Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

which ones?

OK i never sat down and listened to the studio version of "Runaway" til just now and hooooly shit is it a turd. do people like this? obviously the album's success is a foregone conclusion, but i feel like if this is his big shot at a pop hit, this is going to be Kanye's first album that doesn't contain a #1 hit.

― some dude, Monday, October 25, 2010 6:08 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i'm standing by this prediction in light of hearing the rest of the album and "All of the Lights" being the new single. obviously the album's gonna be huge but I don't see it landing an across the board "Gold Digger"-type hit or even having a solid moderate hit like "Touch The Sky" or "Flashing Lights" on the radio 6 months after the album's been out.

i mean "Runaway" and/or "Monster" and/or "Lights" could definitely scrape the top 10, but not as big chart mainstays.

I had an interesting long chat with one of our students today who says 808's and Heartaches is his favorite Kanye album; it got him "through some hard times." He listened to it obsessively in 2009. I suspect it will always be the On Second Thought album.

This one, meanwhile, is just a chore to listen to.

*Heartbreak obv

i mean "Runaway" and/or "Monster" and/or "Lights" could definitely scrape the top 10, but not as big chart mainstays.

― some dude, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:11 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark

well "runaway" & "monster" already did scrape the top 10 albeit for one week, pretty much off digital sales

so u otm

yeah for real...i think my listen to it this morning had a certain "ok, time to clean the cat box" air about it. xpost

tbh I'm listening to it now because it's cued after Teena Marie's Emerald City.

this will likely be in my top 10 against all odds

where were Graduation and 808s on your lists?

808s was top 5 for me -- graduation was somewhere in the 15-20 range

"Runaway"'s Hot 100 peak so far is #18 and "Monster"'s is #18, and that was a while ago, both are outside the top 40 now (xpost)

wiki has "runaway" peaking at 12

yeah meant to say 12, typo :(

"Runaway" IS an airplay gainer this week, but still that shit is not popping off.

Listening to "All of the Lights" now, my interest started to wane by the 3:20 mark, and there's still almost two minutes of song left. The crypto-jungle beat, horn section, endlessly repeated chorus -- it's like, ENOUGH.

yeah I checked the wiki pages before asking if this album would have any top 10

is the Fergie rap before or after 3:20? that's my favorite part.

This one, meanwhile, is just a chore to listen to.

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 11:12 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

this puts my problem w/ the new record and huge swathes of graduation in a succinct way. I was going to say that they are just tiring to listen to. like yes, they sound great, there are some great hooks, but it's like sonic overload or something? like I can barely listen to 'the good life' anymore because it sounds just so... maximalist. it's hard to describe, there are plenty of great records that sound maximalist but aim at other things. whereas this album seems calculated to sound huge but not much else.

Yeah, see, "Good Life" is good-opulent. Graduation is my go-to Kanye for a victory lap.

Graduation is my go-to Kanye for a victory lap.

― otherwise, and twat (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 16, 2010 9:41 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark

& this is why it's his least interesting album/album with the least number of great songs

^ My feeling about 808s.

yeah but 808's isn't "a victory lap"

Not to me, but it depends who you talk to. I mean, for some people I know it's the culmination of Kanye's ambitions.

i mean, i would agree that 'graduation' is a victory lap -- but i would disagree w/ the idea that a culmination of ambitions = a victory lap

al: 808s didn't have a #1 hit

ah yeah, i was misremembering that "Love Lockdown" spent a week at #1 or something. still, "Heartless" was pretty ubiquitous, probably woulda got to #1 if not for "Single Ladies".

yeah, true

yeah "heartless" was all over the radio iirc

This ablum is amaxing

so is this album going to flop*? hope it does so after he makes his next album a 'oh no i flopped, f u all you just want pop hits' album, the one after it could be dope.

*in terms of kanye obv.

it's gonna sell more first week than 808s, i'm pretty sure

shame.

just wiki'd it and 808 broke a million - surely this won't. can't see it doing 750k

wait, 750 total? it will probably do 750 after two or three weeks

i think that good friday + all the extra curricular nonsense surrounding kanye right now is generating more hype for this album than actual successful chart singles could

the hype isn't quite on the level of KANYE VS 50 but idk it's pretty high imo

otoh a lot of people have heard enough good fridays and seen shitty cover art and had time to think "ehhh... not worth it".

yeah but ime more ppl are digging good fridays than are not

i mean the general negative reaction to this album on ilx seems to be pretty isolated from what i can tell

fair enough. guess rap stans officially stopped being the target audience a while back.

808s had his lowest 1st week ever (which was still about equal to Thank Me Later's), but it had a huge single and kept selling for months and moved almost 2mil. i think the hype on this album is big enough that he could have his biggest first week ever, at which point it won't matter if any singles keep people buying it, by Christmas it'll probably have outsold 808s regardless.

lowest since college dropout, i should say

have gotten nothing whatsoever of interest or enjoyment from this album, but just want to chime in on how great that nitsuh review is.

this is going to be a huge record

noone's disputing that though?

lol

if anyone else had posted that, it would have been ignored or someone random would have written "true"

i mean a hoy hoy i guess floated the idea but didn't seem too confident
(xpost ha)

if anyone else had posted that, it would have been ignored or someone random would have written "true"

― ali-baba-boob-job-bomb.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbomb

i was just cosigning w/ everyone answering this q:

"so is this album going to flop*?"