So, Benazir Bhutto’s daughter has released a rap video lamenting the loss of her mother just over a year ago:
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RxgiLARd5I&feature=related]
Now, I’ll admit I didn’t expect that. But those arbiters of taste at Vanity Fair know what this means. It means they can diss Puff Daddy (a.k.a Sean “Diddy”… you know the rest):
As tributes go, Bhutto’s video is superior to “I’ll Be Missing You,” Puffy and Evans’s musical memorial to the Notorious B.I.G., who was murdered on March 9, 1997. For one thing, Puffy’s big budget (and bigger ego) lured him off-topic, and there are too many shots of him riding his tricked-out motorcycle and spinning in the rain.
Bhutto’s video, while amateurish, is filled with inspiring montages of her mother campaigning shortly before her death and of the masses mourning her.
The songs are different too. Puffy’s shameless sample of the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” may have won him a Grammy, but it was also the first sign of his impending ubiquity. It’s all about him missing his dead friend. Bhutto keeps the focus on her late mother…
Which, evidently, would be too much effort for the VF guys. That’s 2009 off to a tasteful start.
