These days, any comment from Kanye West is sure to get attention. As 2009 winds down, the chart-topping rapper is finding himself among various year-end lists, but one honor in particular has moved him to post an emotional, all-caps, acceptance-speech-like response on his blog.
"I definitely wasn't expecting all this love at the end of the year," Kanye said of Pitchfork selecting his 11-minute short film with Spike Jonze, "We Were Once a Fairytale," as one of the top music videos of the year. "Love is humbling."
Directed by Jonze ("Being John Malkovich," "Where the Wild Things Are" and dozens of groundbreaking music videos like the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"), "Fairytale" has a raw West portraying a drunk, pathetic take on his public persona. Clearly, the video resonated with fans and outlets like Pitchfork, who ranked it alongside the likes of Bob Dylan, Coldplay and even Carl Sagan.
"Spike is a genius, and he brought the best out of me," Kanye wrote Tuesday (December 15) on his blog. "He called in a lot a favors and we did this film for under 50 G's. Thank you to everybody involved."
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