Kanye West Doesn’t Like Media Training

Media Training In The News

We all watched in dumbfound amazement when Kayne West grabbed the microphone out of Taylor Swift’s hand at The 2009 MTV Music Video awards. Looking back we know that type of behavior is nothing new for Kayne. He also did it in 2006 at MTV’s Europe Music Awards.

Looking back on some of Kayne’s comments he seems to blame media training, or lack of training, for why he does or doesn’t do certain things.

2005:

Before the 2005 Grammys, Kanye warned there would be a “real problem” if he went away empty-handed. He said artists who claimed to “love everybody but themselves” were just engaging in “cliched media training“.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/sep/14/kanye-west-taylor-swift-timeline

2006:

After the 2006 MTV incident he said:

“Coming off the European Awards and all the backlash I was getting. People not really understanding my passion. And understanding that these award shows is wrestling.

And that it’s not real. You take an artist that connects with 20,000 fans or an artist that makes a song like Roses, where somebody’s mother passes away and they say that song helped me or make songs like Spacious and they say that song helped me through my

job and you have me come to an award show and tell me I’m about to win and say ‘Nah,

we’re just gonna give you this over here’. It’s like, I’m not a pop artist like that. You know what I’m saying? I don’t have media training. I’m emotional. And what’s good though is because of all that backlash, a lot of people didn’t like me. So I went in and made music

like people that like me. It made it like I was a new artist and had to win them over and now, I believe I’m making the best album I’ve ever delivered with Graduation.”

http://perezhilton.com/2009-09-14-entitled-douche-kanyes-outburst-history

2009:

Kanye is still going strong. What more can I say.

(C) 2009 www.Media-Training.info

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