The drama continues: Kanye delays Yandhi yet again, gets called out by Lorde
Aux Features Kanye westAfter denouncing the bad-faith grifters who glommed onto his star, Kanye West has—knock on wood—so far managed to uphold his promise to stay the hell out of politics. It felt like something of a soft reboot, then, when he and Kid Cudi debuted their Kids See Ghosts stage show at Tyler the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival on Sunday night, the performance a prelude of sorts to his upcoming album, Yandhi, which he’s promised will arrive by the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Alas, despite going to Africa to continue work on it, the album has again been delayed. He announced as much on Twitter on Monday, citing his Kids See Ghosts show as inspiration for this latest delay.
“It felt so good being on stage last night with my brother Cudi,” he wrote. “After performing again, I realize the new album I’ve been working on isn’t ready yet. I’ll announce the release date once it’s done. Thank you for understanding.”
Ultimately, this is probably a good thing, as Ye felt undercooked and The Life Of Pablo saw itself annoyingly, endlessly revised in the wake of its release. It does, however, give us more reason to not believe a word that comes out of the dude’s mouth.
That Kids See Ghosts set did more than enthrall fans and invigorate Kanye, however. Lorde, the New Zealand pop star who typically uses Instagram to review onion rings, took to the platform on Monday to insinuate that West and Cudi pilfered her stage show. On her Melodrama tour, Lorde integrated a giant rectangular glass box into her live performance, one not unlike the massive box West and Cudi performed in on Sunday. She shared photos (see some screenshots from her Instagram story below), and capped it off with the following statement.
“I’m proud of the work that I do and it’s flattering when other artists feel inspired by it, to the extent that they choose to try it on themselves,” she wrote. “But don’t steal—not from women or anyone else—not in 2018 or ever.”
Whether or not it was blatant appropriation remains to be seen; West, after all, is no stranger to performing in, shall we say, a more elevated fashion.
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Make sure to get the Green Light from Lourde before you use her ideas. You don’t want theft as a Liability when you’re on tour.
I really don’t like Kanye and I enjoy Lorde much more, but they both use the same stage designer. I don’t think Lorde is placing the blame on the right people. Unless Kanye and Cudi said they wanted something just like Lorde. She’s (Es Devlin) done similar stuff before.https://esdevlin.com/work
But I thought this was Lorde’s creative work???
Lorde delivering the melodrama.
Kanye is Hip-Hop royalty and I cut my teeth on his music, but I’m on Lorde’s team.
Can we please stop giving a shit, already? Fuck this guy.
You don’t find regular updates on what Kanye West isn’t doing this week riveting?
I do love it when I hear he’s run his head straight into a stopsign. Those alerts are great.
After denouncing the bad-faith grifters who glommed onto his star, Kanye West has—knock on wood—so far managed to uphold his promiseto stay the hell out of politics. Seriously. It’s been what, three weeks MAX since he made this statement? Fuck him forever.
And yet here you are. So I guess this was a story worth posting after all
The articles will stop when people like you stop giving them foot traffic.
Fire and a cage, huh? Maybe Kanye is also an Undertaker fan, Lorde. You ever think of that?
All he wants is life beyond Thunderdome.
That would insinuate Kanye likes or appreciates anything that isn’t directly Kanye West though.
Lul, undertaker.
Give Kanye a break the guy needs real help.
*Eye roll* If only he had money and access to the best possible treatment in the world.
That’s a different person entirely.
Homey was right, we should have left Britney the fuck alone.
Why did he threaten to make porn if we didn’t?
Should have left her alone be cause she was a frightened young woman trying to get her shit together in a life full of exploitation, humiliation, & misery
Why won’t these horrible people stop giving him the attention that he constantly demands?
Lorde is surprised that a black guy stole something? She must be new.
Is Lorde not out of her angsty teenage years yet? She even made this thing about misogyny, too.The same set designer that made Kanye’s 2016 stage is the one that made the box Lorde used. Kanye did the elevated stage in 2016 and it wasn’t even a new thing then. That set designer debuted the suspended box in 2007…. There is more than enough reason to dislike Kanye but people try to pile it on without thoughts.
I’m so into Kanye’s music I seriously thought he had already released his album.
You might be thinking of that other album he just released. Everything about Kanye West is stupid and exhausting.
Wait a minute…Isn’t this box idea just an extension of an idea he already played with a couple of tours back? I mean, Lorde might have a point but he has some history with the idea.
I am SO DONE with Kanye until the NEXT NEWS ITEM about him and also I am going to LISTEN TO THE RECORD and probably still read ABOUT HIM AFTER THAT
Es Devlin, come pick up your girl.
Q: What did the white woman from New Zealand who rhymes over house & trap/drill beats say to the black man from Chicago?A: You stole my art!
And then the played the ‘don’t steal from a woman’ card.
Ye or Yi or whatever his name is now has entered the Lindsay Lohan phase of his career. Or maybe the Brittany Spears shaved head phase. Or the Charlie Sheen ‘WINNING!’ phase. Or any one of a dozen other celebrities whose egos, addictions and mental afflictions outpaced their talents.
Ah, yes, I forgot that Lorde is a noted originator of glass boxes. And a woman.
I’m starting to think Ed Sheeran is interesting! WE”RE IN THE UPSIDE DOWN!!!
Lorde, huh? Not the first time that a South Park character has successfully trolled Kanye.
I did not realize Lorde had secured patents for a rectangular prism that floats above the stage.
This article sucks. You’re so white and this site has so much clickbait. Other comments can stuff it, Kanye is a dirty.
Did she really have to turn it into a sexist stealing from women issue? Yawn…
Lorde didn’t invent that shit.
Lmao nigga ‘gives us less of a reason to trust anything that comes out of his mouth’ could you be any more of a melodramatic little bitch?