We Were Once a Fairytale

"What happened to you last night?" "Umm...I don’t know." "Where did you go? We waited for you for a while?" "I don't know...I don’t really want to talk about it." "Where did you end up?" "F***! I said I didn't want to talk about it.... My head hurts. I'm gonna go lay down. I'll call you tomorrow." In December of 2008, Kanye West sent Spike Jonze his song See You In My Nightmares from 808s and Heartbreaks. They’d been talking for quite awhile about working on a project together, and it was finally a good time for both of them. Spike wrote a story for the song, working off of the raw feeling of 808s and Heartbreak. He suggested they do it as a short film, which would free them up creatively, and Kanye agreed. Spike, knowing Kanye’s level of commitment, cast him as the lead character – a pathetic, sad drunk in a club. Spike wanted to get a raw, shameless performance, and Kanye went for it, wholeheartedly. They filmed it over the course of two days at a club in West Hollywood, with a very low budget and a skeleton crew. It became an experimental short film for them.