jake
3yr ago
the rosenbergs were framed
those powerful who framed them is a question steeped in shadow
jake
3yr ago
yes. US industrial capacity was so great we could supply both american theaters and underwrite the soviets' materiel efforts.
the bomb shortened a war that was already decided
compared to who, yknow?
set the board, 2000 and newer.
k, wipe off every artist who doesn't rap. i like plenty of pop, Heat Waves is great. lyrically nothing.
off Drake's 2021 Certified Lover Boy the T-1 most viewed Genius track is Fair Trade. Drake's longest verse: https://i.imgur.com/elNr1KT.png
off Kanye's 2021 Donda the most viewed Genius track is Off the Grid. Kanye's longest verse: https://i.imgur.com/bWkIdP0.png
listen to both if you want the best context. reading lyrics alone can miss delivery and the point. Hurricane also off Donda has a couple examples:
Dropped out of school, but I'm that one at Yale
Made the best tracks and still went off the rail
"I'm that one at Yale" can be heard as "I'm the one that yell" connecting by subject with the subsequent line.
Later
Fiendin' for some true love, ask Kim, "What do you love?"
Kanye gives ambiguity in performance, as it can be heard as "ask Him, 'What do you love?'" -- Donda isn't subtle about being a gospel album, but this line is.
but it's not representative to compare Kanye to Drake. it's plenty fair: drake is a worse lyricist, rapper, and producer (and not that i ever really care when it comes to celebrities, a worse person)
representative would be closer with Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.
off Kendrick's 2022 Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers the most viewed Genius track is N95. Kendrick's first verse: https://i.imgur.com/78q6xtA.png
Kanye's is the best of the three by lyricism, performance and production. my method for selection has influenced this, but i think it's better than selecting their most highly viewed tracks on Genius. for Kanye: Mercy, for Drake: God's Plan and for Kendrick: Humble. Kendrick is firmly the best here, but it seems the overall popularity of a song often negatively correlates with its lyrical complexity. see Donald Glover/Childish Gambino. unsurprising of the great polymath-artist of our time, you'd have trouble finding tracks by him that aren't brilliantly written. his most popular is This is America.
Kanye's not as good of a lyricist as Donald Glover, but that's no criticism. Kanye is a better musician, rapper, and producer, and production is where i'll stop.
few artists have a separate wikipedia article for their production discography. Jay-Z isn't the artist he is today (or married to Beyoncé) without Kanye's production on The Blueprint. Artists including John Legend, Common, Kid Cudi, Pusha T, and Travis Scott likewise owe significant success if not their careers to Kanye's work with each. these are careers, on genres? his 2007 Graduation and off it Flashing Lights is the major moment of synth use in hiphop and from it you can draw a straight line to the ubiquity of synth in modern pop. beyond Kanye, only The Neptunes--Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo--have comparable production bona fides. (A little thing I find funny about Pharrell is Happy from Despicable Me isn't even his best song titled Happy. Also this no-right-to-be-a-bop with Trey Parker.)
FiveHourMarathon mentions this below. Kanye's not just the greatest discography of the genre (and MBDTF and Donda are two of the greatest records ever made). his influence can be seen across post-2000 hiphop, and from it all modern pop. in the last 100 years of music, the artists the same can be said of is an extremely short list.
jake
3yr ago
every song and cover by carly rae jepsen through emotion is about her limerence.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jCFh0lJ-WAg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nti2mwmm7v2lc9y/a%20scar%20no%20one%20else%20can%20see.pdf
jake
3yr ago
artistic talent is a perfect example of haves versus have nots; the communist ideal would necessarily include systems that allow anyone to generate art as they desire. when these systems advance to allowing individuals to generate entire animated series and films society will undergo a historic decoupling of capital from entertainment. ie, further communist ideal.
on a long enough timeline capitalism will compete itself into socialism. systems like this are exactly why. opposition necessarily carries water for entrenched power and capital.
that which can be automated will be.
jake
3yr ago
omitting "that" can improve flow but it's not a critical mistake, i call it a quick fix because it applies to most writing. definitely not just yours.
feel free to ping, i'm sure i'll see it either way
jake
3yr ago
"by keeping at it" is boring but true. longform, not short comments. longform develops your ear for your style. stronger ear, easier writing.
there is one quick fix. "that" often can be omitted, in this paragraph uses 1, 3, 6, 9.
if you want to pm me something longer i'd look it over.
t. wannabe author
jake
3yr ago
The thing is, AI still has a long way to go to replace someone like Android jones
i'd give it a year. maybe two.
these engines are still weird about generating faces and details like lettering. so without an artist's correction that won't fly. . . but that'll be fixed soon.
julius was a soviet spy, ethel surely knew but her participation was ambiguous
the secrets he shared were not how russia got the bomb
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