You guys get that autotuning yourself onto the correct pitch doesn't make you an amazing singer, right?
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
Have you heard McCartney sing lately?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
Have you heard Kanye sing lately?
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Generation Migos has no other priorities besides taking the Beatles down a peg
― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, you don't go to Paul McCartney for his production skills, his singing, his lyrics, his stage presence or his persona. You go because you want to try and cement your credibility with a certain type of listener.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Xp A noble pursuitAlso gonna stop saying mille and start saying generation migos thank you
― brosario nawson (m bison), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Millenials *
Lol kanye cant sing for shit
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Or ... if you're Kanye West and you decide you want to incorporate some rock into what you're doing, you don't go to pull in session musicians or Radiohead or whatever. You pull in a fucking Beatle because only the best is good enough for Ye.
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
intrigued by the idea of kanye's ram
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Kanye Migos - better producer than mccartney, better singer tHan mccartney, better lyricist than mccartney, better performer than mccartney, more interesting person than mccartney. Other than that I'm sure 72 year old person will add so much to this record
― the fuckin catalina wine mixer (sleepingbag), Sunday, January 25, 2015 10:25 AM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
anyway i kinda like "fourfiveseconds"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
and his lyrics are all like "golden diamonds coming out my dick come have a splash" which is hardly like the beatles
― deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
Be funny if it was just a Kanye record with old Macca singing all the hooks, sped up or no.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
it's uh better than that piano tinkle released a few weeks ago, and it's a novelty to hear Rihanna in a spare setting. Other than that, not much to say.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)
wasn't that My Boring Dull Twaddle Fantasies?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
Lyrically I think they're on par/a good match tbh. I predict a lot of poorly formed semi-nonsensical metaphors.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 25 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
I'm imagining the awesomeness of "Press" with Kanye producing it.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
"FourFiveSeconds" is fucking terrible, "jaunty" in the worst way possible. The fact that it's apparently going to be on both Rihanna's and Kanye's albums is depressing
― Simon H., Sunday, 25 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
In a way this is the most audience trolling thing Kanye could do, kinda awesome
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 January 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Maybe they just like each other, I could see that
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
this song is dope, rihanna sounds great after the first note
also unlike "only one" this is actually, like, a written song
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:01 (nine years ago) link
but then you hear the lyrics of this song
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
also rihanna has done some acoustic songs before, many of which have been good, so this doesn't seem as purposefully left field as "only one"
it's maybe lowkey for her first official single in a 18 months or whatever but it's don't think it would be insane to have heard this song done by stargate or whatever instead of paul mccartney
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
kanye's parts are inane and this would be better w/o him but i think the chorus lyrics really work
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link
i like the idea of kanye hanging up his villain hat. it's time. this isn't to say that the music that comes out of this move isn't going to be extremely boring
― Treeship, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
i'm most interested in who wrote this hook, because it feels a bi too pop for kanye and rihanna doesn't work without superstar writers anyway
i guess it was dallas austin if he was listed in the itunes credits but it doesn't seem like anyone has reported that as fact yet
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
not ty $?
― r|t|c, Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
"Update: According to Rolling Stone, a rep for West says McCartney did not co-produce all of West’s album."
― akm, Monday, 26 January 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
so much for that
― r|t|c, Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:52 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah true
― J0rdan S., Monday, 26 January 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link
i got the sense from his interview about the song that he just did vocals but maybe! that would be cool
Is this song actually streaming ANYWHERE online right now? Can't find it.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 26 January 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
YouTube has it.
It this thing even definitely for Kanye's record though? I keep seeing it credited as Rihanna f. Kanye & Macca, was just wondering.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
Nevermind, no it's not there anymore. Just a bunch of fake Beatles loops tagged as it.
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:30 (nine years ago) link
rip thred, u were about four five seconds from mattering
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
Time for a Yeezus Grey Album.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
ever since this collaboration started i've fantasized about Kanye and Paul bonding over a mutual hatred of The Grey Album
the total lack of percussion on either of these songs is the most interesting thing about them to me in that they so painfully sound like they're missing a rhythm track. a bunch of rando soundcloud producers have thrown drums on "Only One" and one of the R&B stations in D.C. is now playing one of those remixes as if it's the real song, with the most embarrassingly on-the-nose College Dropout-era Kanye drums, it's irritating but also more enjoyable than the original. can't see "FourFiveSeconds" really doing much unless there's a version with drums.
― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, 26 January 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
I don't care about the Beatles but saying McCartney is a worse singer than Kanye is just wrong.
― the QT conundrum (Moka), Monday, 26 January 2015 10:10 (nine years ago) link
Probably right about the rest.
― the QT conundrum (Moka), Monday, 26 January 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link
not sure if i can believe sir paul has done a whole album with kanye, though id be interested to hear it (only one should never have been released though - i have only heard it once, but it was painful to listen to - it should be heard Only Once, ho ho). i dont know if this is kanye hanging up his villain hat - to me, its half him doing an MJ and trying to please critics/the establishment ('i want in', 'i'm legit', etc), but its also him daring haters/detractors by saying, 'look i can get a beatle! look at me now!' like, it was cool that jay-z worked with jack white (on boring music) and linkin park and whoever else, but kanye went back and got a BEATLE. if elvis was alive, im pretty sure kanye would have his sights set on him too.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 26 January 2015 10:37 (nine years ago) link
4 5 seconds is great.
― longneck, Monday, 26 January 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
"woke up an optimist" - such a great verse opening.
― longneck, Monday, 26 January 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
we only got 4 5 seconds to save the world!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 January 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
did Jay-Z and Jack White actually release anything together? i just remember reports they were working together and then JW saying that Jay didn't like it and they probably wouldn't release it
― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:32 (nine years ago) link
the total lack of percussion on either of these songs is the most interesting thing about them to me in that they so painfully sound like they're missing a rhythm track... can't see "FourFiveSeconds" really doing much unless there's a version with drums.
― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:05 PM (Yesterday)
version of "4 5 seconds" floating around has to be a demo, though, right? a deliberately slight deep cut at most.
― A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:51 (nine years ago) link
Paul McCartney not esp. renowned for his productions skills?
― A trumpet growing in a garden (Tom D.), Monday, 26 January 2015 13:54 (nine years ago) link
those Wings songs are often nothing BUT production skillz
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 26 January 2015 14:07 (nine years ago) link
Maybe the thread title should be changed if every other post is gonna be about Paul producing the album when that announcement has already been corrected
― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:19 (nine years ago) link
I was thinking that myself but then I remembered how the supposed release date of Yeezus was first denied and then turned out to be accurate, so who the fuck knows. I'll edit it a bit, though.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
lol i was just gonna say i'm bummed i can't get my mom this on cd for xmas. she loves kanye
― flappy bird, Thursday, 8 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
Real Friends/30 Hours/No More Parties/Fade would have been my favorite EP of the year.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
ts: "bleached her asshole" vs "sweet & sour sauce"
― I've read Ta-nehisi Coates. (marcos), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
as a result of this thread revive my plan was to listen to this all day while working but i forgot and instead played some schoenberg xmas music bcz how the fuck did schoenberg write xmas music
The Twelve Tones of Christmas
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 8 December 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
The caps really make it
― albvivertine, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
a lot of great music/art is made through specific intersections of bad taste and good taste. imo this album is kanye yelling bullshit over some decent incomplete collages
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link
i am (evidently) quite alright with horseshit speculative gilding of rubbish music it's just that this is literally the most basic unimaginative example you could possibly apply it to. kanye kulture is abysmal and ur all headass drear hoes of the apocalypse
― r|t|c, Thursday, 8 December 2016 21:05 (seven years ago) link
ranking the Kanye albums I like:
1. 808s & Heartbreaks2. The Life of Pablo3. The College Dropout
Good tracks across Late Registration, Graduation, MBDTF and Yeezus, but I've never enjoyed listening to them as albums
But anyway I'm grateful to see people itt explain how I don't know what I like and also thanks for suggesting I have any sympathy for Kanye's public persona or the hyperbole surrounding MBDTF and anything Kanye-related
― niels, Friday, 9 December 2016 12:54 (seven years ago) link
I get dissociating public persona from on-record art to an extent but I don't get how that's possible with this album, which is entirely about and filtered through that public persona, and pretty much requires the listener to empathise with it (or "find it interesting")
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 December 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
I like that Kanye has enough juice to get "Fade" on the radio, it's generally welcome there as a respite from all-Drake-all-the-time. No use for the album or interest in the ongoing Kanye drama apart from that.
― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
I think it's an enjoyable record, musically. Don't find the lyrics amazing, but they work within the context of the album and I am not too offended by the persona - kinda like how I feel abt Drake.
I know what would've really pissed me off years ago would be the shameless samples, just reusing popular hooks without much creative input, but for some reason I've been desensitized to this.
Also, it's perhaps a bit of a letdown that with all the studio money and input from other artists that Kanye wasn't able to make a 'great' record, maybe it's even a bit offensive, wasted opportunities, but again, I can't truly be bothered, I enjoy the record (okay there's a few tracks I skip, but I've seen other posters say they like those)
― niels, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
the only people I know who haven't been thoroughly turned off by Kanye for damn near the past decade are music critics. obviously there are communities that still have love for him, my own cohort of friends/colleagues is hardly representative of America as a whole, but it's still been a weird disconnect. little wonder that he gets (mostly jokingly) likened to Trump, they both manage to be simultaneously widely hated and yet "popular."
― evol j, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
it's weird was talking with a young guy at work and i forget that i think of kanye as the great roc-a-fella rap producer who's gotten kinda goofy in recent years, but now there's a whole bunch of kids who don't know anything but kanye the "outrageous" "controversial" dude (basically post 808s)
i (tried to) listen to 808s yesterday and while it may be in many ways the most influential rap album of the last decade what a fucking dismal slog that is to listen to now, especially as many of its stylistic autotune quirks are now lingua franca of the hip hop industry
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
yeah I was a huge Kanye stan for the first few albums but 808s is where he started to lose me. I've liked scattered songs/appearances since then but nothing more.
― evol j, Friday, 9 December 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
I'm grateful to see people itt explain how I don't know what I like and also thanks for suggesting I have any sympathy for Kanye's public persona or the hyperbole surrounding MBDTF and anything Kanye-related
around here it seems like anyone who likes any post-808s Kanye is seen as a hype-dupe
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 9 December 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
ha, I've long thought I came off as a crusty old curmudgeon for feeling the opposite.
― evol j, Friday, 9 December 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
i loved 808s but despair at its influence via drake resulting in shit like gnash
― maura, Friday, 9 December 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
guess who just walked into trump tower
― maura, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
pablo
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
Donald Trump?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
I hope kanye doesn't get a cabinet position. Not because he'd be worse than the clowns that Trump has already picked but because if kanye joined the administration I really wouldn't be able to keep defending him
― Treeship, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:40 (seven years ago) link
There's a line. And that's the line.
wow there's a line!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:49 (seven years ago) link
a solid blue baseball cap, backwards. there's a line.
― tried Blue Apron and we died (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:12 (seven years ago) link
http://m.tmz.com/2016/12/13/donald-trump-kanye-west-trump-tower/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
red baseball caps have a history of being appropriated by douchebags
does this mean he is performing at the inauguration ?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
well, he didn't say no
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
I think at this point we can all agree that black dudes who aren't named Sisqo should stop bleaching their hair
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/808723085818036224
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTQSON9dSk
― Treeship, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:32 (seven years ago) link
I think at this point we can all agree that black dudes who aren't named Sisqo should stop bleaching their hair― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:16 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:16 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's possible he's transitioning to be a Trump body double, in the vein of Saddam Hussein or Liberace
― simply gabbing a wonderful christmastime (crüt), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
the hair is fine. my issue is that it looks like trump is setting him up to be his new celebrity surrogate. (1:35 - an uncharacteristically warm trump says "you take care of yourself, i'll see you soon.")
― Treeship, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link
― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:16 PM (seven hours ago)
i appreciate the sisqo exception this dude was ok imo
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 14 December 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
kayne's the only celeb I can think of not already associated with the right wing who's voiced pro-Trump sentiments so of course Trump invited him over to discuss bleach problems
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:01 (seven years ago) link
wish kanye would go full simon phoenix with this look
http://carboncostume.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/simonphoenix.jpg
― Rush Limbaugh and Lou Reed doing sex with your parents (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link
is bleached hair not common among black US sports stars?
― ogmor, Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
or did dennis rodman ruin it for everyone else
― ogmor, Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:36 (seven years ago) link
It's not uncommon. Odell Beckham Jr. has bleached hair
― altony rightano (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 December 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
So I guess Donald Trump cares about black people?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:03 (seven years ago) link
Donald Trump cares about rich people.
― ¶ (DJP), Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
tom
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
otm
Killer Mike said in 2006, "George Bush don't care about poor people, black or white," and that was probably closer to the mark than Kanye's famous quote.
― altony rightano (voodoo chili), Thursday, 15 December 2016 15:29 (seven years ago) link
think this is some reddit project or something, can't find too much info on it , i quite like it tho
https://thepablocollective.bandcamp.com/releases
― nxd, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link