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Australia’s peak scientific body has released their findings into the ongoing debate about what is Kanye West’s best album – and not everybody is happy.
Released just three weeks after Barack Obama’s historic election win in 2008, Kanye’s fourth album, 808s & Heartbreak, has been scientifically proven to be the best Kanye album to date and ‘any other opinion is inferior and wrong’.
Lead Researcher Calvin Clarke noted in the report that West’s first three albums are for children and focus too heavily on positive aspects of life – whereas 808s delves deeper into Kanye’s enigmatic and manic creative process.
“It was certainly a departure from his sound,” wrote Clarke.
“Which polarised listeners and fans all those years ago. However, it is the opinion of the CSIRO that the album has aged brilliantly and is more than a single bookend to his ‘educational-themed’ albums that came before it,”
“Our team hypothesised that prior to conducting a number of experiments on the album. We took into account the tone, lyrics and musical aspects of each song and from the data we received – it was quite easy to conclude that 808s is Kanye West’s greatest work. The Life of Pablo is a close second,”
“If any of you disagree, please get on a plane to Canberra and come fight me in the street like a Russian.”
The Advocate reached out to a number of local Kanye West fans for comment but as the CSIRO has declared that anybody who has a different opinion to them on this issue is wrong and incorrect, our editorial dictates that we cannot publish it.
More to come.
