Tuesday, February 12, 2008

You More Like LOVE To Start Shit

We all know how incredible Kanye's Grammy performance was, so on Monday morning, I was extremely excited to see the video for Flashing Lights in our acquisitions meeting.

It goes on the screen...

A car pulls up in the desert. Someone gets out of the driver's side, wearing a long fur coat. Long hair indicates it's a woman, and she walks away from the car (towards the camera), removes the fur, and throws it on the ground. She then does the same with her skirt. After first spraying a flammable liquid, she then throws a lit lighter on it.
Turning around to head back towards the car (now with a fire behind her), this THICK, beautiful woman is almost naked; wearing only a bra, thong, garter belt, stockings and boots. Her walk is in slow-motion, forcing us to watch the skin on her voluptuous figure wriggle with each step. Dark hair, stomping with authority - totally hot.
Back at the car, she then opens the trunk. A man is tied-up inside, and as we get closer, we see it's Kanyeezy. His mouth is taped closed and his hands and feet are tied. Her fingers gracefully pass over his lips before she leans in to kiss the tape that covers them. Reaching into the trunk to pull out a shovel, this buxom beauty then violently thrusts the pointed, metal part of it at Kanye repeatedly, pressumably killing him. Video over, the end.

Immediately, everyone in the room announces they HATE it. "Sleazy!" "Morbid!"
I can understand where they're coming from.

But of course, lil' me, sitting quietly in the corner, loves it!
I don't know if Tarantino is a good comparitive reference, but the video was super SUBLIME - enticing and revolting, disturbing and provacative. Think Edgar Allan Poe... the imp of the perverse. Gosh, I'm such a nerd! Of course, I'm not sure how any channel can air the version that I saw, but I guess we'll see when it premieres tomorrow on BET. Get ready boys, you will love her.


In other exciting news, (please forgive me, but...)
Lupe is MTV's Artist of the Week!

Shout out to Sol for helping create these AMAZING spots that will run through Sunday. And make sure you watch them all; they play continuously, one after another:



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