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Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

Gorgeous by Ye

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Ain't no question if we want it—the world needs this lyrical breakdown of Gorgeous. And being a song the entire Ye community adores, Chris and Travis have decided to bring their A game. Together they unpack this mammoth examination of American culture and how Ye fits into it. If you'd like to support the show (and hear this episode ad-free), then join our Patreon community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody want to know what I would do if I didn't win.

0:07.0

I guess we'll never know. I don't get enough of it. Jesus just rose again.

0:27.6

Listen to the kids.

0:33.6

Welcome to Watching the Throne.

0:35.6

A lyrical analysis of Kanye West, West, West, West, West.

0:43.3

My name is Chris Lambert.

0:44.3

And my name is Travis Bean and, you know, sometimes I come into these recordings, like,

0:49.3

I feel a little down, a little defeated because it's required me to like spend hours researching a single

0:56.5

Kanye song. But today, even though I did spend a long time in the sum, longer than I think I

1:02.6

usually spend on Kanye's, I feel invigorated and ready to go. It's the vignettes. The vignettes

1:09.8

will get you. I mean mean I think historically if I can be

1:15.8

famous for anything as a non-famous person who actually isn't really famous for anything

1:22.4

in the county community but if I had to pick something it might be or maybe infamous for

1:27.4

something it would be, or maybe infamous for something.

1:28.5

It would be my historically logged.

1:34.9

I don't even want to say apathy towards gorgeous,

1:38.0

but I definitely haven't liked it as much as other people.

1:40.6

But this time around, I think I'm coming around to it.

1:44.3

I'm happy to hear that because it's one of those songs that I've loved since the first

1:50.8

listen and the apathy that you've had since we started this podcast in 2015 was

1:57.8

something that always threw me a little bit, though I'm sure you feel that way regarding me and some songs in Yeas discography.

2:05.9

Yeah, all of the lights is a perfect example.

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