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'Hell of a Life' has a sample of 'She's My Bahy' by The Mojo Men, 'Stud-Spider' by Tony Joe White and 'Iron Man' by Black Sabbath from Paranoid.'Runaway' has a sample of 'Ecpo '83' by K.B.'Devil in a New Dress' has a sample from 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?' in the version of Smokey Robinson.

'So Appalled' has samples from 'You Are-I Am' by Manfred Manns Earth Band.

'Power' has a sample from 'It's Your Thing' by Continent Number 6 and '21st Century Schizoid Man' from King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King.

'Gorgeous' has samples of 'You Showed Me' by The Turtles.

'Dark Fantasy' contains samples of ' In High Places' by Mike Oldfield.

Record Producer: Q-Tip, RZA, DJ Premier, Madlib and Pete Rock helped with the recording sessions.

Questioning Title?: 'Who Will Survive In America?'.

Rearrange the Song: 'All of the Lights (Interlude)' is a piano/cello rearrangement of 'All of the Lights'.

There's a good reason 'Power' samples King Crimson's '21st Century Schizoid Man' from In the Court of the Crimson King.

Progressive Rock: Believe it or not, a major influence on this album.

One-Word Title: 'Gorgeous', 'Monster', 'Power', 'Runaway'.

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Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: The music video for 'Monster' is full of horror images and was apparently so frightening and racy at the same time that MTV banned it.A saving grace is that the video clips on youtube (for example) don't have this loudness issue, as such they sound and look fantastic.Loads and Loads of Characters: Upwards of 90 staff! For one album! Few could get away with it, fewer still could make it work.Indecipherable Lyrics: Invoked with the outro of 'Runaway', which has Kanye singing into a vocoder designed to make his words barely intelligible, which symbolically represents his troubles expressing himself verbally.Ignored Epiphany: In 'Runaway', Kanye protests his own proclivity for this.Heel Realization: 'Runaway' is this in spades.Fading into the Next Song: The final two tracks are Siamese Twin Songs 'Lost in the World' transitions perfectly into 'Who Will Survive In America'.Epic Rocking: 10 of the 13 tracks are longer than or around 5 minutes long, with the longest being the 9-minute 'Runaway'.Epic Instrumental Opener: 'All of the Lights' is prefixed by a minute-long piano/cello rearrangement of the song.The plan was to drink until the pain was overīut what's worse, the pain or the hangover? Badass Boast/ Blasphemous Boast: CyHi da Prynce claims in 'So Appalled':.A number of critics have speculated that this is intended to be a metaphor for Kanye's difficulties in expressing himself verbally.

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'Runaway' uses the software to distort Kanye's voice heavily for the last three minutes or so to mimic a guitar solo (it's been compared to King Crimson's Robert Fripp). Auto-Tune: This album uses it in a great example of Tropes Are Tools.Arguably justified, though - it's the phone conversation Kanye refers to in his last few lines. This is amusing to listen to the first two times you play the song, but can get rather tedious afterwards. Album Filler: 'Blame Game' is stretched up to seven minutes, due to comedian Chris Rock delivering a telephone conversation with the supposed past lover of Kanye West, which goes on for two and a half minutes, full with profanity and sexual comments.Kanye has stated that, due to releasing the two albums in the same year, he believed this was his own doing. However, there was mass controversy over the album not being nominated for Album of the Year alongside Watch the Throne (Kanye's collaborative album with Jay-Z), which many felt was an Award Snub. A Publishing Tradition: Apple Censors Joyce's Ulysses - a Century After the U.S.The album won three Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album, as well as Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration ('All of the Lights').Apple May Have Wised Up To Parental Controls.Apple Nixes Nudes in Playboy iPad App - and Any Hope For Success.We'll find out the next time an artist has a cover that pushes the envelope. I suspect the latter, especially based on on its capricious history with mature apps and classic literature.

#My dark twisted fantasy album cover update#

Why did Apple bother to blur out the one potentially offensive cover? Either it was too lazy to update the picture or it wanted to send a message for other artists interested in pushing controversial art. West's label Def Jam encouraged him to present alternatives to family-friendly venues like Walmart and Target (TGT), and nearly all the other options, including a depiction of a blushing ballerina, are as tame as a Jonas Brothers CD. More perplexing to the blurred cover decision is that Apple had a choice: There are actually five covers to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.