The song manages to render the feeling of an MDMA rise as one drives into the city blasting music from a car with windows down, everyone screaming, the night thick with heat and promises.
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Gorgeous reflects on the more negative aspects of contemporary society with some of Kanye's best lines ever, and then Power begins. The album tends to alternate between introspective, critical songs and with anthems to power and will; Power is a hymn to energy & life.
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Monster is so violent and abrasive in its affirmation of will, it had to be followed by So Appalled, with its criticism of late capitalism. Devil in a New Dress follows, a love song dripping with lust & happiness, sung to the woman, with frequent imperatives.
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Runaway, one of the most beautiful songs ever sung, reflects on the previous love song, being this time directed to Kanye & men in general; reflecting upon himself, he concludes, out of love, the woman should "run away from me."
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The single, obsessing piano note which opens the song serves to separate both this song and the part of the album that follows from the rest. It lets one hear the silence, against which thoughts may arise. The second part of the album is going to be deeply introspective.
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Hell Of A Life & Blame Game continue the cycle. But Lost In The World, being the last song on the album, achieves the feat of a complete & clear synthesis of the two impulses that drive the album. As the song opens, a sad, melancholic voice sings of being lost in an unknown city.
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Quickly, though, the beat starts, and "I'm lost in the WORLD" gradually moves from a sad to an affirmative statement: I'm lost in the world, been down my whole life I'm building a still, to slow down the time I'm new in the city, and I'm down for the night.
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Down for the night; the down from "down my whole life" is suddenly transfigured as a "down for the night": let's drive down into the city, windows down, deeply reminiscent of scenes from On The Road, sudden glimpses of the outside.
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The opposition between introspection and extroverted affirmation is broken down, or broken through, as the loss of meaning, the cosmopolitan feeling of being "lost in this plastic life" as Kanye says it, becomes a productive nothing.
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Kanye starts rapping: "You're my now, you're my forever/You're my lies, you're my truth/You're my war, you're my truce" - contradictions disappear, the synthesis is achieved and we hear "WHO WILL SURVIVE IN AMERICA" & "I'M LOST IN THE WORLD" over an extremely upbeat music.
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Suddenly, as a revelation, one sees that the collapsing, plastic late-capitalist world described, cannot be escaped, and that flight is impossible; Kanye accepts this, and suddenly all the negativity becomes production, the flows are deterritorialized and Kanye breaks through.
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