Kanye West does not care about key signatures.

Still not the worst performance on SNL.

I'm looking at you, Jimmy Fallon.

I watched SNL on DVR last night. I skipped right over his "performances." I actually used to like his musicoontil it became apparent what a huge douchebag he is. Now I won't even give it a consideration.

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heh!

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I liked Kanye until Bonnaroo this year. What an arrogant prick.

This no talent POS can't sing. He needs to stick to yelling "Wave ur hands in da aiyer like ya just don't cayer!"

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PseudoNic: What an arrogant prick.

He's the Sarah Palin of the music world. Completely and totally convinced of his own intelligence and ability, and completely and totally unaware that he doesn't have what it takes.

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I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, the vocals were sketchy but the performance was entertaining and the song was good. That's a whole lot better than I can say for most SNL performances.

darkhorse23: He's the Sarah Palin of the music world. Completely and totally convinced of his own intelligence and ability, and completely and totally unaware that he doesn't have what it takes.

Well said. That line is going to be repeated by me in the near future.

Funsucker: thought it was pretty good. Yeah, the vocals were sketchy but the performance was entertaining and the song was good. That's a whole lot better than I can say for most SNL performances.

This dude is looking at you too, Jimmy Fallon.

I didn't even get where Kanye was going with this. His band was sidelined in back and weren't even visible because of the video. He can't sing because he is primarily a rapper. There was nothing musically interesting about the song. I couldn't see him because of the video contrast in the back. Exactly what in that performance was I supposed to be entertained by?

Stephen Colbert needs no autotune.

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAH! AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!111

/15 minutes

Kanye West should have been born a woman. He's a diva/biatch.

Wow, Colbert said it, and it became true. Maybe this is an Andy Kaufman/Jerry Lawler type of comedic ruse! Jokes on us!

Funsucker: I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, the vocals were sketchy but the performance was entertaining and the song was good.

Uh. What part of bad singing makes a singer's performance good?

SNL THREAD!

I thought Hugh did a great job, that second skit (Bronx Beat) was pretty funny, the Weekend Update was good, especially the 'REALLY!?!' section, and the Xmas family gained a chuckle.

That being said, the guy they had doing Blago absolutely sucked as him. It's really a shame considering how great a quality comedian would've been in that role.

Kanye was terrible, both times, and I could not get over his frohawk, 80s jacket, and the fact that all of his supporting people were hidden above and behind him in darkness.

Keep your fingers crossed for a Kanye West/Ashlee Simpson duet...

All I could think during the craptasticness was "Didn't he used to rap?"

Fred Armisen should have played Blago, you need a short person with a Napoleonic complex to really portray the man's psychotic self-confidence... still, it was pretty funny all the same, and I thought it a classic moment when Amy Poehler's near-teary farewell got interrupted by Fred at a key point. I suspect that was all rehearsed but it at least felt spontaneous and organic, like the times when the original SNL hit a high note. Some of the sketches even had endings to them for a change. Decent work and amusing.

I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

I tried to watch SNL last night, but I didn't even make it to the first Kanye performance because the show was farking awful.

FlyingPig: I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

Most bands that have made it on talent merely sound worse than they normally do. "Artists" that have made it via marketing and digital enhancement, when stripped of the digital enhancement, apparently sound like me at a karaoke bar.

FlyingPig: I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

Not every band/musician. Take a looksee Link (new window)

Probably one of, if not the greatest, musical performance on SNL ever. But it WAS nearly 20 years ago, heh.

most mainstream artists sound like that without enhancement

FlyingPig: I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

SNL is a great platform to differentiate between live bands and studio bands. The problem is most popular bands/musicians these days are studio performers and rely on a lot of digital enhancement during their recordings, especially hip-hop/r&b artists. Every once in a while a band comes on SNL and wrecks their set, but most of the people they have on are just crap-pop bands/singers. Not a problem with SNL, it's a problem with popular music.

falcon176: most mainstream artists sound like that without enhancement

This.

/that is all

I saw Kanye at Bonnarroo and I had to wait until after 4 in the morning to watch him come out suckin dix. I heard a lot of Kanye Sucks chants after that.

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FlyingPig: I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

Vanilla Ice rocked SNL in '91. Yeah, I know he sucks... but he owned SNL.

DeathByGeekSquad: the Weekend Update was good, especially the 'REALLY!?!' section

The piling on Blagojevich was AWESOME, we were laughing our asses off at my house.

/in Illinois

The performance was overshadowed by Dr. House in a giant lamp costume.

Veggies: FlyingPig: I hate rap, but in his defense, EVERY band/musician sounds like shiat on SNL. I think their system is rigged to automatically make everyone sound like shiat. I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.

Not every band/musician. Take a looksee Link (new window)

Probably one of, if not the greatest, musical performance on SNL ever. But it WAS nearly 20 years ago, heh.

I agree---the best performance on SNL ever.

I couldn't tell if it was a frohawk or an afromullet Kanye had going on. The best part were the Max Headroom shades. Freaking sweet!

I liked the video screens but his overall performance was just shiatty. "I wish I was a reeeeeal boy!!!!" I just stared at my husband and said, "Is he really singing about this?"

I don't like Kanye West because all of his songs about him.

WTF happened to the SNL stage?! Wasn't it nice and simple and not the VMAs for 430+ years?

/Hardly ever watches SNL; hasn't watched the musical segments once in years
//Couldn't have watched Kanye last night anyways, was busy seeing a real musician:

///Only 23, no lawn even if I sound like it here

Wrong_Intentions: Couldn't have watched Kanye last night anyways, was busy seeing a real musician:

Of ALL the possible artists you could have chosen to post about in THIS thread... I mean- if there was ever a singer who might have actually needed that auto-tuner crap: it's Neil Young :)

The fark filter sometimes outsmarts itself.

CtrlAltDelete: Wrong_Intentions: Couldn't have watched Kanye last night anyways, was busy seeing a real musician:

Of ALL the possible artists you could have chosen to post about in THIS thread... I mean- if there was ever a singer who might have actually needed that auto-tuner crap: it's Neil Young :)

Y'know, my first reaction was to be angry at you for saying this, but I can only offer pity.

the words 'Kanye West' and 'music' should never appear in the same sentence. He is the male Britney Spears, a no-talent pile of marketing at it's worst...

CtrlAltDelete: Wrong_Intentions: Couldn't have watched Kanye last night anyways, was busy seeing a real musician:

Of ALL the possible artists you could have chosen to post about in THIS thread... I mean- if there was ever a singer who might have actually needed that auto-tuner crap: it's Neil Young :)

His incredibly poignant songwriting more than makes up for his lack of singing ability. See "Philadelphia." Kanye, not so much.

I don't think I've ever heard an SNL performance that sounded good.



ummmmm.....uhhh....ok,here are some:

http://www.teenwag.com/playvideo/2946
http://www.videosift.com/video/FEAR -Saturday-Night-Live-1981-Historic-Performanc e

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At some point they'd do an updated version and hash it out.

Hmmm... inconsistent filter is inconsistent.

I think listening to him without Autotune is far better than with that ear-rape of an effect. I would probably really enjoy his new album if it wasn't for that crap. Then again, I'm used to listening to artists who can't sing (the Meat Puppets leap to mind especially).

/Doesn't understand the Kanye West hate (even if he is a douche-mobile)
//Does understand the Neil Young love.

What a complete douchebag.

This reminds me off an amusing story about a sound engineer... the band he was mixing really pissed him off by continuing to play encore after encore even though they were told their set had run over and they needed to stop. As I understand, the engineer was mixing both FOH and monitors, so he slapped pitch shifters on the monitor mix outputs, and left the stereo bus untouched. The result of course was the performers on stage hearing themselves a half-step out of tune, while the audience listened to their hopeless attempts to tune to their perpetually out-of-tune monitors.

Kanye would be more than worthy of a prank like that. Not that he needs help sounding like total crap, but it'd still be just as amusing imho.

angryjd: I didn't even get where Kanye was going with this. His band was sidelined in back and weren't even visible because of the video. He can't sing because he is primarily a rapper. There was nothing musically interesting about the song. I couldn't see him because of the video contrast in the back. Exactly what in that performance was I supposed to be entertained by?

But but but... he is a GENIUS.

(Hell, someone was going to say it, might as well be said sarcastically.)

Let me put on some big stupid looking sunglasses, spin around in front of some giant TVs and sing like I am a deaf mute.

Yes my friends, he truly is the "voice of this generation".