Kanye West

I didn't really know how to feel about 808's and Hearbreak, especially considering I hate the Auto-Tune movement (see Akon, T-Pain, Lil Wayne + T-Pain = T Wayne, that song that Snoop Dogg did, that was funny but kind of got old fast).

I heard a few of the songs a while back, both the first and second version of Heartless, and a few others.

Then I got the album. And I was still confused.

And then Kanye came out with the "I'm the voice of this generation" comment.

Stephen Colbert said it best the other day

"With all the auto-tuning on your records, you're barely the voice of your own albums," Colbert explained. "You want to be the voice of a generation? Get in line. It goes me, Obama Girl, the freecreditreport.com guys - then it's a tie between you and Crocs."

Hilarious. But after a few whirls, it's grown on me. I'll say this, if it wasn't Kanye making this album, no one would be listening to it. It's like he gets a creative pass. But songs like "Paranoid," "Robocop," (yes Annabeth, I attribute this song to you) and "Street Lights" are amazing.

The album has a lot of low-points in my opinion. It's not his best work, but it is art nonetheless, which Kanye said was his intention.

Pitchfork has a good review on it. What was the point of this post? I dunno. Listen to the album and judge it for yourself, I'm too lazy to write anything else.