My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was an immediate and widespread critical success, and was named the best album of 2010 in many publications' year-end lists, including the annual Pazz & Jop poll of American critics nationwide. The album was also a failed attempt to move his raps further into R&B and pop.
The earliest glimpse at My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of its best moments. He has sex and romance on his mind, but he comes clean about his male angst like never before. You’d be mad not to follow him.The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus. Like many of his greatest songs, it's funny, sad, and perversely relatable. In confessions like “Runaway” and “Blame Game,” he honestly struggles to figure out why he has to be such a douchebag. It also may be the best produced. And refresh the page? My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is hands-down the most ambitious mainstream rap album ever made. Close. "Hell of a Life" attempts to bend its central credo-- "no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all I need"-- into a noble pursuit. 178 votes, 56 comments. 6 months ago. Comments. And when West's recent interview with Matt Lauer on the "Today" show went awry, he took to Twitter, writing, "I wish Michael Jackson had twitter!!!!!!
For many, his first memorable lines as a rapper came during 2003's "Slow Jamz": "She got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/ Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson." It is his most critically … It's all a fucking set up!!!!" "All I want is a good home and a wife and children and some food to feed them every night," says Scott-Heron, bringing the fantasy to a close.On "POWER", Kanye raps, "My childlike creativity, purity, and honesty is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts/ Reality is catching up with me, taking my inner child, I'm fighting for custody." But 808s found the producer-turned-rapper mostly out of his element.
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Yeezus. ... you would probably be aware of the great mystery behind the original version of his excellent album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. 6d ago. For the most part, a little editing could have gone a long way. Today we will be talking about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West’s fifth studio album. He’s like a filter for pop culture.
Get it?” It’s an outrageous accusation, but everything Kanye does is over the top. All Categories. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy REDUX REVIEW. Best Albums of 2010 - User Score. He also takes it back to the classroom: “Hey teacher, teacher, tell me how do you respond to students? On Gorgeous, West is back to one of his older claims: “I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS – I won’t be satisfied ’til all my niggas get it.
West had successfully pushed a bit in that direction on Graduation, with hits like Stronger that heavily sampled Daft Punk. Log In / Sign Up. At the MTV Video Music Awards last year, he stormed the stage to say that Beyoncé’s video was one of the best of all time when he simply meant that it was better than Taylor Swift’s.One of West’s basic themes throughout his raps is that government can never be fully trusted when it treats people differently based solely on race.
All this publication's reviews Related Content. Kanye just needs to rap. All Album Reviews. But there are still diamonds in the rough, like the closing track, Who Will Survive In America, which samples the spoken poetry of Gil Scott-Heron’s Comment #1.Kanye West has always been passionate. And while the royal horns and martial drums of "All of the Lights" make it sound like the ideal outlet for the most over-the-top boasts imaginable, West instead inhabits the role of an abusive deadbeat desperate to make good on a million blown promises. His huge ego stems from his do-or-die mentality; his (sometimes misdirected) anger is against social injustice more than it’s against individuals; his quest for the spotlight is the same quest everyone has to make their mark on the world. At the center of the spectacle is a huge, pale, cartoonish rendering of Michael Jackson's head. He’s saying that despite the civil rights movement, despite having an African American president, America is not post-race. Posted by.