This Is The Most Rational Thing Kanye West Has Tweeted All Year
Kanye West previously said his latest album The Life Of Pablo wouldn’t be available for purchase, whether digital or physical, and now he takes the next logical step, saying he’s swearing off CD releases entirely.
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In a brief round of tweets, West committed himself to a streaming-only future, calling his bare-bones Yeezus physical artwork the open-casket funeral for the format.
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This latest round of missives will be met with the usual round of guffaws and “lol kanye at it again” reactions. And of course it must be approached with the Kanye West Twitter Disclaimer which is basically the online equivalent of the Schrödinger’s cat paradox, his tweets being both true and false at the same time because who in the fuck really knows. But this is actually the most rational thing West has tweeted in a while (at least since his Grammy tirade).
At the very least, no physicals means reducing the chances of a leak when the album ships out and eliminating manufacturing/shipping costs. And if the Pablo rollout suggests he’s going to treat albums as constant works-in-progress that he can continually tweak and update, like software versions, then the CD obviously hampers that approach.
Guess this means I should stop holding out hope for that vinyl edition of Yeezus.