[KANYE WEST] RUNAWAY IS STILL GETTING REMIXED

During the Superbowl, there were some worthy commercials that caught our eye. One of them included a new trailer for Season 2 of HBO’s Westworld.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=65&v=qUmfriZoMw0

Even though I have no idea what Westworld is, I did notice something about the background music. My ears shot up and were sent back to 2010 to Kanye West’s release of “Runaway.” Not only was this song one of his most emotional releases, it was also phenomenally produced. 

Runaway makes you feel a longing for yesterday which produces intense emotions of disconnected sadness. It is a tribute to all the “assholes” who only have a hard exterior to cover up the insecurities they have within them. Taking that concept and putting it into a song perfectly showed Kanye’s talent as an artist. So much so that it is still getting remixed eight years later. 

The version in the Westworld trailer was created by the show’s composer Ramin Djawadi as the request of co-creator Jonathan Nolan.

Djawadi stated,

“I had a lot of fun working on reimagining the song. It is always tricky to reduce a song with multiple layers in to a single instrument, I’m a fan of Kayne’s music. It would be fun to cover ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothing.'”

He really made the song much more stripped down. It sounds like a true classical piece. Overall this cover reminded me of one of the best song’s Kanye has ever put out and I will always love hearing news like this.

Listen to the full version of Djawadi’s “Runaway” here:

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