Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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...

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)

did you guys see the daily show bit about the kanye/bush beef

@ 5:15

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-11-2010/the-decider-returns

god or maybe just have a separate thread for every song & internet rant

on tonight's episode of "Cocaine Thoughts with Kanye West"....

otm ^^

next year's rant: "if i wasn't coked off my face i would've been on stage shorter"

the media always takes his cocaine use out of context

blog enemies amassing on the southern border

next kanye album's gonna sound like the flowers of romance

well this one smells like a lump of shit

MATT LAUER'S NOT A BAD GUY I'M SURE

i'm gonna do my best to listen to this entire thing

kanye actually gets REALLY MAD when people imply or joke that he's doing coke, and in a weird way i kind of want to believe him, his craziness seems so sincerely him that it feels like drugs might not be involved

guy on cocaine gets really mad, shocker

looooooool

stop trippin i'm trippin off the powder / till then fuck that the world's ours...

i thought it was "i'm tripping off the POWER"?

the line is repeated, he says "powder" pretty clearly one of the times

there was a kanye tweet about doing coke with an intern that markers posted a couple weeks ago, dunno if it was supposed to be a joke but it was pretty o_O

He was referencing The Social Network i think

im kanye

argh my neighbor just stormed into my apt

ruhroh

http://i.imgur.com/IUGND.jpg

Well, pitchfork only gave Eine Kleine Nacht Musik a 7.5 so...

Source:
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/Master+maestro+showdown+Kanye+West+Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart/3868497/story.html

kanye's drunk uncle

Kanye West will likely end Susan Boyle's two-week reign on the next U.S. pop album chart, according to early prognostications from industry gurus.

West's fifth studio album, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy," could sell perhaps 550,000 units by week's end on November 28, pundits said.

...

Also gunning for a big entrance next week is rookie rapper Nicki Minaj's debut effort, "Pink Friday," which is on target to begin with more than 400,000 copies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AO0KN20101125

lost in the world reminds me of todd rundgren for some reason

― ciderpress, Monday, November 22, 2010 8:17 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

i listened to this all the way through today, I can't muster the energy to pull apart everything on this thread; I'll just say, on a simply musical level, this is pretty interesting, every single song feels so tense and kind of dreadful, like something terrible is going to happen. It's a bit depressing, in fact, so depressing it's hard to imagine this being a "hit".

you know, it sort of makes sense that he identifies so intensely with george bush,

Personally, I'm really digging their blossoming "Finding Forrester" relationship

i listened to this all the way through today, I can't muster the energy to pull apart everything on this thread; I'll just say, on a simply musical level, this is pretty interesting, every single song feels so tense and kind of dreadful, like something terrible is going to happen. It's a bit depressing, in fact, so depressing it's hard to imagine this being a "hit".

― akm, Thursday, November 25, 2010 1:05 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

read the nitsuh review! /broken record

i read nabisco's review, it's very nice, he talked about the dirty majesty of it all, I'm just saying the actual music is pretty downbeat, minor key and depressing.

i mean, it's kind of like OK Computer, in that, there is nothing very happy in this, hard to imagine it being a big hit, but somehow will be because it seems to tap into some depressing zeitgeist. in other words, a record that is probably great, but not one I'm actually going to ever listen to very much.

Kanye was just doing about 30 seconds of Lost in the World on a huge ugly float in the Macys parade.

It was awesome

i read nabisco's review, it's very nice, he talked about the dirty majesty of it all, I'm just saying the actual music is pretty downbeat, minor key and depressing.

― akm, Thursday, November 25, 2010 8:56 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no i think he said the same thing about the music! i thought that was a smart observation

can we just assume most people itt have read that review and move on already

And the review hasn't changed anybody's mind either.

butthurtedness reigns

After a few listens, what I find most frustrating about this is that the bad is inseparable from the good. With a flawed, overlong record like Speakerboxxx/The Love Below I can listen to the great tracks and skip the weak ones but here every single track has elements of brilliance and elements that stink. Just when I'm getting into one, some dreadful rhyme, weak guest spot or extended coda will sap my enjoyment.

ust when I'm getting into one, some dreadful rhyme, weak guest spot or extended coda will sap my enjoyment.

This. 100%. And very few people 1) realize this and 2) ADMIT this. Most people are like, "Yeah, the 3-minute vocoder wanking at the end of "Runaway" is unnecessary and self-indulgent but WHATEVER, MAN, KANYE'S A GENIUS AND CAN DO NO WRONG. IT MUST BE GREAT LEST I SHATTER THE ILLUSION OF KANYE AS GENIUS!"

I don't think you can level that accusation at anyone here. The published reviews, on the other hand, with the exception of nabisco's, have been dreadful.

i.e. guilty as charged

butthurtedness reigns

― challop and a muff (deej), Thursday, November 25, 2010 3:59 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'll say.

Right, and I'm not accusing everyone here of that.

I am, in fact, referring to most of the published reviews.

ILXors in "our unsanctioned collective thoughts are better than published music writing" shockah

lol, 'sanctioned'

butthurtedness reigns

this is the working title of your autobiography, right?