Something like this comes along and shakes things up. Love 'em or hate 'em at least the man's trying to experiment with the idea and the boundaries of pop music. Sort of reminds me of the way that Prince shook shit up in the 80's. So yes, from the album apparently named "808's and Heartbreaks" (named after the famed Roland 808 drum machine from the 80's), it's Kanye crooning like he's Otis Redding with this low rolling euro beat. Guess he's been hanging out with Julius Casablanca and Daft Punk too much! But never the less, I don't think I've ever heard pop music that sounds like this, the vocals are auto tune distorted to the point of art, it has a Beach Boys style echo built in, the jazz piano, and the step drums, it's pretty goddamn exciting from the point of a listner. So get your mind right and have a listen. An then check out the MTV.com video of him doing this song at the awards. Glad someone's entertaining in mainstream music still.
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=205860_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161=&em3281=
4 comments:
I'm a sucker for anything with a marching band drum line. Not 100% sold on Kanye as a singer, though.
yea, i think i like it except for the digital voice thing
http://animalnewyork.com/news/2008/09/who-writes-kanye-blog-when-he.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAAH2u_4Pvs
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