Dec. 16th

808's &Heartbreaks
The entire album is sung by West with the use of Auto-Tune, aside from one verse by Young Jeezy and a duet with Lil Wayne. Kanye has stated that he loves using Auto-Tune and is dismayed that nowadays the term has been commonly associated with being wack. He personally loves the Auto-Tune and considers it "the funnest thing to use." He compares the situation to when he was a child and thought the color pink was cool until someone told him "it was gay," going on to state how the views of society can rob a person of their confidence and self-esteem. Kanye also classified the album as Pop, saying that similar to auto-tune, "People think pop is bad, but Michael Jackson was pop and who can compare to him?" In a sense, the album is is about emotional nakedness, the freedom to do what you want to do regardless of the opinions inherently held by others.[2]