erikawithac: novazembla: hellhoundstooth:
Fall Out Boy ft. Kanye West | Also Into Cats This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race REMIX
now, i dunno what the hell this song is talkin bout. do you?
God, Kanye. This always makes me laugh, the way his first line deflates the entire song and indie pretension in general. Then he cuts it all — chart success, money, racialized clothes — down to status. He is so honest about how much that means to him. He makes everything explicit, and somehow it’s not clunky, it’s a relief. We don’t have to keep hinting around all these desires, to be successful and rich and well-dressed and loved, we can come right out and say that these are the things that drive us.
After his verse the rest of the song lapses back into the metaphor, which seems cowardly instead of clever. You can’t go back from that kind of honesty.

(via tea-and-misanthropy)