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Jules NYC
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New York, New York, US
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Shadow Dancer
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Bellingham, Washington, US
The audience sings pretty good.
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
You're using the word "sings" very loosely.
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MN Photography
Posts: 1432
Chicago, Illinois, US
Ha! It's no joke - this man cannot actually sing! What is it that he does, I mean what do people pay him to do?
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Brian Diaz wrote:
You're using the word "sings" very loosely. 
Maybe Kayne needs to learn tones. Perhaps invest in a keyboard?
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
Jules NYC wrote:
Maybe Kayne needs to learn tones. Perhaps invest in a keyboard? I think he's okay with his mediocrity.
Either he's okay with it, or he's unaware of it. And if his fans keep buying concert tickets, he'll never change.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
Brian Diaz wrote:
I think he's okay with his mediocrity.
Either he's okay with it, or he's unaware of it. And if his fans keep buying concert tickets, he'll never change. Pretty much and I doubt not being able to hear himself was the problem.
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Brian Diaz
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Danbury, Connecticut, US
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Al Lock Photography
Posts: 17024
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Shadow Dancer wrote:
The audience sings pretty good. A lot better than Kayne...
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Solas
Posts: 10390
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I don't know why people like this guy. Are they being paid to go to these concerts? The audience sings better than he does. Why do people pay for crap music? 
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Shot By Adam
Posts: 8094
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
Holy shit...my ears are fucking bleeding after listening to that. ![https://media.giphy.com/media/9Xh1CGm4Hzo4g/giphy.gif]()
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J O H N A L L A N
Posts: 12221
Los Angeles, California, US
I didn't listen to it (didn't want to subject my ears to it) and I don't think I've heard him sing/perform. But isn't he one of the generation of auto-tune performers? So, if so, it doesn't surprise me that he can't actually sing.
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Frank Lewis Photography
Posts: 14492
Winter Park, Florida, US
The guy is a no-talent hack. If he wasn't married to a Kardashian no one would ever pay any attention to his squawking.
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Mortonovich
Posts: 6209
San Diego, California, US
That idiot is just a huge douchenozzle. Ugh.
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ethasleftthebuilding
Posts: 16685
Key West, Florida, US
Wayne and Garth did it better in their car.
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Frank Lewis Photography
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Winter Park, Florida, US
ernst tischler wrote:
Wayne and Garth did it better in their car. + 1,000,000
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Toto Photo
Posts: 3757
Belmont, California, US
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SayCheeZ!
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Las Vegas, Nevada, US
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ethasleftthebuilding
Posts: 16685
Key West, Florida, US
SayCheeZ! wrote:
It proves that Rosanne Barr singing the National Anthem is NOT the worst singer ever! She just got moved up the charts to second worst. LOL
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Shot By Adam
Posts: 8094
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
SayCheeZ! wrote:
It proves that Rosanne Barr singing the National Anthem is NOT the worst singer ever! I dunno dude. Kanye was terrible but Rosanne not only sounded atrocious, she looked like a pig, probably was sticky when you touched her, and she probably smelled like a Mexican sewer, which would have been so noxious you could have tasted it. She was pretty much an assault on all 5 senses.
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Brian Diaz
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Danbury, Connecticut, US
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Llobet Photography
Posts: 4915
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Brian Diaz wrote:
As an antidote, here are some amazing videos.
Brian May (Queen guitarist) goes through individual tracks of the Bohemian Rhapsody master tape:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15oIktGJOo
And the isolated vocals:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHYjIIJ14MI In my book they were real musicians and Freddie Mercury was a genius.
I've seen street performers in NYC do much much better than Kanye.
Why the heck do these people get famous?
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Evan Hiltunen
Posts: 4162
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Kanye is proof that an unquenchable inferiority complex, combined with a need for attention and a lack of shame or self-awareness, with a modicum of talent, can result in successful mediocrity.
Ummm, lol, I think I managed to catch all the salient points.
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
Evan Hiltunen wrote:
Kanye is proof that an unquenchable inferiority complex, combined with a need for attention and a lack of shame or self-awareness, with a modicum of talent, can result in successful mediocrity.
Ummm, lol, I think I managed to catch all the salient points. I've come to believe that a lack of shame or self-awareness is the secret to many people's success--not just in entertainment, but in all fields.
I recently had a meeting with a "digital culture" consultant, a person who has a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and was previously a VP at IBM. During the meeting she wanted to show me a website she wanted to use as an example.
She opened Internet Explorer (immediate red flag, but sort of forgivable), used the mouse to highlight the home page URL, and then spent the next 30 seconds looking for the backspace key. Not only did she not know where the backspace key is on a keyboard, but she didn't know that you don't have to delete highlighted text in order to type in a new URL. This is someone who gets paid to tell business how to handle their digital marketing and communications.
There are Kanyes everywhere.
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Chris Rifkin
Posts: 25581
Tampa, Florida, US
Solas wrote:
I don't know why people like this guy. Are they being paid to go to these concerts? The audience sings better than he does. Why do people pay for crap music? Because the american public is the most ignorant and brain dead in the world(and I really mean this)
Only in america is such a parade of no talant garbage loved and idolized,because media and peer pressure to be cool,and such
Only in america does most of the population rarely ever check out or even want to find new music,whether it be genres,musicians,ect,
This country has been content with the stale and stagnent music industry since 2000,
Ex
Why has there been only one heavy rock band to exist(Theory of a Creedleback) since around 1998?
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udor
Posts: 25255
New York, New York, US
Jules NYC wrote:
https://youtu.be/btE8hP1iYkE?t=56s
That was painful. The uploader of that clip on YouTube: "A most excellent musical performance by Kanye West at Glastonbury."
OOOOoooohhhhh... I so hope that was sarcasm!!!
Kanye should stay with what he does best, producing and supporting new talent! Pompous ASS (as in asshole, not the donkey!) trying to adapt real classic rock!
Freddy Mercury turned in his grave because he had to vomit worms and maggots when he heard that performance!
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Bobby C
Posts: 2696
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
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Al Lock Photography
Posts: 17024
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
BlueMoonPics wrote:
In my book they were real musicians and Freddie Mercury was a genius.
I've seen street performers in NYC do much much better than Kanye.
Why the heck do these people get famous? No question that they are "real musicians". Brian May was rated by his peers (Clapton, Beck, Page, etc) as the best Rock 'n' Roll guitarist alive around 1980 (those three and some others that Rolling Stone interviewed thought of themselves as Blues guitarists).
All of Queen were very talented.
I agree with you that Mercury was a genius. I have a personal group that I consider the best of all time - artists who wrote their own work, that continued to make startling great music over a decade or longer, who played multiple instruments, who performed their own work, who successfully lead great bands, who were (and are) highly respected by other artists and influenced many of them, who were excellent singers and who produced their own work.
The list isn't real long.
John Lennon
Freddie Mercury
Prince
Buddy Holly would probably have made the list if not for the airplane crash.
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Mike Collins
Posts: 2880
Orlando, Florida, US
Kanye, leave real music, especially from true geniuses like Freddie Mercury alone. Your just embarassing yourself. But then again, you probably think you ARE a genious so... Your about the only one though.
I am so glad I grew up with the music of the 60s-80's. Some 90's. But past 2000? Just a bunch of auto tune, no talent hacks.
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kickfight
Posts: 35054
Portland, Oregon, US
whatever, Kanye. what the fuck ever. 
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udor
Posts: 25255
New York, New York, US
MN Photography wrote:
Ha! It's no joke - this man cannot actually sing! What is it that he does, I mean what do people pay him to do? Now... here is the thing that we should not underestimate, while disliking his character...
Kanye West, according to Wikipedia "[...] is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 21 million albums and 100 million digital downloads.[1] He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all-time and the most Grammy-awarded artist of his age.[2] Time named West one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, 2011 and 2015. He has also been included in a number of Forbes annual lists.[3] Three of his albums rank on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list; two of his albums feature at #8 and #1 in Pitchfork Media's The 100 Best Albums of 2010–2014.[4]"
We are easily judging this guy for him being a total douchebag, asshole, self important prick, etc. I don't like him and I think his attitude sucks!
HOWEVER, Kanye's music, the artist he is producing etc., has been extremely successful... I personally found out only because I had to find out more about him after being such a constant dick.
In my case, I really have to seperate him being an asshole from him as an artist... but that doesn't excuse his total failure trying himself on "Bohemian Rhapsody", which put me into a decision spin: "Should I puke or laugh?"
Just sayin'... 
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Shadow Dancer
Posts: 9777
Bellingham, Washington, US
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Jules NYC
Posts: 21617
New York, New York, US
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Solas
Posts: 10390
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brian Diaz wrote:
I recently had a meeting with a "digital culture" consultant, a person who has a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology and was previously a VP at IBM. During the meeting she wanted to show me a website she wanted to use as an example.
She opened Internet Explorer (immediate red flag, but sort of forgivable), used the mouse to highlight the home page URL, and then spent the next 30 seconds looking for the backspace key. Not only did she not know where the backspace key is on a keyboard, but she didn't know that you don't have to delete highlighted text in order to type in a new URL. This is someone who gets paid to tell business how to handle their digital marketing and communications.
There are Kanyes everywhere. I hope this wasn't a meeting at IB  lol ... O_O
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Evan Hiltunen
Posts: 4162
Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
udor wrote:
Now... here is the thing that we should not underestimate, while disliking his character...
Kanye West, according to Wikipedia "[...] is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 21 million albums and 100 million digital downloads.[1] He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all-time and the most Grammy-awarded artist of his age.[2] Time named West one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005, 2011 and 2015. He has also been included in a number of Forbes annual lists.[3] Three of his albums rank on Rolling Stone's 2012 "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list; two of his albums feature at #8 and #1 in Pitchfork Media's The 100 Best Albums of 2010–2014.[4]"
We are easily judging this guy for him being a total douchebag, asshole, self important prick, etc. I don't like him and I think his attitude sucks!
HOWEVER, Kanye's music, the artist he is producing etc., has been extremely successful... I personally found out only because I had to find out more about him after being such a constant dick.
In my case, I really have to seperate him being an asshole from him as an artist... but that doesn't excuse his total failure trying himself on "Bohemian Rhapsody", which put me into a decision spin: "Should I puke or laugh?"
Just sayin'... Kanye is the McDonalds of music. A lot of the product gets sold, kids like it, it ain't that terrible when you're drunk, but McDonalds would never make the claim that they are the best, most creative, mostest mostest! in the world.
Kanye has a modicum of talent. He puts out pop music. He knows he's a fraud ... or, at least, he feels like a fraud. The little chihuahua is very insecure.
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lol ... O_O