Feels very free of commercial concerns. It doesn't try to appeal everyone, some or even most songs may not be everyones cup of tea, and that what I really appreciate about it. It focuses mainly on experimental and open-minded ideas that I believe really makes this Travis Scott's Utopia, whatever he likes and wants to do.
Standouts: HYAENA, MODERN JAM, *MY EYES*, I KNOW? and CIRCUS MAXIMUS
Hearing this at the end of the movie (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) just gave me goosebumps. It's already a pretty strong and satisfying track, but when it blends with the context of the movie, damn. It couldn't be more perfect than this.
This album has not reached the kind of popularity, amount of positive reaction I was expecting, and have after listening to it. I give that to 3 main reasons.
First being, the time between announcement and the release date, plus couple of delays here and there. It is not atrocious by any mean but I think it slowly killed the any hype around this album, if any existed in first place compared to his previous works.
The reason I say that brings me to the second reason. The Weeknd throughout ... read more
This song has such a strong aura, but it just fails to fill the expectations. It has a very high potential, with a strong instrumental and a great vocal delivery. But it lacks a spark that could have made it a great song overall, especially in lyrical depratment, which is straight up just bland. And the solo is ass, I'm sorry.
Definetly a piece that will be remembered forever. And it has already reached extremely high levels of popularity in a state that now can be called "overplayed" and "safe". And so what? Music is all about personal preferences, everybody can have their own opinion about a song. Everybody gets sick of hearing the same song over and over again, but rating a song based on how overplayed it is, especially breaking score on that matter is by no way of having an actual opinion or a ... read more