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

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

love the "objectionable content" section

I applaud you, kind sir :D

When a well-known artist embraces Jesus with passion and fervor, it can be hard to know how to respond. Is this for real? Is it a phase? Is it going to last? Is it a gimmick?

Otm!

Kanye West’s laser-like focus on Jesus here is breathtaking. But Kanye suspects that some Christians may still have doubts about his sincerity—an experience it seems that he’s already had, according to the song “Hands On”: “What have you been hearin’ from the Christians?/They’ll be the first one to judge me/Make it feel like nobody love me.”

None of us can know whether Kanye will sustain his current level of Christian conviction in the years to come. But his earnest spiritual fervor is undeniable on Jesus Is King. On this album (and in the accompanying short film of the same name), Kanye West takes the spotlight off of himself and shines it unabashedly on Jesus Christ, proclaiming Him King and Savior.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled etc

Courtesy of the guy on the left:

https://www.pluggedin.com/about-us/adam-holz

Through our reviews, articles and discussions, we hope to spark intellectual thought, spiritual growth and a desire to follow the command of Colossians 2:8: "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."

A few of these might be growers?

Ron Howard voice: they weren’t

He should've got into Satan. The record would have been a lot better.

― billstevejim, Friday, October 25, 2019 2:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

It'd be pretty easy to shop him onto the cover of that Louvin Brothers record. (Him being Satan *or* Kanye.)

chick-fil-a!

was “follow god” on this? I loved that one.

yeah it was. there were a couple bangers even if there was much that was, um, objectionable about the project.

given the rate at which kanye puts out music, I wonder if he might have another release sometime this year. If you've ever wondered what a kanye west divorce album might sound like, it could be imminent

also amazing how I absolutely love at least four of kanye's albums, and yet I never even bothered to listen to this one. he's just fallen so far.

Wasn’t Kanye’s breakout hit “Jesus Walks”?

this is so much worse it's not funny. the problem isn't the christianity it's the sactimonious misogyny and conservatism and really bad music

turns out i like Follow God -it's short , memorable and bounces around like a hit - this was peak Kanye 'uncool'/ I love trump etc phase though wasn't it- which prob explains why it didn't go over

its kinda sweet and funny too

*the giant voice* it is happening again

Kanye played his new album for me & @KDTrey5 last night in Vegas. Man listen! The production is light years ahead of it’s time, and the bars sound like he’s broke & hungry trying to get signed again. Any artist who plan on dropping soon should just push it back 😤 #Respectfully

— Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) July 18, 2021

I seriously doubt it

#Respectfully

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w65aTy-XGDE

he's announced a listening event in atlanta so it most likely is coming out soon but i wouldn't put it past kanye to change his mind and scrap everything after such an event

as a (former?) ilxor pointed out on twitter, he himself hasn't released a single statement about this and has only appeared in masks in the photos about it. which, whatever, another weird album rollout from the king of weird album rollouts, but notable that he's (so far) remaining mum himself.

Feels like the same jockeying he was doing around Drake’s last major album release.

i look forward to another album that will be all anyone talks about on social media for two days then never listened to again

The production is light years ahead of it’s time

😑

I don't know if even someone on Kanye's level can survive three flops in a row. if it sucks I feel like it'll be mostly ignored

achieving levels of digital clipping heretofore unknown to human ears

let's be honest, has a Kanye album ever had production light years ahead of its time?

He's a great producer but I don't think I'd ever use 'ahead of its time' let alone "light years ahead of its time" to describe it.

maybe light years into the future the trend becomes bad mixing and noticeable clipping.

I would check out a Kanye/clipping. collaboration

I need this to be real

ALBUM COVER
Kanye West - Donda

(Artwork by Louise Bourgeois) pic.twitter.com/G8Im71lrbC

— TeamKanyeDaily (@TeamKanyeDaily) July 19, 2021

lmao

these people are demented

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs6RB66x/Screen-Shot-2021-07-20-at-9-16-41-AM.png

Oh my god, that's not even... wow.

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

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

i'm still waiting on yandhi

still haven't canceled my pre-order for Good Ass Job tbh

it's more of a half ass job now

never giving up on "Big Hat Club" being released

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.

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.

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?

agreed, I intensely dislike all Gaspar Noe films for that very reason

it's probably that Virgil Abloh charlatan dude who got it