![]() ![]() Then there's the formal elements, most specifically the auto-tune. Kanye's not thinking straight and neither are his songs as they bounce through his doubts ("Love Lockdown"), the career he chose ("Amazing"), his regrets ("Street Lights"), and - most underrepresented on this album - his cool (the transcendent " Paranoid"). ![]() ![]() Sometimes on the same song - "Heartless" laments the loss of a girl, while also bragging "you'll never find nobody better than me." But, in a way, its an honest snapshot of the conflicted, unfiltered emotions one experiences after a break-up. On one hand it makes the album incredibly contradictory. Each song has all the immediacy we've come to know from Kanye (the man's first single was sung while his jaw was wired shut after a car accident) with little reflection. West is coping with this loss using his music, hoping for some sort of catharsis. Trying to excise the pain of losing a fiancé (she left him) and a mother (to a botched surgery) in the same year.Ībove all, Mr. ![]() A loudmouthed, arrogant popstar lamenting the life he's built for himself full of money, women and sports cars? 808s & Heartbreak would be worthy of contempt were it not so beautifully contradictory and simply strange. A question arises - the same one that came to mind when I heard Charlie Kaufman would be directing a feature film of his own - why? The light among this desolate arrangement? The melodies of auto-tuned Kanye West. Sampled vocals create a mournful choir and the occasional chord on piano drops. With Kanye's most recent re-imagining of the VH1 Storytellers format, here's a review of what I believe to be his masterpiece, 808s & Heartbreak.īeeps and blips bounce back and forth over a sparse drum beat created by the generally reviled Roland TR-808 drum machine. ![]()
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