Kanye West is definitely staying true to his promise to deliver his fans new music every Friday for the remainder of 2010. This week’s entry is a jam entitled “Devil in a Blue Dress”. It definitely goes for a less aggressive approach than “Power” or “Monster”-maybe that’s a reason I don’t like it as much? I don’t know, maybe I need another listen. The song’s just not hitting me the way ‘Ye usually does-it sounds like a faded Xerox of […]
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Kanye & Jigga Kill ’em on the “Power” Remix
I feel like every time I write something about Kanye West I end up spending more time explaining WHY I like him so much than actually talking about the guy’s music. You know what? Time to stop the explanations. The most talented all-around hip-hop artist of the past decade has reconfigured his song “Power” to hit a million times harder than the already pretty hard-hitting original. Everything about this song is A+ material: from Jay-Z’s tight verse (why is Jigga […]
Taylor Makes a Swift Return to Country/Pop Goodness with “Mine”
Taylor Swift is officially middle-America’s squinty-eyed sweetheart. She keeps her clothes on, has a bit of “musical credibility” (i.e. she plays guitar and writes her own lyrics) and has a blandly appealing vibe that’s obviously worked wonders at the sales counter. Hell, I dig her and at first glance you wouldn’t figure me for a fan. Her first two albums have sold 10 million copies combined and she took home a Grammy Award for Album of the Year back in […]
“Power”: New Video, Same Old Kanye
If Kanye West was white, people wouldn’t hate him half as much as they do. The extreme ego and confidence that Mr. West expresses has previously been the province of rock stars. Yeah, hip-hop is typically brash, but most of Kanye’s career has been spent taking “brash” to an entirely new level. Despite his tendency towards verbal diarrhea and his (seemingly) unhinged personality (random Twitter posts, Taylor-gate) I give him props because a) he knows how to get people talking […]