Kanye blasts LA Times on Twitter
Via Twitter Kanye West “goes in” on an LA Times writer who misidentified the title of his new album. The writer, Chris Lee, was writing a review on West’s new film, “Runaway” that recently debuted and will premiere Saturday on both BET and MTV.
Lee mentions West’s new album in this review as “My Dark Twisted Fantasy” instead of its proper title of “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” which set Kanye off. It is understandable to be upset at a mistake that misprints the title of the anticipated album, set to be released this November. The misprint also creates a whole new unintended interpretation of the album by the absence of that one word.
I know error-free work is something that sometimes is not always achievable when trying to achieve timeliness story-wise in journalism. Although when a writer makes a fact mistake in a piece and no one catches it before it goes to print; it can result in nothing short of hell. Below are the tweets from Kanye that were removed from his Twitter about an hour after going up.
@kanyewest “I would’ve taking offense 2 the LA Times review of the movie but the extremely condescending writer accidentally complimented my suit! Thx I believe the writers name was Kriss Lee who so bent on giving a soulless description of my work that he decided to call the album …….not even by the write name… ironically but I feel more strategically removing the word ‘Beautiful’ from the title! Woooooooooooow! I assumed a respected media source like the Los Angeles Times would send a writer that would at least have the respect to call the album..by it’s proper title. It’s called “MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY” Kriss… Even if your goal was to perpetuate non-positive……thought association. You see what happens when you write with a negative agenda. You have the entire Los Angeles Time’s coming off….. like a non credible news source that can’t even fact check a well publicized album title. How can anyone believe anything you ever write again? I feel sorry for the LA Times more than anything for missing the opportunity…”
LA Times later said, “Update: Also, an earlier version misidentified West’s album title as “My Dark Twisted Fantasy.” The correct name is ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.’”
Is it fair enough to say that everyone can be guilty of a typo or fact error. Kanye himself misspelled the name of the writer. Kanye identified the LA Times writer as Kriss Lee whose name is actually Chris Lee.
-Live with your eyes open, S.
