"We Were Once A Fairytale"--Short Film By Spike Jonze starring Kanye West

"We Were Once A Fairytale" - Kanye West Dir: Spike Jonze from Yooj‽ - Recording Live From No on Vimeo.

People are going to say this is about cleaning up his image, or Kanye's being "weird" again, but I digress. I'm not getting into that. I'm just going to tell you what I took from the film. In my point of view this was set in West's perspective. When the lady tells him in the beginning that the drinks are on the house, and he accidentally breaks a glass the film takes off for me. I caught the first glimpse of what "celebrity" might mean, and how it takes the norm out of life. West offers to pay for the drink, but they won't let him. This is a metaphor for me. They allow you to act crazy & superior because of your celebrity and soon enough you start to believe that maybe you are more important than others. The next thing is when he asked IBN Jasper (his barber) whether he liked the song they were playing in the club. (They were playing one of West's songs from 808's). It must feel strange to hear your on music at a club. How can you be normal when the spotlight never quits. It was almost like going to a concert to hear your favorite band, but instead they cancel and ask you to perform your music. Of course this club scene is on a smaller scale, but the similarities exists nonetheless. There's a big scene where Kanye isn't portrayed as a victim, but as the attacker. He displays the part of him that people don't like. The asshole in him. He deliberately hits on another person's girlfriend right in front of the guy, and kind of brushes it off because, "Hey I'm a celebrity right?". In the end he ends up cutting the celebrity/fame/ego out of his body. He literally cuts it out, and it dies. You'll know what I'm talking about, I just don't want to give out the ending. It's beautiful art, and not just for a hip-hop artist. just beautiful art in general. make your own opinion. This is just mine. ok, bye.