Good gravy, man. I know half of the point of the Kanye West experience is just for everyone to be mad and annoyed and for the controversy surrounding everything he does to actually make the streaming numbers go higher than they normally would have, but this is too much. Almost two hours of absolute drivel masked as deep thoughts. 27 songs, when maybe eight would have been a statement twenty-times as powerful. I think the biggest issue I have with this, and this is a knee jerk reaction after listening only a few times, is that the beats here are just plain terrible. If he was working on this album for YEARS, and yet the best he could do for "Jail" is to just make something that sounds like a child made her first ever beat with Abelton, its just awful. His first few albums had some of the cooooooolest beats people had heard. He crushed that aspect of the game! And now its throwaway crap beats. And I know he's trying to be deep on the lyrics and showing his struggles with mental health and his love for Jesus, but none of it is interesting - no cool turns of phrase, no interesting metaphors or clever wordplay. Just sucks.
I fired this up yesterday in the car, while my teenager was driving me around town to practice driving with his permit. We also had the youngest in the backseat. We all agreed, which is somewhat of a rarity for me and the kids these days when it comes to music, that this album is butt. They laughed out loud at some of the terrible repetition in here. Ugh.
Okay - back to the ACL bands.
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