This album, then, shows West pushing out from basic formulae, experimenting and not just trying new things but carrying ideas right through until they are fully formed and flourishing. 'Power' was the least progressive song that I've ever had as a first single. Kanye West’s Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a sprawling, ambitious, orchestral fuck-you of an album, and he wants you to know it. It was Kanye West, asking if the painter was interested in. Kanye combines deep melancholy and triumphant hubris into a stunningly intense experience, from the chiming handclaps of 'Power' to the despair of 'Blame Game.' Brilliantly, Kanye couches these fantasies in a progressive hip-hop context, inviting Jay-Z. Kanye West may have seemed disappointed when unnamed authorities 'banned' his proposed cover for his forthcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy LP, but he's got a backup plan: That cover.
"So many people rate Dark Fantasy as my best album, but Yeezus and 808s are so much stronger. Artist George Condo Explains His Five Covers for Kanye West’s Twisted Fantasy Last spring George Condo received a phone call from Hawaii. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy earns its title. But he also went on to say that the reflective nature of the album is exactly why he doesn't like the album much today. West himself admitted as much in October of this year: “It was kind of piecing together what people liked about me to make a bouquet of what people loved,” he said in an interview that aired on artist Nick Knight’s ShowStudio website.
It’s almost as if West took every sound he had cultivated up until that point-the soul samples of College Dropout, the grand-scale and beautiful orchestration of Late Registration, the gloss of Graduation, and the auto-tuned melodies of 808s, and didn't so much as reduce them but compress them into one vision. Cover Art, News Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (All Album Covers) In the earlier held Ustream session in promotion of his new album, Kanye teased us with all different album covers. Last year we reported on Kim Kardashian and husband Kanye West buying this Mediterranean-style mansion in 2013 for nearly 11 million. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s mouthful of a title perfectly suits the album’s maximalist, grandiose sound. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Album Cover) added by caligurl16.