Anybody else looking forward to
this LP as much as me? I just read the wiki entry for the album and after digesting a few of recently leaked tracks over the past couple weeks, I am diggin' the music something fierce and can't wait for this to drop in two weeks. From the article:
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As of September 13, the album was being recorded in Hawaii. On September 24, West announced that he had finished the album and would be releasing it sometime in November. In his blog, he wrote "I changed my album to November something cause I finished the album and I felt like it..I want yall to hear it as soon as possible". West later stated that the album would be released on November 25, 2008.
The entire album is sung by West with the aid of Auto-Tune, aside from one verse by Young Jeezy, a duet with Lil Wayne, and additional vocals by Kid Cudi. West has stated that he loves using Auto-Tune and is dismayed that the term has been commonly associated with being "wack". He considers the technology "the funnest [sic] thing to use." West compared the situation to when he was a child and thought the color pink was cool until someone told him "it was gay". He went on to state how the views of society can rob people of their confidence and self-esteem.
West classified 808s & Heartbreak as pop music and expressed that, "People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?" He later stated that he wishes to present the music as a new genre called "pop art", not to be confused with the visual art movement of the same name.
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Nice to see him going a different direction with his music and keeping it fresh. For all the drama that surrounds this guy and his ego, if he keeps making great music I might even forgive him for making me wait for 4 hours in the TN moonlight for him to perform a terrible set at Bonnaroo! Might even make some new fans if the entire LP is in the same vein as "Love Lockdown" and "Heartless." I can't deny I am all about this retro, 80's synth-sounding, silly pop music!
A video for the new single "Heartless":
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/video...BE5wt00Y5tf1m7