Kanye West’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Either I have no access to what makes this music great, or music journalism is in the same eddy as conventional journalism, in which received ideas bully critical thought to the edge of existence.
Anything which is proclaimed is acclaimed, it seems, but a work of art is not simply anything which is called a work of art. Proclamation only creates art when the claim is itself art, but the object is then inconsequential except as a pointer.
Hard work does not always succeed. I am sure Sisyphus is very strong and efficient, but I will not hire him to move my boulders.
I will try to access this music. How is it a better album than M.I.A.’s? How is this 2010’s Under Construction? It just sounds like some guy with a bunch of free time to me - he doesn’t sound like he’s having fun, and I don’t see him exploring the inner reaches of the gap of existence, and the best artists do both at once.
It doesn’t help that I dislike the electric guitar sound that occupies much of the beginning of this album.
1 year ago
