Kanye west dark fantasy first version
“Dark Fantasy” serves as a perfect prelude to the album and introduction to West’s own “dark fantasy”. The deer in West’s film creates an allegory for West himself, who is a gentle and beautiful creature but slain by the media and the fates, despite the fact that he is indeed an artist, simply trying to make his art. In the poetry of Vergil, “It was this that kindled the zeal for war in the hearts of the country people” (VII.482). In Book Seven of the Aeneid, at the conniving hand of Juno, Ascanius slays a deer, which was, unbeknownst to Ascanius at the time, a beloved pet. However, the deer often is injured in its beauty and causes problematic instances. She points out that “the deer is a gentle, beautiful animal”. Thornton at the University of Miami at Ohio wrote an essay in 1996 labeled “Vergil's Injured Deer Motif in the Aeneid” in which she solely discusses this image of a deer. A final classical image from this “Dark Fantasy” portion of the film is the deer which walk through the woods aside West. In classical terminology, the film begins In Medias Res, a characteristic which is featured in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. At minute 29:56, West, after some course of the film, is shown in the same scene, yet completely set in context. West sprints down the road, the viewer clueless to any pretense the film was set in a nonlinear narrative. The film begins with a romantic scene: a blood red sky, cast behind a black forest, and a lone road. In the film, labeled Runaway, which encompasses most of the album, the “Dark Fantasy” portion evokes several instances classical and paralleling imagery. This occurrence is likely coincidental, but nevertheless interesting. The production during the hook is a beat of Taylor and Bon Iver singing “Oh, oh, oh” which is similar to the vocative used to invoke the muses of Vergil and Homer. Likewise, West invokes the muse in his opening track. Vergil asks “Muse recount to me the cause…” in the Aeneid, and Homer requests “Sing, Muse” in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. The invocation of a muse, likely Calliope, was an essential piece to epic poetry. This “muse” is seemingly ageless, as it was a muse in Plato’s symposium and as Dionysus, or Bacchus, and his wine inspired many poets and philosophers throughout Greek and Roman history. Taylor then follows with a sung hook verse, asking the audience and the musicians, “Can we get much higher?” This is an invocation to the muse of the musicians, which in this case seems to be narcotics. Minaj resolves to elaborate to the “children”, an allegory for a listener who has much to learn and is eager to do so, the real story of the African American life. The one that outsiders see is “watered down” and is only a “twisted fiction”. Even the lifestyle of someone such as West, an acclaimed and significantly wealthy musician, is “far too mean”. So give em a listen and lemme know what you think.This verse skewers the false perception of African American life in the American society. It might not be his best album ever but Ghost Town is my fav track he’s ever written and the dynamic throughout the entire record is like nothing I’ve ever witnessed. If you are inspired by this first record, please check out Ye. So I spent a lot of time in deliberation with London trying to decide between this one and his album Ye. Then we settle in with a classic R&B guitar theme with Gorgeous and we are off Dark Fantasy opens this brilliant body of work with a beautifully arranged pop gospel that has so much depth in tone and texture. Kanye delivers on all fronts with this heavy hitter. And to do it with master craftsmanship is the icing. Today, what compels me to write music and play the guitar, is when I hear someone make music sound like nothing I’ve ever heard before. I also use these techniques and tricks in solos and I feel that it gives me an edge so, win win. I’ve done this to help create the world’s greatest guitar school. Over the last decade I have made it my life’s work to go through the YouTube rabbit hole to source new techniques, equipment, and beyond. I have to be honest, hearing someone shred or play a rad riff on the guitar no longer inspires me to pick up mine. I don’t expect all of you to be thrilled about this rec but this album and this artist has elongated my bands career by inspiring us to create when it felt like we had no more to say. MBDTF by the eccentric Kanye West is a clinic on songwriting, arrangement, dynamic, the eclectic, performance, and mixing. :syngates:Yo Family! This months #AOTM is very special to me because I believe that you will learn so much from this album.