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And the Bon Iver 'sample' in "Lost in the World" (it was actually rerecorded for/by Kanye) elevates that original song to something truly special.
Billboard - First week sales:
Taylor Swift, Speak Now - 1,047,000
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - 525,000
I have no idea why you posted this, but I approve.the French champagne...has always been celebrated for its excellence.
There is a California champagne...by Paul Masson...
inspired by that same French excellence!
Taylor, i'm happy for you and i'mma let you finish, but your album sold TWICE as many copies as mine did...AS MINE DID.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Or "basically everyone who posts on this board."Lazist.
How did you manage to get weekly sales numbers for an album that came out five days ago? If it's a projection, it likely doesn't take into account Black Friday sales, but sticks to a more static "it sold X on Tuesday, Y on Wednesday, so it'll sell Z by Monday" approach.
Either way, Kanye has never sold as much in one week as Taylor did with Speak Now.
A little unfair, as Swift is at the peak of her popularity right now.
Let's wait and see how well her fifth album does. Britney Spears' Blackout didn't even go platinum or debut at #1. I make that comparison not on artistic merit but on similar demographic appeal.
Because Blackout was released at the absolute nadir of Britney Spears' popularity. This was just a few months after her very public "meltdown," trip to a clinic, shaving her head, attacking a car with an umbrella phase. And the big promo performance she did for the album was the almost unanimously derided performance of "Gimme More" to open the '07 VMAs.
In my opinion Kanye West has no business rapping/singing or whatever he does is called. His production is great and should stick to that.
Glad I'm not crazy. And it's all a compliment, that sound on So Appalled is just phenomenal.Yeah Peef, I can see what you're saying about that Berlin Bowie-type breakdown in "So Appalled." That's one of my favorite hooks on the album.
I'm also glad that "Runaway" was an early single, because it sounds more in-line with his 808s material than anything here, for whatever reason.
This post would have made more sense following Graduation, which was 80% braggadocio and 20% intimacy, but now that he's just written one of the more surreal, revealing hip-hop records I've ever heard, I can't agree.
Hey, teacher, teacher, tell me how do you re-spawn the students?
And refresh the page and restart the memory?
Re-spark the soul and rebuild the energy?
We stopped the ignorance, we killed the enemies
Sorry for the night demons that still visit me
The plan was to drink until the pain over
But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?
He doesn't produce for anybody that could write this anymore. Common fell off ages ago, Cudi is just as self-absorbed as Kanye but without a sense of humor, and Jay doesn't even try. Glad to have someone in the mainstream that's actually hungry. Even The Roots are getting kinda lazy, no thanks to Fallon.
This post would have made more sense following Graduation, which was 80% braggadocio and 20% intimacy, but now that he's just written one of the more surreal, revealing hip-hop records I've ever heard, I can't agree.
Hey, teacher, teacher, tell me how do you re-spawn the students?
And refresh the page and restart the memory?
Re-spark the soul and rebuild the energy?
We stopped the ignorance, we killed the enemies
Sorry for the night demons that still visit me
The plan was to drink until the pain over
But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?
He doesn't produce for anybody that could write this anymore.
I don't get the appeal of The Roots' last one, and I loved Rising Down. Felt too slick, didn't really grab me the way the previous stuff did. It was OK, just slipped by me.
Cudi is getting better, especially musically. Dude has a lot of talent. But I wish he would talk about something besides himself.
I'm even starting to come around to "Flashing Lights".