KANYE WEST MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY LISTEN MOVIE
KANYE WEST MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY LISTEN FULL

KANYE WEST MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY LISTEN MOVIE

вЂњPowerвЂќ is a staple of commercials and movie trailers. Its omnipresence is such that, though I had never listened to the whole album start to finish, I had, in fact, heard many of its songs, in one way or another. In the years since FantasyвЂ™s release, KanyeвЂ™s own music has reached the stature held by some of what he sampled, and arguably an even higher one. It all suggest a man who doesnвЂ™t only create music, but also knows the music of others exceedingly well. And the choice of samples is exquisite, only reinforcing and never distracting, even when drawn from so obscure a source as pioneering progressive-rock band King Crimson. Songs such as вЂњSo AppalledвЂќ and вЂњDevil in a New DressвЂќ are built on the foundation of underlying melodies likely to stick in your head long after an initial listen. And Kanye shows a genuine gift for crafting catchy rhythms and melodies that are sometimes (deliberately) repetitive but never boring or stale. Its songs contain a striking diversity of instrumentation and genre as one small example, вЂњAll of the Lights (interlude)вЂќ is a wordless string instrumental. The result was something that one cannot fairly describe as merely a hip-hop album. Even if Kanye ultimately intended the album as a tribute to his own genius, it says something revealing about his own method that he saw fit to accentuate that genius with considerable help from others. All of them get their chance to shine, such that they are ultimately indispensable to the final product.

KANYE WEST MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY LISTEN FULL

Yet it is either a paradox, a testament to KanyeвЂ™s skill as an arranger, or both that the album is full of collaborations with famous musicians such as Rihanna, Kid Cudi, Nicki Minaj, and Jay Z. I emerged with a greater appreciation for KanyeвЂ™s abilities and a greater understanding of his durability as a phenomenon. But on the recommendation of a friend, and in recognition of the albumвЂ™s tenth anniversary, I decided to give it a serious listen. I also lack much of an interest in hip-hop. Unlike the case with Arcade FireвЂ™s The Suburbs, another album that turned ten this year, I had no connection or existing fondness for KanyeвЂ™s Fantasy - or much for Kanye himself, really, whom I tended to regard as an interesting, if sometimes insufferable, curiosity.

His response was to go into a sort of exile, in Hawaii, and to produce My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which just turned ten years old, and which was recently named the 17th-greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone. And thus it was near the end of the 2000s, when a string of controversies - most notable though hardly alone among them, his tirade against fellow musician Taylor Swift at the Video Music Awards - sufficed to place him in one of the many troughs that his surprisingly extensive career has so far featured. With Kanye, it seems, itвЂ™s the whole package. and his repeated struggles with mental illness. He continues to find new ways to keep himself in the headlines, as in recent years with his high-profile (if confused and short-lived) embrace of President Trump, his seemingly more durable conversion to Christianity. Few other figures in public life have such a record of fame and infamy - often at the same time - in the 21st century as this highly visible musician.

The words alone are charged nowadays - and have been for some time.

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