• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    This is on us. We need to stop giving our attention to sociopathically detached celebrities.

    They’re like fairies. If you stop believing in them, they die. Only applause can bring them back.

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      17 hours ago

      I think it’s too late. One’s already the president of the US and one is a former reality TV star who was elected to be the president of the US.

  • WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    The issue with Kanye is that his myth or legend necessitated dying in an accident, by suicide, or by assassination, before the release of The Life of Pablo.

    Had he died in 2015 like he was supposed to (as happened in all branching realities save this one alone), literally none of any of this would have come to pass.

    The life of Pablo, while a good mixtape, was a bad album. The first bad album Kanye had ever made. Every album since has been lower and lower in quality. He is an artist with nothing left to say. He is a ghost of his former self, and he recognizes it, which is why he now goes by Ye, a faint echo. He is just a memory now.

    If we collectively decide he no longer exists, I am pretty sure he won’t. At least this version of him.

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      15 hours ago

      Imo there is a much larger distinction between the post-Donda 2 era and everything previous, even Jesus Is King sounded good (besides the mixing & Closed On Sunday being a contender for corniest hip-hop song of all time)