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The Music Video That Wiley Walked Off Of - It's Terrible!

Posted about 1 year ago

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Wiley
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Wearing My Rolex

What's going on with music videos these days? So many of them are badly produced or make the artist look bad in some way. The new video for Wiley's dance track "Wearing My Rolex" is a fine example. I heard the stories about Wiley walking off the set and refusing to participate, so I wasn't expecting much. But now I can see why he didn't want to be part of it. It has no street cred and none of the elements that make grime vids look really fun to make. Have a look:

What's worse is that this is some weird play on Dizzee's video for "Sirens" that came out last year. Wiley would be a fool to get involved in a vid that looked like a cheap imitation of something Dizzee did.

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MrFrost says what in the hell did i just waste 2 minutes watching?

Permalink posted 04/01/2008
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mollifire says haha! well i DID warn you! you're so funny Frost. :) i'll post a slew of wicked grime vids next to make up for it.

Permalink posted 04/01/2008
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Cinful says Mr. Frost ... you made it for 2 whole minutes?!!! You deserve a gold star ... I didn't even make it for 1 minute. I can feel a bad nightmare coming on tonight ... LOL!!!

Permalink posted 04/02/2008
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Baudolino says The pre-production meeting must have been a real hoot. "I've got this GREAT idea - let's do the video with loads of foxy babes! And we'll dress them up as.....FOXES! BRILLIANT or what?" "Errrrrr....."

Permalink posted 04/02/2008
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Sturgell says (warning: inner-critic unleashed) first off the song is named "Wearing My Rolex" which is enough want to walk away right off the bat. I read the post/comments first then watched the vid. I didn't really understand what was so bad or why Wiley walked. Seemed like any other video at first, but then I took a closer look. Quite simply the costumes, dancing, set design and the overall concept were of very low quality. Like, backyard "I'm bored let's film some shit my brother has a nice camera" quality. I imagine this vid is a case of hiring friends and not professionals.

Permalink posted 04/02/2008
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mollifire says That's exactly the problem - low budget all the way thru. But Wiley had nothing to do with the it. He voiced the track and later agreed to be in the video. But when he showed up he was like F this! (I'm guessing the producer of the tune organized it, coz the song isn't WIley's and it's not on his label either).

Permalink posted 04/02/2008
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TroyPowers says I dunno. I'm kinda digging the dancing chipmunks. :)

Permalink posted 04/08/2008