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Drake A brief WPG review of Views

Started by WPG, May 2, 2016, in Drake Add to Reading List

  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 2, 2016
    http://blog.vinylmeplease.com/first-of-the-month-all-the-rap-you-need-to-hear-from-april/

    EDIT: also http://www.passionweiss.com/2016/05/05/drake-views-review/
     
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  2. Charlie Work
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    Charlie Work Level 5 Goblin

    May 2, 2016
    Drake’s music isn’t bad because it’s shallow, or self-obsessed, or pandering; it’s bad because it’s all those things while masquerading as something deeper. Views is the Apple spokesman’s second collection of focus group-tested Instagram captions in as many years. You’ve heard the singles: “One Dance”; “Controlla,” sans Popcaan’s excellent guest turn from the single version; and “Pop Style,” where Drake lifts his flow wholesale from Kodak Black’s repertoire. Kanye West’s guest verse on that song is also excised, either because it included two lines from Tidal owner Jay Z or because Drake is worried Ye and Rihanna share screenshots of his text messages.

    But there’s more: He waters down Ha-Sizzle’s “Rode That d-ck Like a Soldier” and turns it into a song about women who have the audacity to buy tampons. (He hides his Bugatti key from her, then feels awkward when she finds it; the next line is, “Mama was a saint, yeah she raised me real good.”) “U With Me” samples two DMX songs, then opens, “On some DMX s---, I group DM my exes,” which is absolutely not “DMX s---” in any way, shape or form. Ray J’s “One Wish” deserves better than “This year for Christmas, I just want apologies” or “Since Take Care I’ve been care taking” or “Master bedroom’s where we get it popping/ Just ignore all the skeletons in my closet.”

    Maybe Drake got insecure about the ghostwriting revelations and tackled most of this thing himself. Maybe he just has poor taste in whatever PartyNextDoor cooks up while Majid Jordan try to start a fire with a piece of wood and their “Hold On, We’re Going Home” plaque. However this 82 minutes (no, really, 82 minutes) of Aubrey made it to the world, it’s packed with more groaners than any of his work to this point. And not just in the vein of “Chaining Tatum” or the Chrysler 300 metaphor from the opening track, where we’re supposed to think Drake is a wild and crazy guy who loves memes and being viral; lots of this writing is hopelessly clunky in ways that can’t be salvaged.

    None of this is to mention how gross it is when he says “You got something that belongs to me/ Your body language says it all/ Despite the things you said to me,” or when he lifts a p---- C verse for “Faithful.” If p---- thought Jay was too corny to collaborate with, imagine him consenting to be on a song that goes, “Get all your affairs in order/ I won’t have affairs, I’m yours, girl.”

    40’s Mary J. Blige flip on “Weston Road Flows” is masterful for how it weaves the vocal sample through the verses; “Summers Over Interlude” is welcome respite; “Controlla” still works wonderfully with a Beenie Man riff. But Views never gains momentum because its too-big-to-fail star keeps trying to make Taco Bell sauce-packet aphorisms sound profound. “Hotline Bling” is a bonus track in case you forgot what it sounds like.
     
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  3. Cerrone
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    Cerrone Anyone, any time, any place

    May 2, 2016
    "And in the spirit of Prince, allow me to hate on something without qualifiers or hesitation:"

    Could tell I was about to read something special when I saw that
     
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  4. Krabby Patty
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    Krabby Patty OVOXO

    May 2, 2016
    Interesting read
     
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  5. Pato v3
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    Pato v3 exilio

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    :dead:
     
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  6. Withus Boomin
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    May 2, 2016
    you really went in
     
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  7. Poohdini
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    Poohdini MVP MVP

    May 2, 2016
    Nothing wrong with those lines on U With Me or Feel No Ways. Other than that just about what I expected.
     
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  8. pluto✰
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    pluto✰ where the opioids?

    May 2, 2016
    very accurate review
     
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  9. Flacko
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    May 2, 2016
    [​IMG]
     
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  10. asvdawg
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    holy s--- that DMX line
    :hard:
     
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  11. Radeem
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    Radeem I listen to people smarter than me

    May 2, 2016
    I laughed a few times while reading it. Brilliant review.

    I hope some drake stans will finally realize what's wrong with their idol's music.
     
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  12. Mike Tyson
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    Mike Tyson big cuntry's alias

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    Me and all my n----s doing well.
     
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  13. MTY
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    MTY VERY SHALLOW LISTENING

    May 2, 2016
    g.d. i knew the lyrics werent up to snuff but reading some of the examples you give are just embarrassing, even for Drake
     
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    Flacko Too Blessed To Be Humble

    May 2, 2016
    He makes enjoyable music. What's wrong with that exactly?
     
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  15. Mike Tyson
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    Mike Tyson big cuntry's alias

    May 2, 2016
    Anyways this isn't a review of the album, it's looking at a select few bars on the album and using that to paint a narrative while ignoring the elements that make this project good. The tampon bit shows how zoomed in the look really is.

    It was a funny read though, I'll give you that.
     
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    May 2, 2016
    everyone is still waiting for that Koolo review

    im gon bring the oolo back for the groundbreaking event
     
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    aquaberryares one time I made sex

    May 2, 2016
    @Charlie let the man get his clicks man d---
     
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  18. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 2, 2016
    I mean, this certainly isn't meant to be a serious or definitive critical reading--but it is a review of the album. If there were any positives that allowed me to look past the horseshit I highlighted, I would have noted them. I think that's implied. Like, I don't think there are any elements that "make this project good."
     
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    aquaberryares one time I made sex

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    Review was funny. I still need to check this s--- out tho
     
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  20. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    lol idc really
     
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