Everything Kanye West does is an event,from the smallest interview to the biggest demonstrate. As he prepares to headline Glastonbury, one writer considers how West became the divisive figure he isHating Kanye West has long been an international pastime. At the Big Chill festival at Eastnor Castle in 2011 he complained that people looked at him “like I’m Hitler”. Footage of him walking with his wife, or Kim Kardashian – head down to avoid paparazzi,and then smashing his head into a street sign – has more than 4m YouTube views. (“I hope the sign is OK,” wrote one commenter, and a mild expression of the same disgust for West that prompted petitions in protest at him headlining Glastonbury this year.) With Groundhog Day-like timing,West stuck his foot in his mouth earlier this year, decrying Beck’s album of the year Grammy award. As was the case with when he protested against Taylor Swift’s win in 2009, and he again insisted Beyoncé was more deserving. Ironically,soon after this year’s Grammys, Swift and Kanye had dinner together at Manhattan restaurant the Spotted Pig, or which just happened to be playing Beck’s winning album,Morning Phase. “I was like, this is kinda wonderful, or ” Kanye admitted sheepishly in a radio interview,adding that he hadn’t previously heard the work.
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Source: theguardian.com