Genius and insanity are one of the same. What happens when the thing that builds someone up to be great is the same thing that tears them down before they are fully understood or appreciated?
Often the complexity of an individual’s mind is admired as long as we stay at its surface. When we try and deepen our knowledge to explore what inspires these expressions, we discover what we can’t understand or control. Whatever we as society experience as unfamiliar we outcast, this is where the theory of groupthink enters and why we accept it limiting are minds.
Is Kanye just one of the biggest Casualties of Group Think, an example to show how the media has the power to totally tell us how to act and what to think.
If you ask 10 people how they feel about Kanye West you will receive 2 different answers asshole and genius. Although if you ask how many of the individuals actually own a Kanye west album, watched a video or non-baits interview then most of the asshole comments prove invalid. Isn’t an artist’s individuality what makes them what they are and the reason they inspire?
Kanye was dropped from Lady GaGa’s tour for the Taylor swift incident. Was this huge deficit justified for voicing the same opinion that was on everyone’s mind whether they were present in that room or watching at home, they just chose not to voice their thoughts.
During Kanye’s Today Show interview the main focus was George bush reacting to Kanye’s comments on him being a racist and the Taylor Swift incident. While Kanye was explaining these moments, on a split screen the videos clips were being played which is common practice during an interview. Matthew Lauer promoted words regret and sorry into his explanations while staff talked loud enough to be heard in the back ground. The outcome of this interview caused Kanye to subsequently cancel his live performance later on that week. Who is to blame, The Today Show for prompting a false apology or Kanye for allowing the interview to be conducted knowing the line of questioning? The outcome of the interview is an all too familiar result of Kanye’s public image being more tarnished in the vulnerable state than it already stands.
“Because of what I’ve been though it’s, brought me to become a way more expressive artist, you can’t take anything away from me at this point. What are you going to do? Go to my Mamma’s house, I don’t have no mamma”
How much of an impact mentally, is it for a male to be raised solely by women, his mother, both maternal and paternal grandmothers to pass away within a year of each other. All while believing you are partly responsible for your mother’s death? Your very way of life in your foundation, security and boundaries disappears. People grieve in differently ways some disconcert themselves while others try and submerge themselves into their work before they fully deal with their emotions. It was clear from the themes of his “Glow In The dark Tour” and “808 & Heartbreak” album that he had not mentally dealt with death of the most important people in his life. His song themes changed from “Champion” and “Celebration” to “Heartless” and “Paranoid” it was evident that grief counselling was needed. If he had received counselling would the Kanye against the world and Kanye is crazy attitude be at the level it is now, I don’t’ believe so.
“I don’t say please look at my art, people come to me, so how can you attack me you came to me”
When Kanye’s film runaway was released it gave us in insight into his complexity, interpreting everyday life into a world that is initially so far gone. Although once we accept the fact that the phoenix can represent any outcast, it immediately becomes present. The biggest killer of imagination is growing old, a child’s imagination has no inhibitions when you can capture that into adult hood there are no ceilings. If the mind is exposed, even the smallest seedling of imagination and inspiration has no limits.
Hopefully we can stop stamping people crazy or strange, but take an interest on why people are the way they are. You can only beat somebody down so much before they fall from the ledge.
“Michael Jackson Died For the Sins of Our Media”
By Venessa Byron
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