In October 2010, a month before the album's release, West tweeted: "Yoooo they banned my album cover! The words "Kanye" and "vinyl" don't sound like they go together in the same sentence, but this triple vinyl LP pressing will prove you wrong. West said that fatigue from overworking led to his controversial outburst after Taylor Swift was awarded Best Female Video at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. West block-booked the three session rooms of Avex simultaneously for 24 hours a day to work on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, until he felt it was complete. According to Dombal, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is "a hedonistic exploration into a rich and famous American id".

The song introduces the themes of decadence and hedonism, [41] with West musing how it had been planned "to drink until the pain was over/But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy opened at number six on the ARIA Albums chart and on September 10, 2021, it was awarded a double platinum certification from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for over 140,000 copies shipped in Australia. Not only did it cement his reputation as an auteur and win over a vast spectrum of tastemakers, it also catered to the rap fans who wanted nothing to do with sad-robot Kanye. I opt to channel my nervous energy into music criticism because that is my own perverse brand of neurosis. Blame Game" contains elements of " Avril 14th", written by Richard James, and performed by Aphex Twin.

For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered. It peaks with Kanye’s bittersweet and hilarious refrain: “Let’s have a toast for the douchebags/ Let’s have a toast for the assholes/ Let’s have a toast for the scumbags/ Every one of them that I know/ Let’s have a toast for the jerk-offs/ That’ll never take work off/ Baby, I got a plan/ Run away fast as you can. Kid Cudi smoked marijuana in preparation and worked out on a treadmill, while RZA exercised in the weight room. Although Kanye has always been steamed about the Grammys overlooking MBDTF, the album is too cool to qualify as Grammy pandering.

Gorgeous" contains portions and elements of the composition " You Showed Me", written by Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn, and performed by The Turtles. Powers interpreted the predominant theme on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to be "the crisis of the jet-lagged cosmopolitan. Devil in a New Dress" contains samples of " Will You Love Me Tomorrow", written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, and performed by Smokey Robinson. It was awarded Best Rap Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, alongside winning CD of the Year at the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards.

C. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited. Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Thriller Say Don’t Go (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] “Slut!In 2018, it was reported that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had been streamed a billion times on Spotify.

Beautiful pressing, this sounds impressive and is in my experience much better than the digital versions that I’ve heard. Contains portions of the composition "You Showed Me," written by Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn, published by Gene Clark Music (BMI) administered by Bug Music (BMI). By June 2011, the album had sold 483,000 digital copies, ranking as the second best-selling digital rap album ever. In the US alone, the album sold 496,000 copies in its first week and has since gone double platinum.Runaway" contains a piano-based motif comprising a series of uninterrupted descending half and whole notes, [51] with a coda that incorporates cello at first, before a violin section and West's vocoder-singing. The voices are clear, the instrumentation sounds clean and balanced, plus no noise in the quiet sections. EW picked My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy as the eighth greatest album of all time in 2016, while it was ranked 21st and 17th on the lists by NME and Rolling Stone in 2013 and 2020, respectively. the exhausted cry of one who's always new in town", going after any goal or girl "in the room, fueled by consumer culture's relentless buzz", though ultimately being unsatisfied.