5 Surprising Revelations From the Evening Kanye West Interrupted Taylor Swift’s VMAs Win

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It is a second in MTV Video Music Awards historical past that popular culture followers will always remember.

Moments after Taylor Swift took to the stage to simply accept the Greatest Feminine Video award, Kanye West determined to voice his disappointment on the finish outcome.

“Yo Taylor, I am actually completely satisfied for you. I will allow you to end,” he shared.  “However Beyoncé had the most effective movies of all time.”

It had viewers around the globe shouting at their TVs: “What simply occurred?!”

However ten years after the popular culture second, followers are getting a brand new perspective into the unscripted second no one noticed coming. Billboard chatted with journalists, MTV writers, producers, correspondents and executives to seek out out what actually occurred at Radio Metropolis Musical Corridor. The revelations may shock you. Maintain scrolling to seek out out what actually went down.

Do not Overlook the MVPs: Earlier than Kanye had his second on stage, the present’s government producer was hopeful that the telecast would focus extra on the A-list expertise delivering unforgettable performances. “It was the summer time that Michael Jackson died, in order that was a giant story going into the present,” Jesse Ignjatovic defined to the publication. “Figuring out we had Janet there performing together with her brother by way of the synched-up video… Madonna giving that lengthy speech to open the evening… I assumed these would set the tone and be a few of the large moments.” Woman Gaga, Beyoncé and Taylor herself additionally all delivered ground-breaking performances. Sadly, many solely keep in mind the Kanye drama.

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Warning Indicators: From the second Kanye arrived on the pink carpet, some observers seen behaviors that did not appear fairly regular. In accordance with the previous Vice President of Expertise Relations at MTV Information, the rapper had a bottle of Hennessey with him earlier than the present even started. “I knew him very nicely and it appeared very out of character for him to be on the carpet like that,” Whitney-Gayle Benta shared with Billboard. “The VMAs are very completely different from the Grammys, however I might by no means seen him in any method with a bottle of liquor.”

Pink the Swiftie: Moments after Kanye began to get booed for his habits, one pop music famous person voiced her outrage on to Kanye. “Pink walked as much as him and acquired in his face. I wasn’t shut sufficient to listen to the dialog, however she was pointing in his face and nodding her head forwards and backwards, and giving him her two cents about how f–ked up this was after which stormed off,” former MTV Information senior correspondent James Montgomery shared. “Then he was sitting there subsequent to Amber Rose together with his arm round her, and you may really feel everybody in Radio Metropolis obtrusive at his again.”

Tears of Bey: For these hoping for some behind-the-scenes info relating to Beyoncé bringing Taylor up on stage throughout her speech, we acquired it for you! In accordance with the previous president of Viacom Media Networks Music & Emblem Group, individuals needed to assume quick earlier than artists began leaving the present. “There’s Beyoncé and her dad, and he or she is crying. She was like, ‘I did not know this was going to occur, I really feel so dangerous for her.’ And that is when it began to click on in my head, and possibly hers, about doubtlessly having the entire arc play out in that one evening,” Van Toffler shared with Billboard. “In some unspecified time in the future I let [Beyoncé] know that she was in all probability going to be up on the rostrum on the finish of the present for an award. And would not or not it’s good to have Taylor come up and have her second then? I needed to point out to her that she wanted to remain, and maybe it is a strategy to have this come full circle and let [Taylor] have her second. I’d usually not say something, however I had two crying artists.”

Oprah’s Variety Gesture: Someday after the MTV VMAs aired, Van personally known as Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Huge Machine Data, to apologize. His response might shock some. “He is like ‘Van, this is the factor about it: yesterday many of the nation had no concept who Taylor Swift was. Immediately, Oprah Winfrey despatched her flowers this morning and requested if she may discuss to her.'”

The 2019 MTV Video Music Awards air Monday evening at eight p.m. solely on MTV.