Kanye West 808s And Heartbreak Full Album
According to, Kanye’s stage setup included a two-story-high pyramid-style stairwell, dozens of half-naked African American men who stood still as Kanye performed, and fireworks. The set included the first-ever live rendition of “Bad News” as well as rare performances of “Welcome to Heartbreak”, “Amazing”, “RoboCop”, and “See You in My Nightmares”. Additionally, Kanye was joined by several of the album collaborators, specifically,, and Mr.
808s & Heartbreak was Kanye West’s fourth album, and it was a base breaker as far as fans were concerned. The album was formed off the back of an extremely.
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Kanye will stage another full performance of 808s Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl.
Remember when threatened to make an album where he would bear his heartbroken soul, align with, sing on every song with the then inescapable Auto-Tune effect and, less problematically, lean on the common element -- the Roland TR-808 drum machine -- of classics like 'Make It Last Forever,' 'Posse on Broadway,' '808,' and 'Bossy'? It would have been a wreck, a case of an artist working through paralyzing heartache while loose in a toy store. Except wasn't joking. Not only did he go through with it, but Roc-A-Fella released the result in time for the 2008 Christmas shopping season. It was indeed a wreck, if a kind of fascinating one, which helped make the material -- voiced by someone who could not really sing, whose substantial shortcomings were not made less obvious by a polarizing studio device -- seem a little less difficult on the ears. In various spots across, the constant flutter of 's processed voice, along with a seldom interrupted sluggish march of aching sounds, is enlivened by the disarming manner in which despair and dejection are conveyed. When, in 'Welcome to Heartbreak,' he dispassionately recounts sitting alone on a flight, ahead of a laughing family, he makes first class sound like Siberia; he'd swap lives with the father in an instant.
The majority of the lyrics, however, are directed at an ex who evidently did some damage; in 'RoboCop' alone, she gets compared to the antagonist in Misery and is called a 'spoiled little L.A. Earlier in the album, the number she did on him is called 'the coldest story ever told,' yet he admits he still fantasizes about her. All the blocky drums, dragging strings, droning synths, and joyless pianos lead to a bleak set of productions -- even the synthetic calliope in 'Heartless' is unnerved, and the relative pep of 'Paranoid' provides no respite, its bitter lyrics subverting a boisterous beat. Several tracks have almost as much in common with irrefutably bleak post-punk albums, such as 's and 's, as contemporary rap and R&B. ('Coldest Winter,' where longs for his departed mother, samples the most desolate song from the first album.) For anyone sifting through a broken relationship and self-letdown, this could all be therapeutic.
Otherwise, no matter its commendable fearlessness, the album is a listless, bleary trudge along 's permafrost.