By the fourth time I was hitting the skip button. I laughed the second and even third time. I laughed the first time I heard this self-aware little song. West was so eager to get Lil Wayne in Graduation (he was the best rapper alive at that point) that he snuck this in, even though it’s the weakest song on the album. Visit USA TODAY for more Kanye coverage 80. Pinocchio StoryĪ six-minute Auto-Tune freestyle in Singapore is how West closed out 808s & Heartbreak, and while I do think it fits as a stark closer to the album, it’s still a six-minute Auto-Tune freestyle taped in Singapore. This song is probably too low, but it was the one song on Yeezus where West’s confrontational lyrics didn’t come across as clever, funny or knowingly antagonistic – he just sorta sounded like a jerk. This song on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had some early ideas that he’d explore more on Yeezus, but the hook is tonally a mess and the weird harpsichord interlude has never done anything for me. This song is almost saved by a bizarre and wonderful bridge from Mos Def. It’s a rock in my life, something I can always count on. I hated it the moment I heard it and I continue to hate it to this day. It’s not too late to pull this Nike takedown off the final version of TLOP, Kanye, whenever that comes out. Here’s the list: 93. FACTS (Charlie Heat Version) I did my best, and remember: The reason I ranked the song you love too low is because I personally have an issue with you. He’s got 93 songs and I like or love about 89 of them. No skits in the rankings.Ĭ) Ranking Kanye songs is impossible. I did this because the list was already too long and I’m sorta lazy.ī) I’m skipping all the skits, too. These are just the songs he released on his solo albums.
Music, mixtapes and songs he produced and guested on. Some words on the rankings:Ī) I left off Watch the Throne, G.O.O.D. He struck a compromise: Pinocchio’s life would be spared, but in return his punishments would become ever more baroque and gruesome.Kanye West released The Life of Pablo this week to wide acclaim ( I called it a near masterpiece), and while many people are already trying to put the album in its historical context, I’m going to do something even more stupid and reckless and try to rank all the songs he’s ever put out. Collodi also altered the genre, rewriting his tragedy as black comedy. His publishers forced him to extend the story, bringing Pinocchio back to life through the intervention of a beautiful child with blue hair (the character that later morphs into the Blue Fairy). But when Pinocchio was hanged after the 15 th installment, Collodi’s young readers were horrified. Pinocchio was originally published serially in the weekly Giornale dei bambini, the “newspaper for kids,” where it gained a large following. In fact the final two-thirds of the book were an afterthought. There is some business at the end about becoming a “real boy,” but it seems an afterthought. Try and do better in the future and you will be happy. Collodi’s moral is that you if you behave badly and do not obey adults, you will be bound, tortured, and killed.īoys who minister tenderly to their parents and assist them in their misery and infirmities, are deserving of great praise and affection, even if they cannot be cited as examples of obedience and good behaviour.
The moral of the film is that if you are brave and truthful, and you listen to your conscience, you will find salvation. (In the book, when the cricket scolds Pinocchio for rebelling against his father, Pinocchio bashes the insect’s brains out with a hammer.) And Disney turned a single scene-in which Pinocchio’s nose grows when he tells a lie-into a central motif. Similarly the “Talking-Cricket,” a minor nameless character, became Jiminy Cricket, a tiny bald-headed man who serves as the puppet’s voice of conscience. He would not be depicted as a puppet after all but as a real boy, and a gentle, winsome one at that. Pinocchio’s wish would be fulfilled from the start. It was unsuitable for children, Disney concluded: Pinocchio was too cocky, too much of a wiseguy, and too puppetlike to be sympathetic. It’s hard to blame Disney-Pinocchio is a rotten kid.Įarly in the project, in fact, Disney became so frustrated with Collodi’s story that he halted production. That is the Pinocchio depicted in Walt Disney’s adaptation, which whitewashed Collodi’s tale when it was released in 1940. I always imagined him as a cheerful little puppet who desires nothing more than to be transformed into a real live boy. Is that not how you remember Pinocchio? Me neither.
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