Surely the idea of a concept album is to tell a story over the record with intertwining themes.
I don't know why it matters what's a concept album and what isn't.
As you all probably know by now, I like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, would I say it's a concept album? No. Does it matter? No.
And to argue that is ridiculous. We're all interpreting the album in the way we think it's meant to be taken.
The only way to know for sure what the true meaning of an album is would be to ask the artist themselves.
To say "no you're wrong, the album is about Y not X" is stupid because just like musical taste, interpretation is subjective.
It seems a little pretentious to me that people are trying to slate this album for not following a 'concept'. I wasn't aware to release a good album it needed to follow a 'concept'
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