Say what you like about Kanye West… the boy certainly isn’t short of confidence.
First there was his live TV outburst insisting that special-school-president George Bush "doesn’t care about black people" – a moment which left millions of viewers spluttering out their french fries and co-anchor Michael Myers shaking like a giddy epileptic puppy.
Not that he feels this radical streak will have affected his chances at the Grammys – possibly the most conservative-minded awards ‘ceremony’ outside of the Daily Mail Best Jamie Cullum Soundalikes.
Oh no. Quite the opposite.
When asked how he would feel if he walked away Grammy-less, Kanye West (CDs) told one of the cheerful MTV interview-muppets that he would "really have a problem with that."
Further explaining the statement, West elaborated:
"I actually haven’t listened to Paul McCartney‘s
album, I won’t lie to you about that, but I will check it out because
I’m not gonna go and say that I should win and I haven’t listened to
Paul McCartney’s album. I’m gonna go check it out, I’m gonna make sure I feel like I should win.‘
Don’t let that attempt at humility fool you, however. Kanye-boy then went on to reveal his thoughts on his own nominated album Late Registration:
"[The album] is really important not just because it was successful
this year, but 10 years from now they’ll look back at what it did for
the game. The usage of strings, all types of
instrumentation, the musicality of it, the fact that we sat and waited
two weeks to rent a real harpsichord to put on ‘Diamonds’ — that’s one
instrument! Now let’s take all the songs that were on there and add up
the amount of work that went into it; this is the real thing. We put so
much pain, blood, sweat, tears, time and money into it, so for it to be
nominated is great, but for it to win would be the seal of the work. It
really needs that. It would be the first album in Grammy history that
was all Rap that won for Album Of The Year."
The bottom line is – whatever you may think of Kanye West – one swift look at his rivals for the evening will surely be enough to convince you that he might as well be handed the award right now: Mariah Carey‘s The Emancipation Of Mimi, Gwen Stefani’s Love, Angel, Music, Baby and U2‘s How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.
Jesus. Even someone teeth-grindingly talentless would deserve to win when compared to that lot.
Oh. Apart from Pete Doherty, that is. That would just be silly.
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[story by C J Davies]