Taylor Swift slyly slams Kanye West with Grammy Awards win
Taylor Swift fired back at Kanye West by slyly blasting the rapper during her Album of the Year acceptance speech at the Grammy Awards on Monday night (14Feb16).
The rapper debuted new material from his album The Life of Pablo last week (11Feb16) and took aim at Taylor in his track Famous, in which he raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, yeah I made that b... famous."
In the song, Kanye references his infamous onstage interruption at
the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, when he grabbed the microphone off
Taylor as she was about to accept the Female Video of the Year
award, because he felt Beyonce deserved to win instead.
After he premiered the tune, Taylor's representatives denied claims
she approved of the song, insisting Taylor declined to promote it
on Twitter.com and "cautioned him about releasing a song with such
a strong misogynistic message... Taylor was never made aware of the
actual lyric, 'I made that b**ch famous'." Meanwhile, Kanye
insisted he did not slam the pop star because she came up the lyric
idea herself.
And for the first time since Famous was released, Taylor spoke out
about the war of words - and used her platform at the Grammy Awards
to speak her mind.
After Taylor was presented with the Album of the Year trophy for
her record 1989, she told the crowd, "As the first woman to win
Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I wanna say to all the
young women out there that there are going to be people along the
way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your
accomplishments or your fame," making a slight nod to Kanye's
song.
She continued, "If you just focus on the work and you don't let
those people side track you, someday when you get where you're
going, you'll look around and you will know that it was you and the
people who love you who put you there. And that will be the
greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment."
In addition to the Album of the Year prize, she also won Best Pop
Vocal Album for 1989, as well as Best Music Video for her Bad Blood
promo with Kendrick Lamar.