Monday, April 1, 2013

Testify — Xaphoon Jones (Radiohead X Kanye West)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-8B6pl19g

These are figureheads, Kanye West and Thom Yorke; men revered for their outward appearance, a carefully cultivated pop-culture balancing act between not caring how one is perceived and very, very much caring. Kanye is more braggadocio, and Thom is more punk-rocker in attitude, but together they complement each other; the fierce, unrepentant timbre of Kanye West and the smooth-at-first but abrasive, jangly ballads of Radiohead; they build a complete, cohesive world where the two have always coexisted together. And Kanye's Touch The Sky is about death and achievement and human ambition, and Radiohead's Reckoner is about death and some of these same things; they're sister works, both products of the same mindset in modern society, written by famous, wealthy men who feel some factor of discontent.

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