Given the brief historical background that was offered at the beginning of the piece, it is not hard to pick up on the fact that West has felt unappreciated by many of the people and places in music that he felt truly mattered. This song, however, as well as the album, were his first foray into an area and genre of music that he created.
By combining his artistic vision with several different genres of music, he created what he has now dubbed "pop art," not to be confused with the work of the likes of Andy Warhol, but rather "artistic pop music." It is fortunate that he considered this and said it himself before others could accuse him, because many would be quick to jump on the bandwagon of pointing fingers. Through the singing of the entire album, West has more or less turned his back on the "hip hop" that made him famous and embraced the growth and evolution of pop and hip hop together.
In a day when anyone can create songs in a studio (or even a basement), the presence of auto-tune is nothing short of ubiquitous. It can be found in literally every genre where vocal performance is required to perform, from punk rock to country to hip hop, and has had an extremely debilitating effect on the integrity of recorded music in many people's opinion. Going along with West's "against the flow" attitude and his refusal to compromise personal artistic vision in order to please someone else, he created his ultimate work with a thought process similar to the Midas Touch, asserting that, whatever he made would be good because he is that good himself and therefore cannot produce bad music anymore, whether he puts months or just days into a work. His use of auto-tune can be interpreted as a minimalist form of creation, possibly his ultimate embodiment of cockiness (or confidence) that implies that he needn't avoid the use of automatic functions as long as he is the one giving the final nod and stamp of approval.
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