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There’s talk all over the Internet of Kanye West’s new music video for his song Bound 2. I’m sure Kanye loves it and wants to keep people guessing. But besides a social media storm (see: #Bound2,) I’ve noticed a few things about the video that I’d like to talk about.

            I hate “works of art” like this. It makes it so hard to like Kanye. Although, I do think he is genuinely a weirdo, not just trying to create buzz (like Miley,) I still hate it. There are a few specific reasons why:

1.     The wind. As a few people have noted, it “looks really fake.” I know Kanye was probably going for artsy and abstract. There’s probably some strange hidden meaning that I don’t care about, but that wind looks dumb. Kim Kardashian is straddling a motorcycle, backwards and the wind flowing through her hair (in contradicting directions) demonstrates that they are in a sound studio in West Hollywood.

2.     Now that I’ve mentioned Kim, let’s talk about that a little bit. Why do I need to see her and Kanye literally making love on screen? I don’t. It feels like they’re trying to prove something to the world, “we have a baby together and we are in love.” It makes me uncomfortable (she doesn’t have a shirt on) and I wish they would stop.

3.     Although it’s no VMAs circa 2009, videos like this make it difficult to be a Kanye fan. We all want to love you Kanye, we really do. And please, if you haven’t seen it at least give it a look so you know what I meant as I wrote this post.