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=== Music and style ===
=== Music and style ===
''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'''s music has been noted by writers for incorporating elements from West's previous four albums.<ref name="Kellman"/><ref name="Levinson"/><ref name="Dombal"/> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s Simon Vozick-Levinson perceives that such elements "all recur at various points", namely "the luxurious [[soul music|soul]] of 2004's ''[[The College Dropout]]'', the symphonic pomp of ''[[Late Registration]]'', the gloss of 2007's ''[[Graduation (album)|Graduation]]'', and the emotionally exhausted [[electro music|electro]] of 2008's ''[[808s & Heartbreak]]''".<ref name="Levinson"/> Sean Fennessey of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' writes that West "absorb[ed] the gifts of his handpicked collaborators, and occasionally elevat[ed] them" on previous studio albums, noting collaborators and elements as [[Jon Brion]] for ''Late Registration'' ("arranging orchestral majesty"), [[DJ Toomp]] for ''Graduation'' ("adapted DJ Toomp’s oozing menace"), and Kid Cudi for ''808s & Heartbreak'' ("Cudi’s moaning melodies became elemental").<ref name="Fennessey"/> Ryan Dombal of [[Pitchfork Media]] calls it a "culmination" of his past work, writing that "musically, [the album] largely continues where 2007's ''Graduation'' left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of ''The College Dropout''{{'}}s comfort-food sampling and ''Late Registration''{{'}}s [[baroque music|baroque]] instrumentation weaved in seamlessly".<ref name="Dombal"/> [[Allmusic]]'s Andy Kellman views it as the "culmination" of those albums, while noting that "it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. The 13 tracks [...] sometimes fuse them together simultaneously. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate".<ref name="Kellman"/> Kellman denotes "[[All of the Lights]]" as most representative of the album's "contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance".<ref name="Kellman"/> By contrast, music essayist [[Robert Christgau]] comments that the music eschews the "grace" of ''The College Dropout'' and ''Late Registration'' for "grandiosity" and "the sonic luxuries of this [[wikt:world-beating|world-beating]] return to form".<ref name="Christgau"/>
''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'''s music has been noted by writers for incorporating elements from West's previous four albums.<ref name="Kellman"/><ref name="Levinson"/><ref name="Dombal"/> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s Simon Vozick-Levinson perceives that such elements "all recur at various points", namely "the luxurious [[soul music|soul]] of 2004's ''[[The College Dropout]]'', the symphonic pomp of ''[[Late Registration]]'', the gloss of 2007's ''[[Graduation (album)|Graduation]]'', and the emotionally exhausted [[electro music|electro]] of 2008's ''[[808s & Heartbreak]]''".<ref name="Levinson"/> Sean Fennessey of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' writes that West "absorb[ed] the gifts of his handpicked collaborators, and occasionally elevat[ed] them" on previous studio albums, noting collaborators and elements as [[Jon Brion]] for ''Late Registration'' ("arranging orchestral majesty"), [[DJ Toomp]] for ''Graduation'' ("adapted DJ Toomp’s oozing menace"), and Kid Cudi for ''808s & Heartbreak'' ("Cudi’s moaning melodies became elemental").<ref name="Fennessey"/> Ryan Dombal of [[Pitchfork Media]] calls it a "culmination" of his past work, writing that "musically, [the album] largely continues where 2007's ''Graduation'' left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of ''The College Dropout''{{'}}s comfort-food sampling and ''Late Registration''{{'}}s [[baroque music|baroque]] instrumentation weaved in seamlessly".<ref name="Dombal"/> [[Allmusic]]'s Andy Kellman views it as the "culmination" of those albums, while noting that "it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. The 13 tracks [...] sometimes fuse them together simultaneously. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate".<ref name="Kellman"/> Kellman denotes "[[All of the Lights]]" as most representative of the album's "contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance".<ref name="Kellman"/> By contrast, music essayist [[Robert Christgau]] comments that the music eschews the "grace" of ''The College Dropout'' and ''Late Registration'' for "grandiosity" and "the sonic luxuries of this [[wikt:world-beating|world-beating]] return to form".<ref name="Christgau"/>

=== Lyrical themes ===
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The album's themes deal primarily with excess and [[celebrity]],<ref name="Dombal"/><ref name="Embling">Embling (November 2010). [http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Kanye-West-My-Beautiful-Dark-Twisted-Fantasy Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy | Music Review | Tiny Mix Tapes]. [[Tiny Mix Tapes]]. Retrieved on 2011-04-30.</ref><ref name="Martin"/><ref name="Grischow">Grischow, Chad (November 23, 2010). [http://music.ign.com/articles/113/1136440p1.html Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Review - Music Review at IGN]. [[IGN]]. Retrieved on 2011-04-30.</ref> and also touch on decadence, grandiosity, [[escapism]], sex, wealth, romance, self-aggrandizement, and self-doubt.<ref name="Dombal"/><ref name="Christgau">Christgau, Robert (November 30, 2010). [http://www.webcitation.org/5udhsVokJ Consumer Guide: ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'']. [[MSN Music]]. Archived from [http://social.entertainment.msn.com/music/blogs/expert-witness-blogpost.aspx?post=b533be49-60d0-4718-b4b3-2bf1928c2e40 the original] on 2010-11-30.</ref><ref name="Powers"/><ref name="Amidon"/><ref name="Cole"/><ref name="Martins"/> Andrew Martin of Prefix Magazine notes the album's [[ethos]] as "more is more" and describes it as "a meditation on fame", in which West decries the burden that it entails.<ref name="Martin">Martin, Andrew (November 24, 2010). [http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/kanye-west/good-ass-job/37728/ Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (New Album)]. Prefix Magazine. Retrieved on 2011-04-30.</ref> ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'' also features more open references to drinking and drug use than on West's previous albums.<ref name="Fennessey"/> Nathan Rabin of ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' describes it as "darkly funny, boldly introspective, and characteristically fame-obsessed", noting "manic highs and depressive lows emotionally" in West's lyrics.<ref name="Rabin">Rabin, Nathan (November 23, 2010). [http://www.avclub.com/articles/kanye-west-my-beautiful-dark-twisted-fantasy,48117/ Review: ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'']. ''[[The A.V. Club]]''. Retrieved on 2010-11-23.</ref> Music journalist Sean Fennessey compared its thematic structure to that of a Greek [[tragedy]], adding that "things do come crashing down, and [...] it’s felled by a woman".<ref name="Fennessey"/>

Music writer [[Ann Powers]] interprets West's predominant theme on ''My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy'' to be "the crisis of the jet-lagged cosmopolitan [...] the exhausted cry of one who's always new in town, chasing whatever goal or girl is in the room, fueled by [[Consumerism|consumer culture]]'s relentless buzz, but finally left unsatisfied".<ref name="Powers"/> Powers views the songs to work "as pornographic boasts, romantic disaster stories, devil-haunted dark nights of the soul" and perceives West's "uncertainty about his own place in the world" to be connected to the subject of [[Race (classification of humans)|race]], stating "The rootlessness West celebrates and despairs of on {{'}}''Fantasy''{{'}} belongs to someone who feels unwelcome everywhere. This isn't just a personal problem. It's the curse of what the theorist [[Michael Eric Dyson]] has called 'the exceptional black man', embraced for his talents but singled out for the color of his skin".<ref name="Powers"/> [[Robert Christgau]] finds the themes of insecurity and uncertainty on the album to be West's "heart, his message, the reason he's so major", noting the tracks "[[Hell of a Life (song)|Hell of a Life]]" and "Runaway" as examples.<ref name="Christgau"/>


== Songs ==
== Songs ==

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the fifth studio album by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released November 22, 2010, on Roc-A-Fella Records. Following a hiatus from his music career, West worked on it through a communal development that involved him and other musicians and producers contributing collectively to its music. Recording sessions took place primarily at Avex Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii during 2009 to 2010. Production was handled by West and several other record producers, including Jeff Bhasker, RZA, No I.D., and Mike Dean, among others.

Noted by music writers for its varied elements, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy incorporates musical components from West's previous works, including soul, baroque, electro, and symphonic elements. The album deals with themes of excess and celebrity, with transparent lyrics expressing emotional extremes, ego, uncertainty, and references to drinking and drug use. Its subject matter also explores consumer culture, race, and the idealism of the American Dream.

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 496,000 copies in its first week. It spent 32 weeks on the chart and also charted within the top 10 in several other countries. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was promoted with free songs released through West's GOOD Fridays series and four singles, including Billboard hits "Power", "Monster", and "Runaway", and the international hit "All of the Lights". The album has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and, as of February 2012, had sold 1,254,000 copies in the United States.

Upon its release, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received rave reviews from music critics, some of whom viewed it as West's best work. Critics praised its ambitious musical range, opulent production style, and West's dichotomous themes. In their year-end lists, the album was critics' consensus pick for best album of 2010. Although its omission from the Grammy Awards' Album of the Year category was heavily criticized by the journalism community, West blamed himself for releasing Watch the Throne, his 2011 album with Jay-Z, too soon after My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Composition

Music and style

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's music has been noted by writers for incorporating elements from West's previous four albums.[1][2][3] Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson perceives that such elements "all recur at various points", namely "the luxurious soul of 2004's The College Dropout, the symphonic pomp of Late Registration, the gloss of 2007's Graduation, and the emotionally exhausted electro of 2008's 808s & Heartbreak".[2] Sean Fennessey of The Village Voice writes that West "absorb[ed] the gifts of his handpicked collaborators, and occasionally elevat[ed] them" on previous studio albums, noting collaborators and elements as Jon Brion for Late Registration ("arranging orchestral majesty"), DJ Toomp for Graduation ("adapted DJ Toomp’s oozing menace"), and Kid Cudi for 808s & Heartbreak ("Cudi’s moaning melodies became elemental").[4] Ryan Dombal of Pitchfork Media calls it a "culmination" of his past work, writing that "musically, [the album] largely continues where 2007's Graduation left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of The College Dropout's comfort-food sampling and Late Registration's baroque instrumentation weaved in seamlessly".[3] Allmusic's Andy Kellman views it as the "culmination" of those albums, while noting that "it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. The 13 tracks [...] sometimes fuse them together simultaneously. Consequently, the sonic and emotional layers are often difficult to pry apart and enumerate".[1] Kellman denotes "All of the Lights" as most representative of the album's "contrasting elements and maniacal extravagance".[1] By contrast, music essayist Robert Christgau comments that the music eschews the "grace" of The College Dropout and Late Registration for "grandiosity" and "the sonic luxuries of this world-beating return to form".[5]

Songs

"Dark Fantasy"
The opening track incorporates elements from West's previous albums and introduces themes of decadence and hedonism.[6]
"Devil in a New Dress"
The quiet storm-sampling track has lyrics about lust and heartache with dichotomous imagery both sexual and religious.[7]
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The album's opening track, "Dark Fantasy", is introduced with a narrative by Nicki Minaj, speaking in an English accent, that serves as a retelling of writer Roald Dahl's poetic rework of "Cinderella".[8] It introduces My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy's themes of decadence and hedonism,[6] with West musing how "the plan was to drink until the pain was over / But what’s worse, the pain or the hangover?".[9] His lyrics on the track contain various musical and popular culture references, including those to the song "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)", the Lamborghini Murciélago sports car, rapper Nas, fashion designer Phoebe Philo, short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", the song "Sex on Fire", singer Leona Lewis, and television character Steve Urkel.[10] "All of the Lights" incorporates drum 'n' bass breaks and brass fanfare.[9][11] West's lyrics contain a reference to the death of Michael Jackson in the opening lines and present a narrative of a character who abuses his lover, does prison time, scuffles with her new boyfriend, and subsequently mourns his absence from his child's life.[11] For the song, West enlisted 11 guest vocalists, including Alicia Keys, John Legend, Elton John, Tony Williams, Elly Jackson, and Rihanna, who sings the song's hook.[12] In an interview for MTV, Jackson said of the song's vocal layering, "He got me to layer up all these vocals with other people, and he just 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".[13]

"Devil in a New Dress" is built on a sample of Smokey Robinson's "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow".[7] Its lyrics are about lust and heartache,[7] with sexual and religious imagery described by one critic as "part bedroom allure, part angelic prayer".[14] It is the only track without production by West[15] but features his characteristic style of manipulating the pitch and tempo of classic soul samples.[7][16] "Runaway" features a piano-based motif comprising a series of sustained descending half and whole notes,[17] with a coda that incorporates light strings and vocoder-singing by West.[7] The narrator's self-critical lyrics reflect on his personality and character flaws.[18][19] Sean Fennessey cites the song as the point in the album in which "self-laceration overtakes chest-beating", noting West's sung-line "I'm so gifted at finding what I don't like the most".[4] Inspired by his two-year relationship with model Amber Rose, "Hell of a Life" contains a psychedelic rock sample and a narrative about marrying a porn star.[3][4] According to critic Ryan Dombal, the song "attempts to bend its central credo— 'no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all I need'— into a noble pursuit. [...] [T]he song blurs the line between fantasy and reality, sex and romance, love and religion, until no lines exist at all. It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath; a fragile state that can't help but break apart on the very next song".[3] "Blame Game" is a low-key track about a painful domestic dispute.[20] It features piano by producer Mike Dean, additional vocals by John Legend,[15] a profane skit by comedian Chris Rock.[21]

"Lost in the World" features tribal drums and samples Bon Iver's "Woods",[22] a song originally written about alienation, applied by West "as the centerpiece of a catchy, communal reverie."[7] It features several musical changes, beginning with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon's faint vocals, followed by 4/4 drums, gospel-styled chorus,[23] and increased tempo, and a final measured tempo.[24] "Lost in the World" transitions into the closing track "Who Will Survive in America".[25] It serves as the album's coda and is built on a sample of Gil Scott-Heron's "Comment No. 1",[9] a blunt, surrealist piece delivered by Scott-Heron in spoken word about the African-American experience and the fated idealism of the American dream.[8][26][17] Scott-Heron's original speech, which criticized the 1960s Revolutionary Youth Movement for failing to recognize the more basic needs of the African-American community, is edited to a reduced version on the track that, according to music writer Greg Kot, "retains its essence, that of an African-American male who feels cut off from his country and culture".[6] By contrast, Sean Fennessey interprets it as "a too-serious denouement for an album that is more about the self’s little nightmares than some aching societal rejection".[4]

Release and promotion

On October 4, 2010, the release date was announced as November 22, 2010.[27][28] Prior to its release, West initiated the free music program G.O.O.D. Fridays through his website on August 20, 2010, offering a free download of previously unreleased songs each Friday of the week, a portion of which were included on the album.[29][30] Titled after his imprint label G.O.O.D. Music, the program generated considerable publicity in the months leading up to the album's release.[29] Online marketing coordinator Karen Civil said of the program in retrospect, "It's a genius idea. He did something no one had ever done before, and at a point when he was the most hated person in music, he brought excitement back with his Friday releases".[29] G.O.O.D. Fridays was originally intended to continue through December, but was extended by West through January 2011.[31] My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released as a digital download on Amazon.com at a list price of $3.99,[32] which coincided with the site's $3 discount promotional offer on MP3 purchases made valid through the release week.[33][34]

Singles

West performing at the SWU Music & Arts Festival in Brazil, 2011

On May 28, 2010, an unfinished version of a speculative first single titled "Power" was leaked onto the Internet. It features additional vocals by Dwele and was co-produced by Kanye West and S1.[15][35] The official remix, featuring Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz, was premiered on August 20, 2010 on Hot 97 by DJ Kayslay.[36] The single spent eight weeks and peaked at number 22 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.[37] The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, presented at the 53rd Grammy Awards in 2011.[38]

On September 12, West performed the second single "Runaway" at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.[39] Three weeks later on October 2, West performed the song on Saturday Night Live, along with "Power". "Runaway" was officially released to the iTunes Store on October 4, 2010.[27][40] It spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 12 on the chart.[37] Rolling Stone named it the best single of 2010 in its year-end list.[41] A 35-minute short film of the same name, directed by West and containing the song's official music video, was released on October 23, 2010.[42] Filmed in Prague over a period of four days during Summer 2010,[43] the film stars West and model Selita Ebanks and features the script written by Hype Williams with the story written by West.[44] West described the video as an "overall representation of what [he dreams]" and a parallel to his music career.[43][45]

The third single "Monster" was sent out to radio on September 21,[46] and it was released to the iTunes Store on October 23, 2010.[47] The song was originally released on August 27, 2010 as part of West's music program G.O.O.D. Friday.[48] It spent five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 18 on the chart.[37] Rolling Stone ranked it number 10 on its list of the Best Singles of 2010.[41] The song was performed at Jay-Z's and Eminem's "Home and Home" concert on September 14, 2010, along with Nicki Minaj.[49]

In October, West announced "All of the Lights" as the fourth official single.[50] Prior to its release as a single, it had debuted at number 92 on the Billboard Hot 100 upon the album's release,[51] and the track "Dark Fantasy" entered the chart at number 60 the same week.[52] The single was released on January 18, 2011, in the US and on February 21, 2011, in the UK.[53][54] It reached number 18 and spent eight weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.[55] By December 2011, it had sold over 1,561,000 digital units in the US.[56] "All of the Lights" also charted well worldwide,[57] including number eight in Brazil,[58] number 15 in the United Kingdom,[59] number 13 in Ireland,[60] number 14 in Scotland,[61] and number 22 in South Korea,[62] It was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, for shipments of 70,000 copies in Australia,[63] gold by the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, for shipments of 7,500 in New Zealand,[64] and platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of one million in the US.[65]

Cover art

On October 17, 2010, Kanye West revealed through Twitter that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had been rejected by certain stores because of the cover art.[66][67] The artwork (a portrait by George Condo) shows West being straddled by an armless winged female (a phoenix).[68] Both characters are depicted nude, and one nipple of the phoenix's breasts and her buttocks are visible. The artist later said that Kanye wanted a cover image that would be banned.[69] The painting is centered with a thin yellow border on a red background. The artwork follows along the apparent theme of the album, as well as West's music film Runaway.[70] This is one of five covers; all of them were included with its purchase.[68] A second cover, with a painting of a ballerina by Condo, was posted on the Amazon.com pre-order page.[71] It was intended to be the original artwork for Runaway, but West used a photograph of a ballerina instead.[71]

George Condo and Kanye West met up for several hours where they listened to tapes of his music, and over the next few days Condo made eight or nine paintings for the album. Two of them were portraits of West, one in extreme closeup, with mismatched eyes and four sets of teeth. Another showed his head, crowned and decapitated, placed sideways on a white slab, impaled by a sword. There was also a painting of a dyspeptic ballerina in a black tutu, a painting of the crown and the sword by themselves in a grassy landscape, and a lurid scene of a naked black man on a bed, straddled by a naked white female creature with fearsome features, wings, no arms, and a long, spotted tail, the last one being the original album cover.[69] According to New York, a new painting for the album, "The Priest", was completed by Condo, who described it as an attempt to bring depictions of religious figures into the modern world.[72]

Reception

Commercial performance

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, with first-week sales of 496,000 copies in the United States.[73] It is West's fourth consecutive US number-one album, and its debut week serves as the fourth-best sales week of 2010,[73] while its first-week digital sales of 224,000 copies serve as the fourth-highest sales week for a digitally-downloaded album.[74] It also entered at number one on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums,[75] Rap Albums,[76] and Digital Albums charts.[77] On January 11, 2011, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of one million copies in the US.[65] It spent 32 weeks on the Billboard 200,[78] and as of February 2012, has sold 1,254,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[79]

In Canada, it entered at number one on the Top 100 Albums chart, with first-week sales of 29,000 copies.[80] In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at number 16 on the Top 100 Albums chart,[81] on which it spent six weeks.[82] On December 10, 2010, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry, for shipments of 60,000 copies in the UK.[83] In Australia, it entered at number six on the ARIA Top 50 Albums and at number two on the Top 40 Urban Albums chart.[84][85] On March 21, 2011, the album was certified platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association, for shipments of 70,000 copies in Australia.[86] In New Zealand, the album debuted at number 10 on the RIANZ's Top 40 Albums chart.[87] It also charted at number four in Denmark,[88] at number 18 in Ireland,[89] at number 11 in Norway,[90] at number 10 in Switzerland,[91] at number 21 in Belgium,[92] at number 19 in Germany,[93] at number 39 in Greece,[94] at number 19 in Sweden,[95] at number 28 in France,[96] at number 87 in Mexico,[97] at number 42 in Finland,[98] at number 97 in Spain,[99] and at number 17 in the Netherlands.[100]

Critical response

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert ChristgauA[5]
Entertainment WeeklyA[2]
The Guardian[101]
The Independent[102]
NME9/10[9]
Pitchfork Media10.0/10[3]
Rolling Stone[103]
Slant Magazine[7]
Spin9/10[26]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy received rave reviews from music critics.[104] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 94, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 45 reviews.[105] Andy Gill of The Independent called it "one of pop's gaudiest, most grandiose efforts of recent years, a no-holds-barred musical extravaganza in which any notion of good taste is abandoned at the door".[106] Entertainment Weekly's Simon Vozick-Levinson commended West's "outrageously hedonistic lyrics" and stated "West has tricked out these tracks with sharper verses and grander instrumental interludes, then lined them up in a sequence that demands to be heard from start to finish [...] essential components of a soundly built structure—easily his most consistently compelling full-length since 2005′s Late Registration".[2] Los Angeles Times writer Ann Powers called its music "Picasso-like, fulfilling the Cubist mandate of rearranging form, texture, color and space to suggest new ways of viewing things".[8] David Browne of Time dubbed it West's "most extravagant work [...] congested, constantly bustling", writing that it "reasserts the fact that few combine disparate elements as smoothly as West".[107] Dan Vidal of URB stated "Kanye (much like Miles Davis) has the ability to bring out the strengths of his collaborators — squeezing out the essence of their artistic persona as highlights for the music that he creates".[102]

Rolling Stone writer Rob Sheffield cited it as West's best album and "his most maniacally inspired music yet, coasting on heroic levels of dementia, pimping on top of Mount Olympus [...] Nobody else is making music this daring and weird".[103] Sputnikmusic's Channing Freeman noted "a zest for life in these songs that is really quite beautiful" and viewed it as "the first album in which he's truly lived up to his potential in every way - as a rapper, as a lyricist, as a songwriter".[108] Jon Caramanica of The New York Times described it as "a startlingly maximalist take on East Coast rap traditionalism" and called West "a better rapper than he’s ever been".[109] The Village Voice's Sean Fennessey commented that "Kanye is rapping and singing better and with more tenacity than he ever has on Fantasy", and called the album "a staggering, often breathtaking work [...] masterfully engineered and sequenced, each song bleeding over like some long night out into the hazy morning after".[4] Anslem Samuel of XXL praised the "intricately constructed tracks" for "framing [West's] heartfelt outbursts and honest inner reflections".[110] Chris Martins of Spin noted its production as "loud and proud, but also poignant and gripping" and called the album "a sinister, orchestral, hugely grandiose affair that owes as much to the artist's self-aggrandizing ego as to the voracious id that would destroy it publicly".[26]

Kitty Empire of The Guardian criticized its lyrics regarding "women as ruthless money-grabbers" but called the album "herculean [...] a flawed near-masterpiece".[101] Although he found West's rapping inconsistent, Allmusic editor Andy Kellman called it "a deeply fascinating accomplishment" in West's catalogue and stated, "As fatiguing as it is invigorating, as cold-blooded as it is heart-rending, as haphazardly splattered as it is meticulously sculpted, [the album] is an extraordinarily complex 70-minute set of songs. [...] As the ego and ambition swells, so does the appeal, the repulsiveness, and – most importantly – the ingenuity".[1] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot complimented its "collision of opulence and emptiness" and West's transparency, noting "his almost pathological allegiance to expressing his emotions, unfiltered [...] a curious mix of bravado and vulnerability".[6] Nitsuh Abebe of New York called the album "adventurous, fierce, and full of vitality" and stated, "Its guiding principle seems to be to go in harder on every front: Be more opulent and arty, be more vicious and aggrieved, be more 'complicated' and self-lacerated".[111] Slant Magazine's Matthew Cole viewed it as a milestone in hip hop music and lauded its themes of "self-aggrandizement and self-effacement", writing that it "allows Kanye a thematic palette broad enough to confront his pride and anguish".[7] Pitchfork Media's Ryan Dombal called it "a hedonistic exploration into a rich and famous American id".[3] David Amidon of PopMatters complimented West's dichotomous themes and noted "there are few more human albums in hip-hop".[25]

Accolades

Review aggregate site Metacritic dubbed it "the runaway consensus pick of music critics for the best album of 2010".[112]

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy appeared on numerous music critics' and publications' end-of-year albums lists.[113] Chicago Tribune writer Greg Kot included it at number seven on his list of the year's top albums, writing that it "turns contradictions into strengths, a mix of classical opulence, grimy beats, boldness and vulnerability".[114] PopMatters named it the year's fourth best album in its year-end list, calling it "Kanye West’s self-portrait, in Cubism: complex, petulant, somewhat paranoid, but bursting with ideas and never boring".[115] Chris Yuscavage of Vibe ranked it number one on his list of the 10 Best Albums of 2010.[116] Paste named it the fourth best album of 2010, and the publication's M.T. Richards called it "a nuanced, intimately personal record wherein even ostensibly boastful tracks are tangled with insecurities, both personal and professional [...] perhaps this century’s definitive portrait of torment, vanity, self-delusion, and pathos".[117] Nitsuh Abebe of New York named it the eighth best album of the year.[118] The Guardian included it at number two on its list of 2010's top 40 albums and commented that West "remains, on record, one of the most compelling artists of our time".[119] NME ranked it number 34 on its list of 75 Best Albums of 2010.[120]

Many critics and publications named it the best album of the year.[113] Spin placed it at number one on its 40 Best Albums list for 2010.[121] The publication's Charles Aaron wrote that it "is 2010's album of the year because Kanye dramatizes... with a budget-averse musical imagination that's ominous, symphonic, heartsick, riff-ravaged, and driven by the most technically legit rapping he's ever managed".[121] Billboard, Time, Slant Magazine, Pitchfork Media, and Rolling Stone also named it the best album of 2010 in their year-end lists.[122][123][124][125][126] Both Chris Richards and Allison Stewart of The Washington Post named the album the best of 2010.[127][128] The New York Times' Jon Caramanica, Nate Chinen, and Jon Pareles all included the album in their individual top-10 albums lists.[129][130][131] The A.V. Club ranked the album at the top of its year-end list and commented on its significance, stating "Fantasy is an idiot-savant smash, an example of a musician overreaching, yet triumphing through dumb bravado and an imagination gloriously unfettered by logic. Kanye actually set out to make the album of the year when nobody listens to albums anymore".[132] My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was voted best album in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2010,[133] winning by the largest margin in the poll's history.[134] The singles "Power", "Runaway", and "Monster" were voted in the top-10 of the Pazz & Jop's singles list.[134] Metacritic, which collates reviews of music albums, named it the best-reviewed album of 2010.[112]

In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 353 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[135] and Complex included it in their list of "25 Rap Albums From the Past Decade That Deserve Classic Status".[136]

Grammy Awards

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, presented at the 54th Grammy Awards in 2012.[137] The song "All of the Lights" was nominated for Grammy Awards for Song of the Year, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, winning in the latter two categories.[137] However, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was not nominated for Album of the Year, which was viewed as a "snub" by several outlets, along with the rejection of Watch the Throne, West's collaborative album with Jay-Z, for that category.[138][139][140][141] In an article for Time, music journalist Touré elaborated on the album's acclaim, called West's nominations in minor categories "booby prizes", and stated, "MBDTF is by far the best reviewed album in many years: the critical community flipped out over it like nothing since Radiohead’s zenith. And it sold well, over 1.2 million so far. So what happened? How is it Grammy overlooked Kanye’s magnum opus and gave noms to four sonic widgets and Adele's 21?"[142] He explored possible reasons for The Recording Academy to snub him, including split votes between My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne, concerns over West's past controversies, and more commercially-appealing nominees, but ultimately stated:

What I think may be going on is a lack of respect for hip hop and its complexity from people who care about music but don't know much about hip hop. [...] Predictably, Grammy tends toward pop-friendly hip hop that's easily understood by those who don't understand hip hop. Pop in this regard is not meant as an insult, it's merely music palatable to non-aficionados of the genre. [...] But now that he's released his most mature work, [West]'s being ignored.[142]

In the Los Angeles Times, music journalist Randall Roberts was critical of the nominations for the 54th Grammy Awards, particularly for the Album of the Year category, noting the exclusion of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, "the most critically acclaimed album of the year, a career-defining record", as a snub in favor of nominating less substantial albums.[143] West, who was vocal in his displeasure with past award snubs,[140] responded onstage during a concert on the Watch the Throne Tour, saying "That's my fault for dropping Watch the Throne and Dark Fantasy the same year. I should've just spaced it out, just a little bit more."[141]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Dark Fantasy"Kanye West, Robert Diggs, Ernest Wilson, Jeff Bhasker, Mike Dean, Malik Jones, Jon Anderson, Mike OldfieldRZA, Kanye West, No I.D., Jeff Bhasker (add.), Mike Dean (add.)4:40
2."Gorgeous" (featuring Raekwon and Kid Cudi)West, Wilson, Dean, Jones, Che Smith, Corey Woods, Scott Mescudi, Gene Clark, Roger McGuinnKanye West, No I.D., Mike Dean5:57
3."Power"West, Larry Griffin Jr., Dean, Bhasker, Andwele Gardner, Ken Lewis, Francois Bernheim, Jean-Pierre Lang, Boris Bergman, Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter SinfieldS1, Kanye West, Jeff Bhasker (add.), Mike Dean (add.), Andrew Dawson (add.)4:52
4."All of the Lights (Interlude)"  1:02
5."All of the Lights"West, Bhasker, Jones, Warren TrotterKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co.)4:59
6."Monster" (featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, and Bon Iver)West, Shawn Carter, Patrick Reynolds, Dean, William Roberts, Onika Maraj, Justin Vernon, BhaskerKanye West, Mike Dean (add), Plain Pat (add)6:18
7."So Appalled" (featuring Jay-Z, Pusha T, Prynce CyHi, Swizz Beatz, and RZA)West, Wilson, Dean, Carter, Terrence Thornton, Cydell Young, Kaseem Dean, Diggs, Manfred MannKanye West, No I.D., Mike Dean (co.)6:38
8."Devil in a New Dress" (featuring Rick Ross)West, Roosevelt Harrell, Dean, Roberts, Jones, Carole King, Gerry Goffin,Bink!, Mike Dean (co.)5:52
9."Runaway" (featuring Pusha T)West, Emile Haynie, Thornton, Bhasker, Dean, Jones, J. BranchKanye West, Emile (co.), Jeff Bhasker (co.), Mike Dean (co.)9:08
10."Hell of a Life"West, Mike Caren, Wilson, Dean, Sylvester Stewart, Tony Joe White, Terence Butler, Anthony Iommi, John Osbourne, William WardKanye West, Mike Caren (co.), No I.D. (co.), Mike Dean (co.)5:27
11."Blame Game" (featuring John Legend)West, Justin Franks, Khloe Mitchell, Dean, John Stephens, Richard JamesKanye West, DJ Frank E, Mike Dean (add.)7:49
12."Lost in the World" (featuring Bon Iver)West, Bhasker, Manu Dibango, James Brown, Vernon, Gil Scott-HeronKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co.)4:16
13."Who Will Survive in America"West, Bhasker, Scott-HeronKanye West, Jeff Bhasker (co.)1:38

 • (co.) Co-producer
 • (add.) Additional production

iTunes bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
14."See Me Now" (featuring Big Sean, Beyoncé, and Charlie Wilson)West, Sean Anderson, Beyoncé Knowles, Charles WilsonKanye West, No I.D., Lex Luger6:03
Deluxe edition bonus DVD
No.TitleWriter(s)Director(s)Length
1."Runaway" (short film)Hype WilliamsKanye West35:00
Sample credits[15]

Personnel

Credits for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy adapted from Allmusic.[144]

Musicians

Production

Charts

Chart precession and succession

Preceded by Canadian Albums Chart number-one album[80][154]
December 11–18, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
The Gift by Susan Boyle
 US Billboard 200 number-one album[73][155]
December 11–18, 2010 		Succeeded by
The Gift by Susan Boyle
Preceded by
Loud by Rihanna
 US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums number-one album[156][157]
December 11–25, 2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by US Rap Albums number-one album[158][159]
December 11–25, 2010 		Succeeded by
No Mercy by T.I.

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[160] Platinum 70,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[161] Gold 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[162] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[163] Platinum 1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Grammy Award for Best Rap Album
2012 		Succeeded by

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