Kanye West “808s and Heartbreaks” Album: A Different Perspective
No more high pitched samples
My friend Nicole in Amsterdam put me on to her friend’s music blog: All Things Go. I checked it out today and read an interesting op-ed about Kanye’s new style.
For those of you who don’t know, 808s and Heartbreaks is an album stocked with R&B type songs that feature ‘Ye “singing” through Antares Autotune, more commonly known as “that program that T-Pain uses to make his voice do that thing.” Upon hearing this news, I was devastated. Not only can I not stand that kind of music or singing one bit, but I expected an even more dance-able, radio-ready output from one of my favorite rappers. Then I got to thinking. If Kanye decided to make his new album an extension of the synth-heavy and hook-laden Late Registration or Graduation, he would just be making more of the same. If he went back to his percussion and lyricism-heavy style featured on College Dropout, he’d be taking a step backwards in terms of creativity.
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it would be nice if people stop making excuses for this guy. If it’s not as good as his other CDs don’t be afraid to critize this guy. I like kanye but I dislike this cd.. Some songs are good and creative but his expression of the emotion was muffleld in the auto-tunes..