Stronger

For some reason, I've gotten Kanye West's song, Stronger, stuck in my head lately, even though it was released last summer. The first line is a slight paraphrase of Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous statement ("what doesn't kill me makes me stronger"). So I've listened to the song over and over, and since I couldn't really understand all the lyrics, I looked them up. Turns out that this song, which starts with a profound philosophical statement, is mostly about having sex, with a few lines about Kanye's appearance at a fashion show:

Awesome, the Christian in Christian Dior
Damn they don't make 'em like this anymore
I ask, cause I'm not sure:
Do anybody make real shit anymore?
Bow in the presence of greatness
Cause right now Thou has forsaken us
That I would even show up to this fake shit
So go ahead go nuts, go ape shit
Specially in my pastel and my Bape shit
[refers to Bathing Ape - a Japanese clothing line]
Act like you can't tell who made this
New gospel, homey, take six
And take this, haters

Kanye is an important pop culture voice, so it's a shame that he decided not to make this (incredibly catchy) song about something larger. Of course it's hard to find a rhyme for "Nietzsche."

To listen to the uncensored version (which doesn't blank out the curse words):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTay1Jjfcv0

I love the photo above, of him in his "shutter shades" in the video.

<= This is another cool image from the video.