![]() ![]() Nathan Rabin of describes it as 'darkly funny, boldly introspective, and characteristically fame-obsessed', noting 'manic highs and depressive lows emotionally' in the album. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy also features more open references to drinking and drug use than on West's previous albums. Andrew Martin of Prefix Magazine notes the album's as 'more is more' and describes it as 'a meditation on fame', in which West decries the burden that it entails. ![]() It's an utterly dazzling portrait of a 21st-century schizoid man that is by turns sickeningly egocentric, contrite, wise, stupid and self-mocking.' -Alex Denney, The album's themes deal primarily with excess and celebrity, and also touch on decadence, grandiosity, sex, wealth, romance, self-aggrandizement, and self-doubt. 's Andy Kellman views it as the 'culmination' of those albums, while noting that 'it does not merely draw characteristics from each one of them. The music was described as maximalist by Jon Caramanica of, who also took note of elements, and Ryan Dombal from, who deemed it a 'culmination' of West's past work: 'Musically, the album largely continues where 2007's Graduation left off in its maximalist hip-hop bent, with flashes of The College Dropout 's comfort-food sampling and Late Registration 's instrumentation weaved in seamlessly'. ![]() Sean Fennessey of writes that West 'absorbed the gifts of his handpicked collaborators, and occasionally elevated them' on previous studio albums, noting collaborators and elements as for Late Registration ('arranging orchestral majesty'), for Graduation ('adapted DJ Toomp's oozing menace'), and Kid Cudi for 808s & Heartbreak ('Cudi's moaning melodies became elemental'). 's Simon Vozick-Levinson perceives that such elements 'all recur at various points', namely 'the luxurious of 2004's, the symphonic pomp of, the gloss of 2007's, and the emotionally exhausted of 2008's '. Musical style My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy 's music has been noted by writers for incorporating elements from West's previous four albums. ' West subsequently recorded in hotel rooms for, his 2011 album with Jay-Z. ![]()
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