Kanye West – Street Lights (Fan Video)

Although I am not a big fan of 808s & Heartbreaks and even less of the fan-made videos, I must say this song and video trumps both of those negative feelings. I am still a big fan of Welcome to Heartbreak and Love Lockdown but Street Lights has quietly surpassed the ranks of those songs. And this video was just brilliant for interpolating Michele Gondry’s masterpiece, “Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind”. Originally spotted at Nah right. An explanation and background on the video after the jump. Great song to start my new year.

“I just wanted to make a video of Kanye West’s awesome track, “Street Lights” so I made this.

I wanted to have that cinematic feel to it, and luckily, there was a video here on Youtube that was perfect. It was a video called “Streetlights” by Hirnduebel, you can check out his channel here:

youtube.com/user/Hirnduebel

Also, in a thread in KanyeLive!, someone mentioned that a certain scene in the film, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” might have been the inspiration of the song, and amazingly, it sort of is. So when making this video, I chose that scene and spliced it with the song.

For some reason, when I was editing it, the cuts to the next clip were perfect, but after rendering it twice, once for mov. than another to .mp4, the audio changes. I have no idea why.

Oh, I also shortened the song, because both the video clips I was used were as not as long as the song.

Anwyays, I hope you enjoy!”

–Flipboitamidles