In case you very understandably don’t care about Twitter, in recent weeks, has embraced the social media platform’s status as everyone’s favorite medium for unfiltered, stream-of-conscious insanity.
First, there was the whole album-name-changing debacle, wherein he dithered between naming his seventh studio album “Swish” or “Waves.” (He eventually landed on a third, even worse option, “The Life of Pablo.”) Then, he got into it with Wiz Khalifa over the name of his album and how . Honestly, his entire Twitter timeline is a mess of half-baked promises and apologies, condemnations and kudos. Often times all at once. Just .
So the question is: can we can take Kanye’s assertions that he will never release another album on CD again seriously?
I was thinking about not making CDs ever again… Only streaming
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
the Yeezus album packaging was an open casket to CDs r.i.p
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
uuuuuuum, so there it is… No more CDs from me
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest)
Of everything he’s said on the platform lately, this might be Kanye’s least controversial Twitter blast. As computers and cars phase out built-in CD players and charge into the fray, it’s clear that the CD has become an unnecessary extra step to listening to music digitally.
It’s important to note he hasn’t decried physical music media in all forms — just CDs. As the New York Times , West has been rumored to have a “deluxe” physical edition of “The Life of Pablo” in the works, so this could indicate he’s leaning towards a vinyl release.
