We watched the "Nightline" piece on Kanye West last night, mostly because we're gluttons for punishment and because there is nothing Scott and I like to do more than volley snarky jeers at pompous pop stars when they refer to themselves as "geniuses" while showing off racks of clothing that contain not one, not two, not three, but at least ten button-down shirts in the same shade of gray.

But I like Kanye's music, and as far as I'm concerned you're going to be hard-pressed to find a much more awesome song than "Touch The Sky" off of "Late Registration." It's hard, though, to divorce the artist and the music when the artist makes it so damn hard. And Kanye really does. I don't want my irritation for his public persona to color my feelings for his music. Just the same, I may agree with him that Dubya doesn't care about black people but he really punked out poor Mike Meyers with that one, and no one should leave Austin Powers holding the bag like that.

Scott's going to let me burn "Graduation" because, natch, he has it. He has his own feelings about the album, in fact, so does our good friend, Matt Wood. I don't know how this came about, but these two decided to dissect Kanye's latest effort, and while I'm biased because one of the authors is my most favorite person on earth, and the other is a good friend (I'll let you figure out which is which), the writing is as solid as anything you're going to find by any rock critic.

Matt: Missing Credits
Scott: Missing Credits, Pt. 2
Matt: Missing Credits, Pt. 3
Scott: The final response

Posted by Erin at 05:03 PM | filed under: Blog move