Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future – very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity – MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era's most dynamic artist. Even with high-profile contributors Nicki Minaj (Monster), Elton John (All of the Lights), Jay Z (So Appalled, Monster), RZA (Dark Fantasy, So Appalled), and Bon Iver (Lost in the World), Kanye is the orchestrator of this musical extravaganza. Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is masterful. There, he worked on the album in a communal recording environment that involved numerous contributing musicians and producers. Rated 1 in the best albums of 2010, and 27 of all-time album. Released 22 November 2010 on Roc-A-Fella (catalog no. This book isnt so much about the musical qualities of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as it is about how Kanyes ego and public persona can be used to explain modern 20-somethings. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, an Album by Kanye West. Following a period of public and legal controversy, West retreated to a 'self-imposed exile' in Hawaii in 2009. Throughout the 150 or so pages of this book, Graves unpacks the enigma that is Kanye Wests personality and art. In a cloud-based and on-demand culture – a place of increasing virtualization, loneliness, and hyper-connectivity – West straddles this critical moment as what David Samuels of The Atlantic calls "the first true genius of the iPhone era, the Mozart of contemporary American music." In the land of taking a selfie, honing a personal brand, and publicly melting down online, Kanye West is the undisputed king. 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' is the 2010, fifth studio album by American rapper Kanye West.
With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West has. A look at the arc of his career, from the heady chipmunk soul exuberance of The College Dropout (2004) to the operatic narcissism of MBDTF, tells us about the march of pop music into the digital age and, by extension, the contradictions that define our cultural epoch. It’s his best album, but it’s more than that it’s also a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer through the ranks of Jay Z's Roc-A-Fella records, by the time he released My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (MBDTF) in late 2010, West had evolved into a master collagist, an alchemist capable of transfiguring semi-obscure soul samples and indelible beats into a brash and vulnerable new art form.
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period.
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