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Ummm…for real Kanye?
written by KT
Sooooo, it’s been about 3 weeks since I wrote about Kanye’s role in Nas; intoxicating jam “Still Dreamin’” and I must apologize for lauding Kanye so much in such a short amount of time, but after witnessing that mindf**k of a video for “Flashing Lights” – which has been in my head since it premiered last Wednesday – I can’t help but put some words down on paper about this intriguing and most certainly polarizing piece of art.
I had been cruising the ‘net the last couple of days after seeing the video, looking for someone to help me to interpret what I had seen. What I found was very interesting. I found nothing. Not on Kanye’s website, not on other music news sites, pop culture blogs, nowhere. It was my view that people seemed all right with either writing it off as an incomplete video or an overly ambitious, nonsensical trash video. I won’t lie; I was surprised with the lack of effort to understand this video that I was seeing. It seemed that no one was really willing to suspend what they wanted the video to be and instead take it in and try to understand it for what it is: 2 minutes and 47 seconds of poignant cinematography.
So what do we know about the song. The first verse acts as somewhat of an introduction into the fast paced world of "celebritism" (yeah, I made that word up). I hear a man that is happy to have reached the pinnacle and his paramour seems all too thrilled to have ridden with her man to the top as well. The first line frames this perfectly: “she don’t believe in shooting stars/but she believes in shoes and cars…/couture from the stores deparrrtments…” But I get a sense of foreshadowing as the first verse draws to a close. He is being pulled away, even as his woman entices him to stay with her seductive moves “…she’s in the mirror/dancing so sleazy/I get a call like where are you Yeezy?”
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