The time has come to wonder what Kanye West’s So Help Me God is gonna be like and the simple answer is that, at its very very best, So Help Me God won’t be the shocker Yeezus was. But it won’t be as bad as we think it will.
Figure “Fourfiveseconds” is a Rihanna track (an OK one, give it a B) and “Only One” is a soppy, slightly creepy, ode to Kanye’s Mom and they won’t be many more like it (also a B)
That leaves, “All Day” and “Wolf” and these are two fantastic tracks, the abbrasiveness of “”Blood On The Leaves” and with an iro clad construction and less sampling, Give “All Day” an A- and “Wolf, a truly strange and lovely creation, an A… so that sounds really good and as far as I am concerned you can’t get enough of “Wolf”. I don’t think I’ve liked Sia more, yup, not even the new Giorgio Moroder track is as good. And did you see West do “Wolf” on SNL? A star making turn from Vic Mensa and that wasn’t all of it… Sia was really wild.
But you didn’t listen the way you listened to the walloping “On Sight” and “Black Skinhead”? How much do I not give a fuck? Good question, actually I consider it very important, a matter of life and death and stuff; this is the biggest album of the year and I want it to kill and I think it will, I think it will be certainly be one of the top ten albums of the year. But I don’t think Lou Reed would be writing articles in praise of it, I don’t see how it can matter.
Look at it this way: if Jesus was crucified, raised from the dead, got crucified and raised from the dead a second time, even the greatest believer might have his dates.
Ps the picture is a fake.