Kanye WestI was in Las Vegas over the weekend and right when I touched down, my twitter feed was a buzz (a tweet?) with blasts that Kanye West’s new song Power was fire. The comments were all similar and talked about how Kanye was back.
My first thought was that I liked his segue into heartbreak pop, 808s & Heartbreak. While I thought the album was a bit inconsistent, it was also courageous, honest, and real. The dude’s heart was broken and he was expressing himself.
I do look forward to the Kanye we saw on his first three near classic albums. But I also hope that he continues to be creative and different.
My main man Big Money Mike hipped me to the song earlier today and I do have to say that it’s pure Kanye and tells me that Good Ass Job is going to be everything we expect and more.
The background chants in the early mixes I heard overwhelmed his voice, but this new mixed version evens it out.
Alexis Jordan has made me so very happy this spring. The 18-year-old former America’s Got Talent contestant, now signed to the Jay-Z/Kanye West-run Roc Nation label, has just released her official debut single, “Happiness.” I first heard the song via a Sony sampler I picked up from one of my local record stores’ giveaway box last month, and ever since, it’s been getting heavy rotation on my car stereo system, usually at such an extreme volume as to embarrass and/or totally annoy my teenage son. “Happiness” represents the kind of delicious unexpected meeting of two distinct flavors that commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups celebrated when I was a kid. Instead of chocolate and peanut butter, here we have a defiantly un-guilty pleasure teen pop song built over a composition by up-and-coming Canadian hipster-bait trance-house artist deadmau5 called “Brazil (2nd Edit)”. “Happiness” isn’t just based on a sample of the deadmau5 song. It is the deadmau5 song… only with the Alexis Jordan song slathered all over the top of it like so much sweet, sweet, frothy, frothy Ready-Whip. A genius proposition executed in genius fashion, sure to turn as many people on to Miss Jordan as it will to Mr. mau5. This week, the song’s video premiered on Vevo. You can also currently pick up a free download of the song by signing up for her e-mail list at her website.
Who knew Kanye West was still releasing videos from his over-one-year-old album 808s & Heartbreak?
This time, it’s for a non-single from what I can tell. Coldest Winter was track eleven on his last album and featured very few lyrics, but was also one of the more emotional songs on the album. The video features the Ice Queen from Narnia running through the forest. Ok, it’s not really the Ice Queen. Check it out.
