Kanye West's 34-minute video for "Runaway" is fraught with symbolism, ballerinas
If his newly amended album cover and recent Saturday Night Live performance haven’t yet clued you in, Kanye West’s upcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has high-art aspirations and something to do with ballerinas. Ballerinas and feathers: Like suits and cherubs, Kanye West just can’t get enough of them these days. Also phoenixes, because a phoenix is a mythological bird that’s consumed by flames and born anew from its own ashes, and one time Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards and people were like, “What an asshole” for a while, so he can relate.