erica234427 rants...
I bought Sorry For Party Rockin\' and was pretty dissappointed. It wasnt as good as I expected. Oh w ...
| HOME | FIND MUSIC | MEET PEOPLE | SEARCH | JOIN! | Forgot username or password? | |
erica234427 rants...
| HOME | FIND MUSIC | MEET PEOPLE | SEARCH | JOIN! | Forgot username or password? | |
Pitchfork names Spike Jonze-directed short film one of its top music videos of 2009.By Larry Carroll
Kanye West in Spike Jonze's "We Were Once a Fairytale"Photo: Vimeo.com
These days, any comment from Kanye West is sure to get attention. As 2009 winds down, the chart-topping rapper is finding himself among various year-end lists, but one honor in particular has moved him to post an emotional, all-caps, acceptance-speech-like response on his blog.
"I definitely wasn't expecting all this love at the end of the year," Kanye said of Pitchfork selecting his 11-minute short film with Spike Jonze, "We Were Once a Fairytale," as one of the top music videos of the year. "Love is humbling."
Directed by Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Where the Wild Things Are" and dozens of groundbreaking music videos like the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"), "Fairytale" has a raw West portraying a drunk, pathetic take on his public persona. Clearly, the video resonated with fans and outlets like Pitchfork, who ranked it alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Coldplay and even Carl Sagan.
"Spike is a genius, and he brought the best out of me," Kanye wrote Tuesday (December 15) on his blog. "He called in a lot a favors and we did this film for under 50 G's. Thank you to everybody involved."
Although he admitted that he didn't quite grasp the concept at first, Kanye said that in the end, he was wise to trust Jonze's unique vision. "Sometimes a big idea can take you further than a big budget," he wrote. "I remember when [Jonze] pitched it to me, I was like... Uuuuuuum.........WTF!!!!! ... But only a complete idiot turns down the opportunity to be directed by Spike Jonze. He's a really good friend and calming spirit and that's what you need most in your life sometimes."
West then went on to compare Jonze with his boundary-breaking Late Registration co-producer. "He reminds me of Jon Brion in a way, because they both can find the human qualities in people and bring those to the forefront. They have so much good will that they let me use some of that to open doors that have been closed off to me," he explained. "This was theee most in your face concept but Spike made me look like a hurt child instead of an outrageous a--hole."
The distinctive clip features West's song "See You in My Nightmares" playing in the background at a club while he drunkenly stumbles, dances and screams alongside other patrons. Later on in the vanity-free clip, he vomits, passes out on the bathroom floor and stabs himself. "When everyone goes big, go small. When everyone goes clean, go dirty," West wrote of the video. "When everybody puts on the craziest outfits ever, put on your favorite old Band of Outsiders dinner jacket and pull a monster out of your soul."
In closing, Kanye promised that fans haven't seen the last of his "Fairytale" creation. "I wish I could say that monster was truly dead," he wrote, "but I think he'll be back to life sitting on my shoulder when I get back in the studio."
West also recently hit his blog to thank Entertainment Weekly for naming his 2004 debut, The College Dropout, the Album of the Decade.
RELATED NEWS
|
This site has 2 goals:
1. Find Music that you will love 2. Meet People who share your great taste in music
If this sounds like your kinda place, why not join?
|
