Yeah that's true but it's like always about the same shut so if you want to hear that it's tight
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That was to some dude.
There are is one line that kinda recalls kanye's verse
"stretch minousine sippin rosé all alone/ double headed monster with a mind of his own"
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I never needed acceptance from all you outsidersHad cyphers with Yeezy before his mouth wiredBefore his jaw shattered climbin' up the Lord's ladder
^^c'mon this is awesome
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Not as awesome as
These muthafuckas mad that I'm icy!!!!!!!
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:16 (thirteen years ago) link
no
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah that's obv a powerful bit in his verse bit it's just like such a personal song ate beginning and so interesting. That's what this album is ostensibly about... His fucking dark fantasy of a life! It was a weird choice to have Rick Ross on that song and I think it's one exams of his lack of focus on the album. It's like he thinks any idea is a good idea.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i think your criticism is better applied to the rae verse tbh -- i think ross sounds too... at home over that beat to hate it
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I don't get that song. It's kind of a mess
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i know i'm not supposed to get mad at this kinda shit but the first line of this review makes me want to strangle the writer
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/11/kanye-west-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy.html
long live the death of that piece of shit magazine
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i mostly agree w/ jordan
that said, diddy is awesome, and diddy is already artydid everyone forget thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMUCYxqR2Dk&feature=fvst
― challop and a muff (deej), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
not me!!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 04:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Dude, surfboards, Ross KILLS "Devil in a New Dress." He's fantastic on it.
― altered boners (rennavate), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"There was a time when Kanye West seemed too inventive, too smart and too good for pop music."
WHEN WAS KANYE NOT POP MUSIC?
― altered boners (rennavate), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
still making my way through the posts since yesterday but
it's like he became this symbolic "megastar" simply because we needed one and he was flawed and narcissistic enough to fit the tenor of the times. this despite the fact he never really did put out the mega-populist breakthrough songs/albums that such pop coronations have traditionally depended on. "golddigger" is still as close as he's come.
is OTM. kanye is sort of the biggest pop star 'by default' (and not even in my book, lady gaga be bigger).
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i only skim contederizer posts obv but seriously the last part of that statement is just beyond wrong
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
The single broke a record for the most digital downloads in a week [1], selling over 80,000 digital downloads, and was also the fastest selling digital download of all time; both records have since been broken. It was 2005's second-longest running number one on the Billboard Hot 100 at ten weeks, behind Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together".
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The song lists at number 49 on Billboard magazine's All Time Top 100[2] and at 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade
so, that's just objectively wrong
it was only the #1 song in the country for 10 weeks, no coronation from the pop audience
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
that wasn't the point I was OTMing contenderizer about, btw
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh alright -- well he's still wrong
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
and I think what contenderizer was getting at wasn't just putting out a single megasong/album but putting out a string of mega singles. like yeah gold digger was a huge success, but what other ye songs have come close?
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:20 (thirteen years ago) link
well "stronger" also went #1 on an album that sold like 900k in its first week
yeah but how long did it stay there
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
one week i think, altho knocking "crank dat" -- one of the biggest hits of the decade -- off is a feat in of itself
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:24 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but then crank dat retook the #1 spot for like 6 weeks afterwards according to wiki
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean the guy has three #1 singles, four other top ten singles, four top twenty singles... it's just a crazy argument
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but do they warrant MJ comparisons?
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the argument is that maybe the category 'biggest pop star in the world right now' is no longer as important as it used to be even 10 years ago
nah, but who does? mariah?
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:29 AM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark
well i don't think anyone would argue against this, altho i'd say that over the past few months or so kanye has definitely been the most omnipresent person in pop culture
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
but i mean, grading on scale i see no problem w/ calling him the "MJ" of our generation -- raw chart numbers are only part of the story obv, or else you could just hand that title to usher
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno, but it highlights part of my problem with the crit adulation - that this is an "important album" from "the biggest pop star in the world", except that category has atrophied severely in the 00s
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess, that doesn't mean it's not true tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but the logic of most reviews seems to be, ambitious album from biggest pop star in the world -> automatic 10!!
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think the qualifier of BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT IT DOESN'T MEAN AS MUCH ANYMORE changes the conversation at all
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
can i just point out he was just beefing on CNN w/ an ex-president? the guy is a huge pop star
― challop and a muff (deej), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it does! xp
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the qualifier itself is the extent of that conversation
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 November 2010 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
can someone post the power vid here? youtube only gives me leaks w/ no videos or 'occult analysis' type things that i will watch when not at work so i can lol.
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
it's less than 2 minutes long and is basically a CGI screensaver where very little happens, so if nobody finds it you're not missing much
― the pussy re-upholstery gang (some dude), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted the Power vid 2 days ago!
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
djp this thread is like a million messages long
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
okay, but a) I posted about it within 10 posts of you asking about videos from this album, and b) it's almost 2011, invest in some broadband
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's also almost 2012, so maybe don't worry about watching shitty music videos, the apocalypse is coming
― the pussy re-upholstery gang (some dude), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE
― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
THEY FLY SLOWLY @ U FACE WITH SWORDS
oh thats the video? i just assumed that was a screenshot + song.
― wheezy f baby (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda sums up the whole album tbqh
― _| ̄|○| ̄|○| ̄|○ (dayo), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, Kanye does music?
― Noel 1 Kanye 10.0 (blueski), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link