Cuing up a gospel track before rapping about bleached assholes is daring, but it's also kind of an unpleasant tonal jolt. On the other hand, West's willingness to not stop and ask the questions that most record producers in the industry would have asked along the way is also responsible for the album's greatest weaknesses. He was so excited to end a breathtaking SNL performance of the TLOP opener "Ultralight Beams"-which culminated in the striking image of gospel legend Kirk Franklin, dressed in bleached denim and Yeezy boots, delivering a blessing over West's prostrated body-with the surprise announcement of the album's day-late release that he looked a little kid OD'ing on birthday cake. Or else you'd have a heart attack.īut look at Kanye West during the whole messy process of naming and renaming the album finally titled The Life of Pablo-messing around with its track listings, adding new songs on the fly, and apparently figuring out its distribution plans entirely by improv, and grinning the entire way through. You would want that album to be set in stone and everything to go exactly according to plan. There's a Saturday Night Live appearance booked. There's a big listening party at Madison Square Garden that's being simulcast around the globe. There's a release date planned that everyone knows about.
Imagine you have the most anticipated album in the world about to drop.
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