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KanYe: Chart update!!
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this is why I love kanye he's just different
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that video was amazing!!! i want it on my zune stat!
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That model is soooooooooooo fine!!!
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Flashing Lights will hopefully start to rebound!
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Kanye West "Glow In The Dark" Tour ft Rihanna: Dates Announced
Kanye West's Glow In The Dark Tour Dates Announced
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Two-month jaunt, featuring Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D., launches April 16.
By Jayson Rodriguez
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Two weeks after Kanye West put a concert poster on his blog for the upcoming Glow in the Dark Tour, featuring Rihanna, Lupe Fiasco and N.E.R.D., his label, Def Jam, announced the dates Thursday (February 14).
The two-month trek kicks off April 16 in Seattle and swings through California, making stops in Sacramento, San Jose and San Diego before landing in Los Angeles on April 21. In May, the tour is scheduled to make stops in Texas and then make a run through the South, playing in Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina.
West and company are slated to headline Madison Square Garden in New York on May 13. The Chicago rapper will then appear in his hometown on May 23 at the United Center.
Labelmate Rihanna is scheduled to miss three dates of the tour, from April 24-26, according to a statement sent out by Def Jam. No information was given regarding the singer's absence during those dates.
West, Rihanna and Fiasco are fresh off Grammy wins this past weekend. West took home multiple awards, including Best Rap Album for his Graduation.
During the telecast, West performed "Stronger" followed by "Hey Mama," billed as a tribute to his mother, Donda West, who died late last year.
The performance also served as a preview of his Glow in the Dark Tour, which had a successful run overseas. West was decked out in a flashing LED jacket and light-up shades, as neon lights flashed all over the stage.
After the show, West premiered his latest video, for "Flashing Lights," co-directed by Spike Jonze, at an Entertainment Weekly party. The almost three-minute clip features a West bound-and-gagged in the trunk of a car as a female temptress presumably has her way with him in a violent manner.
Glow in the Dark Tour dates, according to West's label:
· 4/16 - Seattle, WA @ Key Arena
· 4/18 - Sacramento, CA @ ARCO Arena
· 4/19 - San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion
· 4/20 - San Diego, CA @ Sports Arena
· 4/21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Nokia Theatre
· 4/25 - * Las Vegas, NV @ Red Rock Casino Resort Spa
· 4/26 - * Albuquerque, NM @ Journal Pavilion
· 4/27 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
· 4/29 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Ford Center
· 4/30 - Austin, TX @ Frank Irwin Center
· 5/1 - Dallas, TX @ SuperPages.com Center
· 5/2 - Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
· 5/4 - Atlanta, GA @ Gwinette Arena
· 5/5 - Tampa, FL @ Ford Amphitheatre
· 5/6 - Miami, FL @ American Airlines Arena
· 5/8 - Charlotte, NC @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
· 5/9 - Raleigh, NC @ Walnut Creek Amphitheatre
· 5/10 - Washington, DC @ Nissan Pavilion
· 5/11 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
· 5/13 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
· 5/15 - Boston, MA @ Tweeter Center
· 5/16 - Hartford, CT @ North East Dodge Music Center
· 5/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Susquehana Bank Center
· 5/18 - Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion
· 5/20 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
· 5/21 - Toronto, ON @ Molson Centre
· 5/22 - Auburn Hills, MI @ The Palace of Auburn Hills
· 5/23 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
· 5/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ Target Center
· 5/27 - Saskatoon, SK @ Credit Union Centre
· 5/29 - Edmonton, AB @ Rexall Palace
· 5/30 - Calgary, AB @ Saddledome
* indicates dates that do not include Rihanna
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I hope I can finish school so I can see them either in VA Beach or DC!
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KanYe: 'Flashing Lights' video explained
From YeTalk.com:
"She don't believe in shooting stars." Kanye is a star. She did not shoot him she beat him with a shovel.
"But she believes in shoes and cars." She left her shoes on and did not harm her car.
"I get a call like where are you Yeezy Try to hit you with a 'Oeur de Whopee' Till I get flashed by the paparazzi Damn, these *****'s got me," She called him and asked him where was. He lied. Then the paparazii took a picture of him with another girl.
"Damn these *****s got me". "I know it's been a while, Sweetheart, we hard-ly talk, I was doing my thing I know I was foul bay-bay, a-bay late-ly you been all on my brain," He is trying to apologize to her.
"If somebody would've told me a year ago it'd go, get this difficult Feeling like Katrina with no fema Like Martin with no Gina Like a flight with no visa" He is in the back of a car trunk that is difficult. He is feeling helpless in the trunk.
"But I never thought that you would take it this far What do I know? Flashing lights, lights What do I know? Flashing lights, lights" I know this has already been said but, he did not know that she would go as far as to actually kill him. And the last thing he saw before he was killed was the fire which was flashing.
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That video is still stupid
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Originally posted by Muzik_Lover100
That video is still stupid
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no u just dont get it. its art 
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Nice explanation. 
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I think it's still boring, whether it fits the lyrics or not. Who really wants to watch this type of a music video over and over again when enjoying your fav. song?
Isn't that the point of a music video? I put music videos on my iPod cause they are entertaining to watch when I listen to my favorite songs. Why would you specifically go to this video everytime you want to hear this song when all you see is a woman walking to and from her car 
It might be a cool idea, but who really wants to watch this video entertainment wise? Hell no. That's why you have Stronger or Good Life. I would so go to those videos on my iPod cause A). I love the songs <3333 and B). The videos have awesome special effects in it and it's very creative and entertaining.
In that being said, the video is still kind of lame. Re-Do please. Flashing Lights <333.
ps: Kanye's CD is so much better than 50's. I remember when I thought it was the other way around, but now thinking about it. I listen to Kanye all the time and I never listen to 50. Graduation <3.
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Still a weird video though.
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KanYe: Rita G speaks about Video
Kanye West's Latest Video Vixen Defends 'Flashing Lights' Clip: 'It's Whatever You Want It To Be'
'This video will go over a lot of people's heads — and it's supposed to,' Rita G tells MTV News.
By Jayson Rodriguez
Huh?
That has been the reaction from many after watching Kanye West's latest video, for "Flashing Lights," which premiered last week and has been generating plenty of buzz online since.
In the clip, which Spike Jonze co-directed, a sexy temptress drives to the Nevada desert, pulls over her car, drops her fur coat to the ground and sets it on fire. She walks back to her vehicle (in not much clothing), pops the trunk — and there, viewers are stunned to find a bound-and-gagged 'Ye. The female lead then caresses West's face, reaches for a shovel and, out of view, begins to violently pummel the boastful rapper. The video abruptly cuts to black with only the words "Flashing Lights" written across the screen.
It's not exactly the good life.
There's no dialogue. There's no performance shot. The clip is just shy of three minutes (no, it's not a preview for an extended version coming later). And, according to what West said at a Grammy afterparty, "Every piece of the video is me, what I represent now," he said.
It's the "Sopranos" finale all over again: What does it mean? What happened? Wait, that's it?
"It's so funny," Rita G, the clip's star, told MTV News about the clip. "This video will go over a lot of people's heads — and it's supposed to. I think it's great that it does. Because Kanye is just on another level; he's ahead of his time, in a sense. So all the third-graders who come home from school and want to watch videos and snap their fingers and all that, they're probably gonna think, 'That video is wack, but that chick got a fat a--.' And that's fine. But people in higher positions, they're gonna see something different. They're gonna get it, people who are thinkers."
Rita G, a Playboy Playmate from Houston, admits that she almost didn't get it herself.
The finished version of "Flashing Lights" was actually the third attempt for Kanye, she said. West apparently wasn't satisfied with the first two versions. He wanted the clip to be more about fashion, sex and life, she said.
"He told his boy, 'Yo, I need you to call this girl called Rita G,' " the Playmate said, laughing. "I happen to know he's been a fan of mine for a while, because he mentioned something about me in an interview he did for Playboy quite some time back."
Once Kanye had his woman, Rita flew to the set and was caught off guard by how bare-bones the operation was. She said at her fitting, she saw only West and two female wardrobe stylists. West picked her outfit and accessories, and told her what he wanted.
Then when it came time to shoot, things changed ... again.
"It actually kept changing all the way until the day I came to where the car was, and the director was like, 'Oh, nobody told you the new idea?' " she said.
The shoot lasted under four hours, and Rita said she was surprised how excited West and his camp were with the footage afterward.
"I didn't know exactly how they were gonna piece it together or how the final edit was gonna look, but all I know is Kanye was very happy, him and a whole group of other men, like, grown-ass men, standing outside in the freezing cold with five levels of clothes on shivering, me naked," G recalled. "They stood out there for, like, half an hour just watching the monitor. I'm like, 'What else is there to see? It's only three minutes.' They kept watching it over and over and over. He was so happy."
For Rita, the post-video experience has been a whirlwind. Although she's successful in her own right, the response she has received since the video debuted has been enjoyable, she said.
"I have on a wig, I have on sunglasses," she said. "And not everybody knows every inch of my body, to be like, 'Oh, that's Rita G. But a lot of people, in message boards, apparently, they were like, 'It's gotta be Rita G!' "
The starlet has even glanced at online comments from viewers trying to grasp what exactly the video is about: A lover scorned? A mistress betrayed? A zealous fan seeking fame?
The answer is left to each person's imagination, she explained.
"I just think it's great to have a cliffhanger," she said. "It's great when the mother goose doesn't have to chew the food up for you and then feed it to you. Use your mother----ing mind. It's abstract. It's whatever you want it to be."
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KanYe: Little Chart update
33 21 West*kanye Stronger 47711 51 31653 2609456
69 50 West*kanye Flashing Lights 25602 21 21088 311028
-- 130 West*kanye Hey Mama 11804 464 2094 70200
Strong growth in Flashing Lights! 
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Now we can only hope that airplay gets back up there, damn, why can't the downloads and airplay ever coincide?
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AYYYYE he's coming to Charlotte, 5 days before my 20th birthday
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KanYe: #1 VIDEO AT ITUNES!
FLASHING LIGHTS IS #1 VIDEO AT iTunes!! If you havent purchased your HQ version from iTunes yet, GET ON IT! The video exposure is already impacting the songs sales...with airplay falling, this is our final chance to move it up the charts! Its current peak is #29 and it should have been a top 5 EASY! DO YOUR PART!
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Damn, this video is getting a lot of great feedback, it's actually starting to grow on me.
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"Flashing Lights" is #3 on my weekly list!
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Originally posted by Departure
I think it's still boring, whether it fits the lyrics or not. Who really wants to watch this type of a music video over and over again when enjoying your fav. song?
Isn't that the point of a music video? I put music videos on my iPod cause they are entertaining to watch when I listen to my favorite songs. Why would you specifically go to this video everytime you want to hear this song when all you see is a woman walking to and from her car
It might be a cool idea, but who really wants to watch this video entertainment wise? Hell no. That's why you have Stronger or Good Life. I would so go to those videos on my iPod cause A). I love the songs <3333 and B). The videos have awesome special effects in it and it's very creative and entertaining.
In that being said, the video is still kind of lame. Re-Do please. Flashing Lights <333.
ps: Kanye's CD is so much better than 50's. I remember when I thought it was the other way around, but now thinking about it. I listen to Kanye all the time and I never listen to 50. Graduation <3. |
I love the idea and the creativity of the video but after seeing it twice... its no longer entertaining to me.
i'd much rather hear the song....
Sorry Kanye i STILL love you and i still love the song and i stiill like the video... but its a lil morbid also.... so0 i wouldnt want to see it more than like 3 times.
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