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Debut: Spike Jonze’s Short Film With Kanye West, ‘We Were Once A Fairytale’

Rodrigo Perez — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:12:00 +0000

Spike Jonze and Kanye West’s “We Were Once A Fairytale,” the long-discussed short film collaboration that Jonze directed was supposed to debut on iTunes, September 8, but for whatever reason, that didn’t happen. You can’t blame the infamous Kanye West/Taylor Swift incident either, the 2009 MTV VMAs aired afterwards Sunday, September 13 , but one can understand how that ugly episode didn’t hurry up its release.

So, was the short film — that attempts to lampoon Kanye West’s arrogance by evincing more self-conceit and self-deprecation with a bizarre, hallucinatory ending that features a small demon-like furry rodent and a form of seppuku — meant to be released today?

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BFFs Spike Jonze And Kanye West To Debut ‘We Were Once A Fairytale’ Short via ITunes On September 8

Rodrigo Perez — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:27:00 +0000

Or BFFs Spike Jonze and Kanye West Will Make Short Films Together For The End Of Time

Spike Jonze and Kanye West love each other. They have made 4,ooo music videos together (ok, two, three? we’re losing count) and in September via iTunes they will release, “We Were Once A Fairytale,” the long-discussed short film that will debut on September 8 (god, that’s a pretty gay title).

Last time we wrote, “Plot-wise, the film chronicles a surreal, fictional outing by West at a club that includes the likes of sexual hallucinations, the vomiting and bleeding of rose pedals and a furry demon-like rodent that derives from Kanye’s stomach and commits the act of hari kari.

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