The fourth single from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "All of the Lights" was written about Kanye's troubles living in the public eye. The song would go on to win Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration at the 2012 Grammys. A true musical orgy, "All of the Lights" features no less than eleven people other than Kanye himself: Kid Cudi, John Legend, Ryan Leslie, Charlie Wilson. Alicia Keys, Sir Elton John, Fergie, La Roux's Elly Jackson, Rihanna, The-Dream and Tony Williams. I dare y'all to pick out each of their parts.
One artist who wasn't featured was our good sis Drake:" 'Ye will change something 30 or 40 times to get it perfect. To each their own, and the change was to put all those people on it, and I wasn't one of them. That's completely OK." Poor Bloomers.
Well I've only been able to use this crappy website thanks to a proxy and now even some of them are getting the 522 error. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until I get completely shut out of ATRL.
The albums title track, "Have One on Me" is also the longest track, at over 11 minutes. Could that explain the fact it received two 11s? Like many other songs on the album, it's lyrics are based on an obscure reference. The song is about Lola Montez, an Irish dancer who became the courtesan of King Ludvig I of Bavaria. She used her influence institute liberal reforms and the king eventually had to give up his throne. The references to spiders come from Lola's famous "spider dance" in which she raised her skirt so high the audience could see she wore nothing underneath. An ATRL blog tea.
Best bit: When at like six minutes in when it speeds up a bit and becomes kind of a bop Best lyrics:"Though the long road begins and ends with you / I cannot seem to make amends with you"
The fourth song on Treats, "Infinity Guitars" was released as the second single from the album in November 2010 and has become one of the band's most acclaimed and well-known songs. Even in-demand pop producers know the song, apparently!
"Infinity Guitars" was Sleigh Bells' first video if I'm not mistaken. It starts off pretty straightforward with Alexis strutting down an empty street holding a baseball bat. But by the end of the video the duo are having some kind of guitar bonfire as cheerleaders cheer them on.
Best bit: uh uh uh uh, Uh, uH, *guitars* Best lyrics: "deaf *****s/ best friends"
There are hardly ever songs in these rates that actually deserve a 1 or 2 especially not songs from Joanna.
If we're rating Carly's album in TW2015 tho. Whew y'all better prepare for a 1,5 average from me.
nnnnn a reverse Pyramids experience. I'm so sorry Vilpoo, I didn't know!
Personally, my issue with the song is admittedly that it's 11 minutes long. I think that if a song is gonna hit the double digit mark, there has to be something about it that blows the rest of the album out of the water and really deserved 10+ minutes. Have One On Me, for me, was just another Joanna song. Still great, but not 11 minutes great.
nnnnn a reverse Pyramids experience. I'm so sorry Vilpoo, I didn't know!
Personally, my issue with the song is admittedly that it's 11 minutes long. I think that if a song is gonna hit the double digit mark, there has to be something about it that blows the rest of the album out of the water and really deserved 10+ minutes. Have One On Me, for me, was just another Joanna song. Still great, but not 11 minutes great.
That's ok, I understand Glad you liked her other masterpieces, In California or Go Long.
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Glad you liked her other masterpieces, In California or Go Long.
