{"id":481859,"date":"2019-02-05T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=790230"},"modified":"2019-02-05T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:26:16","slug":"travis-scotts-cant-say-is-the-john-wick-of-music-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/travis-scotts-cant-say-is-the-john-wick-of-music-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Scott\u2019s \u2018Can\u2019t Say\u2019 Is the \u2018John Wick\u2019 of Music Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Music videos rarely make sense. In 2019, artist\u2019s visuals usually take what most people like (songs), combine that with what many people on the internet are beginning to loathe (short form storytelling), and target a generation of consumers thoroughly familiar with YouTube\u2019s algorithms. A great song generally transports the listener into a new world of their making, it\u2019s enough for a music video to simply say, \u201cYour world sucks. Here is one that a label paid a lot of money for and a heap of special effects from the year 2000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travis Scott\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u201cCan\u2019t Say,\u201d featuring Don Toliver, is proof that this doesn\u2019t have to be the case by simply leaning into its excesses. It achieves the rare honor of being the John Wick<\/em><\/a> of music videos \u2014 brolic, epic and nonsensical \u2014 the visually stunning Nathalie Canguilhem-directed video borders on the incoherent, and doesn\u2019t seek to be anything more.<\/p>\n

Scott seems to be the leader of a dirt bike gang, decked in suits from Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello (can you say brand synergy, baby!). His adoring congregation follows him through the street as they all pop wheelies, while Scott triumphantly stands on his moving, two-wheel vehicle. The violet-drenched video then mixes its metaphors \u2014 a woman is crucified on a neon-lit cross, while horses gallop through the streets and some random dudes ride in go-karts. As long as music videos continue to be made they should all aspire to the heights of \u201cCan\u2019t Say.\u201d<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music videos rarely make sense. In 2019, artist\u2019s visuals usually take what most people like (songs), combine that with what many people on the internet are beginning to loathe (short form storytelling), and target a generation of consumers thoroughly familiar with YouTube\u2019s algorithms. A great song generally transports the listener into a new world of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 16:28:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}