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		For 2013, Kanye West had the "most influential year of any pop musician in history." A few things this gets wrong: 1) Kanye isn't influential; 2) Kanye isn't a musician; 3) The Beatles and Stones would like to have a word with you ( slate.com)		104
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nmrsnr

2013-12-23 09:38:39 AM

You don't have to go to the Beatles or Stones, Subby, Miley Cyrus's ass had a bigger year than Kanye. The only reason I knew he had an album out this year was because of the naked-Kim-Kardashian-on-a-motorcycle music video.

vernonFL

2013-12-23 09:39:11 AM

Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Gonz

2013-12-23 09:39:57 AM

ELVIS YOU DOLT!

Mugato

2013-12-23 09:52:28 AM

Gonz: ELVIS YOU DOLT!

The black musicians Elvis stole from, you dolt!

JerseyTim

2013-12-23 09:56:53 AM

Didn't that one guy put that Thriller album out in the 80s?

Crewmannumber6

2013-12-23 10:00:53 AM

groppet

2013-12-23 10:09:31 AM

Hey that video with him and Kim influenced a lot of parody videos. So there is that.

Gosling

2013-12-23 10:10:33 AM

Gonz: ELVIS YOU DOLT!

The musicians' strike of 1942-44 you dolt!

Long story short: musicians had a union back then. Big bands go on strike, preventing radio stations from playing songs with instruments in them. Record companies and radio stations get around it by signing bands led by vocalists who didn't need instruments, with Frank Sinatra leading the way.

Kind of a bad play by the union there.

Rigger1955

2013-12-23 10:14:24 AM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

A little early, they're not biting yet.

sure haven't

2013-12-23 10:16:27 AM

Subby, that headline is a HOTY candidate. Love it, good job.

Kanye has two good songs: Jesus Walks, and Golddigger. And Jamie Foxx more makes golddigger as fun as it is.

Other than that, yeah he's a pretty big clown.

oldernell

2013-12-23 10:16:44 AM

Doesn't he hang around with hobbits?

Arkanaut

2013-12-23 10:18:34 AM

For 2013, Kanye West had the "most influential year of any pop musician ~~in history~~ OF ALL TIME."

FTFY

mafiageek1980

2013-12-23 10:20:05 AM

oldernell: Doesn't he hang around with hobbits?

That episode is one of the best "South Park" episodes i've seen in a LONG time!

serpent_sky

2013-12-23 10:26:08 AM

The only thing he's ever done that was (unfortunately) influential is causing musicians to act like genuine attention whores instead of garnering attention for being genuinely talented. And that a goddamned shame.

jonathan_L

2013-12-23 10:29:52 AM

FTFA:

"Lyrically it was an ill-humored stew of scattershot anger, juvenile shock-peddling, and preening, grotesque misogyny."

And I'm supposed to want to listen to it because... ?

theflatline

2013-12-23 10:30:20 AM

Sounds like Kanye gave this guy a load of rash and a ride on the Khardasioan baloney poney for this comment.

As West remarked in that Timesinterview all those months ago, "I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things." In 2013, Kanye West was the genius we deserved, even when we didn't.

FeedTheCollapse

2013-12-23 10:32:54 AM

there needs to be a Kanye West version of the "I bet the Jews did this!" image for Fark.

give me doughnuts

2013-12-23 10:33:31 AM

Is doing something that generates lots of mockery considered the same as being "influential?
If so, I think Miley wins again, Kanye.

Mrs.Sharpier

2013-12-23 10:46:18 AM

Hey look it's this thread again

homarjr

2013-12-23 10:47:52 AM

sure haven't: Subby, that headline is a HOTY candidate. Love it, good job.

Kanye has two good songs: Jesus Walks, and Golddigger. And Jamie Foxx more makes golddigger as fun as it is.

Other than that, yeah he's a pretty big clown.

Off the top of my head....

We Don't Care
All Falls Down
Get 'Em High
Through the Wire
Family Business
Last Call
Heard 'Em Say
Touch the Sky
Diamonds from Sierra Leone
Hey Mama
Stronger
Good Life
Flashing Lights
The Glory
Homecoming
Heartless
Power
All of the Lights
Blame Game

Kanye might be a clown, but he has a ton of good songs.

/Haters gonna hate

Nina_Hartley's_Ass

2013-12-23 10:48:08 AM

sure haven't: Kanye has two good songs: Jesus Walks, and Golddigger.

Not seeing it.

LewDux

2013-12-23 10:50:56 AM

batlock666

2013-12-23 10:55:19 AM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

He's mediocre at best.

Fano

2013-12-23 10:59:21 AM

Didn't he get ignored by the CEO of Burberry or something just the other day?

1derful

2013-12-23 11:01:35 AM

Beyonce was more influential in 2013, and she didn't even bother to promote the album she released.

TV's Vinnie

2013-12-23 11:01:58 AM

Kim Kardashian reacts to Subby's blasphemy

Mugato

2013-12-23 11:03:14 AM

homarjr: Kanye might be a clown, but he has a ton of good songs.

I wanna fark you hard on the sink
After that, give you something to drink
Step back, can't get spunk on the mink

He's a bard, really.

Mobutu

2013-12-23 11:19:47 AM

This is the God's Honest Truth: I do not know the title of, melody or words to, a single one of his songs.

Now, I'm a shut-in and generally not a pop fan.. but I can name / hear in my head some Bieber songs or the like.

The man is a tool.

square028

2013-12-23 11:23:10 AM

Dude is trying so hard to be like Stringer Bell.

bungle_jr

2013-12-23 11:30:23 AM

i gave kanye a chance...i watched BOTH performances of his on snl a couple months ago...absolute horrible dreck that i can't even consider music!

i think the ONLY song of his i can tollerate is "gold digger", and i really don't like it much, just kinda catchy.

i like the episodes of "cleveland show" with kenny west. especially the illuminati-style one with questlove, will.i.am, nikki minaj (whom i also cannot stand)

Dorf11

2013-12-23 11:38:32 AM

If you have to tell people someone is influential, he isn't.

Some Bass Playing Guy

2013-12-23 11:39:00 AM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

While that may be true, his asshole personality completely overshadows it.

LewDux

2013-12-23 11:41:07 AM

If you have to tell people someone is fast, he isn't.

rvesco

2013-12-23 11:48:31 AM

homarjr:

Off the top of my head....

We Don't Care
All Falls Down
Get 'Em High
Through the Wire
Family Business
Last Call
Heard 'Em Say
Touch the Sky
Diamonds from Sierra Leone
Hey Mama
Stronger
Good Life
Flashing Lights
The Glory
Homecoming
Heartless
Power
All of the Lights
Blame Game

Kanye might be a clown, but he has a ton of good songs.

/Haters gonna hate

He wrote Heartless? I love that one!

♫ Heartless, heartless,
Never, never out of control
Heartless, heartless
Ya keep on sinnin'
In the name of a-rock and roll ♫

Rent Party

2013-12-23 11:54:11 AM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Those are two things I would not say about Kanye. He is a talented attention whore and douchebag, though.

Nina_Hartley's_Ass

2013-12-23 11:54:20 AM

Here's his biggest hit.

Here's his second biggest.

The Larch

2013-12-23 11:55:28 AM

Kanye's latest album just sounds lazy. He may be a creative guy with some decent ideas, but I think he forgot that a decent idea by itself isn't worth much. You have to do more than just layer some sloppy, uninspired sounds and laughably bad lyrics on top of your idea. The lack of effort really shines through on every single track.

Lou Reed compared Kanye's latest album to Metal Machine Music, and I think it's absolutely true. Metal Machine Music was Lou Reed's absolute favorite thing -- feedback from an electric guitar -- presented in its rawest form. Yeezus is Kanye West's absolute favorite thing -- Kanye West's own hubris -- presented in its rawest form. Both are interesting. Neither is good.

Igor Jakovsky

2013-12-23 11:56:35 AM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Does he play an instrument? No? Not a muaician then.

Autotune is not an instrument

Igor Jakovsky

2013-12-23 11:59:41 AM

Igor Jakovsky: vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Does he play an instrument? No? Not a muaician then.

Autotune is not an instrument

Musician ftfm

Pentaxian

2013-12-23 12:03:15 PM

Crewmannumber6: [i161.photobucket.com image 350x350]

My dad just made a pilgrimage to the Joshua Tree Motel this weekend. He listened to Emmylou Harris the whole way.

happydude45

2013-12-23 12:10:57 PM

Pentaxian: Crewmannumber6: [i161.photobucket.com image 350x350]

My dad just made a pilgrimage to the Joshua Tree Motel this weekend. He listened to Emmylou Harris the whole way.

Kudos to all of you. Great, great music.

Tanukis_Parachute

2013-12-23 12:12:08 PM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

you be trolling?

I have not heard a song he has ever done. Did he used to go by a different name? Is he one of those guys who switches it up every couple of years? Puffy? Diddy?

I honestly don't know...and don't really care to look it up.

Then again...this is probably the sort of music I don't really care to listen to.

NicktheSmoker listed some songs...I have never heard a single one...that I know of.

HarveyBrooks

2013-12-23 12:16:52 PM

FTFA: Lyrically it was an ill-humored stew of scattershot anger, juvenile shock-peddling, and preening, grotesque misogyny.
Best description of rap "music" I've ever seen.

FoxEWolf

2013-12-23 12:17:42 PM

~~(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.

Kanye is not giving credit where it is due. It is the autotune that is "most influential person in Pop Music" I mean everyone today uses it and gives it no credit. fark You all.

Also the most influential band/person has to be Elvis or the Beatles. In pop music, Madonna. Everyone tried to copy her.

homarjr

2013-12-23 12:19:26 PM

NicktheSmoker: homarjr: sure haven't: Subby, that headline is a HOTY candidate. Love it, good job.

Kanye has two good songs: Jesus Walks, and Golddigger. And Jamie Foxx more makes golddigger as fun as it is.

Other than that, yeah he's a pretty big clown.

Off the top of my head....

We Don't Care
All Falls Down
Get 'Em High
Through the Wire
Family Business
Last Call
Heard 'Em Say
Touch the Sky
Diamonds from Sierra Leone
Hey Mama
Stronger
Good Life
Flashing Lights
The Glory
Homecoming
Heartless
Power
All of the Lights
Blame Game

Kanye might be a clown, but he has a ton of good songs.

/Haters gonna hate

I think you and I have a very different interpretation of the meaning of the word "good".

Hang on, you're telling me that people can have different taste in music???

THE HORROR

FoxEWolf

2013-12-23 12:20:24 PM

homarjr: sure haven't: Subby, that headline is a HOTY candidate. Love it, good job.

Kanye has two good songs: Jesus Walks, and Golddigger. And Jamie Foxx more makes golddigger as fun as it is.

Other than that, yeah he's a pretty big clown.

Off the top of my head....

We Don't Care
All Falls Down
Get 'Em High
Through the Wire
Family Business
Last Call
Heard 'Em Say
Touch the Sky
Diamonds from Sierra Leone
Hey Mama
Stronger
Good Life
Flashing Lights
The Glory
Homecoming
Heartless
Power
All of the Lights
Blame Game

Kanye might be a clown, but he has a ton of good songs.

/Haters gonna hate

GTFO!

/I do not mind your taste in music as that is "YOUR" Taste, but the word 'hater" needs to farking end!

For the rest of you.

Fireproof

2013-12-23 12:27:57 PM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

He is, but he's also overrated, mostly due to his insistence that he's the greatest EVAR, and his legions of fanboys that will absolutely flip out if you suggest otherwise. They even insist that the crappy "Bound 2" music video was intentionally bad for some reason.

/They are so much fun to troll
//Try it if you ever get the chance

FoxEWolf

2013-12-23 12:37:02 PM

Igor Jakovsky: vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Does he play an instrument? No? Not a muaician then.

Autotune is not an instrument

Unfortunately, it is becoming one. It worked for Cher that one time, but now it is becoming obnoxious. The person by the name of T-Pain is the worst contributor, and is credited to have made it popular.

Rwa2play

2013-12-23 12:44:02 PM

vernonFL: Say what you want about Kanye, but he is a talented musician and producer.

Okay that might just get bites since I almost took the bait myself. 8/10.

weddingsinger

2013-12-23 01:11:04 PM

Yeezus was the 37th top selling album of 2013. 37th. Below "Blurred Lines". "Bound 2" was the only song that entered the popular culture. The gay rumors, KimYe, baby North West, and the ridiculous interviews and concert act as a savior is the what I know about Kanye, and it's NOT influential. It's TMZ/People magazine crap. Jennifer Aniston's haircut had more influence in it's day. (and comparing himself to Jesus? Does he know they literally have 2Pac performing and he's been dead for 15 years? Now that's a resurrection!)

Timberlake's 20/20 Experience was far more influential this year putting Justin and Jay-Z above Kanye.

Hell, Adele's "21" is STILL outselling "Yeezus" and it was released TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO. She's had a huge influence on music - or at least what labels will promote.

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