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Originally Posted by Far-L
Have you read the review? Imho, Lou Reed is mocking the record as only Lou could do, may he rest in peace since his acid wit is missed.
Kanye has never made interesting songs, just pop music that is about as temporal and everlasting as a turd in a toilet. Most of his biggest sellers are pretty much straight rip offs of pop songs that ring an emotional ding dong people easily salivate to. He sells a ton of records because tons of people like that sort of drivel the same way they like the billions of shitty burgers McDonalds has served.  |
Of course I've read the review. I read it when it was published a year and a half ago and I re-read just earlier tonight before posting it. He does mock certain elements of the album but he is also complimentary of other elements. It's a fair, honest, and unbiased review written by a rock legend and it's more positive than it is negative.
As far as album sales go, bear in mind that The Beatles have sold over 600 million albums, which is more than any other band or solo artist. As a solo artist, Paul McCartney has sold an additional 100 Million albums. Who purchased all of those albums? Even after accounting for the amount time it's been since they've been released, I find it hard to believe that all buyers have been highly sophisticated and knowledgeable music fans. All those young girls screaming for the Beatles when they first came to the states back in '64 were no different than the kids who buy the music of Kanye or others in this day and age.
Which of Kanye's songs are 'straight rip offs of pop songs'? The only ones I can think of that heavily sampled are Diamonds Are From Sierra Leone (sampled Diamonds Are Forever by Shirley Bassey) and Gold Digger (which samples from a Ray Charles song). There's two for you but you said that pretty much all of his songs are rip offs, so what are the others? And why is it wrong for an artist to re-present the original in a new way while infusing their own style? The Dead did that of plenty of times. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...cover_versions)