Only One- new song by Kanye West, featuring Paul
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It's only reached UK number 35 in the new chart issued today.
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ewanme:
It's only reached UK number 35 in the new chart issued today.
Is Kayne popular in the UK like he is here in the US?
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Regardless, #35 is a respectable entry position. It could be Top Ten next week, as I predict it will be.
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audi:
Regardless, #35 is a respectable entry position. It could be Top Ten next week, as I predict it will be.
More than respectable. The track has only been available for 3 days.
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Michelley:
audi:
Regardless, #35 is a respectable entry position. It could be Top Ten next week, as I predict it will be.
More than respectable. The track has only been available for 3 days.
Yes. Besides, the song isn't made available for streaming (yet), which is also counted in the UK Charts. Even more so, the US charts are consisting of 1/3rd sales, streaming and airplay. The latter 2 not being the case yet. Still at #7 in the US iTunes though.
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Paul can work with whomever he likes. I just find it curious that he chose to work with an artist whose sexism and misogyny in his art is well known. Even the rap critic at Spin commented that Yeezus went too far.
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Michelley:
audi:
Regardless, #35 is a respectable entry position. It could be Top Ten next week, as I predict it will be.
More than respectable. The track has only been available for 3 days.
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gnome:
Paul can work with whomever he likes. I just find it curious that he chose to work with an artist whose sexism and misogyny in his art is well known. Even the rap critic at Spin commented that Yeezus went too far.
I wasn't aware of any sexism claims. But nothing surprises me anymore.
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At the moment it's #5 on the U.S. iTunes chart: https://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/songs/ The track will do just fine on this side of the pond.
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Bruce M.:
At the moment it's #5 on the U.S. iTunes chart: https://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/songs/ The track will do just fine on this side of the pond.
It will be great to see Paul top the Hot 100 for the 1st time since Say Say Say. Many here said that would not be possible! The number of years between #1's has to be a record - 1983-2015.
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Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
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favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
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edcrawf:
favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
IMO - it is not racism that I am disappointed Mr. McCartney is working with Kayne, it is because Kayne is a jerk. Does everybody remember what he did to Taylor Swift at award ceremony when she was a teenager? As for rap music, Billy Joel said it was not music but an art form so is he racist? As for Kayne's talent, I will leave that to others because I don't appreciate rap.
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favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
I would speculate that half the folks at a McCartney show would call themselves "conservative." Lennon must be spinning in his grave.
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yankeefan7:
edcrawf:
favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
IMO - it is not racism that I am disappointed Mr. McCartney is working with Kayne, it is because Kayne is a jerk. Does everybody remember what he did to Taylor Swift at award ceremony when she was a teenager? As for rap music, Billy Joel said it was not music but an art form so is he racist? As for Kayne's talent, I will leave that to others because I don't appreciate rap.
I love Billy Joel's assessment. And I agree with it. As for Kanye West's award-show antics: I can't believe the masses still haven't caught on that every single one of those events was staged, and all sides were in on the joke. He's done it a gazillion times in a few countries.
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Arriving on download sites some time on Thursday, Only One is the first of several unexpected collaborations between Kanye West and Paul McCartney. Debuting at number 35 (15,058 sales) despite giving a head start to the rest of the chart, it may yet become West's 17th Top 10 hit and McCartney's 52nd. 72 year old Macca's last credited Top 10 appearance came in 1989 when he joined Gerry Marsden, Holly Johnson and The Christians for the all-Liverpool Hillsborough Disaster Fund charity single, Ferry Cross The Mersey, which reached number one. Prior to that, his last Top 10 entry was Once Upon A Long Ago, which reached number 10 in 1987.
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edcrawf:
favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
Please dear God, no.
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http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2015-01-02/kanye-wests-only-one-isnt-very-good-but-it-is-selling#r=hpt-ls Only One features soft, slow verses sung by an AutoTuned West as Paul McCartney tinkers on the keyboard.
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Nancy R:
edcrawf:
favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
Please dear God, no.
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audi:
yankeefan7:
edcrawf:
favoritething:
Michelley:
What a great track. I bought it immediately and am looking forward to hearing the rest of their collaboration. The only downside: all the ridiculous, melodramatic moaning I've read on various Beatles/McCartney/music forums and on news story comments about how Paul has "lowered himself" to work with Kanye. The amount of sheer racism underlying many of the comments criticizing Kanye and/or rap music is dismaying tho I suppose not surprising. But to hear it from Beatles fans just disappoints me. No one is required to like Kanye, his personality, his music, or rap, but to deny his talent is just plain ridiculous.
Yes, absolutely.
Very true. Or is that h e l l a true? Hopefully this could help with Paul's next project. My recommendation is a McCartney/Dylan album of new material.
IMO - it is not racism that I am disappointed Mr. McCartney is working with Kayne, it is because Kayne is a jerk. Does everybody remember what he did to Taylor Swift at award ceremony when she was a teenager? As for rap music, Billy Joel said it was not music but an art form so is he racist? As for Kayne's talent, I will leave that to others because I don't appreciate rap.
I love Billy Joel's assessment. And I agree with it. As for Kanye West's award-show antics: I can't believe the masses still haven't caught on that every single one of those events was staged, and all sides were in on the joke. He's done it a gazillion times in a few countries.
I don't think the 2009 incident was staged and the look on her face was not acting.