"Kanye took this a step further when he finally released “The Life of Pablo” on Tidal, but tweeted that he was going to “fix ‘Wolves’,” the 13th track on the album. Then, he said that the album would never be available for download, which essentially means that he is reserving his right to make any changes he wants — to “Wolves,” to “30 Hours,” whatever — tomorrow, next year, a decade from now...
each album will be a living document. Tracks will be subject to additions, tweaks, and deletions. If someone asks you what you think of “Wolves,” you’ll have to ask: “which version? ‘Wolves’ v1.0, or v1.1?”
“Or wait, is v1.2 out now?”
If the idea of Kanye repeatedly “fixing” a song that has already been (sort of) released seems strange, it’s only because we don’t tend to think of most art as something that should be improved upon, ever. Art is created, we think, and then it immediately becomes an archive...
What if recorded music becomes, like software, a living, breathing, body of work? In a way, it would be a return to the essence of art. It wouldn’t be any different from a stage play on Broadway, which necessarily changes and evolves with each performance. It wouldn’t be any different from live music — the communal experience that the vinyl record was invented to (poorly) replace."
https://medium.com/la-times/while-other-pop-stars-make-albums-kanye-is-making-entertainment-software-fc9ccc0dd0e5
I love this writer, on so many topics he points out the twist.
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