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Can Kanye West Recover From The Post-VMA Backlash?

Will jumping onstage during Taylor Swift’s speech hurt ‘Ye’s career? We discuss it in Off the Dome

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Green Day, All-American Rejects Respond To Kanye West’s VMA Tirade

‘Kanye’s always unpredictable,’ Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tells MTV News. By James Montgomery Green Day at the 2009 Video Music Awards Photo: Christopher Polk/ Getty Images As if Kanye West already didn’t have enough people giving you flak following his onstage antics at Sunday night’s Video Music Awards , well, allow us to toss a couple more names onto the pile: Green Day and the All-American Rejects, both of whom witnessed West’s hijacking of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech. Both had about the same reaction immediately afterward — they were dumbfounded.

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Kanye West’s Interruption Of Taylor Swift At VMAs Angers Fans

‘What rational person would do such a thing?’ asked one MTV News commenter.

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Kanye West Asked To Leave VMAs After Rant Against Taylor Swift

West was photographed holding a bottle of Hennessey on VMA red carpet. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by MTV News Staff Kanye West and Amber Rose Photo: Christopher Polk/Wire Image Kanye West was asked to leave Radio City Music Hall not long after he crashed the MTV Video Music Awards stage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech for Best Female Video

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Lady Gaga May Have A ‘Classic VMA Performance’ On Sunday

‘This could be a classic, Madonna-like performance,’ creative director Lee Lodge says. By James Montgomery with reporting by Jim Cantiello Lady Gaga Photo: Ian Gavan/ Getty Images All week long, there’s been one Video Music Awards performance that everyone has been talking about … even if very few people have actually seen it.

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Why Ellen Was Picked for American Idol

For all the attention Washington’s bluster gets, history will see this little health care squabble as a mere sideshow distraction from the news we received yesterday; news that will fundamentally alter the way we pick our next American Idol . In national politics, fundamental procedural changes come but once every hundred years or so — the electoral college will likely outlive us all. Whereas with Idol , those citizens who deeply care about the future of their society, the honest, hard working Americans who stay up late speed dialing votes, who devote their families savings to make signs and printing t-shirts for their favorite contestants — all because they dare to dream of passing on a better world to their children— those people now find their America turned on its head, as they see their judiciary shaken up once again with the news that there will now be four judges on American Idol , and one of them will be a comedian

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Janet Jackson Will Do Michael ‘Justice’ At The VMAs, Fans Say

Janet’s MJ tribute will open Sunday’s show, which airs live at 9 p.m.

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Furries: The Dark Side

This line of latex face prosthetics geared towards furry fetishisits is a sad example of scary, not cute, furries. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

$9 Tees At Threadless.com

Link: http://www.threadless.com/ To celebrate 09/09/09, Threadless is offering a whole slew of t-shirts for only 9 bucks. Site is VERY slow so I assume a lot of people are finding out about this. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

The Cutest Tennis Match Ever

Melanie Oudin (the 17-year-old American tennis darling) plays Caroline Wozniacki (the 19-year-old Danish tennis darling) tonight at the US Open. It is going to be the cutest tennis match in the history—seriously, just look! Pink shoes! Big smiles! Anyway, it is at 7 , you should watch, and Go Melanie (sorry, this is America.) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment