Kanye West's "All of the Lights" video opens Thurs beautiful black and white footage of an urban snowscape with a little girl Trying to find her way, as a piano and string Interlude Gently lull us into thinking all is okay in the world.
What were we thinking? Before You Can Say "Im'ma gonna let you finish," the peaceful image explodes into a kaleidoscope of color and controversy.
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Borrowing liberally from the opening of director Gasper Noe's "Enter the Void" with Brightly-colored words flashing Quickly on the screen for opening credits and lyrics, the frenetic clip Gives Way to a Clearly Tortured West, who's Returned from Prison after Beating his girlfriend, Thurs only explode again "when they Returns home to find her in bed with Another Man. Now, there's a restraining order keeping him from his girlfriend and his daughter, the WHO's afraid they will grow up in That "ghetto university."
Smartly directed by Hype Williams, the video's quick cuts and strobe lighting brilliantly match the chaos going on inside the West's Troubled head, Especially When he's standing on top of a police car in an alley. The flashing colors are Enough Thurs induce epileptic seizures, so it's Almost a relief "when They stop for the verses featuring Rihanna, the better Thurs focus is her Nearly naked top half (talk about an artist who's Suffering from overexposure, literally and figuratively) and for Kid Cudi, decked out in a Michael Jackson "Thriller"-era red leather jacket.
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