Taylor Swift’s Lucky Number is 13 and This Happened 13 Years Ago Today
It was one of the topics of conversation this today on Joel and Maryann in the Morning. It’s one of those, “do you remember where you were when it happened” moments. It’s right up there with Will Smith‘s slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars. No one saw it coming and it’s been talked about and talked about ever since that fateful day. Lives and careers were changed forever.
Taylor Swift‘s lucky number is 13. Thirteen years ago today, September 13, 2009, Taylor won a major award, but what happened that night also changed the course of her life and career.
It was the MTV VMAs, and 19 year old Taylor had just won Best Female Video Music Award for “You Belong With Me.” During her acceptance speech, a drunk Kanye West who was upset that Beyonce’s video for “Single Ladies” didn’t win the award, ran up onto the stage and grabbed the mic from an innocent and surprised Taylor.
“Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!” Kanye proclaimed, before exiting the stage and being removed from the premises.
The next day, Kanye called Taylor to apologize; minutes later, Taylor told ABC News that she’d accepted his apology. By 2015, Taylor was presenting Kanye with the VMA Video Vanguard award at that year’s VMAs.
But in February 2016, Kanye released his song “Famous,” featuring the line “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why?/I made that b***h famous.” Kanye claimed Taylor gave him her blessing for that line, but Taylor’s rep denied it.
That July, Kanye’s now ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, backed up Kanye’s claim. Spammed with “snake” emojis, Taylor wrote that she’d “like to be removed from this narrative” and disappeared from the spotlight for a year.
In 2017, Taylor returned, fully embracing the snake theme. She used it during the tour for her Reputation album, which featured several songs referencing the Kanye incident and its effect on her.
In 2020, an uncut version of the infamous Kanye/Taylor video surfaced, proving that, just as Taylor had said, Kanye never told her about the “I made that b***h famous” line.
Sadly, the feud between Taylor, Kanye and Kim appears to be ongoing. Fans noticed immediately that Taylor scheduled the release of her new album, Midnights, on October 21st, Kim’s birthday.
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