true_fiction, 7. October 2008, 18:19
Kanye West- Love Lockdown (Dir:Kanye West?)
Kanye continues to be unpredictable.

Can someone find out who directed this, cause I really want to be Hype lol



         
Is it just me or was that set furnished entirely with IKEA? Couldn't Kanye have at least brought in his gold Kate Moss statue or something? Not really digging the video, the tribal thing doesn't feel like a match for the song.
         
In the hands of a better director, this could've worked maybe. But as it stands, it's very disconnected and silly. Song is still too loopish (I know he's mixed this a number of times now) and incomplete sounding. As a tone poem it works better, but again, still feels very loop heavy in a non progressive way.
         
he's very image-conscious kanye
i like him, i like him a lot
it wouldn't surprise me to see him direct (or at least get full director credits for) some of his future projects

but as regards the video per se, i'm not impressed
         
dir was Kanye and/or Simon Henwood - Kanye said on Ellen that he and Henwood "kind of had the same idea," so they both went with it.
         
I think this video is great.
about the song: He mastered it to the extent that he wanted to...im sure it sounds exactly like he wants it to sound.
Just as I hink he wants the video to look exactly as he wants it to look.
This critique is kind of empty.

(I would love this to be Hype lol)
         
I thought the tribal stuff was way more compelling than the ikea-house.

The last shot left me with a "meh" sorta feeling...
         
Come on bitches it's not too bad.
         
I really liked it. The images connected tightly to the sounds for me. Beyond that, I really enjoyed the strongly contrasting visuals/concepts - the white room vs. the tribes people vs. the spaceship. It felt like the ideas grew directly out of the music and whenever a new aspect was introduced I felt that I could relate to it and find it's impetus in the audio. Not sure I feel the need to watch this over and over again but it's definitely something I feel richer for having watched.

K
         
George Bush hates unpredictability.

Also, I liked this video because the punch-Kanye-in-the-face factor was down to a minimum. I don't think there is an immediate match with the visuals and the song, but I'm sure that's the point, so, yeah, I like that. Felt it was a bit hypnotic, but that could have been the stupid vocoder thing.

love/hate vocoder.

oh, and, the tribal dudes breaking through the widescreen bars "wall"...I wanted to see more of that, but now I think it works even better that they didn't repeat it. Cock-tease, as they say in the old country.
         
wow. very surprised to have enjoyed that VERY much.
as ai says: come on bitches, feel the love. it's way way ahead of any other big budget tune out there, it is indeed low on the kick-kanye's-huge-teeth-in factor, and also, the end half of the video seriously kicks ass - army of tribal nutters meets ikea minimalism meets huge booty shaking gods? cummmon!

now have new found respect for kanye.
         
weelll, it seems to play up stereotypes, but that's kinda what the song did. this delineated modern world is keeping me down, too. what, with the straight lines, and anti-affiliation/anti-corporation dullness surrounding me. and running counter to that is the primal spirit bubbling up every so often to remind one to return to their roots so we all can "love" the "way [we] wanted to." knives/spears feature prominently, ready to penetrate the day-glo goddesses of sexuality. I'm not saying more thought wasn't put into this than most videos, but I'm just not sure it's pushing anything forward. I would say it took the obvious direction, but I'm not really incorporating the Klingon looking spaceship nor how it connects to the telescope into the story I'm reading. so, necessarily, my perspective is a bit wanting.

I'd be interested to hear what people are thinking about the space aspects.
         
when the tribal guy breaks thru the letterbox....that was GREAT.
         
6 hours after leaving the set around 1 am, Kanye was arrested at LAX for assaulting some paps about 7 am. such a Rock, Rap, ...Star
         
is it weird to anyone else that ellen got the exclusive?
         
i think that it makes sense that ellen got the exclusive...

all of the places that you would expect for this video to premiere will show the video anyway... so it was smart of kanye to find somewhere with a ton of viewers that arent his typical audience.

now some of those moms are going to buy his album for their kids just cuz ellen told them that the video was brilliant. makes sense to me.
         
Also Ellen actually plays the entire video.
         
vimeo—mov=boards
Simon Henwood, director | Hagai Shaham, producer | HSI, production co | Jonathan Sela, DP | Nick Allix @ Whitehouse London, editor | Richard LaSalle, production designer | Duncan Russell @ Prime Focus London, telecine