Kanye West Re-Records "Love Lockdown" With New Vox, Drums

Only a week after Kanye West streamed his new single "Love Lockdown" on his website, the rapper returned to his blog to report that he has already re-recorded the track. "Your prayers have been answered!! There's a new version of love Love Lockdown coming. We used new taiko drums and I re-sung it... it's being Mastered now....," West says in a post. The artwork for the single has also been modified with "perfected type 4" font to appease all the "design snobs, lol" West adds, "Sidebar... if you don't like autotune... too bad cause I love it and have been using it since the College Dropout!!!" Despite all the exclamation points and ellipses, 'Ye refrains from actually posting the song, but we expect it'll drop sooner than later [UPDATE: The answer was "sooner"]. West's next album, possibly titled 808's & Heartbreak, may or may not be released on December 16th.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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