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FortonServices wrote:

Aerial Boundaries wrote:He's nothing but a fake and a hypocrite in terms of the concepts he loads into his music. I really don't suffer pricks like him gladly.

Pop music (I use that term in the loosest possible sense her) is inherently "fake" in it's very nature. That's part of what is good about it. It's always been that way. What Kanye is doing isn't really much different to what Johnny Rotten was doing in 1977.

Every so often someone will come along that claims to be "real". They are either eaten up by the machine and end up dead (Kurt Cobain, Elliott Smith) or they become just as "fake" as everyone else (Foo Fighters, Kings Of Leon).

At least Kanye has the balls to embrace this "fake"-ness. To acknowledge it for what it is, to play on it. Sure, he comes across as an arrogant prick. But there are plenty of others who are just as bad, if not worse, who get away with it simply because they hold a guitar and wear jeans with a rip in the knee.

The Telepathic Kid wrote:Aerial, that's the main reason why I've started not really trying to go with the idea of "guilty pleasures"

a pop song can be really well written, and if it's well written, what's the problem with liking it. Like the new Janet Jackson song is a fantastic pop song. I like it, and I'd never consider it a guilty pleasure because I feel it's a well written song with great dynamics and an infectiously seductive mood.

I pick and choose my taste, but instead of limiting myself to the lollies which no one else likes, I take something from everywhere

fujee wrote:Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud.

Great voice.