>people have consistently been making "now that the dust has settled" threads on yeezus
>tfw the dust will never settle
will there ever be a general consensus on yeezus? I'm of the group that thinks it's fantastic, and by far one of the best albums of the 2010s (even more than MBDTF), but I've seen just as many people seeing it's complete garbage, and more people still that are as torn as the public opinion. what do you think?
Yeezus (Def Jam, 2013), designed with an incredible number of collaborators, is a sloppy, awkward and amateurish work despite the impeccable fusion of electronics and vocals, the impeccable collages, the impeccable production. But sound quality is a technological, not an artistic, fact. Daft Punk are responsible for the robotic beat of On Sight and the monster riff of Black Skinhead (one of the catchiest "songs"): cool but nothing we haven't heard before. There are a few moments of pathos: the reggae-like cry of I am a God in a desolate post-industrial soundscape, the gloomy crescendo of the first half of Hold My Liquor (before the misguided synth orgy), the martial trombone fanfares of Blood on the Leaves, and... i struggled to find at least one more. But there are also embarrassingly trivial moments of both mashup and sociopolitical analysis (New Slaves, I'm in It, Blood on the Leaves, and Bound 2, which is simply a lame tribute to soul music) and there is certainly an unusual dose of filler (a four-song EP would have been more appropriate for what West had to say in this album). As a narrative experience, these stories may try something new but it's more a case of a populist bard desperately trying to find something new to say to his followers than a serious discussion on gender and race. As an aural experience, this album feels terribly old, like most granpas when they try to speak the language of their high-school nephews. Maybe this album was only meant as a self-mocking joke? 4/10
only normies and hip hop purist faggots dislike this album
I personally really liked it. It didn't suffer from the overload on skits that some other Kanye albums had, and I think it served as a good transition into TLOP.
>normies dislike this album
yes, that is what I said! Good job!
t. normie in denial
>(one of the catchiest "songs")
>"songs"
>""
By saying that he completely discredited everything he's ever said.
The general consensus should be that the album is shit. Kanye brings nothing new to the sound except for on the first two tracks, and everything is poorly written except for New Slaves which has boring production and Blood on the Leaves which is unbelievably obnoxious.
I can't believe someone typed this without feeling immense shame for lying so brazenly