Ok I'll admit that I snubbed this album quite a lot because of my stupid prejudices thinking that Italian pop was basically all the same and stayed stale for a while and whilst I didn't find something ground breaking or original on this project, I must say that this was more than a pleasant surprise, I was astonished by the mixture of the classic itpop formula with R&B, synthpop and soul in it and also the overall excellent quality of the instrumentals, every production has so many layers ... read more
Another bunch of Emis Killa tracks with mediocre and bland instrumentals, wack bars, boring flows, horrible choruses and dreadful corny lyricism with the same 3 references everytime but this time is even worse with the addition of the F slur and some ableist shit on the track "HUMBLE".
I still don't get why he thinks he's hot shit, he literally sold out to the industry multiple times making awful pop records and still wants to hold the facade that he's one of the few real rappers out ... read more
Honestly overhated, it's not something groundbreaking or that I've never heard but Sfera never sounded this good in years and this record alone is far better than everything he released after "Rockstar".
I liked his flows and delivery in many songs like "Calcolatrici" or "Gol" or "3uphon" which sound rather new for him, many of the featurings did a pretty fair job except for maybe Baby Gang and Simba La Rue, lyrically it is what it is and for what it's ... read more
Salmo's lyricism continues to be terrible and the song that samples Who Dat Boy is awful, nothing against Noyz though.
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no fucking way this was produced by tatsuro yamashita and i'm discovering this just now
this gotta be a joke, what are those lyrics, why his singing sounds off tune and why there are so many weird and awful vocal inflections??? wtf teezo what is this
The Weeknd's first studio album is... hard to review actually, I have mixed feelings towards this LP, or more like a love-hate relationship, it comes right after the trilogy and whilst it changes and spices up the sound overall it still sounds somewhat linked to some characteristics of the earlier mixtapes but I feel like it took maybe just the worst parts of it, like the extremely long and tedious running time of some tracks that absolutely didn't need to be that long, like "Pretty" ... read more
I don't exactly know what he was trying to accomplish or say with this record (or maybe I'm just dumb and not at all connected with Kanye's lore or whatever), everything feels so random but it slaps, some transitions from one track to another sound great and it's an easy but yet charismatic listening experience soundwise, the hidden featurings all delivered good performances especially The Weeknd in "FML", Rihanna in "Famous", Sampha in "Saint Pablo" and as much as ... read more
To this day, probably The Weeknd's most consistent and conceptually cohesive record, every track is a banger, it has just a filler (which is "Don't Break My Heart" in my opinion) and I could listen to this album anytime from start to finish everytime, because it isn't boring and doesn't get lost in awkward and useless running times like with previous albums, his singing sounds good as always, the instrumentals are all fantastic, vibrant and catchy and in addition to that, the ... read more
It's solid, it gets straight to the point, is well produced, it's gloomy, it's catchy and it isn't boring, that's all I can ask for a record by The Weeknd to be honest, also those two tracks produced by Gesaffelstein make me desire a joint album between them two.
EDIT (31/01/2024) [81 ➔ 86]: This EP is kinda unique, maybe I didn't search enough for similar stuff but this EP is sonically consistent in every track, the synthpop sound blended with the eerie sad and melancholic atmosphere is ... read more
After a long time I've decided to revisit this mixtape since I had a pretty negative opinion about it and whilst I now think this is a good mixtape and its influence it's undeniable, I continue to not understand why he wanted to make such long tracks, at least for me it's kinda tedious but anyway, this tape is actually really good!
"Wicked Games" is an absolute classic and probably one of the best songs The Weeknd has ever made, I would say the same for "House Of Balloons" ... read more
I wasn't sure about the rating to give to this song, but now that I listened to this song live I can confirm this is a 100.
This new record by Travis Scott is, at least for me, completely confusional, pretentious and boring, it tries too hard to be experimental with some production choices, the choruses on this LP are really repetitive to a point where they become unlistenable, Travis flows and his rapping in general on the whole album is not that interesting, the instrumentals are sometimes stale, they do not improve progressively, they almost follow the same patterns and some tracks rely just on beat switches and ... read more
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Recent Review Comments
On 18K - IO
"@rgiosmin certo, infatti ho sbagliato io ad introdurre male l'argomento, ero un po' stanco e riscriverò la recensione ma di base è un pattern che ho notato in alcuni artisti rap italiani e non, il primo disco in major è sempre il più safe, dal secondo in poi si comincia ad andare via via sempre peggiorando, mi viene in mente banalmente kid yugi della "nuova" scena, ma ci sono tanti esempi anche in quella vecchia, tra cui anche sfera"
On 18K - IO
"@Fautore gengis khan era forte tho"
On 18K - IO
"@czr gne gne gne"
On 18K - IO
"@czr sì concordo, apprezzare questo album è chiaro segno di affiliazione al mossad"
On Baby Keem - Ca$ino
"@LAPIZZA io purtroppo ho smesso anche di ascoltarlo, è rimasto in rotazione molto poco sto disco 🥀"
On nayt - io Individuo
"@Pajetta22 sì e purtroppo crede anche di star facendo una critica sociale arguta e inedita (la fa da 3 dischi almeno)"
On Michele Bravi - Prima o poi
"@KNIGHTSTATIK purtroppo si è fermato solo alla copertina"
On Slayyyter - OLD TECHNOLOGY
"anyway AI or not, it doesn't really matter, i don't really like slayyyter's affiliation with her in the slightest but she removed it from the track or stopped caring about her now, so it's fine."
On Slayyyter - OLD TECHNOLOGY
"@mymelohdy
yeah and azealia is a known liar, i have not made up this rumor, i listened to it myself since it leaked on telegram, this is a clip of the verse:
https://x.com/i/status/2026310394000658741
i also reversed searched it and found nothing so it's either real and scrapped because she trashtalked or AI which is unlikely since this version leaked before the release of the official one."
On Slayyyter - OLD TECHNOLOGY
"@mymelohdy idk if you're referring to that beef in 2019, but this was her in 2025:
https://x.com/PopBase/status/1900881259624006119
aside from this, the leaked version of this track contained a verse from azealia at the end where now there's just the instrumental, so yeah, they still collaborated, which is awful considering how trash azealia has been this year, from trump supporter to full on zionist and omotransphobic, there's that i guess."
On Baby Keem - Ca$ino
"@plaayer i really couldn't bother to go back to the track to see what he meant because i completely forgot where he said it, so i'll just assume you're right and i did misunderstand the bar and I'll delete that part from my review, thanks for the heads up"
On Kid Yugi - PUSH IT
"@slashed13 non c'erano già Lilith ed Eva nel disco prima? non so, Kid Yugi per me ha sempre giocato nello stesso campionato di rondo, artie, simba e compagnia cantante, sì okay di sinistra e leggermente sopra come scrittura, ma pur sempre lì, poi boh, sarò io tremendamente disilluso sul rap italiano"
On Slayyyter - DANCE... (Edit)
"@p4smin i just feel it's kinda useless, tracks on the album are not tied to each other so there was no need to make something like that, plus what makes it really pointless is the fact that it's weak as a build up, it's static, honestly under-produced and lasts for a minute which is way too much for what it is, the edited version works much better, "take my breath" by the weeknd for example has a much better build up and makes the song overall better."
On Paky - GLORIA
"@I_love_chickenw ci ho anche provato ma purtroppo non so se metterei qualche voto diverso da 0, trovo tutte le tracce insopportabili proprio da ascoltare"
On Emis Killa - MUSICA TRISTE
"@I_love_chickenw non gli si può dire che non è costante però"
On Alice Ai - d.a.t.a.d.e.a.t.h.
"@4inch yeah it's a nice project!
well, so she does indeed exist and it's not ai, that's good, thanks!"
On Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
"<3"
On Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
"@I_love_chickenw
best redemption arc 🙏🙏
ma a parte questo, son contento per te for real, poi quest'album è generazionale non stento a crederci"
On Annalisa - Maschio
"@I_love_chickenw reallll"
On Annalisa - Maschio
"ma è davvero così problematico? alla fine i ragazzi hanno il rap, dove l'oggettificazione della donna è una costante, che secondo me è anche peggio di dire che i maschi sono viscidi, ma in generale, io per esempio, da uomo non mi sento toccato da un testo come quello di "Maschio" perché non parla di me e non mi sento rappresentato da ciò che dice lei, non sono così e posso ascoltarmi il pezzo senza problemi, per altro essendo anche bisex per certi versi posso anche trovarlo relatable, per il resto l'ipocrisia è all'ordine del giorno per chiunque, soprattutto per gli artisti, anche Dua Lipa con Dababy o Tate McRae con Morgan Wallen, KATY PERRY CON DR. LUKE!!!
la chiave secondo me è non considerare affatto "Maschio" più di quello che è."
On Annalisa - Maschio
"@I_love_chickenw
onest non me ne ero manco reso conto, ho recensito questa traccia poco dopo l'uscita e sono un po' stupito che ci sia anche della polemica su questo pezzo, più che altro perché alla fine non vedo questa traccia chissà quanto scioccante, è una traccia normalissima il cui testo è leggermente provocatorio, ma è davvero così diverso da una traccia come "Manchild" di Sabrina Carpenter? Annalisa sta seguendo semplicemente un trend, come ha dimostrato di fare più volte anche prima, in questo caso è il trend del "diva pop" che va da diverso tempo anche appunto all'estero, dove si tende a scimmiottare i ragazzi e ad esaltare l'indipendenza femminile."
On Povia - Luca era gay
"@KNIGHTSTATIK precursor of picsart lookin ass covers"
On Povia - Luca era gay
"@I_love_chickenw honestly? i totally get it but i'm also bi so guess it isn't that much of a surprise lol"
On Justin Bieber - SWAG
"@hatemeorloveme drake album from 2022"
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