It’s something different, it’s angry and self-deprecating, but all this has already been said.
What else can I say about Kanye West’s ‘Runaway’, the most discussed single of the year most talked about album?… What a hype, what a hype!
Actually, everyone ended up talking more about his stage hijacking stunts, his twisted and brilliant campaign on Twitter, or his awkward appearances on TV morning talk shows than about the music.
Ok, you have to forget about all this, would say Iman, separate the music from the man! Sure, I’ve tried, but Kanye, the twitter character, is all he is talking about in the song ‘Runaway’. Doesn’t he want to celebrate the douchebags, the assholes, and the scumbags? Isn’t he always talking about himself? Pretty hard to forget about the man…
He appears perverted and full of contradictions and he knows it, and his honesty resides more in the fact he does not have any regret nor desire to change, than in the admittance of his shortcoming; yes that’s bold, that’s a bad boy’s bold dream.
But Kanye West wants to be too much, he wants to be an asshole and be liked, he wants to be sleeping with hoodrats, and be admired, he is pushing the blame game to pass for this fallen, tragic hero, but at the end he just wants to be loved, didn’t he pose as the Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2006?
So I don’t know if this song is really a masterpiece, I just don’t understand why every critic is raving about his honesty. As if it was not what every artist should be, honest… Aren’t they praising a song for what a song should be anyway?