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Not one week ago I found myself YouTubing — the most extreme and worthwhile of sports — and wondering if we would ever get the full video for Kanye West's "Monster," a leaked clip of which appeared several months ago. I started to think that all the sexualized violence against women featured in the video actually got to him and/or his record label, and the video would be forever under wraps.

How wrong I was! Because the official video has shown up on Kanye's website, and don't worry: all the sexualized violence against women you could ever want is still there:

I want to like this video. I really do. But here is the thing: images of sexy women getting killed, or mutilated, or having already been killed and then chopped up by Rick Ross? They are not fun. They're not sexy, for certain, and they're not even "edgy," because this is a trope that's used in horror movies all the time. And while I applaud Kanye for having a vision — and while Nicki Minaj's verse is absolutely the best thing she's ever done — I just don't think I can get on board with the video.

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Comments ( 8 )

Jun 06 11 at 9:34 am
eo

ens uf das vorld

Jun 06 11 at 11:12 am
AT

Kanye's "artistic" vision now puts him on par with Max Hardcore. Both sociopaths.

Jun 06 11 at 4:40 pm
thinkywritey

First of all, dumb shit. Second of all, couldn't finish watching it because close-ups of people's mouths are even grosser than piles of fake-dead models.

Jun 06 11 at 6:55 pm
GarrettCarey

Totally agree. Can we retire the mouth inspections in music videos? Super uncomfortable.

Side note: is it sad that there are at least two people (and presumably, by extrapolation, hundreds more) who are more uncomfortable with the mere illusion of closeness than with bloody, dead, hanging, half-naked corpses? Maybe.

Jun 06 11 at 11:14 pm
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The open mouth adds insult to injury -- because it suggests a sort of necrophilia. That's why I'm grossed out/offended (in addition to the implication that women's mouths - dead or alive - are always available for penetration).

Jun 07 11 at 9:35 am
thinkywritey

Well yeah, that, too. But I was talking about Kanye's.

Jun 08 11 at 11:53 am
DrP

Looks like someone's been hanging out with Lady Gaga...

Jun 09 11 at 6:56 am
bizzaroRevten

you know, no one seemed to have a problem with Antony Hopkins beheading 3 women violently in 1992...oh wait, that was a movie. and they were vampiresses. and it was a horror movie. hmmm.... i wonder if i was making a point or something...

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