Kanye West's highly anticipated new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his fifth, following The College Dropout (2004), Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007) and 808s & Heartbreak (2008). And that means pretty much everybody.Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy on 3LP Kanye West thinks you’re a moron if you settle for artists who don’t push as hard as he does. With Fantasy, he makes everybody else on the radio sound laughably meek, but he’s also throwing down a challenge to the audience.
There’s a famous story about Queen making “Bohemian Rhapsody”: Whenever the band thought the song was finished, Freddie Mercury would say, “I’ve added a few more ‘Galileos’ here, dear.” But nobody can out-Galileo Kanye. Yet the songs are also his funniest ever, with Kanye showing off lethal wit on the mic: In “Dark Fantasy,” he rhymes “mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago” with “diablo,” “bravado” and “My chick in that new Phoebe Philo/So much head, I woke up in Sleepy Hollow.” In confessions like “Runaway” and “Blame Game,” he honestly struggles to figure out why he has to be such a douchebag. He has sex and romance on his mind, but he comes clean about his male angst like never before.
Kanye Says He Understands George Bush’s ‘Disgust’Ĭoming off a string of much-publicized emotional meltdowns, Yeezy is taking a deeper look inside the dark corners of his twisted psyche. At a time when we all get hectored about lowering our expectations, surrendering our attention spans, settling for less, West wants us to demand more. It’s his best album, but it’s more than that - it’s also a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing world.
There are hip-hop epics, R&B ballads, alien electronics, prog-rock samples, surprise guests from Bon Iver to Fergie to Chris Rock, even a freaking Elton John piano solo. But on Fantasy, he gets ridiculously maximal, blowing past all the rules of hip-hop and pop, even though, for the past half-decade, he’s been the one inventing the rules. Last time, Kanye went minimal for the electro melancholia of 808s & Heartbreak. Kanye West Gives Surprise Performance on Delta Flight Nobody halfway sane could have made this album. Yeezy goes for the grandeur of stadium rock, the all-devouring sonics of hip-hop, the erotic gloss of disco, and he goes for all of it, all the time. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. Being crazy is this guy’s job, and judging from the sound of his music, business is booming. When Kanye West sings about “jerk-offs that’ll never take work off,” you’d best believe he means himself.
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