Beck and Kanye

Why yes, Kanye – Beck is out of touch with the music industry.  Last night at the Grammy’s, did not stand in the dark (save for a single column of light) and wail through auto-tune over a backing track. He did however, disappointingly perform with the lights on him and his band, his band who played real live instruments, and used no auto-tune whatsoever.  And Instead of writing disposable, interchangeable club anthems with epic grandiose themes like having sex, getting booty, or hollerin’ at “’dat fine a** b****”; Beck wrote an introspective, thoughtful album that explored a varying range of emotion, and meditated on weighty themes like personal growth, heartbreak, and mortality.  So ultimately you may be right, Beck is out of touch with the music industry.
 

He has been married for 11 years, with two children.  He however, does not define his life as having “a wife, a kid, and a clothing line.”  His music career has provided his family with a more than comfortable lifestyle mostly in southern California, I’m sure; it however, has not constructed the gilded walls and opulence of the globetrotting lifestyle for he, his wife, his children, and a small army of nurses, of which your career, Kanye has afforded your family.  And in case you were wondering, Beck is not his wife’s third marriage before the age of 35 years old.  So yes, Beck is out of touch with the music industry.
 

Beck’s public image has not required him to be a boastful, arrogant, loud mouth.  In fact, he has very little of a public image at all.  While accepting the Best Album Grammy he felt obligated to invite other people on-stage to take credit for their work on the album that brought him this far, because he seems to understand that no man is an island.  He was also clearly humbled to be in the presence of Prince, who presented him the trophy.  I suspect Kanye West has not been humbled in the presence of anyone in a very long time, and I think that is sad. 

In the end, I believe you may be correct Kanye – for all of the reasons outlined above and for so many more, I’m sure Beck is out of touch with the music industry…but is that such a bad thing?


***Additional Note*** 
The band Steel Panther also took to the studio last week and decided to write a song based on the controversy.