Just recently I was feeling very perceptive and insightful as I told someone that Pitchfork only gives 10.0 ratings to reissues of 'classic' albums now because a 'perfect score' implies a canonical place in history and it's imossible to judge that on an album's release day and blah blah blah.
So, yeah. But I still think that’s mostly true and that the very idea of a rigid scoring rubric is perpetually losing its potency anyway and that scoring it that way is maybe supposed to mirror its weirdly triumphal mood somehow? Plus, anyone who doesn’t think this will be the go-to Album of the Year is kidding themselves. As such, I will not try to review it nor include it in my eventual List because I would sound really, really stupid trying to say anything worthwhile about Kanye West (maybe I should just quote a bunch of his tweets?)
Although: I do have a neighbor in my apartment building who I’ve never met or even seen, but with whom I share the wall on which the head of my bed rests. He/she is quite steadfast in playing awful music and television shows at inordinate volumes during even the deepest hours of the night. It fills me with resentment, so we will probably never be friends, but My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one thing we have agreed on in our time together.
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