Kanye West the Broken-Down Drunk in “We Were Once a Fairytale”

Americans love to hate our celebrity degenerates.  There is an aspect of things lurid and inaccessible to us that fascinates – I can’t be sitting around shooting heroin all the time because these spreadsheets aren’t going to spread themselves, etc. – but we’re also unsympathetic and spiteful like, hey Britney Spears, how dare you be so rich and famous and still think you have a right to have problems.  Of course, we also like to see successful people fail in humiliating ways, and Kanye West sort of responds to all that with his new Spike Jonze-directed short film We Were Once a Fairytale.

The film opens with Kanye drunk in the club, being obnoxious in a way that could only make sense to a really blitzed person.  (“I just wanted to f*cking have a good time, and somebody sends this stupid-@ss bottle over!  I don’t want any special treatment!”  How come when some people get drunk, they insist on paying for things for no reason?  That is a pretty inconvenient drunken reflex, in general.)  Kanye of stumbles through a crowd of disapproval-faced people (SOCIETY), acting the fool, and then he has sort of an Alien chest-burst moment in the bathroom.  Anyway, usually celebrities answer allegations of breakdowns and bad behavior through careful publicist statements, but Kanye’s pretty much saying, I brought this all on myself, but I don’t like it any more than you do (upside of a big ego: you own your flaws).  And everyone is like, yup, that’s our Kanye, always falling all over Fonzworth Bentley in the club and then tearing demon squirrels out of his intestines.  The whole short, after the jump.  

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