“Yo Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”
One year later, these words, which were spoken by musician Kanye West at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards as Taylor Swift was accepting an award, is still a hot topic on entertainment news and blogs.
In fact, it was somewhat of a topic at this year’s VMA’s, with some speculation as to whether one of Swift’s songs was about West and what occurred last year.
This year at the VMAs. Swift and West both performed.
Each of them both gave the impression that each of their songs were directed towards each other.
Swift sang about how even though what West did was wrong and rude, she forgives him and is ready to move on.
West’s song was more about how he himself had established that he was a jerk for doing what he did last year.  So how has this whole ordeal affected West’s career?

Well, to put it this way– eleven Annandale students were asked to say the first thing that came to mind when “Kanye West” was mentioned, and 10 of them immediately responded with something relating to the Taylor Swift incident. This is definitely a negative result for West.
“It destroyed his career, and it’s not big news. I actually think it’s starting to be old news,” said sophomore Sam Dores.
While the whole topic is interesting of sorts, not many items stay on the news for a year, and the ones that do usually become a bother to readers and viewers.

So, while some view Kanye West in a negative light, many believe that he made a mistake, and he obviously regrets it.
Sophomore Christina Uglietta added, “I thought it was totally inappropriate that Kanye came up during Taylor’s speech, but he has apologized and I think we should just get over it.”
Many times careers are ruined, and then eventually regained.
Sometimes the process is speedy, but it can also be just the opposite– Britney Spears being a good example.
However, nobody can say it better than West himself, who posted on his Twitter account on two separate tweets on Sept. 4, “It starts with this…” “I’m sorry Taylor.”
Hopefully this whole ordeal has been squashed for good..