The new video for Lil Wayne’s Auto-Tune lament “How To Love” pulls off something impressive: In its five minutes, it packs in about twice the hysterical narrative melodrama that you’d see in the average CMT video. An aborted abortion! Spousal abuse! Child abuse! A self-loathing stripping sequence! An HIV diagnosis! Forced dialog! Tearful breakdowns! An impossibly lame false ending! Seriously, Martina McBride watched this shit and was like, “Jesus, Wayne, this is a bit much.”
Director Chris Robinson is usually way more dependable (he did “Bad Boy For Life!”), but if this is what it takes for Tha Carter IV to get a release, then whatever. Watch it below.
Tha Carter IV gets its release 8/29 on Cash Money/Young Money/Universal Motown.
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yikes.
guess what? the carter IV is gonna knock everybody’s socks off! i don’t care what anybody says! long live weezy!
and whatttttttt?.. about this lil description of my boy’s video? i thought it had a lot of nuance and took a lot of unexpected, non-cliche turns.
no matter what stereogum says, it definitely clinches chris robinson as the winner of the 2011 BET award for best music video director.
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surprising: 1. the video is not that bad and 2. as far as auto-tune ballads go, weezy gets a pass for this one, it’s really not as terrible as described, it’s a little maybe kind of good
Wow. I had always assumed this song was about a stripper.