This seems to be a polarizing song. I however, think it grows quite fast on you. Many people complained about it not being up to par with Kanye’s past work. He used his ever so popular blog to respond:
Your prayers have been answered!! There’s a new version of love Love Lockdown coming. We used new taiko drums and I re-sung it… it’s being Mastered now….
Here’s the newer artwork with perfected type 4 all design snobs lol…
Sidebar… if you don’t like autotune… too bad cause I love it and have been using it since the College Dropout!!!
It is pretty neat to see such a big mainstream act interact with his fans so well. I personally think Love Lockdown is a killer track, and hope that the newer version stays true to the original vision he had. I think the emotions give the song a whole different feeling that I loved in stuff like ‘Hey Mama’. Give the track a stream below. There is also a cool remix I discovered:
Kanye West – Love Lockdown (MP3) – from Kanye’s blog
Kanye West – Love Lockdown (Chew Fu Remix) (MP3) thank you to Schitz Popinov
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