Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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*?"

yeah sorry duder.

"the joy" is actually really awesome -- prob the best good friday track

it's like old school ye rapping -- welcome back welcome back

I like this album a lot, I think?

Listened to it really loud last night driving down the highway, sounded great.

wish "Hell of a Ride" had a less stupid chorus because the rest of the song is great

next time you see me on your fallopian
know the jewelry's egyptian, know the hunger is ethiopian
stupid questions like is he gonna be dope again
have you see him? has anybody spoke to him?
this beat deserves hennessey
a bad bitch and a bag of weed -- the holy trinity
in the mirror where i see my only enemy
your life's cursed? well mine's an obscenity

also feel like a lot of kanye's lines that read cringe-y in print sound a lot less cringe-y as he delivers them

spalding ball

ha I will cop to liking "i'm so appalled, spalding ball." it's totally meaningless but the way the words sound is very appealing to me. I think it's my mantra.

i think this album has the potential to be very well received among rock fans who look for albums that are grand sweeping artistic statements and whatnot

i mean i guess kanye's already been incredibly big with rock critics but the way this album's constructed might seem even more familiar coming in from that angle than his previous ones were

10.0!

That score is surprising, even by pitchfork standards....it's more like an 8.5 at best. Big Boi is more deserving of a score like that.

lolololol i am currently deciding what score should accompany my review of this piece of shit - SPOILER it's not a 10 or anything close

who wrote that review? i ain't clicking on it, been fooled like that before.