she tries to smile and pretend it’s all good.
Dug your own grave girl, hope you dug it well.
Two NPDs duking it out in the public eye…stop feeding them, people. They love every minute of it.
Does MTV even play videos any more?
I’m inclined to believe that Taylor didn’t submit any of her eligible videos to the VMAs. MTV wants a dramatic awards show, and I think they’d like nothing more than another round of Kanye vs Taylor. I don’t doubt for a second that they’d throw her a VMA nomination to get her to show up and participate. Taylor, on the other hand, has seen her public image dragged through the ringer, and showing up to try and smile though all the shade that will inevitably come her way (especially if Kanye is hosting) won’t help her fix that one bit. The best thing for her is to lie as low as possible and let the gossip machine move on to something else, and I think she’s smart enough to know that. I fully expect nothing but charitable donations, cat videos, and maybe some lovey dovey photo-ops until it’s time for her to start promoting the new album (whenever that might be).
But wasn’t MTV just putting out articles yesterday about how everyone is requesting to sit next to Taylor? That’s the exact opposite of saying she’s not invited. Nice try CB but no.
She’s as juvenile as Kanye. They should carpool.
MTV ‘sources’ were quoted here what, a month ago? Saying her videos hadn’t been submitted and her reps had confirmed she wasn’t going to be there.