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It will be interesting to see if people start
buying Crimson music due to this. Naahh...to complex for
them.
toby
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Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 8:10
PM
Subject: OT: Kanye West and King
Crimson
I'm out of touch with popular music, and I'd never listened to
Kanye West until, well, two days ago.
On his latest album he has a song
"Power" where he samples King Crimson. That got my interest. But there's more
to it than just the sample. Here's a quote from a review:
"But
more important is the hook that anchors the song. It sounds like a vocal
re-creation of the King Crimson song's monster guitar hook; but as it's been
transformed, it invokes another acute examiner of current cultural-political
dramas: M.I.A. The hook's hand claps and feminine tone -- as well as the
Symbolyc One-co-produced track's whole sound, much more redolent of global
hip-hop than of electroclash, which West may have left behind -- sets West's
verbal tirade within M.I.A.'s larger context of global oppression and
resistance by people of color. Justified? Maybe not. But it's a typically bold
Kanye leap."
I think it's great. Anybody else out there think anything
of this song?
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