10 Famous Musicians Who Just Do The Same Weird Thing Every Time

And lo, do we come full circle.

After opening that article by preaching the virtues of sticking to what you do best and never trying to reinvent the wheel, we arrive at a musician for whom reinventing the wheel is what he does best. Kanye West, like everyone else on this list, does the same thing every time, it's just that his thing is... not doing the same thing every time. The man's gimmick is reinvention.

Consider the evidence. College Dropout was pure, radio-friendly, chipmunk soul. Late Registration was a far more grandiose and accomplished, but still a classically hip-hop album. Graduation, while expected to complete a thematic trilogy with his two existing releases, was pure synthpop.

Every time the man enters the studio, it feels like this only goal is to rip up precisely what worked last time around and do something different entirely. This fact is virtually the only consistent in how he makes his music, making it a trademark as predictable as anything else mentioned on this list.

Does it always work for him? Absolutely not, for every prog-rap triumph like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, there's a gospel mess like Life of Pablo to match. But does it always happen? Yep, and you could set a $94,000 watch by it.