yeah devil in a new dress is not one of my faves but I do like the progression/ornamentation of the arrangement
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah, but that's like saying "Tom Petty is pretty good but next to Dylan it's hard not to characterize him as someone more lucky and driven than gifted."
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
this album is def kanye's "hard promises"
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
actually kanye might be more like john cougar mellencamp, kinda bratty and with a huge chip on his shoulder and an inferiority complex
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno, obviously Kanye is often a great producer but that's not necessarily about a skill set that involves a lot of raw talent -- especially since a lot of his best production decisions involve samples and how he deploys them. i think of him as someone without a lot of natural musical gifts who's climbed his way to the top by sheer will
kanye knows how to write hooks, often vocal ones, that have nothing to do w/ samples
but he doesn't know when to stop, he just runs the damn things into the ground
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
little black balls for you and me
xp
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean like saying "WHEN OJ HAD ISOTONERS" 50 times in one song?
― the pussy re-upholstery gang (some dude), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ he was actually punning on my name
― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the mellencamp comparison
guy was pegged as a meathead rocker but he wanted to tilt at the serious artist crown, he got respect for trying, def became part of the pop culture milieu, but not with the impact of dylan or springsteen
kanye's bristles against his own limitations but it's frequently NAGL, I'm not so concerned about his self-obsessiveness - in a genre where shouting out yr own name every couple of minutes is de rigueur it's like so what - but rapping about yr own talent and creativity comes off like some high school ish, show don't tell
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:40 (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., Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
going back to yesterday, but since j0rdan was busting my chops here, kanye's only had two pop #1s that i'm aware of (i know: lol "only"), one quite brief. "golddigger" was HUGE, no argument, but in that it towers over any other single he's had. and it was half a decade ago. like circa andre 3000's career. six top 10s over six years is nothing to sneeze at, but i'm not saying he's trivial, a non-star. i'm saying that the rush to compare him to mj/prince and crown him the most important recording artist of his era is at least a little weird. i mean, michael jackson had 10 #1s, 20 top 10s by 1988, 7 top 10 singles off thriller alone. he'd had a 15 year pop career by that point, fine, but prince put up comparable numbers during a five year period in the 80s. like 14 top 10 hits.
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcnE_SM6x0
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I smell a bonus track for the deluxe deluxe edition!
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
notable moment, when he compares his public response to his interviews to the triumph an abuse survivor might feel if their abusers assaulted them in public
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol also he complains that Taylor Swift never came to his defense
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
he can call it "Geppetto Story"
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
o_O omg the abuse mention
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
lol "PLAY THE CHORDS LOWER"
also love when he unexpectedly plays captain save-a-gwb
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
wait, is he now going to bat for GWB
xpost!
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
holy hell this dude
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG "they exploited my popularity to make you think GWB is stupid"
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Dunno if this had been linked yet:
http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/touch-the-junk/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno about late reg vs. thriller, but it still stands as the best thing kanye's done by a huge margin
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:03 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lol you 'dunno' about that, really??
― challop and a muff (deej), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I mainly want Kanye to say outright "being unimaginably wealthy & immensely famous is much, much worse than being torn apart by wolves and left to die on a freezing mountainside"
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not so concerned about his self-obsessiveness
I am ready to retract this statement
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haaa
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i 'dunno' that it is not an insanely stupid comparison
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
when do we get to the part when he takes off all his clothes and runs around in public
oh wait
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
WE SOLD OUT THE BEST BUY ON 14TH STREET
^^"The New York State Throughway is cloooosed, maaaan"
he needs wavy gravy up there
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my fucking god this is getting insane
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
on tonight's episode of "Cocaine Thoughts with Kanye West"....
ILE board description imo
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
EVERY board description
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
am i the only one who's not crazy here?
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
THE SHIT THAT PPL WRITE ON A BLOGS IS A PROJECTION OF WHAT PPL IS SCARED ABT IN THEMSELVES
^think about it
― there was usic in the cafes at night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
we are mere surfaces of the energies they are projecting on us!
the sermon on the mount of blow
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
you have the power
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
No I don't! Not anymore!
― Joe Wasp (DJP), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
do we need to call you retired justice perry now
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
retired justice p, you gotta use your influence here
you know the right thing to do
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
we should call north korea's bluff and send kanye in as our new diplomatic envoy
you wanna act all crazy, we'll show you crazy
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, it sort of makes sense that he identifies so intensely with george bush, what with the unprecedented levels of public loathing, the stresses of elected office and national leadership, the dazzling mountains of pure white snow, etc.
ummm...
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
and that rant makes a nice cliff's notes version of this record, which was almost certainly composed and performed out from under the influence of cocaine mountain (deej was saying something about this yesterday)
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
did you guys see the daily show bit about the kanye/bush beef
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
@ 5:15
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-11-2010/the-decider-returns
― tween-justin-bieber-riot-of-09-pandemonium-arrests-terror+tweeting (Edward III), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
god or maybe just have a separate thread for every song & internet rant
― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
otm ^^
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
next year's rant: "if i wasn't coked off my face i would've been on stage shorter"
― i look at the interior of my sack and feel sad (ilxor), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link