I've been a hardcore ๐ฏ Kanye fan since College Dropout ๐จโ๐๐ค. I've LOVED โค๏ธ every single thing he's done. ๐ฏ OBVIOUSLY everyone loves the run of albums from CD to MBDTF. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ I think Yeezus is his best album. ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ฅ๐ฅต I love TLOP. โค๏ธ๐ฅI love Ye.โค๏ธ๐ฅ And I really loved the listening party version of Jesus Is King.โค๏ธ๐ฅ โ๏ธ I've been going through a really rough๐ฉ๐ญ time this year and the listening party ๐happened on one of the few weekends where I actually felt happy,๐๐ฏ๐ so I associated the bootleg recording of the listening party version of the album๐ฟ with the only bit of positivity ๐ฉโI've felt all year. ๐ญ๐ฉ Up โฌ๏ธ From the Ashes ๐ฅ๐ was the MOST ๐ BEAUTIFUL ๐ THING ๐ I'd heard in a loong while, โณand though things went to shit ๐ฉ๐คขafter that, I've held on looking forward โก๏ธโก๏ธ to hearing ๐that in CDQ.
And THIS is what we get. ๐ฟ๐คฌ๐ค๐ข Up From the Ashes is gone. ๐โฐ๏ธ LA Monster, which had some GREAT ๐ฏ melodies even if it wasn't the best ๐คทโโ๏ธ song on the album, is gone. ๐ฅโ ๏ธ Selah ๐ฉ has been absolutely butchered. The transitions between songs sound extremely abrupt. ๐๏ธ๐ The mixing is ๐fucking๐ GODAWFUL even for a Kanye album. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Follow God sounds absolutely horrid ๐คฎ๐คฎ๐ฆ --I don't know how professional engineers/mixers/masterers can fuck up that bad. ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ฏ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Even Use This Gospel manages to sound hollow somehow. ๐งน๐งดThe โ๏ธ only โ๏ธ song that lived up to my expectations was Water, ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ and Kanye's verse on it is easily one of the weakest ๐๏ธโโ๏ธ parts on the album. ๐ค๐ค๐คฌ
And can we TALK about Kanye's vocals? ๐คฌ๐ต๐ต๐ต๐ธ The LQ recording of the listening party masked it, but never have his vocals sounded so ๐half-assed ๐, so unpolished. ๐งฝ๐งดAnd they aren't even mixed properly. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ Ugh!
I've loved ๐๐everything Kanye has put out and I've always defended ๐ก๏ธ his new music and hated ๐ seeing posts like these trashing Yeezus or TLOP or Ye. ๐ But I'm just so ๐ incredibly ๐ unbelievably ๐ disappointed ๐ with ๐ this. I KNOW it's my fault for listening to the leaked recording and getting my hopes up. ๐ญ But needed ๐ฏ that album and this just isn't it. ๐ญ๐คฎ๐ค๐ธ๐ต
I never ๐ซ๐ซ thought ๐ญ this day would come, but I'm going to need to distance ๐ myself from my Kanye fandom for a while. ๐๐ I can look past all the antics, ๐ฅ all the controversies, ๐๏ธ all the ignorance, ๐ค and ๐ฅhell๐ฅ, I can even forgive the delays โณโand the poor communication. ๐๐ซ๐ But this album...๐ฟ... ๐ญI don't know. ๐ญ๐ This is just one โ๏ธstep ๐ฆถ too far.๐ I just needed to get that off my chest.๐ฃ๐ฃ I don't mind if everyone disagrees ๐and downvotes โฌ๏ธ me to oblivion--I guess I'd be happy if you all enjoy the album. ๐คก๐คก But as one of Kanye's biggest fans... I don't know. He really let me down this time. ๐ค โน๏ธ๐๐๐ญ
Submitted October 25, 2019 at 11:06AM by andamancrake https://ift.tt/32NUjKS
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