In Which We Discuss Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown”
Kanye West’s new single, “Love Lockdown,” has some potential to it, with the MC/blogger busting out a bit of quivery-voiced emotion through a classic-sounding R & B vocal line. But being who I am, I do have a few notions as far as what could make the song a bit better: a, a bridge; b, an instrumental progression that would at least add a little bit of tension to the proceedings; c, a vocal by either Ne-Yo or Lloyd. Not that I don’t appreciate Kanye’s sincerer-than-sincere attempts to break free of the AutoTuned tyranny that characterizes so much pop music today, but they could at least interpret the song so the intensity, you know, built itself up throughout the song, instead of it cresting at moment one.
