Note: I’m borrowing this from the review I dropped over at Amazon. I figured some of our readers would want to hear my POV (since you read this blog). Have a Happy Holiday!
For some people, music is a form of entertainment. If you’ve never listened to something and understood the art of what was being told, then this Kanye album won’t be for you.
Undoubtedly, ‘Ye is an entertainer. His multi-platinum previous albums are testament to that.
This album is abstract art…and I love it. The auto-tune represents a broken voice. ‘Ye uses it well, and considering the magnitude of losing one’s best friend, one’s inspiration, one’s love, and one’s wisdom all in the same year, the art becomes more obvious.
When he had a release party for his album, he hired an artist who had 40 naked models accentuated by colored lights. That is what this album is. It is the human body….human emotion…naked.
If you look at the human body and want entertainment, don’t pick this up. If you can look at the human body and see form, art, pain, happiness, shape, and glory….pick up this album.
gib
typically, i go to metacritic.com, see what the consensus opinion of movies or music are and determine if it's worth my $. especially if it's not some one like Beyonce who is an automatic purchase. I read about the use of the vocoder and i was concerned that heartless and love lockdown sounded similar. but, i really dig the comparison you made, and it makes it make more sense. and it drastically increases the chances i check it out.
November 26, 2008 at 6:35 pm
The Silverback
I have to agree with this album being more art than entertainment. It is very reare that hip hop has emotion. I while ago I heard John Mayer explaining his thought process and meaning behind every song on his album. I thought to myself that there aren't hardly any mainstream artist who could really go through and explain the emotion behind their albums. Ye really makes you feel his pain through this album. I mean really feel it. I though his use of the vocoder was going to be him releasing his own t-pain album but he took it so much further,
December 6, 2008 at 9:00 am