This is on us. We need to stop giving our attention to sociopathically detached celebrities.
They’re like fairies. If you stop believing in them, they die. Only applause can bring them back.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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I think it's too late. One's already the president of the US and one is a former reality TV star who was elected to be the president of the US.
The issue with Kanye is that his myth or legend necessitated dying in an accident, by suicide, or by assassination, before the release of The Life of Pablo.
Had he died in 2015 like he was supposed to (as happened in all branching realities save this one alone), literally none of any of this would have come to pass.
The life of Pablo, while a good mixtape, was a bad album. The first bad album Kanye had ever made. Every album since has been lower and lower in quality. He is an artist with nothing left to say. He is a ghost of his former self, and he recognizes it, which is why he now goes by Ye, a faint echo. He is just a memory now.
If we collectively decide he no longer exists, I am pretty sure he won't. At least this version of him.
Imo there is a much larger distinction between the post-Donda 2 era and everything previous, even Jesus Is King sounded good (besides the mixing & Closed On Sunday being a contender for corniest hip-hop song of all time)
Post Donda 2?
Donda 1 was no good.
To be honest I stopped listening to the guy a while back and have forgotten a lot of it, but disagree based on what I remember.
I'm not here to stick up for Kanye by any means, but Vultures/Vultures 2 is bottom of the barrel shit. There's just no comparison.
I didn't even listen to Donda 2 or the Vultures albums.
If I am being honest, I think I stopped listening to Donda at the last of the part 1 tracks. The beat on "Believe what I say" and Kendrick's cousin's verse were the only highlights.
He doesn't produce his own tracks anymore, on most of his songs in the last 10 years, his contribution is a 16 bar verse, unfinished, and not even written by him.
There is very little point in listening to low quality music that he had almost no hand, especially now that it's only selling point is he wants Nazis to listen to it.
I liked the Weeknd version of whatever the 80 degrees leak ended up being called. The Ant Clemons version was better but it was nice to have a more polished sounding version too, and I was glad the song finally made it on an album.
The song before that one with Fivio was cool.
Come to life was nice.
Anyway, these are my opinions from before the "white lives matter" "fashion show". I already heard about the "DJ Khaled's son" stuff by that point, so idk why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. But it all ended after that for me. I was still exposed to his later stuff through work, peers, review/reaction video channels etc. And from that perspective, it wasn't that he as someone of genuine artistic merit had less of a hand in his music and therefore that it was bad. Rather it was that the swifties were right: he fell off.
Teenage edge lord vibes
Dumbest man on Earth, or the biggest sellout. Either way, not good.