Kanye shot three videos for “Flashing Lights” according to the uploader of this “version you weren’t meant to see.” (Riiiight.) The last one, directed by Spike Jonze, found Kanye bound, gagged, and beaten with a shovel. This time, Bill Pollock is behind the sexy stop-motion of model Charlotte Carter-Allen, who eats breakfast at 3, smokes cigarettes, and tries on lots of outfits. It’s all voyeuristic and fun, then things get violent. All told, you’re not gonna see this version on MTV either. Kanye’s in it too, in flashbacks or something. Hope take three ties everything together. Or contains a sexy Connect Four tourney.

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Comments (23)
  1. moore  |   Posted on May 25th, 2008

    if anyone says “his ego is too big” or something retarded like that they should just go in a corner and die. the video is ok, the first one was a lot better in my opinion.

  2. she is very hot.

  3. If only the song wasn’t so…boring.

  4. Greg  |   Posted on May 25th, 2008

    Sweet American Apparel ad!

  5. ...Doesn't matter  |   Posted on May 25th, 2008

    This music is boring only for people that don’t understand the meaning of it, “T”….
    Go back to Soulja Boy.

  6. Who gives a shit about Kanye West anymore…he’s so 2006

  7. All I can think of when I hear this song now is GTA4. That’s a good thing, I guess?

  8. I really didn’t like the first video. This video makes little to no sense as well but it has the most beautiful girl I have seen in a long time. I would do horrible unforgivable things to get with her

  9. i like kanye west,

    but does anyone else agree that he is an AWFUL rapper?

  10. I really enjoyed this one. the first version; not so much. Being the filmmaker that I am, I think that using stop motion is a really creative way to hide the story(if you havent noticed already).

  11. prapa  |   Posted on May 26th, 2008

    i like the approach to sex sells. It’s more arty than the most hip hip videos.

  12. Alex  |   Posted on May 26th, 2008

    Classic misogyny. I mean, it’s a really good video, but still – classic misogyny.

  13. Mark  |   Posted on May 26th, 2008

    I’ve got to say the first one was a lot better.

  14. Thomas  |   Posted on May 26th, 2008

    This might actually be a version “we weren’t meant to see” – it’s obviously a rough cut, with the way it drags on and the clunky story narrative. It’s cool looking but doesn’t feel like a finished product. I’m sure they wanted the public to see it eventually, but probably after more editing.

  15. jesus  |   Posted on May 27th, 2008

    ‘Hope take three ties it all together’

    who is doing the hoping? the writer of this article? the entire stereogum staff? stereogum’s omnipresent corporate owners? it’s so incredibly passive that it’s almost like it’s not hoping at all, it’s almost as if there is someone named Hope Take Three who ties it all together.

  16. Mike  |   Posted on May 27th, 2008

    Dude, calm down.

  17. Boy Williams  |   Posted on May 28th, 2008

    Isn’t rap completely burned out? My god, how boring. I’ve got an idea, rappers – sing! Sing a song, sing out loud, sing out strong! Sing of good things, not bad, sing of happy, not sad! I’d have much more respect for Kanye if he covered “The Pennsylvania Polka” instead of this rehashed top 40 crap.

  18. Greg  |   Posted on May 29th, 2008

    gone huh? i liked this one the best

  19. the truth  |   Posted on May 31st, 2008

    Whoever wrote this needs to do their homework and not just copy and paste from other outlets. If they had done that, they’d know this was directed by NEON.

  20. erick  |   Posted on Jun 1st, 2008

    You guys at Stereogum do know that Lil Wayne’s Carter 3 leaked two days ago right? Let’s hope. It’s only the biggest album of the year so far..

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