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Personality In Kanye West's The Usual Tension

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Personality – the ability to speak to people on a visceral level – is what makes someone special. When people think about creativity, words such as originality come to mind. Because creativity ultimately is the capability to outperform the past and its accomplishments, there is nothing more original than someone's own personal existence, thought, and history. In my own life, I wrote a one act play titled The Usual Tension that dealt with the conflict within ourselves between our self-confidence and apprehension. The play was based off a personal experience involving myself and a girl who I had a relationship with throughout my sophomore year of high school. To look at creativity at a much more broader scale, Kanye West's album My Beautiful …show more content…

In my own one act play, The Usual Tension, I use my own personal experiences involving my friend from high school to create a story that explains a common conflict within ourselves. The play centers around a high school actor named George who is about to audition for a play. While he waits for his audition to begin, he sees Eileen, who he happens to be interested in, waiting as well. However, he knows that there is a battle between his arrogance and his anxiety that has been preventing him from asking Eileen out on a date. He says that it's “the tension that grabs us by the horns and pushes us down or throws us up. It may be dormant at times, but it’s always there, tilting the scales” (6). The play explores tension through two characters named Arrogance and Anxiety, who both serve as George's conflicting emotions. Throughout the play, the audience watches Arrogance and Anxiety argue against one another about how George should ask Eileen out on a date. Eventually, George realizes that he needs to set his emotions aside and just ask her out. The play comes from a personal experience involving a girl who I had a huge crush on. We were both great friends as we did the school plays and an audition choir together. …show more content…

The album is a response to many of Kanye's controversial actions from the past that have made him such a confusing personality. Songs such as “Power” and “All of the Lights” relish and praise the spotlight that his career has created. On the contrary, he makes songs that talk about the negatives that have come being famous such as “Runaway” and “Blame Game.” From romance to materialism, Kanye talks about how drastically his life has changed from his growing up in Chicago. Kanye has always been an artist that draws from his personal life; however, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy takes that to a whole new level. In between his release of 808's and Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye's life was tumultuous to say the least. He interrupted Taylor Swift on stage; nude photos of him leaked onto the internet; he had a public relationship with the celebrity Amber Rose. The chances were that most Americans who were interested in celebrity lifestyles had an opinion on Kanye and his actions. The album talks about both his actions and how he feels about the responses to those actions. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an honest album, which most people can respect because it reminds the audience that celebrities are actual people as well and have emotional reactions to the publicity and attention. My

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