S8E1 - Kanye West: YEEZUS

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Arts, Music, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Our season-long dissection of Yeezus by Kanye West begins now! After revisiting the album’s polarizing impact in 2013, we set up our song by song analysis of Yeezus with a brief discussion of how Kanye uses his albums to tell larger stories about his life. We then document the real life events that inspired the creation of Yeezus, including Kanye’s struggles breaking into the fashion industry, his new relationship with Kim Kardashian, and the many classic interviews that accompanied the Yeezus era. Limited Season 8 merchandise is available at shop.dissectpodcast.com. Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.0	Paris, 1913.
0:41.0	We're inside the brand new Sean's Elizee theatre. The audience is dressed in their finest
0:46.8	diamonds and fur, settling in for the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's new ballet, The Rite of Spring.
0:53.0	Stravinsky is a young rising star composer coming off two massively successful
0:57.2	compositions.
0:58.6	And rumor has it, Stravinsky's new piece is different, challenging, avant-garde even, but no one's expecting a riot.
1:07.0	As the curtains rise, the orchestra begins playing this.
1:15.0	No melody, no harmonic movement. It's just this one chord, this dissonance thumping over and over and over, 59 times.
1:39.2	The audience erupts.
1:40.1	The audience erupts.
1:41.3	Booes, hisses, cat calls, Shravinsky defenders in the crowd shout back at the critics.
1:46.8	It gets so loud the musicians can barely hear themselves play.
1:50.5	A producer flashes the house lights on and off trying to contain the chaos.
1:55.0	Some say punches are thrown.
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