My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The album is one of those great moments where you listen to each song and about a 2/3 of the way through, you realize “Hey, I have really enjoyed every song so far!” And as that dawns upon you you’re thinking, “What’s wrong with me? I’m lovin’ this Kanye West album.” Now if you can get past your ego or your general negativity towards the rap/hip-hop musical genre, I guarantee you might be surprised at how amazing this album is: lyrically, musically, completely. The following is a few of my insta-favorites but really the true joy is in listening it all the way through a few times.
Lost In The World feat. Bon Iver (aka the ultra chill-electro song)
Dark Fantasy (aka the perfect introduction to incredible layering and artistic insight)
Blame Game feat. John Legend (and Chris Rock) (aka the most polarizing and beyond borderline offensively funny song that is still somehow a work of art in itself)
Many of you will not agree that this is great stuff and that’s cool. A lot of you will think I jumped on the Kanye bandwagon like every other yahoo – and that’s cool too except I quickly retort “I jumped on back when Stronger came out sucka.” (Yes, I am aware of all irony.) Point is, this album was compelling enough to make me break my hiatus and get back to collecting my often crazy, absurd, musical obsessions – even while abroad. Touche Mr. West. Touche.
