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Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

Power by Ye | Part 2

Watching the Throne: A Lyrical Analysis of Kanye West

New School Critics

Music

4.8692 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Part 2 of this episode concludes our line-by-line analysis of Power by Ye. 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.

0:34.0

Hey, everybody.

0:34.8

This is part two of our power episode.

0:36.7

If you want the full context, go back and listen to part one.

0:39.9

Also, we go with that, like, I need a moment.

0:42.9

Like, this is way too much, I need a moment, right back into no one man should have all that power.

0:46.8

Wow.

0:47.4

So the stress of the power is definitely, like, ramping up.

0:51.6

The clock's ticking.

0:52.5

I just count the hours is now feeling even more grim,

0:55.8

which is something we talk about all the time.

0:58.5

I feel like choruses on a lot of other artists' songs are really stagnant.

1:03.2

It's the same energy all the way through.

1:04.7

But yay, all the time is always ramping up the energy on the chorus by the verse preceding it,

1:11.9

and always kind of turning the screw a little bit more,

1:15.3

which is also like a 1800s French book.

1:20.1

No, who wrote Turning It the Screw?

1:23.6

Do you know this?

1:24.7

I do not, no.

1:26.8

Henry James, that's right.

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