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Kanye Rerecords "Love Lockdown", Defends Autotune
Pitchfork Media - Today — By his own admission, Kanye West's new single "Love Lockdown" was conceived in a hurry. The day after he premiered the song at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye took to his blog to note that he'd written the song "a week and a half" before. When a recorded version emerged shortly thereafter, it seemed as if the prolific rapper/producer was working even faster than usual. And a lot of people didn't like it. With one ear to the ground ...

Kanye remasters ‘Love Lockdown’
ZME Music — ... iPod as of lately, “Love Lockdown,” has been remastered, after he hit the studio again, in an attempt to hide the song’s hurried, cranky and, well, just incomplete nature. Love Lockdown was released for the first time during last week’s VMA’s, in an attempt to capitalize on the live performance of the song, however, due to Kanye’s intent on getting this song as fast as possible on the market, it suffered a great deal. Even Kanye admited, in a one of his blog posts, that he’d only written the song a week and a half prior to the VMAs. ...