Kanye West Is Hip To Be Square

noah | October 8, 2008 9:00 am

One thing that was left out of the clip of Kanye West premiering his video for “Love Lockdown” on yesterday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show: The revelation that the clip was inspired by the movie–not the bookAmerican Psycho, which tells the story of a sharply dressed, music-obsessed Wall Street guy who also happens to be a homicidal maniac. But wait, Kanye has something to say about that whole killing bit! “You know at the end of the movie [that] he didn’t really kill anyone. [I just liked] the clean aesthetic and the way he was all about labels. I wanted to express all of that in the video.” Well, huh. Maybe this means that he’s trying to put himself in the running to score the musical version of the movie? Or he could just be expressing his worries about the economy, I guess. A side-by-side comparison of Mary Harron’s and Kanye’s competing visions after the jump.

And here I just thought he was inspired by all those silly condos going up in New York City.

Kanye West Says ‘Love Lockdown’ Video Was Inspired By ‘American Psycho’ [MTV] [Pic via ONTD]

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