808s & Heartbreak

808s & Heartbreak is the fourth studio album by Kanye West. It was released on 21 November 2008 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Background

The first single, Love Lockdown, released in the U.S. on September 18 and in Germany on November 14. The song in 2008. How was presented at the MTV Video Music Awards, the band Radiohead, western, the individual parts of the song for download on the Internet, as remixed versions can be created. The second single was released on November 4 in the U.S. Heartless.

The album was recorded in Hawaii for three weeks and produces, among others, by Mike Dean. 808s & Heartbreak was presented on 14 October in an art gallery in Los Angeles. Before the publication of West presented repeatedly versions of songs like Love Lockdown, Heartless and Amazing in his blog and published Coldest Winter on radio station Power 106, however, had " applied " find that Robocop and Anyway emerged in working versions on the Internet.

The majority of the album is pitch- corrected using Auto -Tune. In addition, West 808s & Heartbreak referred to himself as a pop album. It is also striking that each song the Roland TR -808 used. According to West, however, the name of the album did not come through the drum machine into existence: " When I started in Hawaii, I had to call my hotel and the area code was 808 ."

The song Coldest Winter devoted West his late mother, Donda West. Generally, it handles many of his feelings in songs, claiming himself, his pain is the pleasure of the listener.

It has long prevailed among many followers West's discussion, the song Alles Neu of the Berlin singer Peter Fox had West inspired his first single Love Lockdown. Signs are the similar music videos, the distinctive vocal style and the drums used similarly in both songs. In addition, West published a few months ago this same video in a blog on his Myspace page and described the song as "dope ", an English slang term for " class ".

Tour

From April 16 2008 to 7 December 2008, the Glow In The Dark Tour Kanye West took place. With it came on, among other things Lupe Fiasco, Rihanna, NERD and Nas. In addition to the standard instrumentation was seen in some concerts, Girls Aloud, Gnarls Barkley, Jay -Z and Chris Brown. Of the world's appearances played 34 in North America, 15 in Europe, three in Australia and two in Mexico, Brazil, Asia and New Zealand. In Germany the tour in Oberhausen and Hamburg was seen.

Title list

All songs were produced by Kanye West.

  • Co - Produced by Jeff Bhasker and Plain Pat
  • Co - Produced by NO I. D.
  • Co - Produced by Jeff Bhasker
  • Co - Produced by Jeff Bhasker
  • Co - Produced by Jeff Bhasker and Plain Pat
  • Co - Produced by Mr Hudson
  • Co - Produced by NO I. D.
  • Co - Produced by NO I. D. and Jeff Bhasker

Reception

Success

The first single from 808s & Heartbreak, Love Lockdown, managed within a week at # 3 on the U.S. charts, and within a few hours at # 1 on the U.S. iTunes charts. He also set a new record: Within four days, more than 215,000 sold downloads. The second single was released Heartless and marked West's second top 5 hit in the U.S. charts in a row. In the U.S., the song was certified platinum. In the German charts Heartless came in at number 37

Reviews

In the British Guardian especially the monotony of the album was criticized and hoped that Kanye West for his next album do not find much pleasure in this. All in all, got the plate four out of five stars.

Andreas Borcholte of Mirror Online called 808s & Heartbreak was "much schmaltzy and sentimental heartache and dreary retro botch ". Kanye West still remains " one of the most important and creative musicians around right now ."

Chart positions

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