The Life of Pablo is Kanye's worst album yet. Ever since he started dating Kim Kardashian, his music has gone downhill. Kanye is a joke. He is the black Donald Trump.
It's my opinion also that Pablo is his worst album, but blaming it on his wife is too far. If his recent music hasn't been as great, he is responsible himself. I won't say anything about you thinking that he's a joke. That's up to you to decide. I don't understand the Donald Trump comparison though. Kanye is eccentric and often disagreeable, but he really can't be compared to someone who claims that a whole religious community hates America. If there's ever a point where I think Kanye's music changed, it's when his mother passed away and he blamed himself for it. There's obviously a deeply traumatic change that went on in his life and perspective of the world. But going too deep into that is tasteless. I just take his music for what it is, whether his recent music is something I like or not. Blaming his wife for what is, in your opinion, lackluster music is just.... shitty. I don't know how else to say it. That's just my two cents.
This. It's just shinning through in his lyrics, man TRIGGER WARNING Now if I fuck this model And she just bleached her asshole And I get bleach on my T-shirt I'mma feel like an asshole The album is a mess. If that is a deliberate choice Kanye made in order for the album to have some kind of deeper meaning, then it is not really executed well. It's fun to observe, but not something worth digging deeper into - Just like his personal life.
Those few bars are one of the reasons why I am kind of iffy about Pablo. I was talking more about his really dramatic change in sound after he lost his mother and felt guilty about it. It's especially evident on 808s. After that, his music was never really the same again. But like I said before, I don't feel great about analyzing or speaking on his personal life, so I'll leave it at that. Your post did make me laugh though. Those lyrics haha. I agree that the album is a mess, but who knows, to others it's his best album. I might not either be seeing something or having some kind of experience or perspective that makes me appreciate it. All is well though, I suppose.
It's messy, but it's also so human, I think. It paints a fairly thorough and frank picture of where his head was at while he was writing it, for better or worse.
I get that. I just wish it was more cohesive musically, lyrically and conceptually. I still love some tracks while others' remain lackluster. Any thoughts on the new mix? I haven't given it a listen yet.
So Kanye performed his first sorta Life of Pablo concert here in Manila. His stage is kinda minimalistic compared to the Yeezus one. http://www.rappler.com/entertainmen...-paradise-international-music-festival-photos His setlist was: 1. Ultralight Beam (outro) 2. Stronger 3. Power 4. Black Skinhead 5. All Day 6. Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1 7. Pt. 2 8. Famous (did a 2-minute rant then did the song again) 9. Waves 10. Jesus Walks 11. Clique 12. Mercy 13. Niggas in Paris 14. Can't Tell Me Nothing 15. Cold 16. I Don't Like 17. Blessings 18. Pop Style (the new Drake song, with him and Jay-Z as featured artists) 19. New Slaves 20. Blood on the Leaves 21. Runaway 22. All Falls Down 23. Gold Digger 24. All of the Lights 25. Touch the Sky 26. Good Life 27. Only One 28. Bound 2 29. Run This Town 30. FourFiveSeconds 31. Ultralight Prayer 32. Only One
I can just imagine thousands of people walking away disappointed when he closed the set with "FourFive" and fucking "Ultralight Prayer". You made "Runaway", god damn it.
When I saw Kanye live 2 years ago, Runaway was in the middle of his set. He closed with Bound 2, and the encore was Blood on the Leaves. It was a pretty good set though, kind of a greatest hits type thing. Black Skinhead into I Don't Like was the best opener ever, though.
His Yeezus shows were incredible. I went to one in Chicago and another in Newark. I heard Australia got kind of short listed on the stage design, but I actually liked the way it looked, from what I saw on YouTube. It looked like everyone was having a lot of fun too.
It didn't look bad by any means, but it wasn't the show that I paid to see; that show was cancelled and we had a rescheduled date months later that was completely different from what I expected.
Try seeing him at a festival, where a good 80% of people hate him for something he did in 2008. Most intimate set I've ever seen performed at Bonnaroo by a headliner. It was.... interesting, to say the least. [video=youtube;UCkSeTZTchs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCkSeTZTchs[/video] [video=youtube;7x_tTmxTqYQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x_tTmxTqYQ[/video]
I remember that. People were writing "Fuck Kanye" and "gayfish" on walls, portable toilets, etc. When he started talking to the audience about the media and whatnot, there were people in the audience going "shut up!" "oh my God...." I don't think he's ever going to be a likable person in American pop culture, but it's kind of bizarre how people say he's talentless while admitting they haven't heard much of his music. It's telling when you type "Kanye" into the YouTube search engine and most of the videos are about his personal life and controversies, rather than his music. I literally have to skip over at least 10-15 videos to actually find a music video by him, or something music related. It's...stupid, to put it bluntly.
I personally loved the rants. All the people that were there to actually SEE Kanye and hear him perform, loved it and laughed and agreed with most of what he said. The dude is a certified rockstar, in a musical landscape where rockstars don't really exist anymore. It's funny, Jack White did a few rants that weekend during his set too, and nobody was booing him or writing disparaging remarks about him on Bonnaroo property (graffiti wall is one thing, it's allowed, but on portapotties and stuff? no, guys). rap game Donald Trump (without all the bad stuff like sexism, racism, homophobia, etc.)