Speaking of getting paid for writing, here’s an expansion of my preliminary thoughts on “Monster”, which I posted last week as a sort of contextless part that I cut out of this longer piece.

One of the things about the video that jumps out at you is that it resembles nothing more than a fashion exhibition. For all its gore and carnage, no one’s clothes are even a little dirty. And everyone - even the corpses - are really well dressed. I mean, I wouldn’t kill someone for Jay-Z’s suit or Kanye’s brown trench, but I’d maybe think about it.