Could the new Kanye/McCartney single All Day be his best?
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RMartinez:
Hendrix Ibsen:
favoritething:
Kanye's album isn't even out yet, and it will supposedly have even more tracks with Paul (or at least one), so I wouldn't go calling it yesterday's news just yet.
I guess it will be some noise with the album release. It's just calm before the (marketing) storm.
For Kanye. Not so much for Paul. Yes, he recorded some tunes. Will he play them live? If they are such a big deal in his career, he will.
Think I see it as Lady Gaga said about their collaboration: It's only one of his many projects. Kanye West is one of the biggest names right now. It gets attention. But in principle it is the same thing as other collaborations and appearances he makes. It is something he has been doing since "My Bonnie", when he backed up Tony Sheridan with The Beatles. Well, at least the way I see it...
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Hendrix Ibsen:
RMartinez:
Hendrix Ibsen:
favoritething:
Kanye's album isn't even out yet, and it will supposedly have even more tracks with Paul (or at least one), so I wouldn't go calling it yesterday's news just yet.
I guess it will be some noise with the album release. It's just calm before the (marketing) storm.
For Kanye. Not so much for Paul. Yes, he recorded some tunes. Will he play them live? If they are such a big deal in his career, he will.
Think I see it as Lady Gaga said about their collaboration: It's only one of his many projects. Kanye West is one of the biggest names right now. It gets attention. But in principle it is the same thing as other collaborations and appearances he makes. It is something he has been doing since "My Bonnie", when he backed up Tony Sheridan with The Beatles. Well, at least the way I see it...
It's about like "My Bonnie." I'll give you that.
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Well, in that category at least, a side project, musically speaking, but it is getting tremendous attention with more radio play than some of his own songs in years.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Well, in that category at least, a side project, musically speaking, but it is getting tremendous attention with more radio play than some of his own songs in years.
Not sure that's says much in favor of Paul. But he has hooked up, in the past, with younger talent to bolster his career. Michael Jackson, Elvis Costello, etc. So, in that, I agree with you.
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Well, he is in the Guinness Book of Records as the most succesful artist of all time. The last ten years he's topped the jazz charts with"Kisses on the Bottom", the Indie charts with "Electric Arguments", the classical charts with "Ocean's Kingdom"... Most studio albums of McCartney's top five on Billboard and all over the world ("New" was #1 in Norway.
), so I don't quite understand what he needs... Except for a #1 single on the hip hop charts. Now he's got it. -
Hendrix Ibsen:
Well, he is in the Guinness Book of Records as the most succesful artist of all time. The last ten years he's topped the jazz charts with"Kisses on the Bottom", the Indie charts with "Electric Arguments", the classical charts with "Ocean's Kingdom"... Most studio albums of McCartney's top five on Billboard and all over the world ("New" was #1 in Norway.
), so I don't quite understand what he needs... Except for a #1 single on the hip hop charts. Now he's got it. Are you sure you aren't Paul McCartney??
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I'm like the opposite of McCartney. Everything I touch turns to dust.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I'm like the opposite of McCartney. Everything I touch turns to dust.
Well, maybe this Kanye LP will produce the hit that so eludes Paul.
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I could perhaps hope that they had made a song where McCartney is the lead singer, or a duet or something. "FourFiveSeconds" is a catchy song but it becomes a McCartney number in the peripheral since he is only backup. If it becomes a hit or not, it's the same for me if only the song is musically good. Some of his best solo career music is non-hits.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I could perhaps hope that they had made a song where McCartney is the lead singer, or a duet or something. "FourFiveSeconds" is a catchy song but it becomes a McCartney number in the peripheral since he is only backup. If it becomes a hit or not, it's the same for me if only the song is musically good. Some of his best solo career music is non-hits.
Well, that's the tricky part: Do hits have more impact, or non-hits that enhance the overall reputation? Can that even be measured?
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I don't know. I think hits now is something else than when McCartney dominated the charts between 1962-1985 circa. It is more consumable. Fewer songs that are classics. It's a scene I don't follow. Music is so much more, including McCartney's, although he is the king of hits, even 30 years after they stopped coming. Fun enough if he has a hit, but perhaps preferably on his own terms? And not Miley Cyrus.. I think he should just concentrate on making good music. At least for my part.
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Long interesting thread on Reddit -- just posted the the other day -- where fans of this track finally figured out that it's based entirely on a song Paul wrote in 1970. It's a funny thread, with some praise for Paul and his whistling. Worth reading:
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Michelley:
Long interesting thread on Reddit -- just posted the the other day -- where fans of this track finally figured out that it's based entirely on a song Paul wrote in 1970. It's a funny thread, with some praise for Paul and his whistling. Worth reading:
Hmm, so the discussion of this song is far from dead. Looks like this Reddit conversation started because Kanye performed the song on the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. Billboard's "tracking week" ends on Sunday, but that was enough to nudge the song up the chart again a bit to #55. The performance was so heavily censored (understandably) that it probably does nothing more ultimately than publicize the new Kanye album, which is imminent and is called "SWISH."
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Maybe I buy "Swish" if it get some good reviews. And depending on how much McCartney contributes... But I don't buy music that is censored, so "All Day" must be included in all its glory or omitted completely because the artists wanted it that way.
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Based off of Two Fingers? Kanye just took a big crap on a beautiful melody
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Martin Luther:
Based off of Two Fingers? Kanye just took a big crap on a beautiful melody
"Two Fingers" is about as McCartney as McCartney can get. Gorgeous melody. I'll spare myself any Kanye-guided reinterpretations of it. Thanks for the warning.
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I finally downloaded the "clean" version of "All Day" through iTunes. Sure is different. Instead of "All day n*****" it just has "all day all day," and in parts of the song that just have the n-word at the end of the line, it's cut off so it sounds like he's talking to some guy named Nick!
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Here's a link to hear a sample of the clean version: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-day-feat.-theophilus-london/id982072056?i=982072099
