All of the Lights
February 18, 2011
All of the Lights (Eng. All lights) is a song by the American rapper and producer Kanye West, he has recorded with the R & B singer Rihanna and rapper Kid Cudi. The song was released as the fourth single from the album on 18 February 2011 from West's fifth studio album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. All of the Lights was written by Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotte and Kanye West and produced by West. West tweeted on his Twitter page that All of the Lights is the next single.
Background
All of the Lights was written by Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones and Warren Trotter. Produced the song from West and Bhasker (co - producer). In the song sing the following eleven musicians with: Alicia Keys, John Legend, The- Dream, Drake, Fergie, DJ Joseph, Kid Cudi, Elton John, Ryan Leslie, Charlie Wilson, Tony Williams, Elly Jackson, Alvin Fields, Ken Lewis and Rihanna, who sings the chorus. In an interview with MTV Jackson explained the composition of the musicians in the song.
" He got me to layer up all synthesis vocals with other people, and he just of basically wanted to use his favorite vocalists from around the world to create this really unique vocal texture on his record, but it's not the kind of thing where you can pick it out "
Critical reception
Andy Kellman of Allmusic commented on the song with:
"At once, the song features one of the year 's most rugged beats while Supplying enough opulent detail to make Late Registration collaborator Jon Brion 's head spin. "
Alex Denney of NME called the song "the SLEB studded centerpiece " and said:
" In anyone else 's hands it'd be at A-list circle- jerk of horrid proportions, but through Kanye 's bar -raising vision it Becomes a truly wondrous thing. "
Zach Baron of The Village Voice found the text relevant to the current economic situation. Kitty Empire of The Guardian cited the song as " the album 's most magnificent high " (Eng. The absolute highlight of the album ), and writes " backs up operatic levels of sound with great drama " (Eng. combines operatic sounds with a wonderful plot ).
Music Video
The music video for All of the Lights was filmed in January 2011 by director Hype Williams. It will be shown various scenes with Rihanna, West and Kid Cudi, which merge into one another in a flash. In the video, Rihanna is wearing black underwear with tape on the chest. Your body is shown in profile. The other scenes from the music video are Gaspar Noé's a reference to the film Enter the Void from the year 2009. The music video had on 19 February 2011 at West's Vevo channel its world premiere.
Commercial success
While it was enough All of the Lights in countries like Canada, Austria or Switzerland only place for 53, 68 and 46, managed the song in Belgium (Wallonia), New Zealand, Scotland and the United Kingdom respectively at # 3, 13, 14 and 15 in Ireland, All of the Lights reached number 18 in Australia and 24th place
Chart positions
Awards for music sales
This song was awarded the Australian Gold Award.
Contributors
The following people worked on the creation of the song All of the Lights with: