My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is hands-down the most ambitious mainstream rap album ever made.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fanstasy is Kanye’s long-awaited opus, a work of art that sees him finally reach the potential that was clear for all to see in College Dropout.
It’s his best album, but it’s more than that — it’s also a rock-star manifesto for a downsizing world.
No rap album I've heard can boast better production than this one. The music is exhilarating, often abrasive, never predictable, at times stunningly gorgeous. These are the finest tracks that any group of rappers has yet to rhyme over.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a true testament to Kanyes magnificent ability to craft and create music.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is genuinely a great record.
A frequently astonishing, no-holds-barred tour de force that not only eclipses his previous four albums in scope and creativity (no small feat), but also makes everything else on the radio sound positively amateurish by comparison.
An ornately orchestrated pop epic built on a classic hip-hop foundation, Twisted Fantasy is his best since his debut.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of pop's gaudiest, most grandiose efforts of recent years, a no-holds-barred musical extravaganza in which any notion of good taste is abandoned at the door.
But it is the heart, soul, and humanity of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy that ultimately marks it as the defining pop moment of 2010.
Kanye’s genius extends way past just constructing a track. The order in which each song is listed is perfect.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a magnificent, headspinning, audacious work.
As a result, the record comes off like a culmination and an instant greatest hits, the ultimate realization of his strongest talents and divisive public persona.
Never before has a hip-hop album been so decadent, yet so beatific and inspiringly adventurous – an explosive synthesis of everything Kanye has learned after four albums.
With My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West has lurched to the vanguard of modern mainstream music.
This album is a benchmark, a high water point for mainstream conceptual rap. It’s Kanye’s most complex and complete release and one of the most consistently impressive hip hop albums in recent years.
In its many contradictions, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy—perhaps this century’s definitive portrait of torment, vanity, self-delusion, and pathos—has given way to stirring new possibilities.
Kanye’s best album since The College Dropout, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy finds its creator in complete control of the chaos swirling inside his vivid imagination.
For rap fans it's both a testament to the versatility of the genre and Kanye's own brilliance that he can make something so refreshingly different which still fits comfortably in the rap canon.
This is not just West's best album, it's a keen contender for the most ambitious LP in hip-hop history.
Fantasy will stand as an album that dared to push the entire medium of recorded music forward, for better or worse.
Fantasy is Kanye West's best album yet, and if that wasn't enough, it's also a shining example of what mainstream hip-hop can and should be: dynamic, focused, revealing, personable, and most important - the passion!
There is no weak link; there is not a single misstep (and this is a 68-minute-long album). This may very well be his masterpiece.
From nine-minute douchebag manifestos, to enlisting an A-list Grammy ensemble to piece-mealing his album out to the masses every Friday, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy defies logic and it ignores convention.
It’s one of the grandest hip-hop records of all time ... full of vocoder, guitar, narration and overheard betrayals, and it’s frequently torn between whether it wants to be a rugged, raw rap record or a grandiose pop opera.
Fantasy is hardly as difficult or artsy as it wants to think it is, but its emotional complexity more than compensates for bulging song lengths and near-constant pomposity.
It’s a sprawling monument to wholeness towering over an artistically and emotionally fragmented landscape. It’s Kanye, like we said, doing him: a circuit at last complete.
It's a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist's self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly.
Whether loved or loathed, fully enjoyed or merely admired, this album should be regarded as a deeply fascinating accomplishment.
It’s the best thing he’s done since his game-changing debut, and heartening evidence to suggest the self-professed Louis Vuitton don is in a good place right now.
Massive in every sense, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the work of a man who feels compelled to be bigger, better and braver.
After the comparative disappointment of 2008's 808s & Heartbreak, West returned with this restlessly inventive 70-minute set.
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is eclectic but never offhand; it's hip-hop where every deviation serves the song's texture, every boast contrasts with slyly lacerating self-appraisal.
After a goofy intro on Dark Fantasy, ‘Ye takes it all back to his fantasies in Chicago, when he was producing beats and managing artists with a dream of making it big.
My Dark Twisted Fantasy – a flawed near-masterpiece – doesn't impress just by dint of numbers.
It’s certainly good to have West’s unique talent back in music, but this ambitious behemoth may be easier to admire than to listen to.
Kanye West’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a sprawling, ambitious, orchestral fuck-you of an album, and he wants you to know it.
This album, then, shows West pushing out from basic formulae, experimenting and not just trying new things but carrying ideas right through until they are fully formed and flourishing.
Here he balances pastiche and drama with such glorious levity that to stick a fork in any part of his rich palette would be a cruelty of Dickensian proportions.
Kanye's fifth studio album is easily his most ambitious effort yet. The production is extremely stunning. To be honest, this album sounds like a really huge undertaking with all of it's extra instrumentation, studio tricks, and samples.
So as a kid, I used to go to the library, pick out albums, and download them to my iPod if I liked them. It was... immature... but that is besides the point. I picked up tons of albums across many artists, but MBDTF I specifically remember listening to consistently throughout my entire life past 2010. However as I got older, my musical taste was set on a weird path. I almost had no appreciation for lyrics, even up until recently.
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Top ten anime plot twists, amiright? I guess I have an ego of 100 now. So I have more to say than usual and I'd like to clear some things first as I feel they're necessary to share my opinions.
For starters I don't consider myself a critic, at least not in the typical sense. I merely go into music with an empty conscious (most of the time) and I simply like what I like. I don't judge a record for what it's "missing" but for what it IS. Sometimes I might have something to say. I don't ... read more
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is arguably the greatest hip hop album ever created. There is everything you would look for on an album in this album. The production on this album is mind blowing. I really like the melody and lyrics on the song Runaway, Kanye makes himself very vulnerable and introspective, and Pusha’s verse only helps with that. It purposefully paints himself as a bad character, similar with a lot of his other songs. Every song on this album has something unique ... read more
The very first album I ever listened to front to back, as well as the album that completely flipped my view on what music could be.
An album I will always appreciate.
1 | Dark Fantasy 4:40 | 95 |
2 | Gorgeous 5:57 | 92 |
3 | POWER 4:52 | 96 |
4 | All Of The Lights (Interlude) 1:02 | 88 |
5 | All Of The Lights 4:59 | 93 |
6 | Monster 6:18 | 90 |
7 | So Appalled 6:37 | 88 |
8 | Devil In A New Dress 5:51 feat. Rick Ross | 96 |
9 | Runaway 9:07 feat. Pusha T | 96 |
10 | Hell Of A Life 5:27 | 85 |
11 | Blame Game 7:49 feat. John Legend | 78 |
12 | Lost In The World 4:16 feat. Bon Iver | 90 |
13 | Who Will Survive In America 1:38 | 81 |
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