oh sorry forgot america is the world. was a top ten hit.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Friday, 24 December 2010 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, tell that to ubiquitous number one single "Fuck You" by Cee-Lo
haha i had no idea whiney intended for this to be sarcastic cuz it kinda WAS a ubiquitous no 1 hit
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Friday, 24 December 2010 09:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the point being is that "YouTube sensation" doesn't always have a direct correlation with sales.
Also Kanye's on MTV all the time even if this album doesn't have a traditional "high rotation" video. At this point MTV needs Kanye more than Kanye needs MTV, tbh
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 December 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus christ 'i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor)', if i ever get my hands on you i will goddamn choke you out with the nicki minaj verse on repeat.
― historyyy (prettylikealaindelon), Friday, 24 December 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
kinky
― 69 65 51 46 (Ioannis), Friday, 24 December 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
lol you called me by my full name O_O
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 24 December 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Unemployment line, credit card declineddid I not mention I was about to lose my mind?(my mind, my mind, my mind)and also was about to do that line
Address me as your highness, high as unitedThirty thousand feet up and you are not invitedniggas be writin bullshit like they gotta workniggas is goin through real shit man they outta workThat's why another goddamn dance track gotta hurt
Go harder than a n-gga for a n-gga go figuretold me "keep my own money" if we ever did split uphow can somethin' so gangsta be so pretty in pictures?with jeans and a blazer and some Louboutin slippersuh, Picasso was alive he woulda made herthats right n-gga Mona Lisa can't fade herI mean Marilyn Monroe, she's quite nicebut why all the pretty icons always all whiteback to my Beyonces
I've never heard anything so horrifying in rap music. Really.
― WJMK magic one oh four (u s steel), Saturday, 25 December 2010 09:19 (thirteen years ago) link
it's probably a good thing that you don't listen to rap music then
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 10:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to this in my new Sennheiser HD555 surround-sound audiophine headphones that I got for xmas and all I can say is
((((d-_-b))))
― kenny noggins (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm lost in the world
― kenny noggins (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Good 5 U
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
'so appalled' is the first track on this that I kinda like. smdh.
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this album repulses a certain sensibility I have - it's too content to find bombast and maximalist profundity through extremely basic and overstuffed tropes which aren't even original or sophisticated, just exaggerated
and y'all buying it
basically,
so appalled >>>>>> runaway > the first half of monster before it goes on too long >>> hell of a life >>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest >>>>>>>> gay dad >>>>>>>> blame game
and so appalled is nothing more than a decent song
peace, this was always gonna have to happen at some point, out of our system now
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the first half of monster before it goes on too long
WRONG HALF
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
okok minaj's bit is cool. needed editing down tho so it was basically 2 mins of kanye + 2 mins of her and then over
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
not repping for Ross on 'Monster' is like instant SB in goontown
― kenny noggins (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah whatta couplet
― schlump, Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
lj i don't know who you are getting angry at here, most ilxors, esp. the goons, don't like this or just think its ok.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
it's too content to find bombast and maximalist profundity through extremely basic and overstuffed tropes which aren't even original or sophisticated, just exaggerated
don't you listen to like Opeth?
― kenny noggins (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
lj could not have gotten that any ronger
― k3vin k., Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Opeth are usually wayyyyy too plodding and unimaginative for my tastes tbf, a coupla good songs
Am not angry, really - just frustrated at the ever-blinkered critical hivemind, and maybe a LITTLE at ILX - check the number of posts in this thread, and the number of posts in the Third Eye Foundation thread. And that's an album that ILX has actually deigned to discuss!
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
as much as i wish albums i liked from this year would get attention instead of kanye, i wouldn't wish this particular thread on any of em
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Saturday, 25 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
wait ppl rep for the ross verse on monster? even though he rhymes "sample" with "sample"
― dayo, Sunday, 26 December 2010 00:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought he was rhyming "sample" with "example"
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 27 December 2010 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
he does rhyme "sample" with "example"
― in my world of yung joc (The Reverend), Monday, 27 December 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i deny you, lj, for not getting the hugeness of "power" and "lost in the world", or for thinking that it's the wrong kind of hugeness or whatever. not gonna try to say that it's a great album overall, cuz it ain't, but shit man, "so appalled" is hardly the scale attained. no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all i need.
― contenderizer, Monday, 27 December 2010 09:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Billboard article about the album's big drop down the charts (but doesn't make the obvious connection about the lack of huge singles previous Kanye albums had): http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/retail/why-have-sales-of-kanye-west-s-my-beautiful-1004137168.story
― some dude, Monday, 27 December 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't need yo' pussy bitch i'm on my OWN DICK
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Monday, 27 December 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIp06nFh4#t=01m33s
― nog it out with (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 December 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
1:33
surround sound audiophile headphones lol
― in my world of Hmong ppl (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 27 December 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
"monster" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTtfwYqyd4
so nearly amazing but not quite there. feels way too static. as with the song the nicki section's all you really need, that actually is a bit whoa, though it really should've ended with her beheading herself or something a bit more dramatic
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:01 (thirteen years ago) link
2:27 in that video there's a picture of a cloudy sky + moon + GETTY IMAGES logo??
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder if this is the final cut -- i doubt at least that kanye is putting out a video where one shot has a getty images watermark on it
― a snooki and a killer (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah exactly
assuming this is pretty much the real thing it's not amazing or anything but i'm glad that someone is doing something on the "put your hands where my eyes can see" tip
nicki's part is great tho
― a snooki and a killer (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i imagine jay showing up to this shoot and being all
http://i42.tinypic.com/zoezyx.jpg
― a snooki and a killer (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
jay-z looks like he just randomly wandered onto the set
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm guessing the getty images moon shots are just placeholders
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the THOUSANDS OF YOUNG SINGLES IN YOUR AREA youtube popup is pretty jarring juxtaposed w/hanging models
― schlump, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
otoh maybe the watermarked part is meant to be ironic commentary on how phoned-in the jay-z intro is
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
def think kanye is on track by world premiering his newest video via his yHiTz3 youtube account
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 11:39 (thirteen years ago) link
getty images perfectly sums up how i feel about yeezy in 2010 :)
<3 nicki, feel like i should download more by her.
― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
is this nsfw or
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
no titties, just lots of dead womenz
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
and gettyimagez
― The Reverend, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
so basically yeah
god that rick ross part is disgusting and stupid
― in my world of Hmong ppl (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
my beautiful dark twisted stock fantasy
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
still think the ross line ends with something like "kanye west sample/here's one for you to sample", but the alternative "kanye west sample/here's an example" isn't really that much better
― dayo, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link