#Kanye 808s and heartbreak concert tv

808s was confusing: the sonics were foreign, the lyrics were esoteric, the guests were unfamiliar. The concertвЂ™s extravagant, tightly-coiled production is a hint at what that 2009 tour mightвЂ™ve played like, but watching it Friday felt like a confirmation that the tour shouldnвЂ™t-couldnвЂ™t- have been.ДЄt the time, I was not a member of this cult. The cancellation is a curious asterisk to note now, ultimately less remembered than the Swiftgate that caused it, and mightвЂ™ve remained a simple footnote in a career of major headlines had Kanye West not spontaneously revived the album for two nights at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this weekend. Within weeks of the airing, Fame Kills was cancelled.

#Kanye 808s and heartbreak concert tv

Thousands of the fans West planned to meet on tour with Lady Gaga instead got to know him on TV with Taylor Swift. But at the 2009 Video Music Awards, Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift to declare that her Best Female Video award, the first VMA awarded to a country artist, should have gone to BeyoncГ©. вЂњItвЂ™s going to be one of the most groundbreaking moments in touring history,вЂќ Gaga promised then, excited to fully consummate hip-hop and popвЂ™s flirtatious summer spent singing along together to the Black Eyed Peas. So, as heвЂ™d done before with Jay Z, Jon Brion and Daft Punk, West stood next to an artist that would drag him out of his comfort zone, gaining new fans and a sure footing with dance, pop, rock, and even gay audiences. West had spent the past year shaking off his sample-filled backpack to become a load-bearing stake in music at large: if вЂњStrongerвЂќ and the Glow In The Dark tour made him biggest rapper in the world, the only goal left was to be the вЂњgreatest living rock star on the planet,вЂќ too. The two would showcase what were up until then their loudest, shiniest works: WestвЂ™s 808s & Heartbreak and GagaвЂ™s The Fame Monster, side-by-side. The ill-fated 2009 tour was meant to be a traveling pop-art carnival co-starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga.