KIM K'S CREEPY 'SANTA BABY' VID IS KIND OF COOL

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Kim K drops 'Santa Baby,' a surreal Christmas prayer featuring a bunch of freaks, a Tommy Ca$h doppelgänger (maybe it's actually him?), a girl in a fish tank, ruffians hoovering up cash and cocaine, and Macaulay Culkin as Saint Nick the auteur.

Kim Kardashian Santa Baby video

Kim K produced the song "Santa Baby" with her brother-in-law, Travis Barker, and shared the eerie yet intriguing video. The vid, shot by British multimedia artists Nadia Lee Cohen and Charlie Denis, showcases Kim as a slutty blonde slithering through a weirdo-infested Warholian-like X-mas wormhole. This seamlessly shot, glitched-out panorama is the perfect metaphor for 2024 Fourth Turning dynamics: civilizational decline, art angst, the wreckage accomplished under the idiot class over the last few years, and cultural renewal.

Macaulay Culkin in Kim Kardashian's video Santa Baby

Artistically speaking, however, this is a hot shot of rakia into a rather shriveled up art world. Everything undulates as the modern-day Marilyn Monroe squirms merrily around a drug-addled shindig lensed by Macaulay Culkin dressed as the bad santa. The vibe is strange, hot, and dark, even for a Kardashian.

We love the glitchy frames and the vintage graphic aesthetic. Nadia Lee Cohen delivers an astute, gaudy sense of color, and a way with moving image that's pretty darn cool. This film is four minutes that vibrates with sexual inuendo, decadence, X-mas spirit, and something prophetic. Watch it here. 

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