--- title: Kanye West Sent Taylor Swift Flowers After the VMAs description: They're BFFs now canonical: https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-05T14:56:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:10.067Z og:title: Kanye West Surprised Taylor Swift With a Gigantic Bouquet of Flowers After the VMAs og:description: They're BFFs now og:url: https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kanye West Surprised Taylor Swift With a Gigantic Bouquet of Flowers After the VMAs twitter:description: They're BFFs now twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kanye West Surprised Taylor Swift With a Gigantic Bouquet of Flowers After the VMAs ## Video: The Power of Taylor Swift [Watch (HLS stream): The Power of Taylor Swift](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8) (2:04)  _Published 2015-06-22. One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position_ by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Sep 5, 2015 2:56 PM UTC by [Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly Sep 5, 2015 2:56 PM UTC The Taylor Swift-Kanye West friendship was fortified Friday. Less than a week after the singer presented her former VMAs nemesis with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, Swift received flowers from hip-hop star West. It’s quite the floral arrangement. > [](https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/639923313280548864) After the introduction, Swift stood by Kim Kardashian West during Kanye’s [sprawling 10-minute-plus speech](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/30/vmas-2015-kanye-west-speech). It concluded with the 38-year-old announcing his intention to run for President in 2020\. Swift seems to have aligned herself as the vice president on the star’s ticket, given the hashtag choice. (Alas, like any presidential candidate, a veep candidate has to be at least 35\. Swift will be 31 by a January 2021 inauguration.) Five years out might be early to pick a running mate, but #KanTay2020 will have tons of momentum by time that election comes around. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/"},"headline":"Kanye West Surprised Taylor Swift With a Gigantic Bouquet of Flowers After the VMAs","datePublished":"2015-09-05T14:56:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:10.067Z","description":"They're BFFs now","url":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Robinson / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/","name":"Kanye West Surprised Taylor Swift With a Gigantic Bouquet of Flowers After the VMAs"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Power of Taylor Swift","description":"One day after Taylor Swift publicly blasted Apple Music for not paying artists during the service’s free, three-month trial period, Apple reversed its position","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mUgZx3qP/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-22T20:13:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mUgZx3qP.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/","duration":"PT2M4S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4023736/kanye-west-taylor-swift-flowers/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```