![]() Flaws and all, TLOP is unequivocally Kanye. This man somehow put his most religious track with an organ and a whole-ass choir featured right next to a song with the lines “Now, if I fuck this model / And she just bleached her asshole / And I get bleach on my T-shirt / I'ma feel like an asshole / I was high when I met her” and then really made them work because… well, it’s Kanye. His religious side, his sexual side, his family loving side, his egotistical side, the side that hates what fame has turned him into, his introspective side, his paranoid and scared feelings… they’re all crashing together on ‘The Life of Pablo’. It shows the dichotomy between every facet of Kanye West’s personality- everything that makes Kanye West… well, Kanye West. I won’t be going too in-depth here, however, the concept of TLOP is that this is not a Kanye album, this is Kanye’s album. TLOP’s concept is really easy to miss, though once you do understand what Kanye was shooting for, you begin to really appreciate this album for how messy it is. 20 tracks, ranging in length from under 40 seconds to over 6 minutes, a hodgepodge of musical styles, lyrically all of the places… at first glance, ‘The Life of Pablo’ comes off as nothing more than a meaningless, incoherent compilation of Kanye West songs. Still, even with it being complete, even with all the rough mixes being fixed, ‘The Life of Pablo’ remains incredibly messy. Kanye called it a “living breathing changing creative expression” which is just the pretentious way of saying “the album isn’t finished yet lol”. He fixed a lot of mixes, tweaked song lyrics, completely changed some songs, and even added a new closer in. Over the course of the next couple of months, Kanye would continue to make changes and tweaks to the album, despite it being in our hands. A couple of days later, ‘The Life of Pablo’ was released exclusively on Tidal and Pirate Bay. 3 on-album singles later and two more album title changes (into ‘Waves’ and then finally into what the title currently is), Kanye West combined the premiere of Yeezy season 3 with the live premiere of ‘The Life of Pablo’. It wasn’t until January of 2016 that actual singles would roll out for this album. Standalone singles ‘FourFiveSeconds’, ‘Only One’, ‘All Day’, and ‘Facts’ would be released throughout 2014-December 2015, meanwhile, the album title would be changed once again to ‘SWISH’. Anyway, it was announced in 2013 and slated for 2014 with the working title of ‘So Help Me God’. ‘The Life of Pablo’ was delayed for 531 days… and then was released unfinished. ![]() No matter how much Kanye changes between eras, one thing will remain true: he cannot come up with a concrete release date. First, we need to talk about the album rollout, because it was an absolute CLUSTERFUCK! Well, Kanye is synonymous with delays. Messy, wild, scattered, all over the place, incohesive, yet, ultimately, genius- perhaps Kanye’s most interesting project.
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