Author: Jem Aswad / Source: Variety
Variety is en route to experience ’s last-minute album listening party in the Rocky Mountains with live updates as we reach peak Kanye.
West had the idea last Friday to fly a planeload of media, radio, DJs, and other influencers to Wyoming to hear his new album — yes, the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.
Def Jam staffers leaped into action and spent much of the weekend mobilizing and organizing people from both coasts as well as Europe, Australia, and Asia to fly out; originally, the idea was to fly out 300 people to West’s country retreat, but that number was quickly cut in half.
On Tuesday, West’s publicist called a few potential travelers to see if they were interested, but official emailed invites didn’t arrive until Wednesday morning — just 24 hours before wheels up.
Visions of the Rihanna “777” boondoggle of 2012 — in which a planeload of journalists spent a week flying to and attending seven different Rihanna concerts in seven different countries in a week, which sounds amazing but quickly turned into a mass cabin-fever outbreak, judging by the thousands of social-media posts sent from the plane — flashed before our eyes … particularly when 7 a.m. Thursday arrived and we had no further details (such as a flight number or departure terminal).
An email produced a quick response with specifics, but it turned out that several of us accidentally had been left off of the plane’s original manifest. An Uber deposited us at a small, remote terminal in…
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