Fittingly, Kanye West closes out his G.O.O.D. Friday series of free downloads with a Christmas song. Now you might think that the writers of this blog listens to Christmas music 24 hours a day, 361 days a year, excluding the days when we attend the Gathering of the Juggalos every summer. But we do like to listen to non-Christmas music here and there, and this blog is one of many, many others who think My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is swell. In fact, we’ll go as far as to say that it’s one of the best hip hop albums of all time. Of all… no, that joke is played out. We won’t go into why we like it so, since both the album and the various responses has already been analyzed to death. For someone who takes himself and his art REALLY seriously to the point of parody, this song is disarming in how slight and exuberant it is. There’s also an extremely catchy chorus sung by Musiq Soulchild. Yes, “Christmas In Harlem” is a toss-away and not too compelling, but Kanye’s been on such a roll this year that even his toss-aways are decent. And if you came to this Christmas music blog looking for a respite from the inevitable Kanye jerk-fest that’ll happen in many year-end music retrospectives, then sorry. You see, MBDTF really is that good.
Joe Boo
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