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September 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pm

Taylor Swift on The View (Video) 9-15-09

Here is the Taylor Swift on The View video from September 15, 2009 along with photos. Two days after the incident with Kanye West at the 2009 MTV VMAs Awards, the country-pop star performed two of her hit singles, You Belong to Me and Fifteen on the ABC talk show.

Additionally, she sat down with the co-hosts and discussed the incident which saw the rapper seize the microphone from her as she as making her acceptance speech for the MTV VMA Best Female Video Award, and tell the audience that Beyonce should have won the award. West has since apologized publicly via his blog as well as on The Jay Leno Show.

Sherri Sheppard in prefacing the interview noted that Taylor Swift was the first country music artist to win a VMA. Thereafter the video clip of the incident with Kanye West was shown (seen in the pictures above).

Regarding the incident, Taylor Swift revealed her sequence of thought upon winning and taking to the stage: “‘Wow, I can’t believe I won… This is awesome… Don’t trip and fall… I’m gonna get to thank the fans, this is so cool… Oh, Kanye West is here…Cool haircut. What are you doing there? And then ouch. And then, I guess I’m not going to get to thank the fans.”

She went on to say that Kanye West had not reached out to her but that she would be willing to meet with him. She noted that she had to perform five minutes later, and found support backstage and thereafter, via Twitter. “I just never imagined there were that many people out there looking out for me,” she said.

Update: TMZ reports that Kanye West called Taylor Swift right after her appearance on The View and apologized: Kanye Sees Taylor’s View — Calls to Apologize

The interview and performance videos are below. More on the story here: