People thought Kanye West was just joking when he jumped onstage to interrupt Beck's win for Album of the Year at this year's Grammys. Turns out, he wasn't- later, West admitted that he was actually quite mad at Beck for winning the Grammy and not immediately giving it to Beyonce.
"I just know that the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. We ain't gonna play with them no more. "Flawless," Beyoncé video. And Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé and at this point, we tired of it. Because what happens is when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration."
And now, someone's taking him to task on Facebook- and that person is Shirley Manson, lead singer for the band Garbage. In an open letter to West, Manson took him to task and ripped him apart for his extremely ill-advised and thoughtless rant.
"Dear Kanye West
It is YOU who is so busy disrespecting artistry.
You disrespect your own remarkable talents and more importantly you disrespect the talent, hard work and tenacity of all artists when you go so rudely and savagely after such an accomplished and humble artist like BECK.
You make yourself look small and petty and spoilt."
Later on in the letter, Manson outright calls West a "twat." So clearly she's not pulling any punches.
Since then, Kanye West has taken an absolute beatdown on Twitter, with outraged fans taking him to task over his Grammy outburst. The tweets usually follow one of two patterns- yelling at Kanye and calling him names for being rude, or pointing out that Beck is an extremely talented musician who plays dozens of instruments, while Beyonce required four writers besides herself on the album West claims should have won. But who are we kidding- no amount of Twitter sass can ever quiet Kanye West down.
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