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Kanye's new video for "Homecoming" is out, featuring the silhouette of Chris Martin super-imposed over some strange corncob looking buildings. Kidding! Check it out.
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Kanye's new video for "Homecoming" is out, featuring the silhouette of Chris Martin super-imposed over some strange corncob looking buildings. Kidding! Check it out.
Kanye Pest, please go some where, please.
Super enjoyment. But why does Common pops up every once in a while? Why is it the same shot each time? Why does he look like he needs a hug?
More Lupe/Common please, less Kanye...much less Kanye
a) there's no bridge in that song
b) the hook is boring
c) that video barely shows off chicago
d) lame.
I was about to post something about being tired of the Kanye-hype, but everyone above has said it so nicely...
Unlike seemingly everyone else on Chicagoist, I actually enjoy Kanye.
This video, however, looks like a tourist's black-and-white home movie. It's trying to represent Chicago to people who don't live here, so it has to traffic in recognizable images (Millennium Park, Marina City, the skyline, etc). Common's video for "The People" is much more successful representing Chicago to Chicagoans.
I gotta give a Youtube shoutout to Yea Big + Kid Static. Their video for "The Life Here" is ultimate Chicago music video... it doesn't hurt that these guys are regular, cool REAL Chicagoans or that the people in their music video are real Chicagoans too. (Seriously, the guy at 3:39 is as Chicago as it gets.)
Good call Ontology, Common's 'The People' is a much better representation. Great song, great hook and a simple yet enjoyable video.
agree with grizz....
chris martin has lost all credibility - i mean his appearance in this is just embarrassing....cringe worthy. someone should really tell him that he'll never be thom yorke (although if we're to judge by this little jaunt, he's already stopped trying.....)
also, for the record, i liked the crocheted-pants common much better.
@ ontology:
great call - The People is a real love letter to the people of Chicago. Kanye's video is a love letter to himself.
@celery
chris martin ever had credibility?
@ezfinn - true, touche'....i'll admit that i was one of those suckers who thought trouble showed "potential". i was wrong, world. wrongwrongwrong.
love it.
chi-city. fireworks at lake michigan. lodi yo yo, lodi yo yo.
If he'd written an ode to New York instead of Chicago people would be bitching, bridge or no bridge.
I thought the imagery of Kanye "coming home" and wistfully thinking about how his old Millennium Park neighborhood has changed was quite moving.
Am I off base here, or does it look like certain parts of that Common video are shot in New York, rather than Chicago? I had the general feeling of New York in certain parts, and I could swear I saw an MTA bus, rather than CTA, at one point. I know, no big deal, but it's bugging me.
Rhymefest's "Fever" is a good one, shot almost entirely on the Green Line.
Here's the Fever vid
After further inspection of the Common video, I'm fairly positive that at least a few of the street scenes are New York.
I like the song and the video. Nothing groundbreaking, but nothing worthy of the anger either.
And people can hate Chris Martin, but when's the last time any of you stepped up for those in the world without clean drinking water?
OK, I just realized that a) I need to watch "Extras", and b) Chris Martin is only perhaps 99.1% douche.
Well, I could care less about Chris Martin and his nascent Bono-ism, but I did like the video and song. Probably the only time I can deal with Kanye.
That said, Millenium Park is SO gangsta!
Reppin' the Bean, y'all. Also, I don't see why I should like Chris Martin's crappy music because he "steps up" for drinking water.
UTV, you clearly didn't investigate the link. Shame on you for choosing ignorance over education.
"Shame on you for choosing ignorance over education."
Yeah, because being up to date on what some celebrity does in his spare time is "education."
Right on, Matilda.
Ah, Extras. Shame on me for not getting the reference - I own both series.
Could they be holding the album?
I actually still like Kanye, and I really like this song. It reminds me of the days when I was in school in California and I couldn't wait to go home. Even a R. Kelly "Step In The Name Of Love" video could make me nostalgic back then. (Back then = two years ago.)
That being said, I like the sillouette thing but this video is pretty weak. I agree with The People being a much more representative video.