Kanye West has collaborated with director Spike Jonze for We Were Once a Fairytale, a bizarre short film that features an interpretive spin on the 808s and Heartbreak track "See You in My Nightmares".
The film, which was originally intended to debut on iTunes in early September, finally hit the internet over the weekend via KanyeLive. The 11-minute journey finds Kanye acting drunk (not very well) in a club and making new strides in his quest to be the world's biggest asshole (he managed that part pretty well). This happens before he has sex with a ghost, commits seppuku with a large knife and pulls a gnome/furry demon/teddy bear out of his stomach. Right. Weird. Check it out for yourself here.
Pitchfork may be fawning over this, declaring that "no other pop star is taking these kinds of risks right now," but the hype is entirely undeserved. On top of being a terrible actor Kanye's still that same stage-crashing, meme-spawning prick who believes he's the central force in the universe. Never once do we forget that as his character stumbles through the club, yelling at people, waving his money around.
Honestly, anyone honestly entertained by this film is setting their standards pretty low. There's just not much to it, beyond the interpretive value of Kanye feeling sorry for himself. Is that little monster thing he pulls out of his belly the cause of all the musician's ever-increasingly assy behavior of late? Possibly, but sympathy's not on the menu just yet for a man who's gone out of his way to outdo his own reputation as the most egomaniacal celebrity who ever lived.
The film's release provides the follow-up punch in a prime moment for Jonze, who also currently has the #1 movie in the country with Where The Wild Things Are.
