A couple of hot takes i have about this album:
- Lavish is EXTREMELY overhated. While thematically it doesn’t quite fit the album, but it’s a funny little detour halfway through it. I don’t even mind that “bottomless” line
- Navigating chorus ruins the song. It’s horrendously out of place.
- The last four tracks are quite solid. Some of them are among the album highpoints for sure.
Playing prime Fortnite while listening to this album was peak life for me. 😢😢
Now that I’m officially entering adult life and seeking a real job, I decided to re-listen to the album that pretty much shaped my whole teenage years. I still remember not having internet the day it was released, so I had to go to my grandma’s house just so I could download it and I was hooked ever since.
I listened to this album on every single bus ride to school for a whole year that’s ... read more
"Actually Frank, Cleopatra was not African. She was a Macedonian/Greek so that makes her basically white in today's world." -🤓
Another Star X Get Lucky mashup at the grammys is when music as an art form peaked.