Wednesday, May 20, 2009

It came to me in a dream....

Alrighty then. So, as I listened to my iPod to go to sleep last night (i need a bigger one), Kanye's "Flashing Lights" came on, then all of a sudden, I had the perfect music video mapped out in my mind....

Listen to the song as you read if you want:

Intro: As the melody plays, you know, before the drums kick in, You see a girl standing in a living room facing the camera, but not looking into it, she's looking just passed it. There's blood splattered on her clothes, and red lights flasing. Concurrently, the operning credits fade in and out: "G.O.O.D/Roc-A-Fella Present" "A Def Jam Production" "Kanye West" "Dwele" and two actresses "in"...then as the actuall repetition of the words "flashing lights" are said on the record, the screen fades to black and the last opening credit "Flashing Lights" appears.

As the music and reptition of the song title continue to play, we fade into a long shot of a house on the beach, its sunny, people are out and about, camera zooms into an open door on a balcony, then onto kanye sitting on a bed (pause lol), he begins rapping the first verse as he looks directl towards the camera, behin him, a model in some sexy underwear is looking in the mirror checking herself out in vain, after the line "couture from the store's department" she turns and says something to Kanye, he turns and responds. Cut to random shots of things in the apartment and the party they were at the previous night, when the line "and the weather's so breezy" comes, cut back to a shot of Kanye's phone, it says "wifey calling" or w/e, cut to him on the balcony on the phone, then the model standing in the background, lip synchs the line "where are you yeezy ?", Kanye then turns back, then slowly turns his head forward towards the camera, then suddenly a flashbub goes off, as the line "I hate these niggas more than the nazis" plays, cut to a shot of Kanye throwing a glass at paparazzi hidden in the bushes below his balcony.

As chorus plays, cue shot of Kanye telling the model to pack up. Scenes of them packing and leaving interspersed with performance shots of Dwele singing the chorus. Chorus will play a second time with shots of a cab pulling up in front of a house, Kanye walks out of the cab and up to his beautiful home, he walks in. As the second verse starts, the scene starts as Kanye's gf rushes him holding a tabloid magazine with the photo taken at his beach house on the cover, they begin arguing, but you don't hear them, she begins to cry and storms off, he sits down on the couch in frustration, picks up the magazine then throws it in anger. His gf walks back in when the line about "the other side of the glass, in my memory's museum" plays. He gets up and tries to beg for forgiveness, but as the "hey mona lisa" line plays, she pulls out a gun, she pulls the trigger AS SOON as the last word of the last verse "Ceasar" plays, and in suddenly in slow motion, his body jerks bacK from the force of the gunshot, and you can see the blood spray out of his back (from the time she pulls out the gun to when his body flies back, they are standing face to face, and you can see their entire bodies in the shot). As the chorus plays out, cut to performance shot of Dwele standing and singing, with Kanye standing behind him vibing out to the music, simultaneously, we see shots of the gun dropping to the floor, the gf standing there in a sort of daze with an extreme close up on her face. The camera slowly backs away, when you see her from the waste up, we see the red flashing lights again (ala the opening scene of the vid), the camera should now have her full body in view as the closing instrumental begins to play.

During the closing instrumental, we see stills of what happened from the beginning, from the beach, the house, the model, phone call, paparazzi, flight home, cab ride to the house, the argument, but new scenes are introduced from the stills, one of her taking the gun out of her dresser drawer, and another of her calling the cops, then of her walking downstairs with the gun, back to stills of original scenes, kanye trying to apologize, her pulling out the gun, his body flying, his dead body laying on the couch, her blood splattered face. Then we cut to cops busting in and arresting her, all in slow motion, then walking her to the car, as we go outside, part of the instrumental where its just the strings and piano plays, the camera starts to back out and up in the sky until we get an overhead view of the entire scene. Its chaos, cop cars everywhere, nosey neighbors outside, then the screen fades to black, everything but the flashing lights of the cop cars are not seen anymore. The song ends with the red flashing lights being the only thing on screen, then they fade out.

That's the end of the video. Rated-R-Rockstar.

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