WW Catchup: VMA recap

OK so I know I missed a Wednesday, so attempts to regularise posts can already be classed as fail.
I thought instead I'd just write about the performances at the VMA's which were over a week ago, but I only got a chance to watch the full thing this week.

'The Video Music Awards' are probably one of the biggest music awards around (bar a few exceptions).
It's always an interesting show and I thought this one didn't disappoint.
There were quite a lot of excellent videos up for nominations and apart from Lady Gaga's 8 out of 13 wins, the rest were pretty hard to call. What everyone was most looking forward to was obviously the return of  Kanye West.

As we all know, after last year's VMA incident, he has been keeping a pretty low profile. But he was back with the honour of ending the show. Both he and Taylor Swift performed songs from their new records and predictably were about the incident. I was quite intrigued to see how this would play out....and it was quite surprising actually.
I thought it would be really cringe-worthy to watch, but both songs (I thought) were pretty good (and definitely listenable), in fact some have even gone as far to say that Kanye's song was his 'best single yet'.

While Taylor's song 'Innocent' was probably more obviously based on the incident, apart from a few lines ('32 and still growing up now') it was a surprisingly subtle approach from an artist who is known to in effect 'name-and shame' her 'enemies'.
Kanye's song 'Runaway' seemed to be more about the mistakes throughout his life with an apologetic tone and he didn't disappoint as the final performance really made the end of the show.

If we're honest, it's hard to know whether that was the end of all that drama and a sceptic would say it's all about publicity (which I don't deny).
Taylor got her apology and Kanye got his career back. Publicity stunt or not....Either way it's a win-win ...right?

[Performances are only viewable from the MTV website if you live in the US.]
[Taylor Swift's song 'Innocent' will be on her latest album 'Speak Now' which will be released onto iTunes (UK) next month.]
[Kanye West's single 'Runaway' is available to the US in a week, UK release set for November]