Love Lockdown

Actually I find the Album Quite Good and am very amazed at the simplicity but yet complexity of this Album. The Synthesizer is the same as Laurie Anderson has employed in the past and her "music" was always extremely Interesting.

"........ In various spots across 808s & Heartbreak, the constant flutter of West's processed voice is enlivened by the disarming manner in which despair and dejection are conveyed. When, in "Welcome to Heartbreak," he dispassionately recounts sitting alone on a flight, ahead of a laughing family, he makes first class sound like Siberia; he'd swap lives with the father in an instant. The majority of the lyrics, however, are directed at an ex who evidently did some damage; in "RoboCop" alone, she gets compared to the antagonist in Misery and is called a "spoiled little L.A. girl." Earlier in the album, the number she did on him is called "the coldest story ever told," yet he admits he still fantasizes about her. All the blocky drums, dragging strings, droning synths, and joyless pianos lead to a bleak set of productions -- even the synthetic calliope in "Heartless" is unnerved, and the relative pep of "Paranoid" provides no respite, its bitter lyrics subverting a boisterous beat. Several tracks have almost as much in common with irrefutably bleak post-punk albums, such as New Order's Movement and the Cure's Pornography, as contemporary rap and R&B. ("Coldest Winter," where West longs for his departed mother, samples the most desolate song from the first Tears for Fears album.) For anyone sifting through a broken relationship and self-letdown, this could all be therapeutic......." ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

I LOVE this record. Could do without the Jeezy and Lil' Wayne though.

I love him, not as much as he does, but I have enjoyed all his music to this point. You can find songs like this on any album in the genre, nothing was added to the music world from this album.

This was a good song. Kanye West being the person had nothing to do with it. I had never heard anything by him and found this song to be good. Hopefully I'll like his others too.

Heard this song on the radio and liked it. The MP3 from Amazon sounds like trash, though. What a waste of 79 cents. Wish I could give it 0 stars.