Not only do I hate Pitchfork but I also think their 10/10 review of the new Kanye West is ridiculous. And that’s with me believing it to be the 2nd,or 3rd or no lower than 4th best album of the year.
But I kinda like Ryan Dombal’s writing. He is something of a pro, written for EW, VV and, the gone but not forgotten Blender, and now is I believe an editor at Pitchfork.
The first 10/10 since the pretty good but not that good Yankee Foxtrot Hotel is mostly what you’d think it was. Except for this paragraph which is not only extremely informative it is also very well written:
“West seemingly decided to make My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy less mom-friendly and more of a hedonistic exploration into a rich and famous American id. At Facebook, he rapped the first verse of what would become album closer “Lost in the World”, at one point changing Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Something” refrain to, “Mama-say mama-sah Mama Donda’s son,” referring to his late mother. The familial allusion was left off the album. Another Facebook tune– a brutally oedipal account called “Mama’s Boyfriend”– was also deleted, along with the vintage-Kanye-sounding “See Me Now”. Such exclusions speak to the album’s sharp focus– to move everything forward while constantly tipping on the brink of frantic instability.”
Clever stuff.
here’s the link: