Would I give it a 10? No way in hell, but there are songs worth mentioning because they explore different artistic ground for Kanye, beyond bitches and booze. After my mind stopped exploding, I gave the album a few go-throughs on Grooveshark and decided that Pitchfork was onto something. I started listening to MBDTF last week because a friend of mine was defending Nicki Minaj’s cultural relevance by using the song “Monster”. He was hitting a little too close to home with all this shit. And when I saw l the leaked videos that forced Bon Iver to awkwardly stand there and be useful in the song for a terribly, auto-tuned destroyed version of that voice, I decided it was over between me and Kanye. I hold the Bowery in a special place in my heart because of the great indie shows I’ve seen there over the past four years – to see Kanye charging upwards of $100 for a 300-person capacity venue was so blatantly capitalistic that I wanted to vomit at him telling the media his album is “art”. Then I heard about Kanye’s impromptu Bowery Ballroom performance just one day after that review went public. Wait: Pitchfork NEVER does that, that type of admiration is usually reserved for indie rock bands if at all, and suddenly Rolling Stone agrees? What is up with that? When that news permeated my atmosphere, I had two reactions: 1. Pitchfork gave Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 10/10. Like most people, I decided that Kanye had had his 15 minutes of fame, would never live up to the greats and was heading down an annoying path.Įnter November 22, 2010. I enjoy it sometimes, like when I’m wasted at the bar or pretending I’m Beyoncé in my room, but I was so glad when Jay-Z finally told the rap community to take it easy on auto-tune.Įnter Kanye’s ridiculous public outbursts, most notably his total p0wn of Taylor Swift’s Best Video Award at 2009’s MTV Music Awards ( head to 0:43). I truly dislike auto-tune because I think it’s both lazy and gimmicky. Then he released 808s and Heartbreaks and I generally speaking, stopped being his fan. I always thought his musical or artistic talent lies more in production than in music-making, but whatever, I got down with Kanye like the rest of America. I used to bump Graduation with the best of them.
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Sure, I enjoy College Dropout and Late Registration every now and again and even saw him perform at my alma mater back in 2008. I ignored My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for a long time because honestly, I’m pretty sick of Kanye West’s antics.
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