{"id":7834,"date":"2013-10-25T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2013-10-25T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T23:22:44","slug":"has-kim-killed-kanyes-kareer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/25\/has-kim-killed-kanyes-kareer\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Kim Killed Kanye&#8217;s Kareer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, is she Kanye&#8217;s Yoko Ono?<\/p>\n<p>At first I was offended by the baseball stadium proposal. But once the video leaked online I understood the genius of it, it was all a fake promotional stunt, made to burnish the Kardashian brand.<\/p>\n<p>But is it working for Kanye?<\/p>\n<p>Kim is a phony airhead who denies having plastic surgery despite having lips as big as watermelon rinds.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh, she&#8217;s white, right? I can say this, right?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Kanye West does best. Bite back.<\/p>\n<p>But anybody who doesn&#8217;t know hate is the way of the Web is living in the last decade. Hate is a badge of honor, it illustrates you&#8217;ve made it. Ignore it or be brought down by it.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye had kredibility.<\/p>\n<p>But now he&#8217;s jumped the shark.<\/p>\n<p>We were on his team. Edgy genius whose mother tragically dies before her time.<\/p>\n<p>But then he kept telling us how great he was, tweeted inane insanities (most of which have been forgotten, showing the lifespan of a tweet), told us he wrote the lyrics for &#8220;Yeezus&#8221; in a stolen moment and then decided he was a fashion king.<\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked fashion didn&#8217;t have the soul of music. Everybody wants to be a musician, because a musician stands for something, life incarnate. Fashion is inherently adornment, something secondary. Then again, when music is so vapid, is it a huge stretch that fashion is now primary?<\/p>\n<p>But my point is Kanye&#8217;s got no expertise in fashion. He&#8217;s like Michael Jordan playing baseball, maybe good, but not good enough. It&#8217;s like Kim&#8217;s mentor Paris Hilton deciding to become a deejay. No one&#8217;s gonna stand for that. They won&#8217;t let her in the club. She hasn&#8217;t paid any dues, she looks like a dilettante.<\/p>\n<p>And Kanye dating Kim Kardashian is an even bigger head-scratcher than Lindsey Vonn dating Tiger Woods after deploring him. But don&#8217;t equate athletes with musicians. Athletes are about the body, musicians are about the mind.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re sitting on the sidelines, you&#8217;re wondering what got into Kanye. I don&#8217;t know a guy alive who&#8217;d like to pork Kim Kardashian. It&#8217;s like surimi, otherwise known as imitation crab, Paris Hilton did this first, she invented the paradigm, Paris blazed the way for the untalented being famous for nothing, Kim&#8217;s just following in her footsteps, the only difference being Kim&#8217;s got a better momager.<\/p>\n<p>I give Kris Jenner credit. She made something out of nothing. She&#8217;s laughing all the way to the bank. And like every television phenomenon, it&#8217;s time-stamped, it&#8217;ll be over at some point, but can&#8217;t it be soon?<\/p>\n<p>But the Kardashian Klan appeals to the downtrodden Americans who dream of being rich but can never be so. They can identify. None of the tribe is that good-looking, except for one of the teenagers, who keeps drinking and driving and getting into trouble and shouldn&#8217;t she be in school?<\/p>\n<p>Fame at a young age kills.<\/p>\n<p>Because fame is empty.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time Kanye was about his music.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s just about his fame. And when you chase mass appeal, you eventually become a laughingstock. Kanye is John Davidson with an edge. Someone we keep seeing we wish would disappear.<\/p>\n<p>He used to be a fighter. Now he&#8217;s a winner complaining he&#8217;s getting no respect.<\/p>\n<p>Come on Kanye, you&#8217;re laughing all the way to the bank. Now you want our sympathy?<\/p>\n<p>You give your kid an inane moniker that everybody is laughing at, you put out an album no one wants to hear, you keep complaining you&#8217;re not taken seriously, but you know why, KIM K!<\/p>\n<p>Lamar Odom is a two-dimensional basketball player. You were supposed to be our hope, our dream, our leader, but instead you fell for the hype and can&#8217;t fathom that we&#8217;re all disappointed in you, which we are.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the shenanigans!<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to get married. You&#8217;re just gonna get divorced anyway. How do I know? No one who goes on the road has a first marriage that sticks, or to put it another way, show me a beautiful woman and I&#8217;ll show you a man who&#8217;s tired of screwing her.<\/p>\n<p>At least the Kardashians know the press is a tool, a scummy subset in search of titillation for the brain dead. Photogs and reporters are voracious, sharks who eat 24\/7 and are in constant search of food, you can&#8217;t win feeding this beast unless you&#8217;ve got no talent and didn&#8217;t deserve to be famous to begin with, like the Kardashians.<\/p>\n<p>Which is unlike Kanye. Who made it on talent.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve got enough talented people. Blow yourself up, we don&#8217;t care, the world moves on, there are tons more waiting to take your place.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t need George Michael. What makes you believe we need YOU?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, is she Kanye&#8217;s Yoko Ono? 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