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Wednesday 30 Dec 2009
Top Five (or so) Videos of 2009
5. Kanye West: “We Were Once a Fairytale” [dir. Spike Jonze]
A year ago I might have put this higher, but honestly, after that MTV Awards fiasco, I’m starting to have my misgivings about Kanye’s ongoing self-dramatization of his burdensome ego, whether it amounts to crocodile tears. Still, there’s no getting around the fact that this video is incredible. It’s maybe not as simple and elegantly devastating as “Flashing Lights,” also directed by Jonze, but it pushes his self-critique into a disturbing yet compelling terrain of psychosis. It also works as a riff on Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are – Kanye is Max, disavowing the animal embodiment of his inner child.
Wednesday 30 Dec 2009
Best Music Videos of 2009, Part 1
Continuing from 2008’s countdown, I’ve carved out time to watch several dozen videos and picked ten that I want to highlight. Without further ado, and minimal commentary – hopefully they speak for themselves:
10. The Dead Weather: “Treat Me Like Your Mother” [dir. Jonathan Glazer]
Takes a simple, wild premise and plays it out in real time, bestowing it with fierce authenticity, synched perfectly to the tune.
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