Although he worked with eight different audio engineers and eleven different mix engineers around the world for the track, West still felt dissatisfied with the results and decided to enlist the aid of record producer Timbaland in redoing its drum programming prior to the release of Graduation. The song's production process was arduous, with West and his team mixing the track reportedly over 75 times, including after its release as a single. West also describes 'Stronger' as an 'emancipation', using the track to vent his frustration over mistakes he made in the past year. On 'Stronger', West speaks about the resolve that comes when one is faced with adversity, with lyrics at the song's refrain that paraphrase Friedrich Nietzsche's dictum 'What does not kill me makes me stronger'. For the track, West utilizes a vocal sample of 'Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger' by French house duo Daft Punk.

The composition is electronic in nature, employing synthesizers as its prominent instrument. The production was handled by West, with an extended outro co-produced with Mike Dean. The result is a more expansive, inclusive vision of pop, music that keeps rewriting its history with every beat.'Stronger' is a song by American rapper Kanye West, released as the second single from his third studio album, Graduation (2007). More than half the songs here - 254 in all - weren’t present on the old list, including a third of the Top 100. Where the 2004 version of the list was dominated by early rock and soul, the new edition contains more hip-hop, modern country, indie rock, Latin pop, reggae, and R&B. They each sent in a ranked list of their top 50 songs, and we tabulated the results. Ward to Bill Ward - as well as figures from the music industry and leading critics and journalists. To create the new version of the RS 500 we convened a poll of more than 250 artists, musicians, and producers - from Angelique Kidjo to Zedd, Sam Smith to Megan Thee Stallion, M. So we’ve decided to give the list a total reboot. But a lot has changed since 2004 back then the iPod was relatively new, and Billie Eilish was three years old. It’s one of the most widely read stories in our history, viewed hundreds of millions of times on this site. In 2004, Rolling Stone published its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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