If Kanye West is not the "voice of this generation", then who is?
Ever seen some kids from the Southside of Chicago listening to We Don't Care? Ever heard the pride and conviction in their voices? In our voices?
Fuck arrogance. No one inspires young people today to elevate like Kanye West does. Call him an asshole, pretend like he never thinks about anyone else but himself. But Touch the Sky? Heard Em Say? I Wonder? I know what his art did for us. I know how his conviction and perseverance keeps us inspired and determined to hold true to our dreams and grow.
With that said, Stephen Colbert is awesome.
They make good music, and that's what's important.
also, I'm not quite sure how wishing someone dies and/or becomes paralyzes makes you less of a dickhead than that supposed person.
This sounds really exciting. It makes me wanna dust off Blood Mountain and go through that shit. It's been much too long.
I heard Crack the Skye was a concept album about sucker-punching King Khan.
"It's not about what's popular to anyone else, it's about what you like and what speaks to you."
If you really believe this, why was your entire first post dedicated to shitting on millions of people's music tastes?
By the way, The Decemberists write pop music.
To take the stance that as soon as someone writes music for it to be a hit makes it bad excludes so much music. Like, Michael Jackson/Quincy Jones, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Outkast, etc.. Don't be naive/extremist. Good music is good music, regardless of why it's written.
Oh yeah, and the New Kids on the Block performance should have been included for how spectacular awful it was.That shit should be the nail in their career coffins. Donnie, moar act&less sing, plz.
Single Ladies is a great song. That was a great performance. Unforunately, Beyonce's new CD is not very good. : (
I was a little underwhelmed by 'Ye's performance, though the live instrumentation on Heartless sounded beautiful.
Stereogum, you guys should have included Ne-Yo's performance. He's really upped his game, performance-wise. Again, I wish his album could live up to the singles.
Both Ne-Yo and Beyonce actually suffer from the same disease. Too many songs either use super-bland techno techniques or super-bland acoustic instrumentation. It's really pissing me off. Chris Brown does too. These great entertainers are making obvious hackneyed grabs for expanded white listenership, when they're actually losing respect of their cores.
Meanwhile, Kanye is losing support for doing the opposite. Trying new things and being brave. But even if 808's wasn't the excellent album it is, I would far prefer it, conceptually, to this treadmill dreck.
The-Dream said he wanted to choke the Jonas bros.
I love this album.
I honestly believe that everyone should listen to the entire thing before making a judgment. I've talked to quite a few people who have done 180s upon listening to the final product.
Also, this album is nothing like T-Pain, excepting the auto-tune. I love T-Pain, but this album has real emotion at it's core and expands in so many musical directions (despite it's 808-centered concept) I couldn't even name them here. What a lazy comparison.
I mean, at least, with the Kid A one, I see where people are coming from- conceptually. It's an electronic-leaning album that follows up a string of blockbusting successes with unexpected abstractness and obscurity. And it's also a bleak, angry, deliberate response to those previous successes that threatens to alienate the fan base.
I loved Everyone's a Critic. The 'almost gay' angle is amusing, but not really funny or cutting edge these days. But I definitely did not expect the climax of the skit. Hilariously done. Indy Jones + and Armisen's shotgun to the head had me dying.
also, I'm glad the dude from Bro Rape gets fair play on SNL. I personally prefer Derrick Comedy's Donald Glover to pretty much all of SNL's cast, though. He's a remarkable talent. I wish they would pick him up- he has to be on their radar by now, since he writes for 30 Rock, and fairly well-known in NY comedy scene. I think I even read that he auditioned. I don't understand why they wouldn't take him.
The clips I saw were pretty sweet. Rudd is the man. I love Justin Timberlake. Sasha Fierce is a beast.
Batman has the gravel voice so people he comes in contact with only a regular basis don't recognize his voice. Why is that so hard to believe?
That's the only way to do it. He's not going to just try to deepen his voice, or use a voice changer (that'd be clownish), so he completely destroys all semblance of tone in his voice. I wouldn't recognize it as Christian Bale's voice if I didn't know already.
Also, hip hop hasn't been this productive in a very long time because people like Soulja Boy can co-exist with rappers like Lupe Fiasco and Nas and everyone can find their respective success. Sorry, but Hip-Hop Saved My Life does not quite cut it the way Donk does at a dance full of horny teens.
Soulja Boy isn't a one hit wonder. Crank Dat was freakishly broke through to extreme success, but among the hip-hop community he had already had quite a few successful songs. It's like calling Gnarls Barkley a one-hit wonder because the rest of their singles did a tenth of Crazy's success.
I mean, he's no Nas. But he's definitely been doing good business among his target demographic (ghetto black kids and those that would emulate them) before and after his BIG hit.
I Got Me Some Bathing Apes, Gucci Bandanna, Donk, Shootout, Yah Bitch Yah, Let Me Get Em- not to mention Booty Meat.
Also, he's a funny guy who doesn't take himself seriously, so I don't think anyone else should. If you lighten up on him, you might find yourself cracking up at shit like his diss video at Ice T.
I followed one of the links to TMZ for more info, and I noticed a comment under the article that said "WHACKO" and scrolled down some to read a few more. It made me very very sad.
I see people talk shit on here about bands they hate or what have you, but these were just a whole other level of just....vitriol and just utter disregard. It's unbelievable. I just can't understand what would drive a person to say this kind of shit.
I'm not going to download any of the tracks not leaked by Kanye to save SOME sort of experience for when the full album actually comes out, but wow. I really want to walk around with Streetlights playing in the gray Fall day right now. It's refreshing how tasteful and restrained it is.
I'm really excited about this album. The Mrs. P.U. line is silly, but that's Weezy, man. He's not afraid to be silly.
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Also, when I heard Anyway for the first time, and the chorus came in, the first thing I thought was Quincy Jones-era Mike Jack.
Every list pisses a million people off.
I'm a little sad there's no Cedric Bixler Zavala. Especially since RS loves TMV so much. Maybe it's just Omar.
Also, I don't see Brian Wilson, but there's no way he couldn't be on there so I probably just missed him.
Graduation part II? Graduation was already a direct sequel to his first two albums. And even then it paled in comparison to those classics.
This track is...I think "ill" is the world to describe it. Got that loping, hypnotic vibe of Drunk & Hot Girls (which was one of the truly striking tracks from Grad. Not to say Graduation wasn't a very good album, it just didn't really stretch any boundaries for Kanye.)
"I like that song you wrote...it was a good one...
Take your dick out of my ass?....
Wasn't it number one in Europe?...
Take your dick out of my ass?...
Take my dick out of my ass and stick it my mouth?"
You could really see the wheels turning in Billy's head. This dude is like 40 right? I mean, really.
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