Five days ago Kanye West wanted to celebrate the world premiere of his seventh album and his third fashion collection in one go. Dozens Models were carted into the most famous sports hall in the world, come numerous relatives, celebrities and related celebrities. Not to mention thousands of fans who watched the event on-site, in cinemas all over the world or on the computer. There was only one problem: The album was not finished. As West joined his laptop with the sound system of the New York’s Madison Square Garden, only came a trunk version of its new album The Life Of Pablo .
Not that anyone would have itched. Sheer live tickers, Twitter updates and Instagram uploads to guest lists, fur equipment and violations of the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces, would West almost got away with his biggest coup: a pompous dolled, settled between haute couture and trash culture, entirely Kanye West-like album release party – at the end no album was released.
Almost oppositional that after the show does not sell the plate, but the work was continued it. The Life Of Pablo must be mastered, West hosted. Then came under pressure from a fellow musician added a new song, then four more. Since Sunday morning can be the album now stream over Tidal but finished it is still not. Instead, we hear 18 zerschossene pieces that want to hide their intermediate status character in any way. West gospel, rap and R ‘n’ B linked not to the work of art, but by provocative and dirty transitions to temporary. A good gag: The most anticipated hip-hop album of the year sounds like a thrown-Mixtape.
The album as a boss
Kanye West is an endlessly ambitious Himmelsstürmer. He had to be Pop, because pop music is about to make the impossible possible. It depends on the whims of artists from, of spontaneous intuitions, coincidences and unenhanced errors. The pinnacle of pop music – and the boss every pop musician – is the album still. Artists want to record albums, record companies want to release an album, all technological developments and changing listening habits notwithstanding. The trick was there previously, successively establish a series of snapshots, and this must be declared final.
West makes it different with The Life Of Pablo . Rarely was the plate of a big musical entrepreneur so much work in progress . This shows on the one hand the limbo of the past few weeks with new album titles, track listings, cover art and rapidly scribbled note papers that shed light on the tasks involved collaborators. The show on the other hand, the songs in their piecemeal polyphony. Song snippets of style pop Weirdos Arthur Russell standing next to the usual soul-samples. Bible verses next Analsexgeschichten. Hermès next Herzogenaurach. The Life Of Pablo opens with a Gospel which complains about the inscrutable ways of the Lord.
stänkern and compensate
More than ever, hear that Kanye West is anything but a solo artist. Instead, he put together a task force of hip producers like the Scots Hudson Mohawke and proven problem solvers like OutKast André Benjamin to The Life Of Pablo to draw in countless, partly parallel sessions. West is not conducting these sessions, but curator of their results. Who does not belong to very closest circle, experiences only when release of the album, whether it have its own contributions managed by the decrease.
This freedom of movement West not only takes out because he can. It is essential for his music, showing again in the best moments of The Life Of Pablo why he is considered reckless latest pop star of our time. West civil and comment columns Troll is in the same song. He stänkert awkward and incredibly spiteful against his ex-girlfriends and ex-boyfriend of his wife. Using various Pablos (Picasso, Neruda, Escobar) he lands at St. Paul as the last conceivable model and compensated the handset at the end of the album for each derailment when by Fade with three house and Blues Samples the musical history of his birthplace Chicago cited.
No comments:
Post a Comment