Beyonce Knowles is finally speaking out about her loss to Taylor Swift at the VMAs, which prompted Kanye West to storm the stage and steal the young singer's moment after winning Best Female Video. "Well, I knew his intentions, and I knew he was standing up for art; and he told me before, when they said the nominees, he's like, 'You have this award,'" Knowles told O: The Oprah Magazine editor-at-large Gayle King (via MTV.)
"When they didn't call my name he was, like, completely shocked," she added. "And when he walked on the stage, I was like, 'No, no, no!' and then he spoke, and I was like, 'Oh, no, no, no!' "
When the camera panned to the 'Ladies' hitmaker, Jay-Z's wife looked visibly mortified. Meanwhile, Swift stood silently on the stage. To make matters worse, Swift had to perform the song shortly after Kanye's outburst. Watch it:
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Beyonce knew she wanted to give Swift a second chance at a speech, so when she won Video of the Year later that evening, she called Swift back on stage to let the country star finish her speech.
"In the end, it ended up being a great night, and Taylor Swift did get her moment -- and I didn't have to make an acceptance speech," Knowles added with a laugh.
West has made several public apologies since the incident and even personally called Swift. Last month, Swift told ABC News Radio about his apology. "Kanye did call me. He was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology," she said.
Recalling the incident, Swift said she was stunned by the whole situation. Swift said, "I think my overall thought process went something like: 'Wow, I can't believe I won. This is awesome. Don't trip and fall. I'm going to get to thank the fans, this is so cool. Oh! Kanye West is here. Cool haircut ... what are you doing there? And then, ouch, and then I guess I'm not going to get to thank the fans.'"
"I'm not going to say that I wasn't rattled by it, I had to perform live five minutes later. So I had to get myself back to the place where I could perform," Swift explained. When she was asked if in the future, everything would be fine between the two, Swift replied, "Yeah, definitely."
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The MTV music awards is a joke ! How could Taylor Swift win the Best Female Video and Beyonce wins the Best Video of the Year !!!!! Come on, get Real ! And as far as Kanye, it might have been wrong, but somebody could have stopped him. They know he's Crazy !!!!! This reminds me of the WWE!! Great for the Ratings !!!!! Now everyone will be watching next year !!!
i think a music video is supposed tp tell a story about the song. beyonce just dancing in a spandex one piece. (was hot dont get me wrong)but i dont think it qualifies as art. taylor was right in winning.
Paymyownway, you need to make sure you get the names of the people involved correct. It was Taylor SWIFT not Taylor HICKS who had her speech rudely interupted by Kayne West. Just to let you know, Taylor SWIFT is Female, Taylor HICKS is MALE.
To the person who says this is racist! Grow up! Now your being IGNORANT like Kanye! Racism was here b4 OBAMA exsisted and will be here along after! Your statement had NOTHING to do with the actions displayed! Things happen and even though it was a display of sheer ignorance, stupidity and embarrassment..I doubt racism was one of the reasons! If it was a black person in Taylor's place &a white person came on stage would you feel the same??
Wow. Sleepyjns, racist much? Seriously! Talk about uncalled for! You really don't need to bring race into this. And yes, I am white. So there. Not all white people are sick and small minded like you.
Why is everyone avoiding saying anything about him being snot slinging drunk? If you go catch the videos earlier you see him with a bottle of booze. In fact there was some that was released where they asked him to move it out of the shot on the red carpet. That bottle had less and less in each picture.
OK Kanye and Beyonce got enough publicity now, so let's move on. If this is all that you got to talk about, then that is bad. We want to hear some "NEW" news, not "OLD" news ! Personally, i think Kanye should be banned from music for life ! What a "JERK" ! ! !
Kanye West was only saying what everyone else was thinking, Taylor swift is a sweet girl, but both the song and video are lame lame lame. It suks that kanye did that, though, because now as a rebellion to Kanye, the radio stations here in the Midwest play her song every 5 stinking minutes.
Beyonce can sing and entertain circles around Taylor Swift. Beyonce can SING...Taylor can't, Beyonce can DANCE, Taylor can't. Beyonce is an ARTIST. Taylor is a pretender. I don't get how people think Taylor is any better than a kid on Disney. I guess her fans are all children.
Intention..meaning she had an understanding of WHY he did what he did based upon what he said to her...NOT that she knew WHAT he was going to do it. (i.e., when someone has good intentions - you would not know what they were going to do but you know that there was nothing bad intended)
STOP REACTING to the BLACK MAJIC happening before your eyes, between the pillars of JACK & BOAZ
The proof is that everyone here is arguing over non sense and defending false IDOLS, and in turn creating a racist up roar. WAKE UP ITS ALL A SHAME!!!!
So many here are playing to the black majic that has been set up before your eyes by the illuminate....JAY-Z is Illuminate these things are staged to get people to waste their time and not focus on real world issues happing under your nose,
Beyonce has made a deal with Lucifer (SATAN) and so has Kanye and JAY_Z to influence and be used as tool to miss lead the masses. They don't write their music if you think they do your blind.
WAKE UP read a book let go of these people and get your minds back.....THE FOUR HOUSEMEN are here and JAY-Z knows it, Beyonce is not classy she should never defend a man who can defend him self in a shameful act of fighting for a spot light.
I feel for you all, we live under a satanic MAtrix you can see its real, its now
Have you even seen Beyonce's video? I have to respectufully disagree with you this video was innovative. There were only 3 camera breaks the whole video and the performance was outstanding. The director of this video should have also recieved an award for doing amazing work. Beyonce should have won, point blank.
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YOU SIR ARE AN HERO.
The MTV music awards is a joke ! How could Taylor Swift win the Best Female Video and Beyonce wins the Best Video of the Year !!!!! Come on, get Real ! And as far as Kanye, it might have been wrong, but somebody could have stopped him. They know he's Crazy !!!!! This reminds me of the WWE!! Great for the Ratings !!!!! Now everyone will be watching next year !!!
i think a music video is supposed tp tell a story about the song. beyonce just dancing in a spandex one piece. (was hot dont get me wrong)but i dont think it qualifies as art. taylor was right in winning.
Paymyownway, you need to make sure you get the names of the people involved correct. It was Taylor SWIFT not Taylor HICKS who had her speech rudely interupted by Kayne West. Just to let you know, Taylor SWIFT is Female, Taylor HICKS is MALE.
To the person who says this is racist! Grow up! Now your being IGNORANT like Kanye! Racism was here b4 OBAMA exsisted and will be here along after! Your statement had NOTHING to do with the actions displayed! Things happen and even though it was a display of sheer ignorance, stupidity and embarrassment..I doubt racism was one of the reasons! If it was a black person in Taylor's place &a white person came on stage would you feel the same??
Wow. Sleepyjns, racist much? Seriously! Talk about uncalled for! You really don't need to bring race into this. And yes, I am white. So there. Not all white people are sick and small minded like you.
Why is everyone avoiding saying anything about him being snot slinging drunk? If you go catch the videos earlier you see him with a bottle of booze. In fact there was some that was released where they asked him to move it out of the shot on the red carpet. That bottle had less and less in each picture.
This is such OLD news why the hell is AOL still writing about it?
In regard to B & K....why doesn't someone finally call a spade a spade?!!!!? Oops...I guess I just did!!!
OK Kanye and Beyonce got enough publicity now, so let's move on. If this is all that you got to talk about, then that is bad. We want to hear some "NEW" news, not "OLD" news ! Personally, i think Kanye should be banned from music for life ! What a "JERK" ! ! !
Kanye West was only saying what everyone else was thinking, Taylor swift is a sweet girl, but both the song and video are lame lame lame. It suks that kanye did that, though, because now as a rebellion to Kanye, the radio stations here in the Midwest play her song every 5 stinking minutes.
Beyonce can sing and entertain circles around Taylor Swift. Beyonce can SING...Taylor can't, Beyonce can DANCE, Taylor can't. Beyonce is an ARTIST. Taylor is a pretender. I don't get how people think Taylor is any better than a kid on Disney. I guess her fans are all children.
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And within your pathetic ass mind, the fact that she's WHITE makes a really big difference huh?
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Intention..meaning she had an understanding of WHY he did what he did based upon what he said to her...NOT that she knew WHAT he was going to do it. (i.e., when someone has good intentions - you would not know what they were going to do but you know that there was nothing bad intended)
STOP REACTING to the BLACK MAJIC happening before your eyes, between the pillars of JACK & BOAZ
The proof is that everyone here is arguing over non sense and defending false IDOLS, and in turn creating a racist up roar. WAKE UP ITS ALL A SHAME!!!!
So many here are playing to the black majic that has been set up before your eyes by the illuminate....JAY-Z is Illuminate these things are staged to get people to waste their time and not focus on real world issues happing under your nose,
Beyonce has made a deal with Lucifer (SATAN) and so has Kanye and JAY_Z to influence and be used as tool to miss lead the masses. They don't write their music if you think they do your blind.
WAKE UP read a book let go of these people and get your minds back.....THE FOUR HOUSEMEN are here and JAY-Z knows it, Beyonce is not classy she should never defend a man who can defend him self in a shameful act of fighting for a spot light.
I feel for you all, we live under a satanic MAtrix you can see its real, its now
Beyonce is a class act, but her video really wasn't that great. Neither was Taylor Swift's.
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Have you even seen Beyonce's video? I have to respectufully disagree with you this video was innovative. There were only 3 camera breaks the whole video and the performance was outstanding. The director of this video should have also recieved an award for doing amazing work. Beyonce should have won, point blank.
I agree I don't think Beyonce or Taylor Swift's videos were that great