Kanye West’s Glastonbury Stage Crasher Was Just Trying To Impress Taylor Swift

This past Saturday night, during Kanye West’s headlining Glastonbury slot, a comedian named Lee Nelson (real name Simon Brodkin) crashed the stage while West performed “Black Skinhead.” The stage invader disrupted the set, causing West to start his Yeezus track over.

There wasn’t much information on Lee Nelson, other than he’s a BBC3 comedian who has done similar things in the past. Thankfully, NME got a hold of Nelson and found out what the hell was going on in his head during the stage crashing.

NME: How do you think things went on Saturday night?

Lee Nelson: “I was up there. I was spitting lyrics with the best of them. I had the cap on backwards and the baggy trousers, my arm was moving up and down like all the big names do. I hope that I carried it off.”

Why Kanye?

“Well he did that to Taylor Swift, didn’t he? I’ve had a little bit of a crush on Taylor and I’ve been trying to impress her. I thought I’d get my own back on Kanye to get her attention. I’d get revenge on her behalf.”

What do you think she’d make of it?

“I think she’d be impressed. wouldn’t you? I know she doesn’t have a lot of blokes coming on to her so hopefully it will make me stand out from the crowd. Maybe she can write a song for me. It’s over to her now.”

So it was all for Taylor?

“I was also helping Kanye out. Quite a lot of people were thinking, I don’t want him to headline. I thought I’d offer them an alternative. I gave them a second headliner. He’s a bit of a plonker as well.”

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Nelson also clued us in to how he actually got on stage, how he was “racially profiled” by Kanye’s security, and his thoughts on Kanye’s performance in general. The whole thing is really worth a read.

Too bad J.J. Watt wasn’t there to help out Kanye like he did for Zac Brown.

(Via NME)

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