Truthfully speaking, T-Pain’s anecdote about Taylor Swift at the 2019 iHeartRadio awards was a tad bit awkward.
T-Pain’s comments towards Taylor Swift at the 2019 iHeartRadio gala have landed him in hot water with her fanbase. As you’re likely aware, T-Pain was tasked with hosting the event from start to finish. When it came time to issue a monologue regarding Taylor Swift’s presence in the building, the host chose to recount the story of how he first met the pop darling.
This @TPAIN exchange w @taylorswift13 was the most awkward thing I’ve seen in the history of forever. #iHeartAwards2019 #eekface pic.twitter.com/kbdRHQZQYU
— Jim Chandler (@JimChandler1075) March 15, 2019
“Taylor, I never apologized to you. The first time we met—you’re so much taller than me, that I thought you were standing on something,” he began his monologue. “Without looking down, I tried to stand on whatever I thought you were standin’ on and bam! Headbutted you right in the boob. I’m so sorry. That was not my intention.”
As harmless as the anecdote might be on a level of reason, that’s not how Taylor Swift fans chose to view it, many of them deeming T-Pain’s conduct as unbecoming of a gentleman host, and his language far too expletive.
TPain dropping F Bombs and shitting on a show that made a whole new generation in America fall in love with him, then he wants to talk about Taylor’s boob? Wtf inappropriate. @taylorswift13 being so graceful, not like she had a choice. @iHeartRadio #iHeartRadioAwards2019
— Sara Russell (@sararussell_) March 15, 2019
Many of her fans remarked upon the distressful sexual assault case she recently underwent, giving T-Pain the appearance of an insensitive person, even though there’s reason to believe nothing was clouding his judgment when he let off the jokes.
That was a totally unnecessary thing for him to say. Very unclassy. pic.twitter.com/yGw4oAxvD8
— Kalyna 🌴TS7 (@kalyna_marie) March 15, 2019
Considering T-Pain and Taylor Swift see, to know one another other off-camera, you’d think they could work out a truce – which would infer Taylor Swift was offended in the first place. Mind you, there is no evidence to support that claim.
Bad joke T-Pain — did you not know Taylor Swift went through an entire sexual assault trial??? #iHeartRadioAwards2019
— Noel (@KingOfHotTopics) March 15, 2019
