My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is Hip Hop messiah Kanye West's fifth album, released on 22 November 2010. The album was initially planned as a continuation of his College Trilogy (The College Dropout, Late Registration, and Graduation) to be named Good-Ass Job, but the concept was eventually dsicarded.

What then this album ended up becoming was something unlike any released. It became the most critically acclaimed album since The Joshua Tree. Every single media outlet put it as the number one album of the year, with individual songs like "All of the Lights", "Runaway", "Power", and "Monster" taking equally high positions in song rankings.

The album was recorded across 2009 and 2010 at a variety of studios and with the help of a Serial Escalation Long List of rappers, producers, singers, engineers, and session musicians (more than 90!).

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Tropes used in My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy include:

• All-Star Cast: Just look at all the people featured on "All of the Lights"! We've got Alicia Keys, John Legend, The-Dream, Drake, Fergie, Kid Cudi, Elton John, Ryan Leslie, Charlie Wilson, Tony Williams, Elly Jackson, Alvin Fields, Ken Lewis, and Rihanna here, though only Rihanna and Kid Cudi are credited as featured artists in the official single release.
• Book Ends: The album begins and ends with instances of Spoken Word in Music, similarly to Kanye's debut "The College Dropout".
• Concept Album: Considered to be this with unifying themes of the nature of celebrity, intense introspection and Self-Deprecation, and primal emotions.
• Creator Breakdown
• Heel Realization: "Runaway".
• Ignored Epiphany: In "Runaway", Kanye protests his own proclivity for this.
• Loudness War: A really bad case. Nearly every song gets clipped.
• Record Producer: Dozens.
• Self-Deprecation: All over the place.
• Shout-Out: Again, all over the place.
• The Unintelligible: The last few minutes of "Runaway" with the distorted vocals.