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Jail and pt. 2 sound great. We're going to look like real idiots for ever having bobbed head to Manson singing "guess who's going to jail tonight?" a few years from now, though.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47166 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
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Contrary to its trolly rollout, this new horse dewormer of an album that Kanye West dropped early Sunday morning doesn’t qualify as edgy, no matter how hard anyone wishes it to be. As listeners, we’re reflexively drawn to that imaginary edge, the precipice where artists flirt with the unknown while keeping their feet planted in consensus reality — and yes, it’s true, West once made great, era-defining music on that bluff. But now, after years of stylistic dithering and MAGA footsie, it’s clear that this guy has stumbled over the edge and drifted into a dead zone of aesthetic inertia. His new music contains only one unpopped kernel of cosmic truth: The void is boring.
Contrary to its trolly rollout, this new horse dewormer of an album that Kanye West dropped early Sunday morning doesn’t qualify as edgy, no matter how hard anyone wishes it to be. As listeners, we’re reflexively drawn to that imaginary edge, the precipice where artists flirt with the unknown while keeping their feet planted in consensus reality — and yes, it’s true, West once made great, era-defining music on that bluff. But now, after years of stylistic dithering and MAGA footsie, it’s clear that this guy has stumbled over the edge and drifted into a dead zone of aesthetic inertia. His new music contains only one unpopped kernel of cosmic truth: The void is boring.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47166 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
VinylGuy wrote:
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its so weird to feel his music is boring because of his opinions tough.
hard disagree. He's been peddling edginess/button pushing for a long time now. Outside of two particularly pointed albums (808s and Yeezus), everything after Graduation has been built on the meta-narrative of Kanye as celebrity/messiah/martyr. His opinions are part-and-parcel with his music, which makes stuff like the Manson cameo feel much more hollow than provocative at this point.*
*I've not listened to this new album at all. I'm old enough to know when I hate something sight unseen.
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