Who cares if the fashion police are perched high on their observation pedestal and ready to rip Lady Gaga, who snatched up several MTV moon men, for her outlandish outfits? What's more memorable, however, is the 2009 Kanye West/Taylor Swift controversy that will not die.
When rap music landed some 30 years ago, with it came the repetitive thud of ignorant lyrics. Suited in red with gold chains dripping from his chest, Kanye West definitely registered an untalented asshole performance last night. Despite glimmers of musical brillance in the past, Mr. Arrogant's creative star seems to be dimming. The song, "Runaway," which closed the multi-venued show, is the latest cog in the apologetic wheel to Taylor Swift.
A Houston Chronicle writer summed it best: "It played like a celebration of (perhaps his) bad behavior." Indeed, West was bad and I don't mean good. His mother, Donda West, who died from plastic surgery complications in 2007, was likely restless Sunday evening, given the lyrical foulness associated with her son. After all, West was the former chairwoman of Chicago State University's English department.
