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...Katrina-inspired "George Bush doesn't care about black people" moment during a TV fund raiser for hurricane victims or so original as the self-love/self-hate tightrope walk of his debut The College Dropout. But if you think you're invulnerable to an atmospheric ballad with Maroon 5's chirpy Adam Levine (Heard 'Em Say) or a song called Roses about a sick grandma, you will be shocked at the stealthy power of West's storytelling. As for the music, one listen to Gone, built around an Otis Redding sample and some ecstatic string arrangements, and you might...
...conscious verses are dutifully translated into cartoon vignettes, but the gonzo flourishes that characterize Plympton’s style are lamentably absent. Adding insult to injury, the animated portions of the video are interspersed with even blander live-action footage of Kanye and accompanying singer Adam Levine (of Maroon 5 infamy) delivering lackluster vocal performances before a bare white background. The most likely source of the video’s mediocrity is a creative power struggle between Plympton and West. When Kanye debuted the video on BET’s taste-making music video program, “106 & Park...
...serendipitous occasion,” the ASA and the Middle Eastern Studies Association have double-booked the hotel, so that their annual meetings’ overlap.This serendipity is manifold. Several yards away, two Levantine sorts whisper to one another—one, a grey-bearded man wearing a maroon beret, puts his palms on either cheek of his lady companion, and then swoops in to kiss her savagely. Then, just down the way, a very pale white woman appears in Nigerian garb that she has been saving for just the proper occasion: an ankle-long, garish purple gown with green...
...best on Kanye’s latest album. Personally, I don’t think it holds a candle to the likes of “Gone,” that “Heard ’Em Say” song with the dude from Maroon 5, or even “Hey Mama” for that matter (I have always been a sucker for ballads about mothers). There are a few fantastic lines, like when West creepily whispers, “While you’re watching, WATCH HIM,” or when he acutely...
...mall rat. But a normal girl doesn't morph into the highest-paid female athlete on the planet in one year. She doesn't have a corporate sponsor like Motorola throw her 18th-birthday party at a swank Manhattan nightclub, pack it with 500 people and hire Maroon 5 to rock out. And a normal girl certainly doesn't walk the tightrope between sports and sex, sparking a mini-furor at a Toronto tourney because her two stadium banners were a tad too revealing...