One of the most new songs that spoke a year, one of the most influential musicians on the planet, is not available on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube- not official, in any case, although unauthorized YouTube versions have appeared and disappeared. (“We have removed the content and we will continue to download Reuploads,” YouTube spokesman He said NBC News) The path, which West was disturbed last month, and issued completely last week, has a title that reads like a bad joke, or perhaps something worse than that: “Hill Hitler”.
One of the reasonable reaction to the provocation like this is to follow the leadership of companies that drive music-just ignore them. But the West has spent decades in demanding attention, and it often justifies it. Discovegharea includes some of the greatest hip -hop music that has been confused ever, full of rapid mood changes and unstable overlap. (In his 2004 funny album, “The College Cropert”, on memories of a semi -technical car accident to raw sexual driving: “If I can pass all of this and I am still breathing / prostitute, then I am here for some reason.) Around 2018, in the year in which he released an album called” YE “. This album is depicted. “I hate to be a wonderful pole.” He became increasingly obsessed with Jews (in 2022, Tweet, “I am a little sleepy tonight, but when I wake up, I will go to death 3 on the Jewish people”) and with the Nazis.
There is no doubt that all this cost many fans, in addition to his profitable partnerships with Adidas, GAP, and Balenciaga, all of which cut relations with him in 2022. But she did not cost him from his viewers. To date, without taking advantage of the currents of his new song, West was listed on Spotify as the twenty -eighth most listening to music in the world. Soon the listeners discovered that the most reliable place to hear the new West song was on Twitter, which has grown significantly more chaotic since its purchase, in 2022, written by Elon Musk, which was called X. Last week, West gave the platform a kind of exclusive song – a song that can be heard almost anywhere.
Many people will be keen to avoid “Heil Hitler”, but those who want to try it may watch the musical video, which West shared on X. There is a stir of fateful copper, and we see a cadre of black men without a shirt under the blue lights wearing the stability of animals, as if they were collectively for the attack. The verse of the West does not start with the dormitory, but with reckless Falsto. “O man, these people took my children from me, then closed my bank account / I was very angry inside me, and they did not get a way to take it,” sings, or instead. The West is not funny as it was, and much more, which helps to clarify a reason, in its recent albums, was more effective as a rapper singer.
In the verse, the West is a chaos: adding to drugs (“Where is the curse of my nitrous?”), Separate, alone. So I became Nazi – yes, the prostitute, I am the wicked, “then a sudden key: a broken bass line, the backbone decreased, and the reputable abstinence immediately. It is a hook stuck in my head since I first heard it – in this case, the forced indication of the word “hook” is perfectly appropriate. The choir of male sounds provides words, deeper, more driving and more threat. (Decades ago, at the dawn of his career, the West covered About being a particular awareness about the way in which it seemed: “They used to tell me,“ tightening, put some of your voice in your voice ”. That is, if there is any of them, you should monitor. The song ends with an extract of Hitler’s speech since 1935. (To make sure that listeners got this point, West posted a translation on his X.) Everything lasts less than three minutes, although you may find that it is still standing in your mind for a longer period.
I have always been skeptical of the idea of music as a guilty pleasure, as if we could divide our favorite songs into two categories, deserve and not worthy. But I am also skeptical of the idea of pleasure that does not make sense Love To love. We can definitely decide not to deal with music that glorifies the third Reich, as this path does clearly. But monitoring this type of cultural boycott is not the same as saying that such music cannot be convincing – on the contrary, if it is a song like “Heil Hitler” It was not Somehow convincing, there will be no urgent argument to ignore it.
One of the reasons for attention is that the West has long been a political figure. In 2005, during a televised concert to inform the victims of Hurricane Katrina, he announced, “George Bush does not care about black people”; At the least overseeing times, this was a shocking breach of morals, and it appears to be carrying it as an ally of Democrats. Years later, his intermittent support from Trump appears to him as a Republican, and in October 2022, the Twitter account of the House of Representatives has tweeted the loyalty statement: “Kanye. Illon. Trump.” (After two months, since the West was increasingly screaming around Hitler, the committee was deleted. But part of what makes it threatened also is the feeling that the West cannot be predicted and unexpected. Some of his most annoying public statements were about his ex -wife and children. Listening to him is an uncomfortable experience because of the feeling that he might struggle – as he once suggested that he was – with mental illness. There is no simple way we can, the audience, give privacy proactive to a very general personality, even a turbulent one like the West.
West’s song on the usual pop plans appeared, but it has published the way in which pop songs often work, by generating online reactions. There was a lot of shock and disgust – and enthusiasm, too, among the characters who participated in the magic of the West with Hitler, or hatred of the Jews. “This is the year of the year-it is now called,” said Nick Fuentes, the anti-Jewish influencer who had dinner with West and Trump. Abidh’s couple photographed themselves wandering, smiling and Sieg-Heiling into music; Angry viewers worked to expose their identities. An unarmpited residence men published his own delivery, and he writes, “This is better to be the first harp cover of Hill Hitler.” West he registered EMO FID. A group of versions apparently created from artificial intelligence began, all with this abstinence of the incendiary, not subject to censorship: a copy of the clown Bluevras, a vibrant dynamic version, a copy that sparked the railways. At the late twenty years, there was an active effort for the acceptable police limits, and increasing opinions agreed that non -black people should never utter the word n. But the rise of the content of artificial intelligence makes these taboos more difficult to enforce them: there is no easy way to separate the sarcastic artificial intelligence display from one sympathetic, and there is no way in any way to punish a singer who does not exist on singing an offensive phrase. When we discuss provocative music, we often discuss what we think is the musician intended to say, but of course it does not mean the AI algorithms at all. Amnesty International’s delivery to “Heil Hitler” is completely offensive, but it is also completely empty – a strange mixture, and perhaps a novel.
Many hip -hop tracks aim to evoke the amazing disintegration of the use of opiates, but this path raises, instead, unimportant interference represented in the disappearance of a rabbit hole in social media. It is not a coincidence to fight West the phrase “Hill Hitler” with a complaint that is truly a recognition: “They do not understand the things I say on Twitter.” It calls for a chaotic world where Hitler looks with “Twitter” – or at least sometimes looks this way. In recent years, one of the anxiety was that social media observation companies would prohibit and heat any person who has been out of the line. But we now live in an era that can distribute a song called “Heil Hitler”, and there is no way to prevent it. This is the true message of this song, which has spread and flourished outside the reach of provinces or shameful campaigns: no one is responsible. ♦
