Video: Kanye West, “Love Lockdown” (Live on Ellen)
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Tuesday morning, Kanye debuted the logic-defying Spaceships/African/Taiku/American Psycho video for “Love Lockdown” on “Ellen,” and yesterday, he performed the song live on the show. There were no spaceships or African warriors, but we were impressed that he brought along the Da Gu Riot Police. If this song and the ambitious art project coming along with it aren’t growing on you, we don’t really know what to say.
Video: Kanye West, “Love Lockdown”
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Premiered this morning on “Ellen,” Kanye’s new video smashes through a couple different walls in our brains’ capacity to comprehend shit. First, it was debuted on “Ellen” (audience expansion). Second, it was co-directed by Roisín Murphy’s stage director, Simon Henwood (artistic credibility). And finally, it references American Psycho, Coming to America and, uh, spaceships (we have no idea, but we’re with it). And at the end of the clip, you can see the confused elation in Ellen’s eyes and Kanye’s just like “yep, that’s it.” We’re flabberghasted. Try to make sense of it if you want. Kanye will be back on “Ellen” tomorrow for a live performance.
