I need this to be real
ALBUM COVERKanye West - Donda(Artwork by Louise Bourgeois) pic.twitter.com/G8Im71lrbC— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) July 19, 2021
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:09 (two years ago) link
lmao
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:15 (two years ago) link
these people are demented
https://i.postimg.cc/Hs6RB66x/Screen-Shot-2021-07-20-at-9-16-41-AM.png
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
Oh my god, that's not even... wow.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
I reviewed one Kanye album on RYM and it's funny to constantly see an album of his on my "upcoming" feed that gets delayed over and over and then just deleted
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link
i'm just amazed he's apparently stuck with the donda name for the album for over a year, normally he'd have changed his mind a few more times by now
― ufo, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
i'm still waiting on yandhi
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
still haven't canceled my pre-order for Good Ass Job tbh
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
it's more of a half ass job now
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
never giving up on "Big Hat Club" being released
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:12 (two years ago) link
why is it surprising he used a louise bourgeois painting as his album cover? kanye loves those big names, those blue chip artists.
i imagine that, to a person like kanye, someone who sees any kind of humility or doubt as a profound threat to his ego, that louise bourgeois room at dia:beacon would be terrifying. i'll bet he's been there. it's like a dungeon. her work is brutal; the unconscious, to her, is an abattoir, a place where forms are violently disintegrating into primordial soup of nothingness. there is a real sense of evil in this gallery, it's hard to describe how she achieves it but it's palpable. in fact, it was her work, and the fact that some DNC leaders collected it, that sparked the pizzagate conspiracy theory. people couldn't believe it was art and imagined that this must be some fucked up cult shit.
n.b. the spider sculptures she is best known for are cool in outdoor spaces, but when exhibited indoors, as they are at dia, it's totally different.
― treeship., Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
https://i-d-images.vice.com/images/2016/04/04/louise-bourgeois-art-is-a-guarantee-of-sanity-body-image-1459767004.jpg
i just wonder what kanye sees in this work. it's about depersonalization, dehumanization, dissolution. that's how i read her anyway. whereas he is all about being the hero of his own drama.
― treeship., Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:27 (two years ago) link
i don't like her work at all to be honest. and the sort of dark surrealist impulse in contemporary art, the trend toward provoking queasy discomfort, is really something i feel done with personally. but what does kanye think--why choose her for the cover. just because the artist's name carries a certain cache?
― treeship., Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
agreed, I intensely dislike all Gaspar Noe films for that very reason
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
it's probably that Virgil Abloh charlatan dude who got it
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
I just thought the dude really likes ugly album covers.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
what yall gonna do when Kanye new album open with a monologue by Candace Owens over the roars of the Jan 6th crowd set to Miri Ben-Ari violins?— Recording Academy Member Class of 2022 🏆🇵🇸 • ☭ (@fwmj) July 21, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
just because the artist's name carries a certain cache?
― treeship., Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:30 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
as it ever been anything else?
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
Lol I actually like the album cover
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
That said I can’t tell if the comments from people on twitter that seem to like it are insane or trolling.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 04:06 (two years ago) link
i can imagine her artwork speaking to his own feelings of depersonalization, dehumanization etc which he absolutely has experienced and which are more than compatible with overcompensation in the ego department
but what would happen if the album was actually good? not just "not a trainwreck" but also more than just "fine"? i'm not expecting it at all but i am interested hypothetically in what an appropriate response to that might look like at this point
― Left, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 07:52 (two years ago) link
i’d welcome a “fine” effort from him. im sure it’ll have its moments in its production, but there’s no way the lyrical content on this album will be anything but inane garbage
― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
A concept album about scooping poop.
― KEEP HONKING -- I'M BOBOING (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
I dgaf about Kanye, but Bourgeois made art about her mother (including this piece) and this new album is named after West's mom. I mean sure, obvs he's not going to pick an unsung artist, but I don't think the thematic connection is hard to figure out guys.
FPing frogs for comparing LB to Gaspar Noe
― rob, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
If that really was the album cover, wouldn't some higher profile music sites have posted stories about it by now?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 13:46 (two years ago) link
it hasn't been officially confirmed at all and i haven't been able to track down any sort of source for the claim that it's the cover
― ufo, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 14:11 (two years ago) link
This album rollout seems very… tame so far? It’s almost making me optimistic. Almost.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
half an hour into the livestream, I count one sorta good song
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:19 (two years ago) link
my fondest wish: not to awaken in a few hours to read a track-by-track analysis of a Kanye album released in 2021.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:20 (two years ago) link
Alfred, can I write a guest post on your blog
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
fuck you pay me
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:28 (two years ago) link
I have a feeling Ye’s verses aren’t done yet and album not coming out today— scott vener (@brokemogul) July 23, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link
welp at least he showed up!
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:44 (two years ago) link
welp
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
https://cdn1.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/768x768/public/images/methode/2018/10/12/c2c40512-cd7c-11e8-9460-2e07e264bd11_1280x720_122011.jpg?itok=wvD4xG2X
grifters gonna grift.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:36 (two years ago) link
don't you need something to sell if you're a grifter
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
wasn't he selling $40 hot dogs last night
― frogbs, Friday, 23 July 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
b-b-but the Twitter stans tell me "Ye is back baby!" and it's an amazing record! could they be wrong?
$80 chicken nuggets, from the screenshot i saw
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
Lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:27 (two years ago) link
A friend went and wrote this:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xgqa/kanye-west-donda-listening-party-atlanta-review
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
Good piece.
The image of him walking alone on the field, wandering aimlessly and mutely as the crowd watched, is actually kind of interesting. Like, reducing performance down to its most minimal element, the mere presence of the artist. It’s probably also some kind of comment on his celebrity and how his good fortune just leaves him feeling more isolated and confused. Echoes of the Christian idea of pilgrimage, “Jesus Walks,” idk there seem to be layers
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
He’s embarrassed himself a lot over the years. Seems like a big burden to carry, the fact of much of america thinking you are an asshole
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
lol, or maybe he just awkwardly wandered around while a crowd listened to his new album in a setting with shitty acoustics. there are no "layers", come the fuck on.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
I’m mostly going off his admiration of marina abramovic, her “artist is present” performance. He draws from contemporary art a lot. Sometimes he does this to very stupid ends but this seems ok
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Literally the only interesting thing about Kanye West in 2021 is the contortions his remaining fans will put themselves through in a search for meaning in his half-assed flailing.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
I'm just tired of having smoke blown up my ass that Kanye is some sort of unique genius that approaches everything from some deep conceptual level that I'm just too dumb to understand instead of just a formerly very talented producer and decent rapper who has clearly suffered from some mental health issues and is surrounded by people who refuse to tell him when his ideas are shitty.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
i didn't say it was "genius." my words were "actually kind of interesting."
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 17:20 (two years ago) link
The bright white light and emptiness reminded me of Roger Waters onstage, wandering outside the wall during "Comfortably Numb".
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 July 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
tbf, treesh, your post wasn't that bad, just the straw that broke the camel's back this morning. though i genuinely don't believe Kanye has done anything even close to "kind of interesting" since Yeezus.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
there's some clips of music floating around twitter
hope you like synth pads!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link