Video: Kanye West & Spike Jonze’s “We Were Once A Fairytale”
SMOKE BREAK By Gotty™ on October 18, 2009 at 6:58 pmI saw this earlier today and wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. Now, courtesy of The Daily Swarm, it now all has meaning…somewhat. Kanye & Spike Jonze, currently riding high off a smash weekend for Where The Wild Things Are, originally filmed this for 808’s… but it grew (||) into a short film.
In the film, Kanye plays himself drunk at a club acting belligerent and boastful, telling starstruck club-goers that the song playing in the club is his. He wanders into a side room where he encounters a beautiful woman. They start having sex and then he passes out on her leopard print dress. When he comes to, he finds himself in the VIP room with his pants down – he was hallucinating and fucking the pillow. The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals.
Then it gets weird.
Kanye finds a bowie knife in the bathroom and cuts into his stomach, spilling a torrent of more petals. He digs in the knife deeper and then with his hand rips out a small furry rodent, like a demon, only its quite cute. When Kanye realizes it’s connected to him with an umbilical cord, he pulls it hard, ripping it out of him for good. He then puts the demon on the sink and hands him a tiny bowie knife to fit the critter’s scale who then uses it to commit hari kari.
Good to see Kanye having to reach deep inside to pull off the character for this. Nobody does a Kanye West impersonation better than Mr. West. I keed I keed.
I actually like the idea and the execution. Talk about all the Hype’s and Rik’s you want. If I ever create a song, I want Spike Jonze to create me a tripped out visual. I can remember his work being cutting edge ever since I used to read little skateboard mags as a likkle yardie.
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Were my ears buggin or was that Mayer Hawthorne playing in the background at a little after the 6 minute mark?
This is late.
good call
what…the fuck? is there a deeper hidden meaning in all of this? cause i was tryin to watch this while the Jets and Bills are in overtime…
that WAS mayer hawthorne! wow.
I bet Kanye wish he got drunk and ACTUALLY did this instead of grabbing the moon man from taylor swift
Koston, Jeron, Carroll & others from the Girl Skateboards crew representing in the background, fresh.
He always raises the bar.
Yeah, depend on the internet to hate for a while and then figure it out later lol. I expect Spike Jonze to have some abstract ass take that I wno’t understand and it’s strictly on me to figure it out.
eric koston cameo, and mike carrol gets beat up by fonsworth bentley? spike jonze came up making skate videos with them so thats why theyre in a lot of his stuff. too wierd. its no wonder kanye hasnt made the leap to hollywood as this was some bad acting.
Spike Jonze has such crazy talent. I can’t believe he’s been at it like over 10 years and still produces such awesome work.
That was good acting fam..not bad.
This is pretty great. LMAO at some of the shit he’s yelling.
Kanye plays a good Kanye alright.
What’s the symbolism behind this. Is he trying to convey something about his soul? Does he still have it?
My interpretation: Kanye is drunk because the constant war he fights with himself is taking its toll, he’s at his lowest point. This causes his weakness, which manifests itself as arrogance and the need for acceptance/approval, to be in full view, he’s pitiful. The need and desire to be liked ironically pushed everyone away and leads to his dismissal by those from whom he seeks love. The sex scene is him bearing his self to the people(fans) who are really indifferent and at the end of the day, there is only him and his weaknesses(his exposed privates:Jiggaeseue double meanings). He purges himself only to realize the source of his weakness, his old self, the weak mouse(I think those are paper hearts, not rose pedals, ie. 808’s and Heartbreaks.They represent his pain from loss of love he’s experienced.). Once he separates himself from his weak self, he is reborn as a strong, confident being with inescapable influence. He orders his old self to commit suicide, for which there is no heaven, no redemption, only hell. Old Kanye is dead, he’s getting his Jay-Z, Riahinna(sp) on.
did i see cameos by Eric Koston and Mike Caroll?
lol my bad..didnt see the above comments..
Chuck_You wins for the best (and most sensible) answer to the meaning of this short film.
It aint that tough yall. The creature is his EGO. And hes attempting to kill it.
Here’s a working video of the short film:
http://www.gotchamediablog.com/2009/10/spike-jonze-and-kanye-present-we-were.html
“He orders his old self to commit suicide, for which there is no heaven, no redemption, only hell.”
Does this have to do with Illuminati/Freemason?
JayZ voice
JayZ voice { UGGH! UGGH!!! }
jay says:
October 19, ‘09 at 6:19 pm
“He orders his old self to commit suicide, for which there is no heaven, no redemption, only hell.”
Does this have to do with Illuminati/Freemason?
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No, because that shit doesn’t exist. Freemasons aren’t a part of some grand scheme to control the world, and the Illuminati faded from existence in the late 1700s, 1800s. Please, stop regurgitation internet falsehoods and rumors. These ideas aren’t based on any factual, logged proof or evidence; just opinions, and they should be treated as such.
From what I understood from all this, it looks like the Rat was that drunk, rude Kanye all along. Once he was taken out forcefully, and once the Rat realized Kanye didn’t want him/didn’t need him anymore, being based on the approval and opinions of others and the desire to be wanted, the Rat killed himself. Thus, Kanye was getting rid of the part of him that was that Rat.
Whats the name of the Mayer Hawthorne song in this movie
Whats the name of the Mayer Hawthorne song in this movie. I didn’t hear it on the album.