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I watched the performance with my 50+ year old parents, aunt and uncle and all 4 of them were like "whoa, I never checked for Kanye before but I really enjoyed that. He's kind of a great performer."Haven't you felt this way before the VMA's?I really have no idea what this dude is thinking anymorel![]()
Some of you are adorable....
Rather than being so concerned with what I think, why don't you tell me what you thought of that "performance". Read the words. I certainly don't agree with a lot of what he does.
But that **** was pointless to me. Dude blacked out standing in front of a still shot from National Geographic.
OK.
My 12 year old sister and cousins all said "what the ****? how much autotune is he using..."
My parents had never listened to kanye (outside of gold digger) and had never seen him perform and thought it was great. My sister hates kanye (because of taylor swift business, and mostly hates rap), my cousins kept talking about how weird he is and how he always tries to be too cool and cant sing and dresses funny (the same reasons they love one direction and drake according to them).
So I mean, obviously his performance is going to appeal to SOMEONE out there as evidenced by it appealing to my old folks who dont even like hip hop, and he's going to displease the people who already dont like him or look for him to displease them -- the kids who had made up their minds before he even took the stage.
Me, personally I was kinda in the middle on the performance. I'm glad he picked Blood on the Leaves. It shows he knows it's a good song and deserves to be blasted, and didn't make the obvious move which would have been to pick new slaves or bound, or even a "**** you" to everyone by performing can't hold my liquor. But then I thought the projecting himself as a giant above everyone was an "interesting" move if nothing else. It was a pretty plain performance. If any acoustic musician did it though theyd be getting praised for killing right now.
Because it's hip hop and more so, Kanye, people want bright lights and lazers and over the top. I know what he was going for, just trying to let the music be heard and blacking himself out to everyone else, but still showing he's bigger than everyone there. It's gonna work for some people and not gonna work for others. I however thought it was pretty good.
I would have liked two songs though.