PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES, BACKGRID ‘If you had told me that one of the biggest stars in music was going to jump on stage and announce that he thought I shouldn’t have won on live television, I would’ve said, “That stuff doesn’t really happen,”’ wrote Taylor Swift in her diary 10 years ago. ‘Well, apparently… it does.’
The excerpt, recently released with her new album Lover, underplays a now-legendary moment of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Swift’s career, and modern pop culture. As Swift was midway through her acceptance speech for Best Female Video for You Belong With Me, Kanye West stormed the stage, seized her mic, and told the world that Beyoncé should have won for Single Ladies – ‘one of the best videos of all time’. At the…
