Kanye West's Hilarious 'Behind the Scenes' 'Fairytale' Follow Up
West, Spike Jonze follow somber short film with funny "behind the scenes" clip.
Oct. 29, 2009 — -- Call him arrogant, call him childish, call him any number of unsavory adjectives -- at least Kanye West knows how to laugh it off.
Last week, West posted the somber, surreal short film "We Were Once a Fairytale" on his blog. Just as the Spike Jonze-directed video was starting to spark controversy, West pulled it down, only offering fans the explanation, "Sorry I had to take it down :(."
Now the two are back with the perfect antidote to their dark "Fairytale": a behind the scenes-type clip of Jonze and West arguing during the filming of the short. After Jonze begs West to stop texting and pay attention, he slaps the rapper with a thwack powerful enough to make speakers thump. To be sure, it seems completely staged, but it's funny enough for a view or two.
As for the real-life controversy, it turns out that West took down "Fairytale" because it wasn't finished. An incomplete copy of the film, which Jonze intended to sell on iTunes, leaked on the Internet days before West posted it on his blog. West linked to it not realizing the cut wasn't finished.
"This is the first time it's happened to me," Jonze told the New York Times' ArtsBeat blog Oct. 22, "and it is a weird feeling, like, 'Wait a second -- I wasn't ready to put that out! That's mine. Uh, no, I guess it's not mine anymore.'"
Last Tuesday, after taking "Fairytale" off his blog, "RIP Kanye West" rose to top trend status on the micro-blogging platform Twitter, with fans reacting to a gruesome series of scenes in the short film. That impelled West's girlfriend Amber Rose to take to Twitter to shoot down rumors that West died in a car crash. (The rapper was actually involved in a near-fatal wreck in 2002, inspiring his hit "Through the Wire," which is also reportedly the title of his upcoming book.)
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