if this released in 2020 it would be fire. in terms of this lil tjay/polo g melodic, piano lead trap, its about as good as it gets. the production is good for the genre, tjay's rapping is relatively impressive, especially on the first track.
the album does the genre extremely well, the problem is the genre itself. this style of trap hasnt been interesting in over half a decade.
it makes sense tjay has mastered the genre considering while everyone else has moved on from it, he has been ... read more
hard af, fox and bow, onemore, and myth were easily the highlights for me, the first 3 songs were really strong as well
soul without the soul.
he plays it very safe resulting in a very bland, soulless album, yet simultaneously it isnt even catchy or commercially friendly like his other "safe" albums (with the exception of "I Just Might"). its kind of hard to judge what his target audience was, or even what he was really trying to achieve with this album
another mitski album that, while good individually, half the songs sound the same, and the half that don't are mostly boring or outright cringe. with every album it gets more disappointing, this one especially so after hearing about patrick hyland's contributions and how much i enjoyed the lead single. this is coming from someone whose most streamed artist ever is mitski