Christ and Pop Culture
But West’s ego is precisely why “Welcome To Heartbreak” works (for me, anyhow). There’s no doubt that West feels very free to speak his mind, and therefore, such a sentiment coming from him does feel like a peek behind the curtain, an almost intimate moment where you hear a performer express their deepest fears and doubts. Even awash in the cold, synthetic tones of Auto-Tune—like everything else on 808s & Heartbreak—the humanity is still on display.
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