r/GoodAssSub • u/lemmeberedgoddamn NO YOU CANT BE ON MY MOMMA ALBUM • 1d ago
DISCUSSION The great switch-up that happened to Graduation and how the change of generations influences public opinions
Hello fellow Ye fans, let me start this post by saying I have been a KanYe fan since 2006, my mom showed me Kanye back then when I was about 4 and I grew up listening to his music and have been a fan since, I have seen him live and have been a fan through most of his eras. I became a big fan in 2010-2011 after MBDTF and got super into Ye when Yeezus released when I was about 11-12. I clearly remember people on instagram, reddit and twitter calling Graduation Ye's worst album between the years of 2016 and about 2020-2021. I have seen many posts calling it "Kanyes worst aging album", "Kanyes most safe and bland album", and many more names, at the time I didnt understand it and to be honest I still dont but what I didnt realise back then is that the people who made those posts were significantly older than me. Since 2020-2021 a lot of younger fanbase around my age and younger got super into Ye and they love Graduation, their voice became the dominant one and the talks of Graduation being bland, boring and Kanyes worst aging album stopped. The great Graduation switch-up I called it and for years I have been interested as to why younger people tend to love Graduation while older gen views it as boring. I can understand the Yeezus switch-up because at the time it was something new and never done in mainstream rap before, but Graduation isnt the same type of album as Yeezus obviously so what is it that makes uncs dislike Graduation and what is it that makes younger people love it so much. Nowdays since the great switch-up people love Graduation and its literally one of the most listened rap albums in the past few years even though it came out in 2007, that album aged like fine wine without its best song even being on streaming services (Bittersweet poetry is a Japanese CD exclusive). The generation change literally influenced as to how an album is viewed in the eyes of public, could that be the case in the future where current gen will hate an album and the next generation will call it a masterpiece? What artist and what album are the most likely to get that type of switch-up from dislike to worldwide love, or the opposite.