Dear Kanye,Sunday night, you ruined poor Taylor Swift’s big MTV Video Music Awards moment. You jumped onstage in the middle of her acceptance speech for Best Female Video, yanked the microphone out of her hand, and said “I’ll let you finish, but Beyonce has one of the best videos of all time!”You might not know, since you were then escorted out of the building, but Taylor didn’t get to finish her speech after all, because you sucked up all her time with your rudeness. Reports from backstage said Swift was crying hysterically after the incident. That’s not a surprise, considering the sad, stunned look on her sweet little face after your spectacle.Kanye, for me and for Taylor Swift, please get over yourself.You’re a great producer. You’re a great artist in your own right. Mad respect for your “Can’t Tell Me Nothin'” video with Zach Galifianakis. Props to you for coming out with one crazy concept album at this point in your career – I didn’t really like the album, but it was a cool move nonetheless.That still doesn’t make everything about you. Sweet, wholesome Taylor Swift was minding her own business, accepting an award she was genuinely grateful to get — until you hopped onstage, took the moment away from her and made it about you.She didn’t deserve to be publicly embarrassed. The girl is 19. How old are you? Thirty-two? You should know better. Don’t pretend like you were making it about Beyonce, either. Everyone knows Beyonce is far too classy to endorse a move like that – as she proved after winning Video of the Year and promptly inviting Swift to finish her speech.Beyonce cleaned up your mess. You should learn a thing or two from her about how to be a gracious superstar.If this were the first time you’d acted up publicly, I’d give you a pass. But it’s not. If I had 50 cents for every YouTube video of you backstage at the 2007 Video Music Awards yelling about 50 Cent, I’d be a rich woman. You’ve also made a scene at the American Music Awards, Grammys and MTV Europe Music Awards – not to mention the now-infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” comment.However valid your comments may be – George Bush probably doesn’t care about black people, Beyonce’s video was better, you might have deserved those awards other people got – there’s a time and a place to talk about such things.And it’s not on camera, on live television, in front of millions of people.It makes me dislike you as a person, which makes me dislike your music. Please just stop. I want to like your music, and I would if you weren’t such an immature little boy about every freaking thing. I bet you’d sell more albums and kick 50 Cent’s butt even harder if you stopped being such a crybabyface.Could you do that for me? Could you be a nice person – if not for niceness’ sake, then for the sake of people who still want to be your fans?
Then I’ll buy your weird concept album, and everybody wins. But I’m not supporting you if you keep acting like such a tool.Sara Boyd is a 22-year-old general studies junior from Baton Rouge. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_sboyd. 
 
 
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