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syncope at 08:53pm on 10/02/2008
syncope at 08:53pm on 10/02/2008Or maybe that's a lie, the bread and circuses keeps the hoi content, I suppose.
But anyway, I loathe award shows and I'm furiously dling The New Frontier to cap off my comic-themed Sunday, but in the meantime, I caught Kanye on the Grammies.
Ok, so I have a serious affection for the guy. I think he's a genius businessman and actually talented, which is AMAZING. This just doesn't happen often. Yes, he's ubiquitous now and the over-saturation factor certainly makes him easy to hate on, but when it comes down to it, he can back up his posturing (in a way that I think old skoolers like Jay-Z sometimes don't, please don't get on my case--I prefer poetic, message-driven hip-hop to OH SNAP insult raps).
Anyway, he almost made me cry tonight. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that celebrities are human beings under their personas. I think with certain artists, they wear their humanity right there on their skin along with their super massive egos. Kanye is a caricature now but he MADE that happen. He wanted it. He's also an insecure guy who loves his mama who died because Kanye made it big (which is what I assume must have been his thought process). I usually have no interest in celebrity tragedy because there are starving children and abused kids in foster care who deserve my sympathy more, but I really feel for the guy as someone who is also really emo about my family.
ets: he cowed them into not playing him off. I mean, how can you NOT love this guy? AMAZING.
But anyway, I loathe award shows and I'm furiously dling The New Frontier to cap off my comic-themed Sunday, but in the meantime, I caught Kanye on the Grammies.
Ok, so I have a serious affection for the guy. I think he's a genius businessman and actually talented, which is AMAZING. This just doesn't happen often. Yes, he's ubiquitous now and the over-saturation factor certainly makes him easy to hate on, but when it comes down to it, he can back up his posturing (in a way that I think old skoolers like Jay-Z sometimes don't, please don't get on my case--I prefer poetic, message-driven hip-hop to OH SNAP insult raps).
Anyway, he almost made me cry tonight. It's easy to lose sight of the fact that celebrities are human beings under their personas. I think with certain artists, they wear their humanity right there on their skin along with their super massive egos. Kanye is a caricature now but he MADE that happen. He wanted it. He's also an insecure guy who loves his mama who died because Kanye made it big (which is what I assume must have been his thought process). I usually have no interest in celebrity tragedy because there are starving children and abused kids in foster care who deserve my sympathy more, but I really feel for the guy as someone who is also really emo about my family.
ets: he cowed them into not playing him off. I mean, how can you NOT love this guy? AMAZING.
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