Craig Jenkins

If he wants the commercial sponsorship aspect of music back, and he wants the festival headliner thing back, you have to address what the last three to, you could argue, ten years were in some form, and express that, like, look, I'm not going to do all that stuff again.

In order to regain the trust of not just like people who are offended, but like the trust that you won't mess up people's money doing it again.

Like which is a big animating factor in this clearly like country to country.

I mean, he says he wants to win people back through performing his music, and what I hear is, I would like to be at the festivals, and this is a problem.

You know, like, it's just all, everything is wrapped up in everything with him, so it's like, the fact that he gets something out of being sorry challenges for people whether or not he actually is.

He has discovered the circumstance that makes him want to embrace the old Kanye that he renounced 10 years ago, which is that, like, actually, that's the stuff that people feel really good about and uncomplicated about.

And he's been complicating it for them for the last 10 years, 13 years, you might argue.

15, 16, you could argue.

I hate the new Kanye.

There's always something that happens that splinters off a bit of the fan base.

I remember being heavy and people not really getting Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Not really getting the Yeezus album.

And then after, Pablo, like... But, you know...

there's still a grip of a hundred thousand million, something, some odd on the earth who like foot the bill and we'll still fill up stadiums for that because you know, that music still feels good.

Even if the new album is not done and the vocals are gibberish, like he's not going to perform that much of it.

Like you can only, you're only getting like five songs from that, from the new album one could reckon.

And this is the mindset that we used to have about like bands like Metallica in the nineties and stuff.

When you go see them live, like, they're still playing For Whom the Bell Tolls.

They're still going back into the catalog and taking you to that place before they turned into something confusing.

Like, that spring is eternal for fandom.