iVoice: Kanye West "Flashing Lights" Video Chat

By Village Voice contributor Fri., Jun. 6 2008 at 12:15 PM

Categories: Jon Bois, Kanye West, Radiohead, iVoice

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	OnlineHost Welcome to Video Shoot Chat!
	woman: /gets out of car, walks a few paces, strips down to underwear, starts fire with lighter fluid and a Zippo /walks back, opens trunk
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: mmmf
	woman: Why did I just light a fire?
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /rips off tape from mouth Um. Because if you didn't, your body wouldn't be visible.
	woman: But the video's only camera switch occurs at the exact moment I turn around, and the fire's behind me. How would that make me show up better?
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: ... fffuck all right we'll fix that in post
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Now grab that shovel. I'll flip the hatch and slide into the back seat, and then you act like you're bludgeoning me to death.
	woman: I don't understand this either. What's my character's motivation here?
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Fair enough. Here's the conceit.
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: This video will serve as an epilogue and companion piece for another video featuring this same song.
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: It was an aesthetically neat but otherwise banal video. You're mad because it was terrible.
	woman: So? Does my character just roam the countryside and murder people who make crap-ass music videos?
	woman: Is there another companion piece? Do I get to garrote McG with a jump rope?
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Well, the video is too ambiguous to communicate a singular message, so viewers will be left to glean their own interpretations.
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: Most disturbingly, it would be easy for one to interpret it as a vindictive lecture that portrays rape as a consequence.
	woman: ...
	OnlineHost The woman is bludgeoning Kanye West with a shovel.
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: OW OW FUCK WAIT FUCK
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /manages to open trunk escape, crawls into back seat bruised and bloodied
	SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: oh hey it's this fuckin' guy again!
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: What are you doing in here?
	SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: oh you know, we're just hanging out, chasing after this fat dude real slow
	SargeantYorkeofKarmaPolice: we started leaking petrol a ways back but fuck it, you know
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: /turns around, looks through back window
	OnlineHost The fire has spread to a trail of fuel left by the car.
	KanyeFeelTheLoveTonight: aw graham crackers

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