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Melbourne (ANI): Kanye West is set to release the longest ever music video. The Grammy Award-winning rapper will release a 40-minute epic for his new Runaway single. The music video will be longer by 29 seconds, beating the record of the former title-holder, Michael Jackson''s Ghosts, which timed in at 39 minutes and 31 seconds.


Buzz up!West said that the movie will be an ‘Epic piece of art’ based on West’s song debut on September 12 at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, the Herald Sun reported. The song's story is inspired by the entertainer's own story. The story is severely criticized in which a phoenix falls to earth and then burns herself to escape
 
He may beat the record for the longest video but I doubt he'll have as many people tuning in to watch it!
 
IMO, the "longest music video world record" is useless. Anyone can make a really long music video. I'm more concerned with it being good. That being said, everyone knows that Michael did like holding world records. Why didn't Kanye just cut 30 seconds from the video out of respect for Michael?

Anyway, I hope Kanye's video is good. He's a talented guy. But, the entire concept of using a music video to tell a story is all Michael's. Getting the world record for longest music video won't change that.
 
diana79 said:
IMO, the "longest music video world record" is useless. Anyone can make a really long music video. I'm more concerned with it being good. That being said, everyone knows that Michael did like holding world records. Why didn't Kanye just cut 30 seconds from the video out of respect for Michael?

Anyway, I hope Kanye's video is good. He's a talented guy. But, the entire concept of using a music video to tell a story is all Michael's. Getting the world record for longest music video won't change that.
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THIS
even i can do it if i had that kinda money :lol:
 
They still make music videos? Funny whenever I turn it to MTV or VH1 all I see is crappy television shows.
 
I don't really consider Ghosts to be a music video anyway. Thriller was a music video, and Ghosts was a Musical because it contained more than one song. There are a lot of Musicals that are longer than Ghosts already…
 
It's pretty easy to break a record when you know the record to beat. Plus it doesn't matter much anymore. Charles Lindenburgh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic. Can anyone name the guy who flew further the second time? Didn't think so.
 
diana79 said:
But, the entire concept of using a music video to tell a story is all Michael's.
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Actually it's not, artists were using video's as a visual for the story they were trying to portray through records long before "Thriller". Michael innovated the short film concept of it...Anywho, I like Kanye and I love this song, I just hope it's better than "Power" and isn't 39 minutes of a still photo of Kanye with moving backgrounds.
 
40 minutes for a kanye west video is not worth my time
 
diana79 said:
IMO, the "longest music video world record" is useless. Anyone can make a really long music video.
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Agreed. Technically even I can do it with a shitty camcorder and some background music.

That being said, everyone knows that Michael did like holding world records. Why didn't Kanye just cut 30 seconds from the video out of respect for Michael?
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Why would he do that? That's extremely silly. Other artists don't run their career based on how it reflects on Michael Jackson, not that it even reflects on MJ at all 'cause it's a meaningless record. Hypothetically, though, if an artist today had an album that was threatening to sell more than Thriller (this will NEVER happen in our lifetimes so it is 100% hypothetical), should he/she want to put a halt on future sales of said album so that Thriller still holds the record, "out of respect for Michael"? Lol. Come on.

If the Runaway short movie is sufficiently entertaining, then cool. If it's long just for the sake of being long, then lame.

Kanye as an artist often gets underrated because he can be such a prick, but he's damn good at what he does.
 
And I'm sure it will be 40 minutes of crap. No offense, I'm just not a Kanye West fan. -_- Ghosts is far superior than anything he might do. Quality not quantity. Anyone's attempts at trying to outdo MJ are futile.
 
To be honest, I prefer watching Thriller 3 times in a row than watching the new kanye west video. No offence :)
 
OH MY GOD NO! :eek:


MICHAELS ARTISTRY WAS ALL ABOUT HAVING LONG VIDEOS! AND HIS ARTISTRY HAS NOW BEEN SURPASSED BY EXACTLY 29 SECONDS!!! :eek:

I guess we must accept Kanye as the new King of Pop :(
 
Actually, you guys are right. I changed my mind. Clearly this is phase one in Kanye West's futile attempt to unseat Michael Jackson as the best ever. I will now proceed to go on and on about all the reasons why Kanye is not in MJ's league like an insecure rattled 15 year-old fangirl, as if there is anyone here who isn't already aware that Kanye will never reach MJ's level, but I will still point it out needlessly because I am a hater who is determined to dislike anything new... as evidenced by my judgment of a music video that I haven't even seen yet.
 
I think Kanye may have already won for the shortest video. Power was like 1:30 long. I was like, "Where is the rest of it"?

But seriously, what does it matter who has the longest video. And it's not like you will see it on TV. They may show it one time. After that, it will be shortened to 4 min. It won't even matter. And a record such as this which does not involve artistry or quality is hardly relevant. MJ's legacy has more important issues at hand than whether or not he keeps the record for the longest video.
 
Chaos said:
OH MY GOD NO! :eek:


MICHAELS ARTISTRY WAS ALL ABOUT HAVING LONG VIDEOS! AND HIS ARTISTRY HAS NOW BEEN SURPASSED BY EXACTLY 29 SECONDS!!! :eek:

I guess we must accept Kanye as the new King of Pop :(
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I think that before saying that he should cut "30 seconds of the video out of respect for MJ", one should look at the quoted post and think.

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Hello? It's Michael Jackson! Seriously, who cares if that guy's video is 40 min, 50 min or even a hour long?
 
Not one word of congratulations? He broke (/will break) one of Michaels records (one he didn't set in the first place), and that's bound to happen. Once word gets out Kanye does something like this, you all hate him or think of a reason for it not to matter. By all means don't watch it, but don't judge something just because it broke one of Michaels records. Records are made to be broken.
 
Butterfly26 said:
Ridiculous! Kanye has become a clown. Longest video? Why not shortest?
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So it's ridiculous. And him breaking a record makes him a clown. But when Michael broke the last record with Ghosts I'm sure you were thinking differently. Slightly hypocritical if you think about it.
 
Tom said:
So it's ridiculous. And him breaking a record makes him a clown. But when Michael broke the last record with Ghosts I'm sure you were thinking differently. Slightly hypocritical if you think about it.
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Although it's still an unimportant record, I would love to see these same people's reactions when they originally learned that Ghosts holds the record for the longest music video of all-time.
 
The huge difference from Michael´s Ghosts and his Runaway is that Ghosts is a spectacular short movie of amazing special effects, excellent dance choreographies, great music and iconic vision of Michael Jackson, the King Of Pop. Kenye is just an average hip.hop artist... who likes to boast himself with nothing but a wannabe star dream. Michael Jackson is the global ICON, so... to compare anything with him is ridiculous...

Post a message - http://entertainment.oneindia.in/comment/2010/09/66536.html
 
Moonwalker.Fan said:
The huge difference from Michael´s Ghosts and his Runaway is that Ghosts is a spectacular short movie of amazing special effects, excellent dance choreographies, great music and iconic vision of Michael Jackson, the King Of Pop. Kenye is just an average hip.hop artist... who likes to boast himself with nothing but a wannabe star dream. Michael Jackson is the global ICON, so... to compare anything with him is ridiculous...

Post a message - http://entertainment.oneindia.in/comment/2010/09/66536.html
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Still, it's longer than Ghosts. No need to argue about who's better, a record's a record.
 
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