“With a Capitalistic Glut in My Mouth I’ve Elected Not to Listen to Donda Yet”

Now, please let me preface this post by saying I’m not generally anti-capitalist. In fact, I’m lucky to live in a country where we have such a thing as a blogosphere, to where some loudmouth like me can get on and spout his opinion whatever it may be, even something derogative or figures as prominent as corporate CEO’s.

Perhaps appropriately, anyway, this Kanye fiasco is coming straight on the heels of an interesting incident at Citi Field. In response to what had been a vitriolic trend on the part of Mets fans for booing their players, certain Mets players took to splashing it back in their face — pointing their faces and attentions at the fans and giving them a “thumbs down” when they perform well. In what I think was a move of morally void capitalism and bottom line pandering, then, the Mets’ president Sandy Alderson condemned the players’ actions, saying “Mets fans are understandably frustrated over the team’s recent performance” and “Booing is every fan’s right.” It’s all subjective and maybe he’s right but remember, this is a guy who’s job is partially to sell tickets, and he doesn’t have to be entrenched in dugouts and locker rooms every day with these guys he’s hurling under the proverbial “bus.” Nine times out of 10, the team’s manager would stick up for the players and create a family atmosphere, acknowleding that the “thumbs down” by the players was a perfectly logical reaction to the show of unneeded antipathy and rancor on the parts of the fans. 

This instance of Universal putting out Kanye’s new album Donda early and without the artist’s permission is of course a fairly unrelated incident other than that key common thread of capitalistic paper chasing denigrating an employee’s rights and morale. Of course, this whole scandal does beg the question of why Mr. West doesn’t have his own record label by now… isn’t he one of the richest men in the world? And obviously Kanye isn’t some aw-shucks Mr. Nice Guy, the way he perhaps was to more of an extent before My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and all his licentious sexuality. He is, however, the artist, and it sounds like the version of Donda we’re getting here is compromised on a couple counts, probably one regarding track selection and sequencing and, of course, the other pertaining to the label’s omission of the song “Jail, Pt. 2” which apparently featured DaBaby and Marilyn Manson. 

So I guess in my own futile attempt to be some quasi-effectual consumer activist I am as of right now boycotting Donda. This is the case, of course, despite the fact that a double disc album from Kanye does happen to sound fairly exciting to me — it’s like his The Wall or Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, two pretty sweeping and unforgettable works in their own right. But it doesn’t seem right to indulge in the product of a corporation that’s not the product of an individual — I mean we do enough of that with Cardi B and A$AP Ferg as it is.  

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