I think so many people are connecting to a song that seems so deliberately specific because Kanye West is just blatantly telling everyone that he doesn't know how to truly connect with anyone on any level, is always criticizing everything including himself and simply just does not know how to be completely happy with another person or with himself in relationship to his own standards.
The reason people connect with that, is because so many people feel exactly, the same fucking way. "Have a toast to the douchebags" -- Kanye is considered a douchebag. So is everyone who has felt the way he has. It's time for a toast because there isn't anything else left to do -- a final admittance to the fact that we are all, intrinsically, terribly shallow people no matter where we come from. We can improve upon this, but essentially we've been born to disconnect. We're born to satisfy ourselves, or at least what we see as ourselves for the time being. Then, when we realize that we can't even do that, what else is there left to do but drink, smoke and fuck? Have a toast for the people who at least aware of the fact that these feelings exist, that we can't change and that everything is simply fucked.
And the admittance of all this is the first on a stage to genuine correction. Some people say artists are "pansy" for thinking about all this garbage, but they are at least acknowledging it. Baby I've got a plan, run away as fast as you can -- it is the simplest way to say "I'm a terrible person". An insanely humbling song that connects to a very deep place within us all.
I think so many people are connecting to a song that seems so deliberately specific because Kanye West is just blatantly telling everyone that he doesn't know how to truly connect with anyone on any level, is always criticizing everything including himself and simply just does not know how to be completely happy with another person or with himself in relationship to his own standards.
The reason people connect with that, is because so many people feel exactly, the same fucking way. "Have a toast to the douchebags" -- Kanye is considered a douchebag. So is everyone who has felt the way he has. It's time for a toast because there isn't anything else left to do -- a final admittance to the fact that we are all, intrinsically, terribly shallow people no matter where we come from. We can improve upon this, but essentially we've been born to disconnect. We're born to satisfy ourselves, or at least what we see as ourselves for the time being. Then, when we realize that we can't even do that, what else is there left to do but drink, smoke and fuck? Have a toast for the people who at least aware of the fact that these feelings exist, that we can't change and that everything is simply fucked.
And the admittance of all this is the first on a stage to genuine correction. Some people say artists are "pansy" for thinking about all this garbage, but they are at least acknowledging it. Baby I've got a plan, run away as fast as you can -- it is the simplest way to say "I'm a terrible person". An insanely humbling song that connects to a very deep place within us all.
very awesomely broken down
very awesomely broken down