- Original Release Date: November 22, 2010
- Release Date: November 22, 2010
- Label: Roc-A-Fella Records
- Copyright: (C) 2010 Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
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- Duration: 5:00 minutes
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- Format: Explicit Lyrics
- ASIN: B004BSIKF4
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" is by far the album of the year for me. And "All of the Lights" is the best track off the best album. Rihanna kills it on the hook and a short stint by Fergie is actually a nice break in the song. I believe Kid Cudi is also on the song along with Alicia Keys. The song has a bravado beat and has the operatic feel that most of the album has. Not some of Kanye's best lyrics, but there is already so much going on that it's not that noticeable. And those horns throughout are AMAZING. I guess I like this song, maybe TOO MUCH. I'll tone it down, I recommend this song.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
First of all, let me say that I have always thought that Kanye West was/is a complete and total jackass. From his "George Bush hates black people" comment to his brazen disrespect of Taylor Swift FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, I have always turned away from the guy, both on radio and on TV. People who present themselves in such a manner are simply are not permitted in my reality. CLICK: you're gone. And when people present themselves as stupidly as Kanye West has managed to present himself these past few years, I CLICK really, REALLY fast.
However....
I now think that I might have been a little hasty in writing the guy off.
Kanye West has a style of writing that is, almost by definition, schizophrenic (schizos unite concepts by means of non-essentials; I remember reading that one schizoid actually stood in front of a Judge and said that a beach was like a cigar because of some crazy definition of "encirclement" that made perfect sense to him, the schizo. The sentences formed by the guy, literally, made no sense whatsoever.) Kanye West adopts this as a sort of poetic style -- which in the hands of most folks would be an invitation to poetic disaster -- and yet he finds ways to make it work.
It's really, really interesting what he's doing, here.
Within a work of art, schizoid flavoring occasionally does create very powerful effects - particularly within the context of visual metaphor -- or via lyrics that employ the description thereof. There's a Pearl Jam video out there somewhere that has all sorts of random non-essentials thrown into the imagery (34 degrees, partly cloudy) and the effect is masterful. I don't have a name for this, but whatever it's called, Kanye West gets it, and gets it completely. He takes it just far enough, and no farther. He does it right. (Too, in what sounds like D-flat Major, the key itself gives the track a bit of a schizzy feel.)
"I slapped my girl, she called the feds
I did that time, and spent that bread
I'm heading home, I'm almost there
I'm on my way, heading up the stairs
To my surprise, a n-gga replacing me
I had to take 'em to that ghetto university..."
Kanye then inserts a FEMALE voice here, who sings:
"All of the lights...
Cop lights, flash lights, spot lights
Strobe lights, street lights
(all of the lights, all of the lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)
(Lights, lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)"
Think about this for a moment, and consider how well this works. A conceptual focus on non-essentals is exactly what Ayn Rand would have called a non-objective epistemology - which it IS, no question about that - but observe the artistic power of this. Kanye creates some compelling imagery, here; violence presented via metaphor (ghetto university) - the verse creates the situation, while the Female voice then arrives with the chorus and presents LAW ENFORCEMENT via a conceptual non-essential dressed-up as metaphor.
"All of the lights...
Cop lights, flash lights, spot lights
Strobe lights, street lights
(all of the lights, all of the lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)
(Lights, lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)"
Kanye West is showing some incredibly unique poetic skills, here. I don't know what this is called (it's not free verse (welllll... not really)), but whatever it is, it certainly is NOT iambic pentameter. It's nothing out of the textbook. You won't find what Kanye is doing here listed as a style in the Oxford Guide To Poetry. Kanye seems to have his own rulebook on what poetry is, and if you want my opinion, it's very cool.
Kanye continues:
"Restraining order
Can't see my daughter
Her mother, brother, grandmother hate me in that order
Public visitation
We met at Borders
Told her she take me back
I'll be more supportive
I made mistakes
I bump my head
Courts suck me dry
I spent that bread
She need a daddy
Baby please, can't let her grow up in that ghetto university...."
Observe that Kanye is ASKING the girl, he is not TELLING HER HOW IT IS. Look at his word choice; he's asking PERMISSION. He's PLEADING.
The Female voiced then responds with a thinly-veiled threat:
"Turn up the lights in here baby
Extra bright, I want y'all to see this
Turn up the lights in here, baby
You know what I need
Want you to see everything
Want you to see all of the lights...."
In other words, the Female voice is saying, in metaphor, that she has law enforcement on her side - pay attention to the word choice: "want you to see everything, want you to see all of the lights."
Look at this as a whole work - see the song WHOLE:
Male voice presents: Violence
Female voice responds: All of the lights (law enforcement)
Male voice presents: I need to see my daughter
Female voice responds: All of the lights (law enforcement)
Observe how this is all done: via metaphor. Literally every reference to lights in the song is a reference to law enforcement.
"If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life," sings the Female voice - to a guy who has just said that "I did that time" and that the "courts suck me dry." Heh... I don't know the back-story on this, but I can probably guess.
Look, I'm not familiar with much of Kanye's West's music - and I'm gonna go ahead and get that handled here on my end. This is a master craftsman; this is what music is when it gets created by somebody who has something to say and knows exactly how to say it. Lyrically, Kanye breaks all of the rules here. The final result, however... is absolutely INSPIRED.
It's a rap OPERA, and it's sublime.
5 stars, no question.
This is EXCEPTIONAL. This is some of the most original, unique, creative, and BRILLIANT work to find airplay in YEARS.
(I almost expected to hear a young girl's voice at the end, asking Mommy and Daddy to turn off all the lights -- in other words, to get their nonsense HANDLED so that she can have a childhood. Songs that even lead you to think such things (to re-interpret something within them) are a rare breed these days, and I'll take all of it that I can get.)
Absolutely brilliant.
However....
I now think that I might have been a little hasty in writing the guy off.
Kanye West has a style of writing that is, almost by definition, schizophrenic (schizos unite concepts by means of non-essentials; I remember reading that one schizoid actually stood in front of a Judge and said that a beach was like a cigar because of some crazy definition of "encirclement" that made perfect sense to him, the schizo. The sentences formed by the guy, literally, made no sense whatsoever.) Kanye West adopts this as a sort of poetic style -- which in the hands of most folks would be an invitation to poetic disaster -- and yet he finds ways to make it work.
It's really, really interesting what he's doing, here.
Within a work of art, schizoid flavoring occasionally does create very powerful effects - particularly within the context of visual metaphor -- or via lyrics that employ the description thereof. There's a Pearl Jam video out there somewhere that has all sorts of random non-essentials thrown into the imagery (34 degrees, partly cloudy) and the effect is masterful. I don't have a name for this, but whatever it's called, Kanye West gets it, and gets it completely. He takes it just far enough, and no farther. He does it right. (Too, in what sounds like D-flat Major, the key itself gives the track a bit of a schizzy feel.)
"I slapped my girl, she called the feds
I did that time, and spent that bread
I'm heading home, I'm almost there
I'm on my way, heading up the stairs
To my surprise, a n-gga replacing me
I had to take 'em to that ghetto university..."
Kanye then inserts a FEMALE voice here, who sings:
"All of the lights...
Cop lights, flash lights, spot lights
Strobe lights, street lights
(all of the lights, all of the lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)
(Lights, lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)"
Think about this for a moment, and consider how well this works. A conceptual focus on non-essentals is exactly what Ayn Rand would have called a non-objective epistemology - which it IS, no question about that - but observe the artistic power of this. Kanye creates some compelling imagery, here; violence presented via metaphor (ghetto university) - the verse creates the situation, while the Female voice then arrives with the chorus and presents LAW ENFORCEMENT via a conceptual non-essential dressed-up as metaphor.
"All of the lights...
Cop lights, flash lights, spot lights
Strobe lights, street lights
(all of the lights, all of the lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)
(Lights, lights)
All of the lights (all of the lights)"
Kanye West is showing some incredibly unique poetic skills, here. I don't know what this is called (it's not free verse (welllll... not really)), but whatever it is, it certainly is NOT iambic pentameter. It's nothing out of the textbook. You won't find what Kanye is doing here listed as a style in the Oxford Guide To Poetry. Kanye seems to have his own rulebook on what poetry is, and if you want my opinion, it's very cool.
Kanye continues:
"Restraining order
Can't see my daughter
Her mother, brother, grandmother hate me in that order
Public visitation
We met at Borders
Told her she take me back
I'll be more supportive
I made mistakes
I bump my head
Courts suck me dry
I spent that bread
She need a daddy
Baby please, can't let her grow up in that ghetto university...."
Observe that Kanye is ASKING the girl, he is not TELLING HER HOW IT IS. Look at his word choice; he's asking PERMISSION. He's PLEADING.
The Female voiced then responds with a thinly-veiled threat:
"Turn up the lights in here baby
Extra bright, I want y'all to see this
Turn up the lights in here, baby
You know what I need
Want you to see everything
Want you to see all of the lights...."
In other words, the Female voice is saying, in metaphor, that she has law enforcement on her side - pay attention to the word choice: "want you to see everything, want you to see all of the lights."
Look at this as a whole work - see the song WHOLE:
Male voice presents: Violence
Female voice responds: All of the lights (law enforcement)
Male voice presents: I need to see my daughter
Female voice responds: All of the lights (law enforcement)
Observe how this is all done: via metaphor. Literally every reference to lights in the song is a reference to law enforcement.
"If you want it you can get it for the rest of your life," sings the Female voice - to a guy who has just said that "I did that time" and that the "courts suck me dry." Heh... I don't know the back-story on this, but I can probably guess.
Look, I'm not familiar with much of Kanye's West's music - and I'm gonna go ahead and get that handled here on my end. This is a master craftsman; this is what music is when it gets created by somebody who has something to say and knows exactly how to say it. Lyrically, Kanye breaks all of the rules here. The final result, however... is absolutely INSPIRED.
It's a rap OPERA, and it's sublime.
5 stars, no question.
This is EXCEPTIONAL. This is some of the most original, unique, creative, and BRILLIANT work to find airplay in YEARS.
(I almost expected to hear a young girl's voice at the end, asking Mommy and Daddy to turn off all the lights -- in other words, to get their nonsense HANDLED so that she can have a childhood. Songs that even lead you to think such things (to re-interpret something within them) are a rare breed these days, and I'll take all of it that I can get.)
Absolutely brilliant.
By C. Aandahl
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Ok,not much to say about a MP3 file..It was easy to download,and was automatically sent to WMP,making it super easy to put on my device.
The music sonds good,not a remix or uncut.
The music sonds good,not a remix or uncut.
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