[Music Video] Kanye West-Power

(Insert excuse of why I haven't written in a while)
Now that we have gotten that out of the way, Kanye West came out for Power.  Remember when I wrote about "Power" and I was really excited about the video." Yes, I was underwhelmed. It was hyped as to be a "moving potrait" but that wasn't my issue with that.  It was it was only 90 seconds long.  I feel like not doing the whole song it was undeveloped and kinda just a cop out to call it "different".  But I guess it could be worse.  The images are nice, I will give it that.



Kanye West did his first UStream yesterday and talked about how his favorite video, hands down, is "Flashing Lights."  He also mentioned liking "Diamonds" and "GoldDigger."  He gave his usual long reason for saying why he liked it, but basically he liked how the sexy woman, that wouldn't be described as "sexy" in mainstream media, took the sexual and power position and wasn't submissive.  The video is ok to me, but I didn't like how he didn't do the entire song, which is my main problem with the "Power" video.  Thinking outside the box is one thing, but I think you should go all the way and complete the thought.  I also find it funny that he does short videos with his songs with Dwele and Dwele is never in the video.  Tough break.  I fell like Dwele would be a bigger artists if he had that exposure, because he does great work on his own and with Kanye.



Kanye also talked about how he was displeased when some parts of the "All Falls Down" video, which is actually my favorite Kanye video.   He didn't like the scene in the mirror and the metal detector scene, which his described as kinda silly because he wanted it all to be in first person.  But I feel since it was only his second video, they wanted to make sure his image was actually in the video to represent him since he was relatively new.  He did say this was the point where he took more control of his videos because he wanted them to be an extension of himself.  But this is still one of my favorite videos ever.