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Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anti — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 00:44:38 GMT

Author: Anti

Posted: 02/25/2016 05:44

RockyRaccoon wrote:

Kanye says new album in the summer

So are we gonna see the "40 tracks" with either Kendrick, Drake, Future, and/or Young Thug?

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

craola — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:10:02 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 02/25/2016 02:10

benpaco wrote:

Same reason people went to see Lady in the Water even after The Village.

i am curious. i don't understand the hate for either of these. sure, they're not OMG GREATEST FILM EVER, but they're not all that bad either. did people just want more surprise ending twists a la sixth sense?

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

benpaco — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:34:28 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 02/25/2016 01:34

dividesbyzero wrote:

I thought TLOP was pretty alright at best and yet I'm still really excited over the prospect of a new album. What is Ye's secret

Same reason people went to see Lady in the Water even after The Village

Anywho yeah hopefully that won't be a TIDAL exclusive and I'll actually check it out, but maybe Lupe's final trilogy out this year + Brand New's (likely final) album will be more than enough listening for me.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:21:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/25/2016 00:21

I thought TLOP was pretty alright at best and yet I'm still really excited over the prospect of a new album. What is Ye's secret

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Hayden — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 19:18:00 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 02/25/2016 00:18

RockyRaccoon wrote:

Kanye says new album in the summer

Not sure if I believe him at this point, but I'd be cool with it. I feel like he has a few ideas bottled up and couldn't quite get them through with TLOP.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

RockyRaccoon — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:54:56 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 02/24/2016 19:54

Kanye says new album in the summer

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

WindowAbove — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 10:58:39 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 02/24/2016 15:58

OP change title it's not Swish also the album is great, my fifth or sixth favorite Yeezy album

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Applerill — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 08:25:15 GMT

Author: Applerill

Posted: 02/24/2016 13:25

I definitely do not think it's a snooze, but that pair of Quietus pieces make me wonder if he's really the rap game Norman Mailer or something. Here are some excerpts from the initial review:

Quote:

Kanye West, whose own personal brand - enhanced on a weekly basis this year - is performative megalomania with a twist of tortured artist. His definition of greatness tends to the conservative: artistic quality as objectively measured by his relationship to the ossified critical canon and acceptance by establishment institutions such as the Grammys.....

... He comes across not as a genius colossus, but a small-minded man curiously obsessed with the sex lives of the women in and out of his life. "My ex says she gave me the best years of her life / I saw a recent picture of her, I guess she was right," he sneers pettily on '30 Hours'. West's clickbait-friendly jab at Taylor Swift may have garnered headlines, but his fixation on his exes, both on record and on Twitter, is distinctly Swiftian in nature...

...Elsewhere, there's outright contempt for women for - among other things - wearing spray tan, buying Christian Louboutins and bleaching their assholes. This is less shifting the paradigm, as he claims a couple of lines later, as upholding the status quo; less a complicated artist wrestling with complex thoughts as quotidian locker-room talk and tiresome fragile masculinity...

....West may be inappropriate and given to TMI, but he's a fundamentally conservative figure, taking clichés as fundamental even when it comes to his own persona. "Name one genius that isn't crazy," he raps; where to start? The myth of the tortured artist has been long debunked, and West says nothing new about it - or about celebrity, wealth, sexuality or any of his pet topics...

...Who is the kind of person inspired by Kanye West? "I have been a tremendous fan of your music for many years. Specifically, the album The College Dropout inspired me to succeed at a young age," read a missive that he received on the day of the Yeezy 3 fashion show that doubled as the album launch. It was from pharma-bro villain Martin Shkreli, and it was an offer to buy The Life Of Pablo purely in order to prevent anyone else from hearing it...

What do you all think of this? I don't know what to think of this, but the argumentation is certainly interesting.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Norman Bates — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:29:14 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 02/24/2016 11:29

Skinny wrote:

- Speaking of cohesion, what really pulls the album together is the woozy, melancholy, synthetic soul vibe I'm hearing on most of these tracks. Although, looking at the comments here and elsewhere, I feel like I'm the only one.

- Everyone will mention the Arthur Russell ('30 Hours') and Sister Nancy ('Famous') samples, but the funnest and most surprising sample was that brief segment of Section 25 at the end of 'FML'.

Agreed on both counts.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

meccalecca — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:18:20 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 02/23/2016 15:18

blacksaintsinnerLAD wrote:

this is now the new overall

Not a single New Edition record.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

alelsupreme — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:56:56 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 02/23/2016 14:56

Satie wrote:

No, everyone knows that I'm the only person who's right about everything and they should all listen to me.

this is now the new overall

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:37:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:37

The use of irony to mock me in a Kanye West thread. Kanye would be proud.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

AAL2014 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:32:56 GMT

Author: AAL2014

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:32

Satie wrote:

No, everyone knows that I'm the only person who's right about everything and they should all listen to me.

ScumBum, you didn't know this by now?

😉 😉

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:31:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:31

ScumBum wrote:

Just because one person likes/dislikes an album and publicly gives their opinion on it doesn't mean everyone will agree or make them want to listen to or not to the album.

No, everyone knows that I'm the only person who's right about everything and they should all listen to me.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:26:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:26

Satie wrote:

They would know it because of the goodwill and charity of upstanding informative citizens like myself.

Just because one person likes/dislikes an album and publicly gives their opinion on it doesn't mean everyone will agree or make them want to listen to or not to the album.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:22:57 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:22

ScumBum wrote:

How would someone know it is a complete snooze without listening to it?

They would know it because of the goodwill and charity of upstanding informative citizens like myself.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:21:38 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 03:21

Satie wrote:

it's the internet age nothing is platform-exclusive. there are better reasons to not want to listen to it, like it being a complete snooze.

How would someone know it is a complete snooze without listening to it?

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:30:42 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/23/2016 02:30

it's the internet age nothing is platform-exclusive. there are better reasons to not want to listen to it, like it being a complete snooze.

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Juiceman96 — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 21:04:36 GMT

Author: Juiceman96

Posted: 02/23/2016 02:04

The fact that it's only on tidal right now makes me not want to listen to it

Re: Thoughts on Kanye's upcoming album SWISH

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 15:09:11 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/22/2016 20:09

maybe I wasn't 100% clear about what I was trying to point out

the chart thing wrote:

TIDAL POWER

c'mon funny people gimme some #jokes