Kanye West’s New Album Early Review: 808s and Heartbreak
I have never been much of a Kanye West fan. I have been a mild fan of some of his hit songs, but for the most part, he is obnoxious, and cocky, to a point where he is an annoying asshole.
With that being said, I still approached “808s And Heartbreak” with a clean slate, after all, this is not a typical Kanye West album. “808s” is Kanye’s attempt at singing. The only problem is, Kanye can’t sing. Kanye knows Kanye can’t sing… so what does Kanye do? He does what all rappers who wish they were singers do, they use Auto-Tune. Auto-Tune is a fantastic effect that is used to correct the pitch of a singer’s vocals. If you are flat, sharp, or just plain miss a note, Auto-Tune will come in and correct it for ya.
Kanye’s unjustifiably immense ego is made of cocaine and neon.
When you hear that (now generic) robotic sound on a rapper’s vocals, it’s the result of turning Auto-Tune up to full power, which has an electronic result. This has become rather popular in urban music lately. It’s ok every now and then, perhaps on a hook or as a double on some secondary song, but Kayne uses this effect on every song on the album, because he cannot sing, and it provides the illusion of a decent singing voice.
Kayne, I want to slam dunk a basketball, but you don’t see me trying out for the Lakers, showing up with a trampoline so I can jump high enough.
“Love Lockdown” has a good hook, where the Auto-Tune is a nice addition… though it is, of course, overpowered by the fact that the rest of the song uses the same effect. But on “Love Lockdown”, Kanye shows a prime example of what the effect is for: A big soaring hook, where his voice cant quite reach the note he is going after, so Auto-Tune gives him the boost.
Kanye performing with the Auto-Tune Orchestra.
“Paranoid” is total crap. The beat sounds like Kanye was on the shitter, and had a lightbulb over his head, and by the time he got to the studio, it has been reduced to a glowstick. The entire song is generic, and sounds like the drivel that a 14-year old kid churns out as his “first beat”, not what you’d expect from a dude who began his career as a producer for Roc-A-Fella. Don’t forget that Kayne is supposed to be a producer. He is supposed to hear crap, and turn around and say, “this is crap”. You can do better.
Well, who is telling Kanye he can do better? Kanye sure isn’t telling Kanye that. Hell, Kanye would probably definitely be a backstage groupie for Kanye if Kanye could.
Like I said, some of the songs are decent, if you listen to them separately. But you certainly cannot listen to the entire album in one sitting, unless you have a meager ear for music, and can listen to something just because the radio tells you that you are supposed to. If that is the case, Nickelback has a new album coming soon. I am sure you will enjoy that as well. It probably has overproduced vocals too.
Enjoy. Asshole.
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Kanye is such a douche.
What a truthful review. I agree 10000000000% with what you said. His album is audio garbage! IT FUCKING SUCKS! This should be used for torturing foreign enemies in a POW camp. Every song sounds the same. I didnt know if I was listening to Kanye’s album or Robocop! FUCKing ANNOYING! Message to Kanye: LAY OFF THE FUCKING AUTo-TUNE THAT THE DOUCHE BAG T-PAIN USES! His shit sucks and congratulations you just made your new album SUCK! Leave singing to the singers. Good luck on your next robo-venture!
I like his earlier albums but this piece of junk does not deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as the other ones.
The fact that his mother died does not justify this crap
Ohh, stfu. Just because he’s tryin new shit doesn’t mean his album is crap, it actually has some good songs. Your review is complete garbage! Anyways don’t matter what u say, he still gettin his money. $ and also, you think t-pain can sing? its what sells. Get a life. Robocop is on Kanye’s Album you moron.
I think this review is correct, this album sucks! Love Lockdown is an awful song, it requires no musical talent what so ever. The Collage Dropout was a masterpiece, Late Regestration and graduation were great too. But this sucks alot compared to them.
I agree with this review all the way. It is so true in every way. I like kanye’s 1st album the best and his 2nd a little less. In the beginning he had something to prove which made him make great music. But then when he got on top, just like many b4 him, 50 cent for example, they put out garbage and they know it will sell, they act very arrogant like they know its garbage but they just laugh cause they know it will sell, it makes me sick and i hope kanye stops this shit. the autotone is played out and it isnt even good, its garbage and we all know it. Btw did anybody see the South Park episode “Fishsticks” where they tear kanye a new 1, i love south park because there are so many jokes that are not easily seen by your average american, that intellegent ppl see, its my fav show, anyway they rip on kanye about how is ego is so out of wack and how he thinks he is a motherfuckin lyrical wordship genius, LOL!! so funny yet so true, I LOVE IT!!!