Kanye West’s daft Akira
2nd July, 2007 by stuart
Kanye West shows it’s possible to ruin two pieces of greatness in 4 minutes and 27 seconds. Actually, he pretty much does it in 10 seconds. His new single, Stronger, not only samples Daft Punk, but has a video that’s basically a mini live action version of the anime classic, Akira.
Check out Montoya Hearald’s scene by scene comparison.
Via Anime UK News
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:16 am
Interesting comparison. I didn’t think the track was completely terrible..
July 18th, 2007 at 2:05 am
the lyrics were lame but the beat wasn’t bad.
July 18th, 2007 at 6:02 am
Isn’t it a little silly to blast Kanye for sampling a Daft Punk song when the song it sampled was itself directly based on “Cola Bottle Baby” by Edwin Birdsong?
I mean, I’m not saying sampling is necessarily a bad thing, but it’s a little hypocritical of you to find some fault with Kanye’s use of sampling and not with Daft Punk’s.
July 18th, 2007 at 10:40 am
No, not at all. I love sampling, but in this case it’s just done really badly. Taking a good thing and making it bad.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
i’m tired of stupid ignorant people artist bashing. give it up. it just means you don’t like it. get over it.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I’m tired of people bashing. Give it up. It just means you don’t like my opinion. Get over it.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Although I understand that debating music tastes is just about the most futile thing out there, you should realize that the the slower sample Kanye uses in this is actually a version that Daft Punk had been playing in concerts for a bit.
Kanye’s also said that he doesn’t feel like this song even compares to the original.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:03 am
this video is awesome, so well done. and captures the coolness of Akira. Yall are being lame about this because you have issues with kanye, or have in the past. But this is the best live anime tribute ive ever seen (way better than kill bill, Shinobi, or anything else)
December 30th, 2007 at 5:52 am
I like Kanye West, I really do. He has a lot of good music.
But in my opinion, this song and this video were just terrible.
January 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Yeah this song was just lame, and anyone who thinks its original or cool is in the same category.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Jago said: “Yeah this song was just lame, and anyone who thinks its original or cool is in the same category.”
Awesome, dude, you just called Daft Punk “lame”. See, they liked West’s song. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003625611