Enough to make you gag....

They say first impressions are lasting, and my first impression of Kanye West was his bad behavior at a music awards show, this one I think. Since then I believe there's been a couple more incidents.

Does he belong on the cover of Time magazine? I don't know, I haven't read the magazine since the '90s, and Kanye West is really not on my 'radar' as I tend to ignore the antics of show biz people as much as I can.
 

Keeping this as entertainers, I would love to have seen Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson or Morgan Freedom, I suggest it would have been well received and deserved.
 
I've never been a fan of Kanye himself, I too sometimes think what a jerk and have ridiculed him at times, but, for me it doesn't remove his accomplishments and influence. Because I don't like his behavior doesn't give me reason to doubt his reach and reason for his place at the table. And though, I haven't cared for him and often saw him as a clown and cringed any time I was about to be inundated with more of his antics or anything that might come out of his mouth, the more people hate on him, the more, I'm starting to admire the kid. I'm starting to find it quite amusing how annoying he is and how his star just seems to keep shining brighter and brighter and people's opinions don't seem to faze him so much, if anything it feeds him. But, really, he's human and I'm know somewhere inside he's affected, but, is just pushing back. I respect his tenacity if nothing else. I get the giggles thinking about the childman and especially when people start foaming at the mouth over him. . :giggle:

Still, I like his music and always look forward to his new releases to see if it can be as good to my ears as his past grooves.
 

People don't like arrogance and, to me, Kanye comes across as arrogant. He may or not be but that's the impression he gives. It's also the company he keeps......fancy being famous for the size of your bottom.......and taking yourself so seriously.
 
lol, big bottoms are in vogue, I remember when jennifer lopez' bottom caught the attention of...the media :cool: and fans alike. I don't know if she had hers 'enhanced' but I suspect that other female entertainers have.
 
One of the signs of old age is when the guest comes out on a talk show to wild, screaming applause, and you have no idea who they are. The last one I ever recognized was probably Tim Conway. I have not got a clue who Kanye is. He may be talented, but he hasn't influenced my life. I don't know who else is on the list, but "The Titans"? C'mon. The last "Titans" I can think of were Churchill and Gandhi.
 
Underock1 said:
One of the signs of old age is when the guest comes out on a talk show to wild, screaming applause, and you have no idea who they are. The last one I ever recognized was probably Tim Conway. I have not got a clue who Kanye is. He may be talented, but he hasn't influenced my life. I don't know who else is on the list, but "The Titans"? C'mon. The last "Titans" I can think of were Churchill and Gandhi.
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And I'm sure for the people who were of a certain age back then, their opinions likely lined up accordingly.
 
mitchezz said:
Since I was a teenager I've been trying to make my bottom look smaller lol
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In our family we are immensely proud of our broad beams.
We claim it is because we are descended from several royal houses and you need a big bum to sit squarely on the throne, otherwise someone will try to push you off it and claim it for them self.

That's my story and, like the throne, I'm sticking to it.
 
AZ Jim said:
I am sorry anyone took this as anything more than my opinion of influential. Neither he or his wife are the least bit important in the scheme of things. If anyone thinks my intention was racially motivated, I can only say, No freakin way! Play it forward, backward or any way you want it still ends up one mans opinion. This is everyone here's first view of a AZ Jim comment on a Time cover. I wasn't here for last years.
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I never thought of it as possibly being racially motivated but then like you, I just see some pouty singer who seems to think very highly of himself.......and apparently enough people voted in some 'contest' appear to think highly of him too. Maybe what the discussion should be about is how few really great people seem to appeal to folks these days and instead their focus truly is on (Kim's backside) and her husband who is a singer. Have standards really come to that? That's the best 'we' can do......or maybe folks, we're all old and just don't understand :confused:
 
Debby said:
I never thought of it as possibly being racially motivated but then like you, I just see some pouty singer who seems to think very highly of himself.......and apparently enough people voted in some 'contest' appear to think highly of him too. Maybe what the discussion should be about is how few really great people seem to appeal to folks these days and instead their focus truly is on (Kim's backside) and her husband who is a singer. Have standards really come to that? That's the best 'we' can do......or maybe folks, we're all old and just don't understand :confused:
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Nor did I, just one person made mention of anything even closely related by bringing in the comment of the choice being motivated by political correctness and all I did was ask what was meant by that comment, I never once even implied it when having the discussion with others and the thought of race never once crossed my mind that is until it was mentioned and I just wanted to understand why political correctness came up. All the alternate choices were what? So, I:dunno: Hope I'm not the one seeming to be the one to broach the subject when I never did, I simply asked for clarification on a question that seemed odd to me, even if me only.
 
Let's just let it go by the wayside. I only resent the hell out of a rapper being on the front page and his slut wife page 34, when so many truly important people are relegated to back pages. The President is on 1/3 of page 120. Makes me sick.
 
Debby said:
I never thought of it as possibly being racially motivated but then like you, I just see some pouty singer who seems to think very highly of himself.......and apparently enough people voted in some 'contest' appear to think highly of him too. Maybe what the discussion should be about is how few really great people seem to appeal to folks these days and instead their focus truly is on (Kim's backside) and her husband who is a singer. Have standards really come to that? That's the best 'we' can do......or maybe folks, we're all old and just don't understand :confused:
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"Contest?” Debby, what contest are you referring to? :confused:

Actually there are five (5) TIME covers – Kanye is only one of them. All 100 people are chosen by TIME staffers.

“Time magazine revealed its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World with five distinct covers, featuring ballet dancer Misty Copeland, Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos, actor Bradley Cooper, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and rapper Kanye West”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/time-100-most-influential-people-covers_n_7078336.html
 
applecruncher said:
"Contest?” Debby, what contest are you referring to? :confused:

Actually there are five (5) TIME covers – Kanye is only one of them. All 100 people are chosen by TIME staffers.

“Time magazine revealed its annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World with five distinct covers, featuring ballet dancer Misty Copeland, Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos, actor Bradley Cooper, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and rapper Kanye West”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/time-100-most-influential-people-covers_n_7078336.html
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So what? West is on the very first cover. It is an insult to every other of the 100 except Kim Kardashian who is his wife and a porn object. I have zero respect for the staffers who picked those two.
 
I find his antics at the music awards very inappropriate. I believe that's called Stealing Thunder, trying to take the spotlight away from the winner. I also have zero respect for his wife (what does she do anyway besides get her picture taken?) nor him. They are pathetic.
 
AZ Jim said:
So what? West is on the very first cover. It is an insult to every other of the 100 except Kim Kardashian who is his wife and a porn object. I have zero respect for the staffers who picked those two.
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Okay, so you have zero respect for whoever included Kanye. (So what?back @cha). Did you see me praise Kanye or the people who chose him? Look at the second post in the thread. The point here is there was no “contest”.

Generally speaking, I can think of a lot of celebrities, magazine, and tabloid covers that I don't care for and have no respect for.....but "so what?" indeed. I doubt any of them are crying in their pillows.
 
Falcon said:
Excuse me. I'll be in the vomitorium.
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ya mean.....
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I am anything but a prude, but we, not just the US but the world in general is degenerating before our eyes. When a magazine such as TIME which for so many years had a fine journalism excellence has a staff who have so little vision as to choose many of the "100 most influential" as they did, they sicken me as I see our decline so vividly through it.
 
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