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

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

I just thought the dude really likes ugly album covers.

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

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?

Lol I actually like the album cover

That said I can’t tell if the comments from people on twitter that seem to like it are insane or trolling.

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

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

A concept album about scooping poop.

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

If that really was the album cover, wouldn't some higher profile music sites have posted stories about it by now?

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

This album rollout seems very… tame so far? It’s almost making me optimistic. Almost.

half an hour into the livestream, I count one sorta good song

my fondest wish: not to awaken in a few hours to read a track-by-track analysis of a Kanye album released in 2021.

Alfred, can I write a guest post on your blog

fuck you
pay me

I have a feeling Ye’s verses aren’t done yet and album not coming out today

— scott vener (@brokemogul) July 23, 2021

welp at least he showed up!

welp

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grifters gonna grift.

don't you need something to sell if you're a grifter

wasn't he selling $40 hot dogs last night

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

Lol

A friend went and wrote this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xgqa/kanye-west-donda-listening-party-atlanta-review

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

i didn't say it was "genius." my words were "actually kind of interesting."

The bright white light and emptiness reminded me of Roger Waters onstage, wandering outside the wall during "Comfortably Numb".

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.

there's some clips of music floating around twitter

hope you like synth pads!

i genuinely don't believe Kanye has done anything even close to "kind of interesting" since Yeezus.

the life of pablo was an incoherent mess of an album but i'd easily give it "kind of interesting" and it still had some pretty good moments. it was very much the beginning of the end with kanye's quality control though

See TLOP was the last Kanye album I actually spent time trying to get a handle on, but I never could do it and thought it was really bad. I listened to Ye once, but basically gave up after that and never heard Jesus is King at all. The MAGA shit just sealed the deal that I don't even have to pretend to be interested in where he is right now, beyond hoping he is getting some level of professional help.

the life of pablo was an incoherent mess of an album but i'd easily give it "kind of interesting" and it still had some pretty good moments. it was very much the beginning of the end with kanye's quality control though

Same here. It's not a great album, but it's interesting with merit, and unless Kanye turns it around, it'll be the last one he's done that I'll play in its entirety.

I like that he's trying to say something. He hasn't found the words yet, though, as evidenced by the many long segments of him repeating the same koan over and over.

Musically, quite dull.