![]() But in this strange space that brought together the pureness of a traditional singing voice and the perceived stiffness of the digital world, West created something incredibly human and honest. He wasn’t always in tune, and god knows his shamelessly earnest lyrics-just look at the opening to “Welcome to Heartbreak”: “My friend showed me pictures of his kids / and all I could show him was pictures of my cribs”-lacked, uh, any sort of subtlety. This style would allow him to use his voice as an instrument-the lane he invented was neither rapping nor singing, but instead, a form of yelping through twisted augmented vocal manipulation. ![]() 808s & Heartbreak took his questionable singing voice and manipulated it with Auto-Tune. It sounds hyperbolic, but West would go on to create something we’d never heard before. He didn’t know where to turn, and could seemingly on do only one thing: create. The world he’d built around himself with his first three records of pure pop rap perfection was crumbling. To complicate matters further, the most devastating thing that could occur happened: His mother, who he’d always been especially close with, passed away after getting plastic surgery. After coming off the most commercially successful album of his career in Graduation, West’s long-term relationship with his high school sweetheart turned fiancée ended. On top of it being a weird time in America’s history-the bottom had just dropped out of our nation’s economy and thousands of people lost their homes, the youth of the nation had been tricked into thinking they could Change things with a whole ‘lotta Hope, and dudes were really into wearing sweatshirts under blazers-the man who’d eventually rise as Yeezus faced the most difficult time of his life. What we won’t witness tonight is what made this record come to be. ![]() Because 808s & Heartbreak is a record about the struggle to understand imperfection-one of its best qualities is that it’s willingly bad. West will be frustrated on stage-dealing with mic issues and then, at one point, yelling at the orchestra and calling the show a “dress rehearsal,” but regardless, he will succeed with his mission to make us feel. The whole ordeal will become the definition of an ordeal-a bold attempt to make each person in the crowd understand just what the hell it means to have your heart fucking broken-and why we, as humans, care about that so much. Pallbearers will roll out a woman’s body on a slanted bed and perform a funeral. An army of shirtless men will march to “Love Lockdown.” Snow will fall and melt in the LA heat during “Coldest Winter.” Gunshots will go off multiple times. Three giant staircases will rotate around the stage before us, and West will climb up, sit on, and jump off of them. A massive bulb hanging above the stage will pulse various shades of red and white. Kanye will be dressed in clothes better suited the city of Zion in The Matrix than a live performance. ![]() What we will witness will be a strange and bizarre theatrical spectacle of a 60-person orchestra, a live band, and roughly 40 dancers that will last just over an hour. It’s a Friday night and I’m here with 17,000 other people from all over the world to see West perform his 2008 record 808s & Heartbreak for the first time ever in full at the Hollywood Bowl. While the humor was pretty typical for a Borat movie, it was a bit more daring for a Kennedy Center Honors ceremony.īorat then paid tribute to U2 by referring to the group as “Me Too.” After reading a message from his parents in the Kazakh language, Borat explained, “It translates to mean ‘Please remove your wretched album from my new iPhone 6.” That was a reference to the 2014 release of U2’s album Songs of Innocence to all iTunes customers, triggering some upset from users that it showed up in their catalogs without their consent.sīorat finished his segment by telling the president that he hoped he enjoyed the routine, saying, “It is my wish to pleasure you with my mouth.Kanye West will appear to be shot on stage later tonight, but for now all I can do is sweat. He tried to move to Kazakhstan and even tried to change his name to Kazakhstan-ye West. That, of course, was a reference to Trump and his conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election. Whoa whoa, whooo wha! She is very erotic.” The cameras caught Jill Biden laughing and clapping as well.īorat then went on: “I must say I’m very upset about the anti-Demitism in the U.S. He then said, “I see you have a new wife. “Where has your blown-ass big belly gone? And your pretty orange skin without fail,” Borat said.
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