05/Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
15 minutes in to Kanye’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, things go quiet. Not complete silence per se, but calm. Patient strings and tapping of the keys usher in a quick breath of fresh air and slow calm following the tidal wave that was track three, Power, with its loud, boastful talk, hard hitting swagger, and final notes contemplating suicide. A minute and some change. Calm. Quiet. Breath of fresh air. And then it ends. And then it happens. And then it comes… “ALL OF THE LIGHTS!” Track five. The album’s centerpiece. A gloriously decadent and ostentatious five minutes that contains and embodies every single element that defines and makes Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy what it is. A slice of “humble pie” from Mt. Olympus, All of the Lights gives us Kanye the artist, Kanye the student, Kanye the conductor, and Kanye the collaborator on a grand and opulent scale just like the album from which it is pulled. Fast life, drug life, thug life, rock life, this life, his life, here, and again there, and there, and there again, over the course of this dazzling 70 minute set. This is Hip-Hop on a wider scale that puts it all on wax, straight from the inner recesses of Kanye West’s mind, the only place left for him to go after the world, it appeared, turned its back on him. A place where all that wants to be said, and needs to be said is given a platform. Right here, on this finished product. Turn up the lights in here, the chorus sings, extra bright, he wants y’all to see this, wants US to see everything, wants us to see “ALL OF THE LIGHTS!” Fast life, drug life, thug life, rock life, this life, his life... Twisted Elegance: His Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
KEY TRACKS: Dark Fantasy/All of the Lights/Runaway
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