![]() ![]() While good, the digitalized, muted drums, wandering piano sample and upbeat feel of “Love Lockdown” are too sweet to thematically co-operate with the lyrical discussion of love lost. Technically speaking, the lyrics would have emotionally coincided much better with the instrumentals had Kanye adhered to his old soul-sampling ways. Don’t get me wrong, the beats are fine, but with their electronica and pop influences, they just don’t fit. ![]() “ There is no Gucci I can buy/There is no Louie Vutton to put on/There is no YSL they could sell/To get my heart out of this hell/And my mind out of this jail.”īut the problem with 808s & Heartbreak is that West doesn’t connect to his own beats. Obviously distraught over a series of unfortunate events, Mr. Through his singing, Kanye reminisces on topics such as heartbreak, loneliness, and love. While guys like T-Pain and Drake cannot get away with this, somehow, Kanye can – although barely – probably due to the fact he doesn’t heap on tons of vocoder. Not surprisingly, with the coming of his first pop album, also surfaces his first implementation of autotune and singing. Described by West himself as a “melancholic pop album,” in 808s & Heartbreak, Kanye attempts to express his sorrow, but makes a few errors in his execution. After his mother’s death and his unfortunate break up with his fiancée, he was bound to undergo some personal and musical alterations. ![]() This is a totally different Kanye West: strange and unfamiliar in comparison to his previous work. Yes, everybody gets it, this isn’t the same man who made the more critically acclaimed albums College Dropout and Graduation. Review Summary: Much to the chagrin of technical value, Kanye creates his most interesting record of all time. ![]()
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