Just soooooooo not for me. Instrumentation was great but I could not stand the vocals holy cow.
This sound certainly feels more fitting for Drake than whatever it is he's doing on the other two albums but man this shit still doesn't land. The decent production can only go so far when Drake's lifeless vocals and cringe bars are doing everything in their power to sink this album. Also can someone teach this dude what a hook is please?
I don't know what to say about this? What is this? I can't tell if this is a good album that sucks or a bad album that rules. BLACK OUT is the worst song I've heard all year. BYEBYE25 is the best song I've heard all year. I can't remember if I'm joking.
UPDATE: I listened to it again and I liked it :)
Lyrically this might be the worst album I've ever heard. It's staggeringly impersonal, Risk It All really sets the tone off right. Bruno Mars sings about how he'll move mountains for girlfriend, how he'd do anything for her, but never why. We don't know what love feels like to him or what qualities about this person who is so enamored with. Like when he says he'll risk it all what is he risking? What is all? Why would he risk it? Why would he have to? It never gets ... read more
I'm gonna do a track by track breakdown as I listen
Fate of Ophelia- Fine, but it's too long and I feel like she has not read Hamlet.
Elizabeth Taylor- Boring if not outright bad, a song begging to play over the credits of an episode of The Summer I Turned Pretty
Opalite- Lyrics are cringe but musically it's not bad, best song so far though it's also a little too long I think
Father Figure- Another songs with bad lyrics but a decent melody. Right now this album is ... read more