Song of the Day #2

Kanye West feat. John Legend and Chris Rock- "Blame Game" from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

I was driving the other day and had MBDTF in and this song came up on the album. I vividly remember listening to this album in full and being blown away. This song has always resounded with me, from day one. Now again, like with my last "Song of the day", I have no girlfriend, nor has any girl been "into me" enough to wanna claim that. Sure I've had my share of crushes and such, but that's beside the point. Haha. This Kanye song is about a bad break-up that he had with one of his girlfriends. Obviously he thought she was the one. John Legend's open and chorus' are beautiful disasters if you will. It's sung so amazingly, but the subject matter is abysmal. Kanye recants the story of what happened over an amazing piano line and a very simple bass beat. It sucks you in, and the slowness of it, can really stir the emotions in you. It did with me, the first time I listened to this the sorrow (there's that word again) and the emotion Kanye (and Legend) pour into this just hit me like a brick wall. I love the death out of this song and I despise it for having lyrics that hit me in the gut. The lyrics are real, angry, hopeful, and even humorous (as evidenced by the hilarious Chris Rock monologue to end it.). Parts where he fades in and out with his evil side you could say, and how he fights with it, are also nice touches. We all know Kanye's gone through shit, and if we look at ourselves, at least with me, you can recognize we all have some evilness stored deep down. The Chloe Mitchell poem is is amazing, a Kanye spoken wording it in here is awesome to me. All in all this song hits me on my emotional level, it hits me on my humor level, and even my "this is just a great song" level.

Things used to be, now they not

Anything but us is who we are

Disguising ourselves as secret lovers

We've become public enemies

We walk away like strangers in the street

Gone for eternity

We erased one another

So far from where we came

With so much of everything, how do we leave with nothing

Lack of visual empathy equates the meaning of L-O-V-E

Hatred and attitude tear us entirely

~Chloe Mitchell~