August 2014

Director David Lynch can do anything. TV, movies, music, videos, coffee, ice bucket challenges...

Just imagine what he could have done with Kanye West, especially on a track like "Blood On The Leaves"... Alas, it seems we almost found out.

The Daily Beast has a long interview with Lynch, which includes this AMAZING answer about being a Kanye West fan:

“Blood on the Leaves” is one of my favorite songs. It’s great. He’s just ridin’ the wave and not takin’ no for an answer. We almost worked together, but I never got the ideas. I feel I let him down a little bit. I was going to do the music video for “Blood on the Leaves,” but it never happened. I didn’t come up with any ideas that I thought he would like. Kanye came up to the house one day. Kanye’s a good guy, and a great musician. I loved the song, and that’s what brought us together, but I couldn’t come up with ideas that thrilled either one of us."

Damn. So. Close.

Here's the problem with almost any "Most Expensive Music Videos Ever Made" list: It's all a guessing game unless you were the one signing or receiving the check.

This new Forbes list is all Michael Jackson and Madonna — they're not falling for any tall tales like Business Week did about Britney Spears' "Work Bitch" costing $6.5 million, which is crazy bitch — in almost the same order that Vh1 had for their "They Spent How Much??" recap last year.

The numbers, when adjusted for inflation in 2013 dollars, range from a paltry $6.9 million for Michael Jackson's "Black Or White" to $10.7 million for his "Scream" collaboration with Janet Jackson.

Are these numbers close? Who knows. Except maybe Mark Romanek, who directed two of these videos — including the apparently apocryphal #1 Most Expensive Video Ever Made:

@flytetymejam The info presented as fact in this article is way off -- by millions. "Scream" was never the most expensive video ever made.

— mark romanek (@markromanek) August 28, 2014

The parade of women in varying states of NSFW undress has got The Weeknd dizzy. And you might be a bit dizzy too, after you follow the hypnotic and graceful camera moves that pull you through just another night after night after night in his hotel suite.