HOLY HELL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFU9nOD7NQc
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
HOLY zzzzzzzz
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.layoutlocator.com/graphics/dldimg/53daf210b9eb64b7e5f2ceafe05f8499_haters_keep_on_hatin-6777.jpg
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Great reply! xp
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
This feels like a step backwards after 808s and Heartbreak. If the drums had been a straight-up D&B beat rather than a watered-down homage, it would have been a stronger song IMO.
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
oof so if, say, like me, you were a person that thought 808s sucked and was a huge step back already, you should steer clear of this i guess
― it's detlef season, you schremps (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't feel like its a step back, just sort of a lateral move really. It isn't better than 85% of 808s but tbh, so much better than I was anticipating this single to be. I'm really thankful that its NOT straight up D&B, that would be horrible. I do have to admit that I really love the sample, which may be coloring my opinion of the rest of the song.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 kanye <3
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a bunch of bombast with no real anchor, basically. I might grow to like it but there's nothing about the song that makes it stand out or tries to earworm you, completely unlike the stronger 808s songs ("Love Lockdown", "Paranoid", "Welcome To Heartbreak")
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think "Power" is amazing but I like the chanting and the King Crimson sample and I thought 808s was kind of a snooze so I'm glad it doesn't sound like that
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
808s was super navel-gazing; if you're not predisposed towards that, it's a much harder sell.
Fortunately I'm a big dopey goth so it was kind of like Kanye was pandering to me with that album.
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
If he continues with the prog samples, he'll certainly be pandering to me!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
If I had a problem with navel-gazing, I would not post "<3 kanye <3"
My problem with 808s was more the boring autotune singing and the lack of rapping and fun. I did like "Love Lockdown" and maybe one or two other tunes, and I appreciated that he was trying something a little different/unexpected.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 June 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
IMO there's a difference between being all into yourself (aka Kanye throughout the entirety of his career) and being a big navel-gazer (aka 808s; super insular, not very expressive or expansive, way more interested in entertaining yourself than other people). I thought that Kanye's self-obsession and the really unflattering picture it painted of him was a really involving listen, one that was much deeper than probably even he realized; like, I think he knew he was walking an unpleasant road but I don't think he intended the process of exorcising his relationship demons to be that harsh on the listener's image of him.
I don't know, I just really, really loved that album. Except for "Pinocchio Story", that was some bullshit.
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, what does this song have to do with drum'n'bass (and/or Dave & Buster's)?
i'm really just tired of dude doing clunky 'aggressive' songs that sound like "2 Words"
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
It doesn't; it just has a busy, active drumbeat and I would have liked it more if it was full-on sped-up Amen breaks.
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ok. they will bang this shit out at Dave & Buster's though i bet
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought that was a pretty great performance, at least for a few minutes -- i don't have massive hopes for this album or anything, considering how kanye has rapped in the past year or year and a half and considering some of the clunkers on "power" itself == but i am glad that he's back
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 June 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
idk he was like, hopping around a mic stand on top of a paper mache volcano in front of an Imax movie about the Himalayas, what's so great about it?
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
you pretty much just answered your own question there
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 28 June 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it was very Kanye, altho he should've come off the mountain after like minute 2
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 June 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dude it's a family show
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
ew >:o
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 June 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure it looked pretty hokey in person, but the fact that they managed to get some of those snow globe shots on the BET awards' shoestring budget (how many rappers mics worked properly? half?) has got to be some sort of success.
also i like to imagine that after the song ended and they wheeled his paper maiche volcano backstage he just stayed up there for the remainder of the show.
― Jacques_Lamure, Monday, 28 June 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i get that everything Kanye does is really about being 'grandiose' or 'forward-thinking' or whatever, but when he uses the same kinds of gestures over and over to that end, it really just comes off kind of anti-climactic and bereft of ideas. i mean, i know Kanye wants people to go HOLY SHIT after a performance like that, i just can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would.
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
it was very Kanye, altho he should've come off the mountain after like minute 2― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 28, 2010 1:11 PM (1 hour ago)dude it's a family show― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE)
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 28, 2010 1:11 PM (1 hour ago)
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE)
Actual LOL, thanks to you both.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
haha totally
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
this sounds like crack music. i mean, one of the reasons i was a big 808s defender is because i took it as a momentary diversion, not a future direction, but it still sounded hella fresher than this. and damn dude just can't stay away from austin powers.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i thought that perf was kinda endearingly cheapo compared to his usual big deals, i dunno
dude couldve saved a couple extra bucks and seen if the temple from lost was still in storage somewhere imo
― r|t|c, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
xp yeah i imagine this will be a back-to-kanye-basics comfort album, maybe with some gil scott heron type agitatory b.s thrown in
i don't really mind personally - at very least i think it's a well-judged move and exactly what ppl want from him again whether they enjoy that fact or not
― r|t|c, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
what's up with his voice on this rap today, it's kinda drake-y
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― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
every time I hear that song, I just want to listen to King Crimson
here's a totally awesome version of Norwegian deathjazz crew Shining doing "21st Century Schizoid Man" that ALSO CAME OUT THIS YEAR which is better than the Kanye version any day of the week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eXUjfVPkGk
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Is that apple not up to your usual standards, well then here's an ORANGE!"
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
shut the fuck up, he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0)
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously dude? Fuck off right back at you then. I take back any nice things I said about you.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
shining are boring
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 June 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
big lol from over here
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
damn, i was only kidding dude :(
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
u_u
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Gee, hard to believe I might misconstrue "shut the fuck up".
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
the thing is, when you write mean shit in a deadpan style most people can't actually tell that you're kidding
― Opinions are a lot like assholes. You've got LOTS of BOTH of them. (HI DERE), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i pretty much never mean it when i tell somebody to stfu on ilx :/
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
So much for that 2009 Whiney thread where you declared yourself Mr. Positive for a week or so, amirite?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
shut the fuck up, ilxor
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Monday, June 28, 2010 4:19 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this post is otm, 808s as much as i like it at least was a one-off, now he's like "back to saving rap!" and it's his same old same old. and i kept thinking of the song today and getting "Crack Music" stuck in my head instead.
― ~athdouspart (some dude), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
hug it out, dudes
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i pretty much never mean it when i tell somebody to stfu on ilx :/― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 3:46 PM (7 minutes ago)shut the fuck up, ilxor― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 3:49 PM (3 minutes ago)
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 3:46 PM (7 minutes ago)
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 3:49 PM (3 minutes ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llIQUqfljr0
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor and jon, i have nothing but love, you don't really have to stfu afaik
― Mr. Zomg 6 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
stfu
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 28 June 2010 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this album tho
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when you guys gang up on me i'm always right though
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amateur hour. someone hit the fucking gong already on this clown.
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