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Here’s a transcript of Kanye West’s 2020 presidential bid announcement

Why do we always let Kanye finish?

Accepting his moonman for the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the 2015 MTV VMAs, presented by Taylor Swift (on whom the irony and gaping joke opportunities weren't lost), Kanye West was, well, patently Kanye.

He stood in silence for two full, televised minutes before setting in on a speech that began by motioning at an apology to Swift for the whole 2009 incident, wandered circuitously for about 10 minutes on artistry and vision, then ended, naturally, with the 38-year-old rapper announcing his presidential bid for the 2020 election.

We Are Your Friends: Saturday Night Fever for the post-recession, EDM generation?

“You’re always trying to ride the line between making it accessible, but also authentic at the same time,” Joseph explains, sitting across from Efron and Ratajkowski in a tour bus parked behind The Hoxton in Toronto, where the club is hosting an afterparty for the screening.

Efron says that he got a bit of training on how to look like he knew what he was doing in the DJ booth, but that the best tip he got had nothing to do with the technical aspects of DJing.

“Most of the DJs said to just have fun with it. Alesso told me, ‘Dude, every time we’re up there, we’re sort of acting. All we’re doing is changing the bass, but when we do it, we do it like this,’ and he showed me this cool move.”

Carly Rae Jepsen is making some of the best pop music in the world right now, but when will she get the praise she deserves? 

The 29-year-old singer has been saddled by the heights of her 2011 hit “Call Me Maybe” (made popular by little-known Canadian Justin Bieber). Maybe it’s time that we — to borrow the phrase of another pop luminary — shake it off. Those who call Jepsen a one-hit wonder display the same sort of rockist ignorance as those who protest Kanye West concerts. They aren't even paying attention.

Sure, her debut album, Kiss, was the product of a label wanting to ride the waves of a #1 single. She had two months to write and record an album that went largely unnoticed, overshadowed by the success of “Call Me Maybe.” A blessing? A curse? Whatever it was, she took 3 years off to buckle down, and emerged with upwards of 200 songs. Last week, she returned with 12 brand new lip-biting, '80s-indebted, anthemic pop tracks about yearning and heartbreak.

NOW HEAR THIS: Sean Nicholas Savage, “Propaganda”

Outré pop singer/songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage's new track "Propaganda" is a celebration of outsiders everywhere. Early on, you get labelled because you fall outside a certain box, he explains in an accompanying interview video. Then, "freak" becomes its own sort of box — another way to trap you. "Propaganda" reminds fellow weirdoes that choosing to live differently is about exercising one's own agency.