Sure, it's kind of fun to get caught up in the fervor, but ultimately, trying to think through an album on a few hours' notice doesn't serve anyone well: not the artist, not the listener and surely not the writer. We're scrambling to digest whatever meager scraps Kanye is willing to throw us. The Life Of Pablo Listen Kanye West had a very exclusive album listening party last night in New York, and while there were many celebrities in the building (including ASAP Rocky, and of course, Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian), there wasn’t much of a media presence. I did it and then I woke up today and realized the folly in it all. We did it because the 'news cycle' demanded that we do. No doubt, dozens of my professional peers stayed up late last night to bang out a review of an unfinished album that we probably couldn't have listened to more than a couple times. Maybe this is all part of some performance-art piece we've been unwittingly sucked into, as West plays the puppet master who's gleefully pulling on our strings. Kanye later updated the tracklist and the album is now available for digital purchase and. We say we want our artists unfiltered, but sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. Editor's Note: We 1 Listen reviewed The Life Of Pablo as it was played during Kanye's MSG listening event. Meanwhile, West has apparently turned his Twitter account over to his unleashed id, meaning that we've gotten a few days' worth of astoundingly ill-considered remarks, including proclamations of Bill Cosby's innocence and an insistence that when he calls Taylor Swift a 'bitch' on the new record, it's really meant as a term of endearment. He's changed its title and track listing several times in as many weeks, and even up until the very moment I'm writing this, it's not 100 percent certain what will be on that final album, whenever and wherever it comes out.

I'm not sure there's ever been a record release as confounding as the one for Kanye West's The Life Of Pablo.

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