Taylor Swift Jokes About Being ‘Interrupted’ 14 Years After Kanye’s VMA Stunt: Watch

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Taylor Swift was flattered by the assemblage astatine her Mexico City Eras tour amusement connected Aug. 27, and she addressed their excitement portion sitting astatine the soft during the Evermore conception of the show. “People chanting your name, it’s truly the lone mode to beryllium interrupted,” Taylor said, successful effect to the crowd’s cheers. “And I would know.” The notation to being “interrupted” comes 14 years aft Kanye West infamously stormed the signifier astatine the MTV Video Music Awards portion Taylor was accepting the grant for Female Video of the Year.

Taylor Swift jokes astir being interrupted by the assemblage astatine the Eras Tour:

“People chanting your name, it’s truly the lone mode to beryllium interrupted… and I would know.” pic.twitter.com/t1uS2sIDxT

— Pop Base (@PopBase) August 28, 2023

The incidental took spot erstwhile Taylor was caller connected the country arsenic a rising young artist. Kanye took the microphone from her successful the mediate of her acceptance code and declared that Beyonce should person won the grant instead. Later that night, Beyonce did triumph for Video of the Year, and she graciously called Taylor backmost to the signifier to fto her person her moment.

Of course, this headline-making incidental was conscionable the opening of a years-long feud betwixt Taylor and Kanye. The 2 concisely made up successful 2015, and Taylor adjacent sang ‘Ye’s praises portion presenting him with the Video Vanguard Award astatine the that year’s VMAs. Just months later, though, Kanye would interruption Taylor’s spot erstwhile again with the merchandise of his opus “Famous,” successful which helium raps, “I consciousness similar maine and Taylor mightiness inactive person sex, why? I made that b**** famous.” He past proceeded to see a bare wax fig of Taylor successful the video for the song.

While Kanye insisted that helium called Taylor up and got her support for the song, she clapped backmost and explained that she ne'er antecedently heard the lyric wherever the rapper called her “that b****” connected the track. To effort and support Kanye, his then-wife, Kim Kardashian, released amerciable video recordings of the pair’s telephone call.

Taylor and Kanye astatine the 2015 VMAs. (Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)

The Internet famously turned against Taylor astatine this time, starring her to spell into hiding for respective months earlier resurfacing successful the summertime of 2017. She clapped backmost astatine Kim and Kanye connected songs similar “Look What You Made Me Do” and “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” connected her 2017 album Reputation. Then, successful 2020, the full video mentation of the telephone telephone betwixt Kanye and Taylor leaked, proving that helium ne'er ran the “that b****” lyric by her.

In a 2019 interrogation with Rolling Stone, Taylor explained that several events led up to the implosion of their pair’s relationship successful 2016. “Some events took spot to origin maine to beryllium pissed disconnected erstwhile helium called maine a b****,” she explained. “That was not conscionable a singular event. Basically, I got truly sick of the dynamic betwixt helium and I. And that wasn’t conscionable based connected what happened connected that telephone telephone and with that opus — it was benignant of a concatenation absorption of things.”

Taylor said that successful the midst of her nationalist reunion with Kanye astatine the 2015 VMAs, she realized heavy down that helium was really “two-faced.” As she explained, “He wants to beryllium bully to maine down the scenes, but past helium wants to look cool, get up successful beforehand of everyone, and speech s***. And I was truthful upset.” Although she decided to “move on” from those feelings, everything changed erstwhile “Famous” came out.

“When I heard the song, I was like, ‘I’m done with this,” she concluded. If you privation to beryllium connected atrocious terms, let’s beryllium connected atrocious terms, but conscionable beryllium existent astir it.”