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Kanye West Renames New Album From “Swish” To “Waves”.
Kanye West continued to make news with less than two weeks to go until his long-awaited new album drops. A day after unveiling the track list to the 10-song LP, Kanye West has announced the album will now be titled Waves.
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“New album title, WAVES,” tweeted Kanye to his 17.5 million followers on Tuesday night (Jan. 26). The album was originally titled So Help Me God last March, renamed to Swish a few months later in May.
It appears the title change was planned for a while, as Travi$ Scott tweeted the title with various wave emoji’s earlier on Tuesday. “This is not album of the year. This is album of the life,” said Kanye in a tweet prior to revealing the new title.
Due Feb. 11, Waves will debut during the Yeezy Season 3 fashion show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, live broadcasted to various theatres across the world.
UPDATE: Kanye shows off an updated photo of his note pad. It shows Waves is now 11 songs (with the now added “Ultra Light Beam”) broken up into 3 acts. The hand-written paper now includes signatures from A$AP Rocky, The-Dream and Swizz Beatz.
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Adding “Swish” back to the list of potential titles for my next album. #onemanstrash
— John Mayer (@JohnMayer) January 27, 2016
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