I had the misfortunate pleasure of listening to Kanye West's new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", on the drive back from San Fran yesterday....
I'm not exactly sure where to begin. I'll start by saying that putting aside all his publicity stunts and hoopla, I absolutely loved his first album and his last album "808s". He had so much fight and passion on the first album. He had something to prove. He needed to breath through and he did so with astronomical success. The albums in-between fell short for me. It sounded like he was just riding the coat tails of his debut album and was simply "playing around" in the studio. The last album was the album released right after his mother's tragic death and it felt...REAL. It was emotion and a drum machine. That's it. I love every single song on that album.
This album....is didn't only fall short, it is absolute CRAP! Every single song is about sex, strippers, prostitutes, drugs and "partying". Not a single song has a decent beat to cover up some of the worst lyrical work I've heard in my entire life. It almost seems like since the death of his mother, he has lost all concoction to the real world and was only being "respectful" (as much as Kanye West could ever be respectful) for the sake of his mother's dignity. Now that she's gone, he's like a loose dog humping everything and chasing cats down the street.
The record (down to the cover) is absolutely disgusting. I wish I could actually RETURN the purchase. Deleting it doesn't seem like it will make it go away enough from my musical memory. I don't even want a refund. Just want to take away the "sales" marker on iTunes that will somehow accidentally put him ANYWHERE on the charts.
Someone please quickly break the boy's heart or something so he can get back to writing amazing lyrics and decent beats!
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