Kanye West is apparently trying to make people think that a lot of the famous faces you see in his video for “Famous” are actually the real people. And while this might be true for a few, many who appear are being quick to deny any appearance. Also some are just pretty obvious.
While Kim Kardashian and Caitlyn Jenner making appearances isn’t out of the realm of possibilities, and Rihanna’s appearance would make sense, there’s no way Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, or Taylor Swift made an appearance. And Swift isn’t mentioned because of her supposed “beef” with West either. You just wouldn’t expect that pop music’s top princess would appear in the nude for a video with Kanye West. She seems far more concerned with making appearances alongside Tom Hiddleston.
That said, some have confirmed that their appearances are the real deal. US Weekly reached out to a former aide to George W. Bush for the following reply:
An aide for former president Bush tells Us Weekly, “That’s not him.”
What a shocker, right? Though you don’t have to go far to find a naked George W. Bush. Just look for his paintings.
Chris Brown also confirms that his appearance isn’t him with a humorous post on Instagram that says the following:
Requests are apparently out to the rest of those in the video, with no respone from Anna Wintour or Caitlyn Jenner’s folks yet. As for Kanye, he is aware of what people are saying about his genius this morning:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/746735282251149312
And as far as the video, it was apparently pieced together over months of shooting until he was happy:
How much of what appears in “Famous” is real? The video, which was filmed over a period of three months and cycled through four different formats and several different collaborators until West felt he’d achieved the result he wanted, leaves you guessing as to which of the celebrities are really playing themselves and which are presumably only there by the grace of some advanced prosthetic wizardry (will the real Taylor Swift please stand up?). Speaking from an L.A. editing suite where he was still obsessively recutting the film the day before its premiere—while also shooting a new scene involving Caitlyn Jenner and a purple Porsche—West was loath to divulge too much of what went on behind the curtain. For him, the ambiguity goes to the core of what he’s trying to say about the mythos of contemporary celebrity.
So it really doesn’t matter what is real or not in his video. People are still going to talk and that’s the point behind it all.
(Via TMZ / US Weekly / Cosmopolitan / Vanity Fair)
