Peter Bevan
Music News 24/7Beyonce speaks out about Kanye West's VMAs outburst
By Peter Bevan, on 7th October 2009, 13:00 UTC
During a recent interview with Gayle King at the Women In Music annual event for Billboard magazine, Beyonce finally revealed what she the thought about Kanye West's stage invasion during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.
Teenage country singer Taylor Swift won the Best Female Video award for the single You Belong With Me and was in the middle of her acceptance speech before rapper Kanye West stormed onto stage, grabbed the microphone and declared Beyonce should have won for her video for Single Ladies.
Beyonce revealed that before the winner was announced, Kanye West had already said to her "You have this award", so she already knew his intentions to "stand up for art".
When her name was not announced as the winner, Beyonce saw how shocked Kanye West was and she became increasingly mortified as he invaded the stage before declaring his opinion out loud.
In the end, Beyonce felt the night was not ruined and even seemed pleased when she did not have to make her own acceptance speech when she won Video Of The Year at the same awards ceremony, instead giving Taylor Swift her second chance to come back on stage to give the acceptance speech she couldn't before.
Both Taylor Swift and Beyonce will take to the stage in the UK for their upcoming headline tours next month.
Taylor Swift will perform songs from her current album Fearless at the London Wembley Arena on November 23 and the Manchester Evening News Arena on November 24.
The Beyonce tour for the album I Am Sasha Fierce will start at the Liverpool Echo Arena on November 11 before playing major UK arenas like the Birmingham National Indoor Arena (November 12), London O2 Arena (November 14 & 16), Manchester Evening News Arena (November 18), Newcastle Metro Radio Arena (November 19) and the Nottingham Trent FM Arena (November 20).
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