Get your soul sanctified on the Kanye West JESUS IS KING thread

They really nailed the hipster pizza aesthetic with that one

lol, my paste from kanyetothe last week nailed that Pitchfork would give this 7.2!

Kanye West is cracking the culture code.@kanyewest’s new album #JesusIsKing is the epitome of fearless creativity and “dangerous, unapproved” ideas.

Leftists always try to silence those who are speaking truth. They’re waging a war on our family and culture.

Kanye is a pioneer pic.twitter.com/EmPgLqgGZJ

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 29, 2019

lock thread imo

you silencer

lol is that the preferred don jr white knighting term? someone called me that.

jesus policing

What's Obama's take on the new one?

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/23/771864891/forgotten-the-things-we-lost-in-kanyes-gospel-year?fbclid=IwAR3coAVSNQeZBBPbHwErhtEefd17q2rNsjnXHFSl4WLIkNPZTE4yyllMjfw

good take

That's a really great piece, thanks for sharing.

Kanye says God rewarded him with $68 million tax refund for becoming born-again Christian: https://t.co/rUvvhztYZP #KanyeWest pic.twitter.com/ijfhcdaErD

— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) October 29, 2019

somehow this is the exact brand of Christianity I figured he was gonna practice

As has been true for the last few years with KW, the associated merch line adds the perfect note of hilarious lunacy. Not just because he made this shit and thinks it looks good, but because other people will buy it and swear that it does look good, and wear it in public where other people can see them.

New “Jesus Is King” merch available NOW‼️https://t.co/qWDAxx4QX8 pic.twitter.com/0rUCKxj9cQ

— Def Jam Recordings (@defjam) October 30, 2019

Graphic design and Jesus are my passions

okay lol

impressively that's a step well beyond anything he's done before with his merch

only god can judge

and lo he rated it a 3.1 and there was much bewailing and gnashing of teeth thru thy wire

omg the sweatgarb!!!

Deliberately bad to get our attention.

I was at a bar Saturday night and the DJ played "Power" and "Through the Wire" and it kinda hit me that Kanye is sort of the Michael Jackson of this generation, I feel my kids are gonna ask me one day why this guy is so popular and I'll have to explain that he was actually very good once

That is an interesting hypothesis, may I respond with a "what? fuck no"

I don't think this generation has a Michael Jackson but if it's anyone, I'd argue it's Chris Brown

If by Michael Jackson you mean "versatile successful male pop singer that appeals to kids" (but not in *that* way), then the answer is Bruno Mars.

I am pretty sure he means "one-time dominant pop figure who has devolved into ridicule"

("but still has a fervent fanbase who passionately defends any old bullshit s/he releases")

the difference is he's still a dominant figure in pop culture & if you're younger than 14 then you pretty much only know him as an increasingly erratic weirdo

he's still a dominant figure in pop culture

This is a phrase you can define any way you want to, which means it's effectively meaningless. Does "dominant" mean "spawns hordes of imitators"? Does it mean "sells a lot of records" (hint: no, it does not)? Does it mean "journalists like to write about him"? If it's the latter, then forget about it, because the only people more resistant than music journalists to dropping their pre-existing narrative frameworks and allowing new information in are journalists covering US electoral politics. "Kanye West, dominant figure in pop culture" = "Reagan Democrat". It was true once upon a time, but quite a few years have passed and it's time to re-calibrate.

He does sell a lot of records for modern standards. Pretty much every album he has released is at least Gold and he has several multi-platinum ones. The only album of his which can be considered a complete failure is Ye, although Jesus is King seems like it might be another one.

Does "dominant" mean "spawns hordes of imitators"? Does it mean "sells a lot of records" (hint: no, it does not)? Does it mean "journalists like to write about him"?

the answers to all of these questions is a definite yes.

kanye's career has lasted long enough and has been through enough phases that his acolytes come in many forms--J Cole directly springs from wholesome, soul-sampling kanye, and travis scott was a major beneficiary of the yeezus sound.

does he sell a lot of records? well, nobody does except taylor, adele, and tool. his new album is more-than-likely gonna debut at #1 when the Billboard 200 comes out this week.

and i'm pretty sure you know that journalists love writing about him.

he sells a lot of sweatshirts, which inspired famous rapper earl sweatshirt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxIvg0y6vCY

he's also just a big figure in pop culture beyond music

yeezy shoes probably made more money than any rapper except Drake

he's also married to one of the biggest figures in pop culture

I am very angry about how many ass jokes popped into my head after reading M@tt's post

I went to see the new Terminator and somehow the projector person skipped all of the previews, and then played the first eight minutes of this.

I was temporarily very confused as to the new direction of the franchise until I figured out what it was.

angry that you thought of them, or angry that you felt too polite to say them?

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Oh shit I'm dying at that Designing Merch for Kanye vid.

God I just watched that, amazing

Is that the Dunkey video?

I just showed my wife and she refused to believe it was real. So I showed her the merch site and she still thought it was fake. Then I showed her that while many of the items are sold out (!), the sock is still for sale, but she still didn't believe it. Then I put it in the checkout bin and the purchase prompt popped up, and then she believed. She's a believer.

god is good!

He seems to have been heading in this direction since Life of Pablo and probably even Yeezus, but it's clear to me that whatever Kanye does musically from now on is going to be a front for a cynical attempt to sell expensive, badly designed merchandise. Each new album will be rushed, of poor quality, but have a recognisable aesthetic/mood so that hype beasts will buy whatever dumb sweatshirt he puts his name to.

I might argue he’s been working that plan for much longer than you suggest

http://i.gifer.com/UCWX.gif

Well he did warn us that he wanted to be this generation’s Pablo Picasso.

kanye doesn't come across as particularly cynical, if anything he comes across as very sincerely being into whatever he's trying to do no matter how half-baked or scatterbrained the execution is

I suspect the clothing design is shtick, but to me it's the visual design equivalent of his current music production.

xp absolutely otm

i tried to come up with a controp position about this record being good not bad but it's objectively fucking terrible

hallelujah

https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/kanye-west-new-album-jesus-is-born.html

xxp Kids still love Michael Jackson's music. His hits are in Beatles territory whatever weirdness/criminality he devolved into.

Here it is, the sole authoritative review:

https://www.pluggedin.com/music-reviews/album/jesus-is-king