Inspired by 1980s synthpop icons such as Phil Collins, Gary Numan and Boy George for the material on 808s & Heartbreak, West considered the tracks to be more minimal and functional due to him making usage of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.[6] West stated his intention was to juxtapose the mechanical sounds of the Auto-Tune and 808s with the more traditional sounds of taiko drums and choir monks.[7] "Love Lockdown" was premiered live by West at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards on September 7.[8] Two days later, West admitted via his blog that the song was his favorite to date at the time and had been written a week and a half before the premiere.[9] In an interview with Kiss FM, West revealed that it was one of the first two tracks created by him once he went "into album mode" after the success of Graduation.[1] On September 10, 2008, West shared the song through his blog.[10] The shared version was met with generally negative responses from fans of West, including an Underwriter blog critic that heavily appreciated his previous works.[11][12][13] Replying to his fans, West confirmed via his blog that the song was being re-recorded: "Your prayers have been answered! There's a new version of 'Love Lockdown' coming."[13] Simultaneously, West revealed that he "re-sung it" and the song was being mastered while telling those who do not like Auto-Tune it is "too bad" because he loves the effect and has been using it since his debut studio album The College Dropout (2004); "Love Lockdown" was ultimately released as a single on September 18, 2008.[12][13][14] The cover art for the single features PostScript's Type 4 font, which West described as "perfected" to please all the "design snobs, lol".[15] On September 25, 2008, West posted six stems for the song to his blog, each featuring isolated song portions of "Love Lockdown", and the stems were used to enable fans to remix the song.[16][17] The stems included an a cappella, distorted vocals, the piano, and the outro synth-beat.[16] West went on to name "Love Lockdown" as an example of him creating a track "that people never heard before".[18]

The song contains introspective lyrics, in which West discusses the after effects of a failed romantic relationship.[27] Before the chorus of the song, West demonstrates trying to make the decision between staying and going.[20] In the chorus, West fully suggests to "keep your love locked down". The chorus' lyrics represent a man moving on from someone he loves, as this will protect his heart.[23] Certain lyrics of the song are used by West to portray a struggle to properly show love; the lyrics were described by PopMatters as "simplistic, succinct and powerful".[21]

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Maybe it was the absurdly nonfunctional shutter shades or the audacious (and, let's be real, honest) Taylor Swift interruption, but at some point in pop culture, Kanye West became a punch line. When he sat down with The New York Times' Jon Caramanica for a rare, rather lengthy interview, the responses were predictable. Various media roundups* characterized his quotes as "ridiculous," "textbook-crazy," "obnoxious," and, well, you get the point.** All of this makes me wonder if anyone actually read the interview, because he talks about (and complicates) the very thing that others so boringly mock him for: his vanity. I'm not here to convince you to love Kanye's music or to love him as a figure. What I am interested in talking about, and what I think is often overlooked, is how race affects the way people perceive and respond to his vanity. Kanye is a part of a long tradition of black artists for whom self-love is a political act.

All of this is obviously not to say that Kanye is immune from criticism or that I, myself, have never side-eyed things he has said or done. But ultimately, I am grateful for the space that his bold and unapologetically vain work has created for black artists, for black children, for dreamers. On a more fundamental level, this conversation begs the question, how much pride is allowed for one person? At what point does being proud of yourself turn into being "too vain"? Who decides? Kanye has just dropped Yeezus, an incredibly dense and complicated album that revels in a dark spiral of introspection mixed with the political articulations and sonic embellishing that is so characteristic of his canon. His work continues to refuse an easy reading, and this album boldly proclaims that he is someone you must pay attention to. You don't have to love it, but you will respect it.

This is interesting. Perhaps the broad understadability of this film serves as further support for Levi-Strauss' notion that humans universally conceive of their world as composed of dualities in opposition. Here, West presents us with structural anthropology's classic tribal:modern, man:woman, white:black, painted:bare, telescope:no telescope syntactic dichotomies, which we instantly recognize. Further, the spatial incursion of the "tribal" element into West's "modern" kitchen, as well as the Tribal-Techno women at the film's conclusion stand as visual symbolism for the liminality typical of the "love lockdown", where ego finds himself "...far from home, in the danger zone". It clearly, yet subtly embodies a Von Gennepian reorganization and suspension of social boundaries surrounding these dichotomies.

However, I'd also agree that I think West has a bit much nous to not be aware of the politics around the dichotomy ... maybe not with quite as much awareness as the above post suggests (because I'd not want to be crediting Kanye West with TOO much intelligence, given his recent 'performances'), but my reading of the video wouldn't be that 'rationality' is the winner on the day. In fact, this video seems to very much pull on the romanticism that contemporary western culture views 'the primitive' with, as representing 'our' 'real' selves/emotions/psyches/etc etc. That romantic notion would seem to be what he's drawing on here ... and my summation would be that 'we' in the contemporary west have lost something by not being in touch with 'our' more 'primitive' selves. (I'm open to the possibility that he's primarily addressing a black audience here, so I'm not sure whether 'I'm' included in that equation or not.)

I do not agree with your last example.

One - most of the terrorists (at least the popular ones) are from countries which are viewed as backwards (just check the way they are portrayed in the media - the dichotomy is in presence again) - laws against women, laws again homosexuality, as I said, most of them are from a world mostly knows as the third world countries (and this is how westerns think about them, their reasoning and their views).

Second of all - religion is viewed as something backwards too and opposing modernity. Their religious background and reasons for actions are used as a proof how backwards they are.

Although the terrorism has much more complicated causes than just religion, it is the most obvious and easily to dismiss as emotional, interstitial and illiterate. And this is what the western world is doing.

I love when hip hop music is melodic and musical. Often, even if the song is great on its own, a rap song will not have many chords or interesting melodies, so it can be difficult to play a good arrangement on the piano.

"I'll love her for life. Strangely enough I will protect her. I may be divorced on paper, but I'm not divorced from the idea of being the protector," West indicated in an interview with Piers Morgan.

To me this song represents a platonic relationship from the guy's perspective. He loves her so much, but ultimately all he can get back is friendship. He wants there to be more to their relationship, but she's keeping any strong feelings that she might have for him locked up inside.

He wants to cut all ties and leave, but he just can't bear to leave her - so he stays. He basically gives up on ever trying to be more than a friend, but he can't help think that she loses whenever she tries to get with someone else, because no one can love her like he can.

it means, when you love someone but you keep it on the down low,because its for the best. like you know if you were to spill yourfeelings, it would ruin stuff. so you hide your feelings.thinking its for the better.you keep you love for someone, on lockdown.or when you like someone sooooo much, but they're so rude to you,so to keep yourself from looking dumb, you keep your love lock lockdown.

I think it's about someone that is meant for you, but it just isn't working out. The person probably means to the world to you but because things are so bad, you can't love the person the way you want to. You know it's best for you to move on, so you lockdown your emotions so you can try to get over this person. If you don't hide your emotions, then you'll lose yourself. So you hide your emotions from your friends and set a secret code for that person so you can still think about them, but no one else will know.

Talk about a catchy song. I'm not going to lie, it probably will be huge because it is Kanye. People say "where is the rap etc etc..." but it is different, it is new...it is fresh. It is like he is re-inventing his sound and personally, I love it!

alllex, what you're saying is you want to hear the same thing ALL the time? wouldn't it get boring if all you heard was the same old rap all the time? i'm actually glad kanye switched up his style a little bit. because if he didnt, it would be like listening to the same songs on repeat over and over and over again.

To me this song is about a forbidden love. Perhaps an adulterous love. The man has a family that is more important to him than anything else, but he has allowed himself to fall in love with another woman. Now stuck in this funky limbo, he sings about how his heart tears both ways.

He was afraid of what could happen. had to find a way to run. to get out of the relationship. but he confesses, that even though the vibe was wrong... hes in love with her. I imagine it kept him up late at night "haunting" him. 0852c4b9a8

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