KANYE, the people have spoken — and we are done. You are not the voice of your generation. You are not Jesus Christ. You are not Beyoncé’s spokesman.
And you need to lay off the Hennessy as you strut down the red carpet with your weird, bald she-beast of a girlfriend and your awful zigzag haircut during the pre-show.
For real.
By now, everybody’s probably heard about West’s latest look-at-me shenanigans at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards. The hard-drinking 32-year-old jumped onstage at Radio City as 19-year-old Taylor Swift tried to accept her surprise win for best female video over Beyoncé. Seizing the mike, West said, “Taylor, I’m really happy for you. I’ll let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!”
Reportedly, he caused Swift to cry backstage before she was able to resume the speech later during the night, courtesy of Beyoncé herself.
West was booked to perform on the premiere of Jay Leno’s new show last night, and he’s being called the talk-show vet’s new “Hugh Grant,” meaning dream guest post-screw-up. Of course, West’s opportunistic controversies trail behind him like No. 1 hits. In 2004, he said he was “robbed” at the American Music Awards and the victim of conspiracy. At the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards, sore-loser West whined that his video “cost a million dollars, Pamela Anderson was in it.” Obnoxious — but not yet in the realm of global p.r. disaster.
With the list of celebs coming out against him growing by the hour — think Donald Trump, Adam Lambert, Joel Madden and (gulp) world’s greatest dad Joe Jackson — the consensus is in: West’s megalomaniac antics aren’t cute, funny or stick-it-to-the-man inspiring.
They just make you want to slap him.
“He absolutely jumped the shark,” says Jon Hein, creator of jumptheshark.com. “Why Taylor Swift? Was Miley Cyrus or Selena Gomez not available? I mean, come on.”
Or as Pink told Matt Lauer on “Today”: “Honestly, I don’t think it would have happened if I were up there.” Meaning, West wouldn’t have had the chutzpah to pick on a harder target. (Pink said she was bummed not to get to use her brass knuckles.)
Backstage at the VMAs a shell-shocked Swift came thisclose to saying that she was no longer a fan of Kanye’s. For the record, she’s still in New York for Fashion Week and is scheduled to appear on “The View” today.
“I was standing onstage, and I was really excited because I had just won the award, and then I was really excited because Kanye West was on the stage and then,” Swift said softly, “I wasn’t so excited anymore after that.”
Though she had never met him, she had been a fan before, it turns out. “Yeah,” she drawled. “He’s Kanye West.” Is she still a fan? “You know,” she reached, “I just don’t know him. I don’t want to start anything.”
Oh, that’s OK, Taylor, we will!
Reason Kanye Is Over No. 1: He’s an even bigger attention whore than Perez Hilton. And that’s saying something. Says E! Online’s Ted Casablanca, “He knew he was going up against Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, and how do you beat that? That’s what everyone was talking about before the show. He knew it had to be really nasty to take the headlines, and it worked.”
No. 2: He appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone adorned in a crown of thorns. Yeah. Don’t think we have to explain that one.
No. 3: He looks like a weirdo and not in a cool Gaga way. “We got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift,” Kings of Leon’s Nathan Followill told MTV. Or as Casablanca says, “I feel like his outfit and his stunt sort of matched.”
No. 4: He’s compared himself without irony to icons Michael Jordon, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison and said he would be in the Bible if they wrote it again.
No. 5: He’s apologized twice on his blog now. Like a crazy desperate person. Oh wait.
mstadtmiller@nypost.com
Additional reporting by David K. Li