Kanye West is currently in Europe making appearances at London Fashion Week, making speeches at Oxford and doing interviews with Zane Lowe on BBC Radio One, but also doing some promo for his upcoming album So Help Me God with performances of "Only One" on The Jonathan Ross Show in England and Norwegian-Swedish talk show Skavlan.
Much like the Grammys, Kanye elected for a stripped-back production at Skavlan with a single spotlight on him that morphed shapes as the song moved on. He appeared to be growing into the performance, using the backing vocals with increasing effectiveness and building out his own movements to the song while keeping it simple in an all-black wardrobe.
Watch the performance below:
The Jason Ross performance had a bit more production value with a white box, similar to the one used on Saturday Night Live, and he even laid down like during the SNL performance. The all-white lights in the box strobed and ebbed with the flow of the track and contrasted with West's all-black garb.
Ross came in at the end for a funny moment as West was lying down to get on the floor next to him and offered to spoon with West, even being the little spoon.
"If you want to spoon I don't mind. Knock yourself out. It's not as big as Kim's," he said, referring to his butt, "but it is all yours."
Watch the video below:
Kanye has been promoting his upcoming album So Help Me God heavily over the past few weeks. He used the BRIT Awards as a platform to premiere his long-awaited single "All Day" and did a second interview with soon-departing BBC Radio One presenter Zane Lowe, where he discussed his role in fashion, music and ripping up the Grammys.
