The concept is literally Taylor is invisible so she dances cringe. At a certain point, you cannot calibrate all your work to the dumbest person in the room. For the sake of quality, collateral damage must be accepted.
Irrespective of our friendship, this is my honest opinion:
@taylorswift13
is putting on the show of a lifetime with the Eras Tour. It's as big, bold, and artistic as any of the great pop stars of history. It's fueled by her imagination and her soul. It's stunning and beautiful.
🔙 4 years ago today, in 2018, Taylor Swift released the music video of "End Game" from "reputation" 🐍
Thank you
@JosephKahn
for the amazing music videos of "reputation" 😍 Hoping that you will work on "1989 (TV)" & "reputation (TV)" 🥺
Heard a great Tom Cruise story. On Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol they did an animatic of the Burj Khalifa sequence, explaining how there was going to be a digital Tom to do the stunts. Tom then angrily said "THERE IS NO DIGITAL TOM! JUST TOM!" So they shot it for real.
Hey
@JosephKahn
In celebration of Taylor's 34th birthday, can you share what this chandelier room in LWYMMD is meant to represent? Eager minds have wondered for years!
🔙 4 years ago today, Taylor Swift released "…Ready For It?" music video
#4YearsOfReadyForIt
It received 20.4M views in its first 24h. It is one of her best music video. Everything is perfect and so well done 😍 Thank you
@JosephKahn
for this amazing work!
Taylor Swift turned down a $100 million deal with crypto exchange company FTX after asking if they were selling ‘unregistered securities.’
The now-bankrupt company and the celebrities it partnered with are now being sued for promoting the sale of unregistered securities.
Taylor Swift has surprised local food banks in Arizona and Nevada with donations, which she will reportedly continue to do as she tours around the country.
“Allowing us to provide thousands of meals to families and individuals struggling with hunger.”
I'm actually having a blast editing these down into 15 to 30 second distillations. Combining my music video and commercial skills. Blank Space 30 baby.
I've been working with
@MariahCarey
for over 20 years but tonight is the first time I've seen her live in concert, and I'm blown away. Her voice goes from soul to pop to opera effortlessly in seconds. No one like her. Wow!
🔙 7 years ago today, in 2014, Taylor Swift released "Blank Space" as the 2nd single from "1989"
#7YearsOfBlankSpace
It peaked at No.1 on the Hot 100 for 7 weeks and is 8x platinum in the US. The video has 2.66B views on YouTube.
Thank you
@JosephKahn
for this iconic video!
I think it's super cool Taylor is getting known as a director and I fully support her journey. Here she describes our relationship and how she eventually stepped into directing, first with other co-directors. Truly one of the smartest people I know.
Rolling Stone ranked
@MariahCarey
as the 5th greatest singer of all time. The four ahead of her are dead, therefore she's the greatest singer alive. Living legend.
Rolling Stone ranked the 200 Greatest Singers of all Time 🎤
#112
- Ozzy Osbourne
#102
- Taylor Swift
#86
- Michael Jackson
#22
- Adele
#8
- Beyoncé
See the full ranking here ⬇️
I've been working with
@mariahcarey
a long time and she still amazes me: voice, beauty, kindness, and songwriting. Truly one of the greatest of all time. God made her then went on vacation (dahling).
I had a deep, depressing existential crisis a couple years ago…until I got married and had kids. Schopenhauer, Sartre, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche were all childless and unmarried. No wonder they spent their lonely waking moments wondering what their purpose was.
Got 4 floor seats to Taylor's concert for my family (thank you T) and apparently they're going for up to $40,000 each on the market. Crazy. Anyway mine are not for sale.
Well just delivered the first "live multicam" show I've ever directed. Airs in less than two hours. I've spent the last four days in NYC not sleeping, finishing it. I look like the bass player of a Korean Metallica cover band.
Some fans claim Taylor stopped working with me because she canceled me, which diminishes her self determination to direct. It implies the only reason she is directing is because she broke up with another man. This is really stupid. She just wanted to direct, period. Respect.
In the 2000s I wanted to make a Wonder Woman movie with Britney Spears. I spent a good deal of time thinking about and designing it in my head. I never pitched it.
Congratulations to the Queen
@MariahCarey
on being the 5th Greatest Billboard Artist of All Time From The Beginning of History And Still Rising. Also a truly fabulous person inside and out.
I used to go there all the time. Work out in the 24 Hour Gym next to Tommy Wiseau and Justin Timberlake. Stand in cinema line behind Soderberg, Drew Barrymore. See a midnight Starship Q+A by Verhoeven. I think I still have thousands of unused points. RIP 2000-2020 Hollywood.
I found a pair of wireless earbuds I had lost for 9 months and I think this is God telling me I did a good job on the
@AppleTVPlus
@MariahCarey
Christmas Special coming out this Friday.
There is a significant portion of “the economy is bad” consensus being pushed by 18 year olds who are upset they don’t make $100,000 a month on their social channels like everyone they watch.
It took me while but I'm realizing the awesome movies that inspired me from the 70s to 90s were a fluke, an accident of young directors who infiltrated studios as they transitioned power from old families to corporate conglomerates, but now the final form is complete.
Seattle school board is shutting down the gifted program, which allows the top 2% of standardized test takers to receive enriched learning.
They say it doesn't "accurately represent the diversity of the district"
Wonder if they will shut down the football/basketball program 🤔
Tobey Maguire: Soft and sweet Gen X Spider-Man
Andrew Garfield: Angry emo skater Millennial Spider-Man.
Tom Holland: Sarcastic Gen Z YouTuber sponsored by Stark Industries Spider-Man.
AIWFCIY video I did with Mariah is already
#30
most viewed video in last 24 hours on YouTube and rising - over a month away from Christmas. Merry Mariah y'all.
My job as a music video director is to crystalize the artist forever like a sculpture or painting. No different than what the Renaissance artists did for their patrons, except with cameras while random teenagers try to cancel you.
My mother was born in 1946 in Korea, in the aftermath of WW2. She was raised in a room with 7 people, lived through the Korean War in which her dad died. Anyway, this is what I thought as she ate at a $100 a person Thanksgiving buffet.
Hollywood fight scenes are boring! They switch between slow moving actors and stuntmen. It's diluted Hong Kong choreo. Compare them to someone like Jackie Chan who can really do everything and do it with his own style at high tempo and creativity.
Anti-semitism is a singular form of hatred because it's an extinction movement. There are so few Jews in the world - about 15 million. In a world of 2 billion Christians and 2 billion Muslims, it's a constant uphill battle for them.