Comments on: Kanye West “SNL” Video (12/13/08)

By: brian

brian — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:09:40 +0000

Mr. West is a beeeeotch that can’t sing.

By: lynzack

lynzack — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:28:39 +0000

no lipsyncin there just a poor performance i would,nt pay too see him live

By: rude boy

rude boy — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:26:04 +0000

everybody who wants to jump on kanye for that performance can just stop listening to him.its that simple. youcant expect every artist to have perfect performances. look at artists who fall on stage or those who have been caught doin worse.nobody is lookin at that and its sad.its original and yas it may not have been up to the worlds high standards but KANYE……CHICAGO and the world STILL LOVE YA

By: Ju

Ju — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:51:05 +0000

I dont consider this lip syncing but its sad that he had to bring himself to the lows of vocal processors. T-Payne is infamous for this in the studio. I think its the same effect but with just a hint of reverb and auto-tune. There pretty much the same thing.

By: doc smith

doc smith — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:32:53 +0000

I happen to like this guys songs. But heres what happened. There were tracks missing, the vocoder was messed up, auto tune wasnt working etc etc. He was supposed to sing along with his pre recorded tracks and they just werent there.
This is something that every performer today does to some extent. But when it goes wrong, its not good.

By: big skinny

big skinny — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:27:55 +0000

sick. and not the “hip” term either. i am only 31, but the Beastie Boys are better than this garbage. i have never heard this guy until now. i am now going to have the lasting image of a guy that looks like he is bombing an American Idol audition.

dude sucks. music stopped on all fronts in the mid-late eighties.

By: Laurie Asch

Laurie Asch — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:15:35 +0000

I really liked this version. My junior high choir boys section has been working on singing this and pitch on it is a very difficult issue because the way the drum pitches spread out and the wide space between the piano line and vocals. Hey, I think Kanye just got more fans with this performance because it is very human, shows the difficulty of this arrangement which must have been hard to record. In a way if one was recording with headphones and other singers or the vocal line with you when you are singing it would almost be easier than live. This performance showed me that I was right to temporarily pull the boys off performing it for the winter concert and work on it more because it is very treacherous. Also, pitch is just one element of music and to many people it is not as noticible as rhythm, emotion, timbre, etc. This is a great song, it just is very difficult to perform because the melody changes so much with each verse and the way it is orchestrated.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:55:29 +0000

Kanye, do you still think you’re the king of music? LOL

By: janizzle

janizzle — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:48:48 +0000

i saw Kanye perform 4 days before this performance and he sounded fine to me!
his voice was NOT the way it is in these videos!!
but give him a break, he’s been performing like crazy….did 7 back to back shows before the one i went to, he must have been exhausted! we dont know what he was going through at the moment, so dont judge. we all have bad days.

By: Qflat

Qflat — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:35:14 +0000

I’m sorry I have been performing for 40+ years and I think K.W. is a talented young performer. I do believe however that ain the studio these days you can make anyone sound like they can sing. However as a vocalist I know that you must first know how to breathe when singing and it sounded like. A: He was overworking his vocal chords. B: He has know idea how hard it is to really sing in a low register if you don’t have a low register and hit the notes or C: A & B above. I thought his other performance was a great tune for the Pop charts these daze and he shopuld stick to that format. Wonderful song indeed.
Peace from the 60′s
Qflat