It may seem hypocritical if he weren’t starkly honest with his own imperfections on tracks like “Runaway” and “The Blame Game”. At face value, the song is about Kanye walking in on his girlfriend cheating with someone else, and him wanting to reveal the truth with the brightest lights possible.
KANYE WEST MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY SONGS FULL
The song that is getting the most Grammy attention, “All of the Lights”, is epically full of everything: guest appearances, horns, catchy hooks, and an anthemic sense of greatness. But I appreciate that the shock is rarely for shock value alone He actually has some really great motivations. Kanye can’t help but offend most people at some point. “Dark Fantasy” kicks off the album with an almost Moby-esque repeated line over piano chords, long before he funnels to the center of his psyche, peaking at “Monster” and then spirals back along a slightly different path, getting “Lost in the Woods” along the way, and finally wondering who can survive America – perhaps the source of his insanity. Not that I think we try to child-proof Kanye, but perhaps it’s on this album where he most deeply attempts to come to terms with the person that he feels he truly is, with the person of his celebrity. īut for now, this is a post about the listening experience, and the album begins with Nicki Minaj quoting(ish) from Roald Dahl’s “Revolting Rhymes”, setting MBDTF up as one of those classic, twisted nursery rhymes that we routinely censor and disney-fy. And sights too, if we’ve watched “Runaway”, the accompanying short film that makes use of all but 4 of MBDFT’s songs. The fantasy often leaves us (and Kanye himself) wondering if he’s bat-poop crazy, yet always in awe of the demented beauty in his stories and sounds. The album not only embodies each descriptor, but holds them in tension with one another. What do I like about Kanye’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? Well, to begin with, it’s a great title. Perhaps because of my favorite November game – attempting to predict the Grammy nominations – and now that they have been announced, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has become the most talked about album, not only because of the nominations it has received, but also those it has evaded (namely, Album of the Year). From the King Crimson-sampling “Power,” to Dadaist-club bangers like “Monster” and porn-fuzz thump of “Hell of a Life”, to the nine minute album version of “Runaway”, complete with extended noise freakout, Fantasy goes about the task of reshaping our conceptions of modern music in hopes of overshadowing some of the most epic public transgression of the Internet.I have been thinking about Kanye West quite a bit lately. Think Van Der Graaf Generator, Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come or pre-Collins Genesis, but with guest appearances from Jay-Z and Rick Ross and lush, layered choral background singers, and you’ve got yourself an inkling of just how different this is from your run of the mill record, hip hop or otherwise. The new album is sonically more akin to the heavier, weirder end of ’70s prog rock and it’s R&B counterparts from that era, full of fuzzy bass riffs and out-of-the-blue-orchestral flourishes, and a willingness to get lengthy and abrasive when necessary, than what we’ve come to expect from commercial hip hop. Sadly, you’ll be missing out on this year’s most compelling and progressive pieces of popular music. And if you’re not a fan, well…you’re entitled to your own opinion. And if you happen to be a fan, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the album your hoping for – a soul-baring journey into twisted, out-of-control world of modern celebrity that explains, without excuse, the man’s rather unwieldy public unraveling since the release of 2008’s 808s & Heartbreak.
The most celebrated and vilified entertainer of the post millennial era, West is the tantrum-throwing enfant terrible of the Twitter-era, a car crash caught on YouTube, more infamous for acting like a brat than for anything else.
You already know if you want to listen to this – at this point in the decline and fall of western civilization, it’s hard not to have an opinion on Kanye West.
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