EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Swift Backed Out On Kanye West Duet
I knew that I wasn’t tripping! I knew that there were supposed to be a live performance at The MTV VMAs last night with Taylor Swift and Kanye West. But there wasn’t one. So what happened? Find out here.
via E! Online
If you thought Taylor Swift‘s performance at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards—in which she replayed Kanye West stage-jacking from last year then crooned about how he’s still growing but remains innocent…uh, we think—was really friggin’ awkward, you’re not the only one.
MTV execs were not pleased with Ms. Swift’s performance—or lack-there-of, as it might be. Not only did her appearance leave viewers scratching their heads, but Tay also backed out of a planned duet between the two superstars.
Before we get to the good dirt, trust us, folks in the Nokia Theatre, where the VMAs were held, were just as confused listening to T.Swift—wandering around her bizarre broken down home set sans shoes and singing a little diddy that everyone knew was addressed to the Kanye—as we’re sure you viewers at home were.
“The house is dead! The house is dead!” An überpowerful source that helped plan the night cried as Tay slowly walked back across stage after her performance to silence from the stunned crowd.
And not stunned in a good way, that’s for sure.
The whole performance was over-the-top melodramic—Taylor’s signature style, natch—for an incident that, in retrospect, really wasn’t a big deal. And from a gal who is supposedly totally over the whole ordeal, no less. Guess not, huh, Taylor?
‘Cause if Tay put the incident in her past then she’d be up to show there are no hard feelings by taking the stage with Mr. West himself, which everyone at MTV and Team Kanye thought would happen.
Yep, despite what’s been reported, a performance was planned for Taylor to take the stage and help Kanye close the show, finally putting to rest the ordeal that everyone else is so dunzo with it.
The only person left to sign up for the onstage show of forgiveness (and, let’s be honest, a huge press moment for both of the two, no doubt) was Taylor. And she took her sweet time deciding…Like the entire friggin’ show.
Tay refused to go on with Kanye, and she had people from MTV, Camp Kanye and her own folks working on overdrive throughout the duration of the show to see if she’d change her mind.
Guess she never did.
But Kanye’s self-deprecating—and, we’ll fess, damn catchy—final number gave him the lead in our book. We say: get over it already, Taylor!
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