Taylor Swift doesn't like to be interrupted—unless it's for applause and a nice chant. The singer made a dark but fitting reference to Kanye at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards after the audience interrupted her in a much more positive way during her Eras Tour show in Mexico City on August 27. West incident.
Before performing "Champagne Questions," Swift sat in front of her wooden piano and told fans how the idea for the Eras Tour came about as they started chanting her name in the middle of the sentence. She was in awe of the enthusiastic crowd and told them how great it felt to be cut off in this situation. "That's the cutest, nicest way to interrupt, by the way, just people chanting your name," she said. "That's really the only way I'd be bothered, I'd know," she added, slyly referencing the incident.
In 2009, West infamously stormed the VMAs stage where Swift won Best Female Video and declared that Beyoncé had "made one of the best videos ever," and she deserved it Returned. No one thought this was funny, including Bey herself, and later that night, when Swift won Video of the Year, Bey decided to bring her on stage so Swift could finish her acceptance speech.
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The two slowly reconciled after the loss, and Swift wrote "Innocent," a song about forgiving West for her Speak Now album and performed it at the 2010 VMAs, her only live performance. Play this song. Swift even presented West with the Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 VMA Awards. However, that all changed again after the rapper released his "Famous" music video the following year, and everything has since fallen apart.
Taylor Lautner, who was dating Swift at the time and presented her with the award, reflected on the incident on his podcast "The Squeeze," saying he initially thought West's hiatus was planned. "I could barely hear them or see them," he said. "I just assumed this whole thing was a practiced and rehearsed skit, otherwise why would Kanye West jump on stage and interrupt Taylor Swift? It makes absolutely no sense." Until I saw her... After a frustrated expression appeared on his face, he realized what had happened. "When she turned around and I saw her face for the first time, I was like, 'Oh. No, that's not good. Maybe should say something,'" he recalled.
