This is the full-length Runaway movie / short film / music video from Kanye West. It’s alright, but nothing special.
I like Kanye West, I really do. And I like his music too. But I’m not buying into all the crap that’s being written about Runaway, his new short film which some commentators are describing as “genius” and “a work of art.”
You’d think Kanye was the new Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino the way people are going on. He’s not even the new Michael Jackson, so let’s not kid ourselves or make his ego grow any larger.
Runaway is OK, but most of it is pretentious crap that could only have come from the mind of someone who keeps getting told how brilliant he is, even if the people doing the brown-nosing are lackeys paid for doing just that.
Watch Runaway by all means. Some of you will like it, others will not. But let none of us go over the top about how it makes Kanye some sort of second coming. Because he’s not. He’s a rapper, and a singer, and a celebrity. And that is all.
