worst Drake song on the radio this year

also while i actively try to hear at least singles that are charting or artists who seem to be gaining some pop culture traction, i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.

if we assign each a dummy variable, "nothin on you" is "terrible" and the love below is "not terrible"

obv everyone is talking about the "i planted a money tree/ which is ironic/ because my mom was a florist" line

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:55 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

better yet with this shit is he drops "isn't it ironic that the girl i wanna marry is a wedding planner" the track right before

xp ha even as a love below defender, a lot of it is terrible, but the difference is it's never terrible because it's bland m.o.r. soft rock

b/w drake and alanis, i'm beginning to think canadian language arts education does not go to the trouble of explaining irony

The song sounds like a goofier version of "Roses" (sonically, not in subject matter; there you'd have to look more at songs like "Prototype") with rhymes written by Lupe Fiasco; ergo, what I am saying is that it is drawing sonically and thematically on different parts of The Love Below filtered very strongly through songwriting sensibilities represented by Lupe Fiasco on tracks like "Superstar", all packaged together in something more harmless and radio-friendly.

It strikes me as mostly harmless, which is why I don't get the outright antipathy leveled towards it (whereas with someone like Drake I totally get why everyone here hates him, because he is offensively terrible).

Thus concludes my dazzling star turn as Cap'n Save-a-B.o.B.

yeah i wasnt even gonna check if someone'd already done a oh yeah that's right i'm doing alanis morissette gag

more a lol canada gag

hey guys how about:

my dad called me up knowing that i still listen
and he still got his foot out
guilt tripping

:/

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/2zi9evp.gif

:D

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop. "Nothin' on You" sounds like contemporary soft rock. Not hearing the connection.

And it is totally harmless. Which is at least 50% of why I hate it.

other 50% is Bruno Mars. in spirit of not wishing death on anyone, I'm hoping someone at least severs his tongue or crushes his larynx or something before he has a career.

i'm starting to think i should listen to the drake album for the lols

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop.

I mean, I like "Roses" but how is this even accurate?

how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?

<3 u lex

i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.

dude, you cannot turn on hot 97 on NYC without hearing drake, about 10x an hour. seriously. if you don't listen to the critics, do you at least give the radio plays some weight on your gauge?

i don't live in NYC? drake hasn't even had a top 40 hit here

i know you don't. but it's an indicator, especially if you aren't listening to the critics.

what i'm asking is, if you're not listening to the critics, and you're not paying attention to what is being played in the urban music capital of the world, then what are you basing on what you listen to, as a critic?

obvs we can't look at sales figures yet cause the album isn't out... maybe then you'll listen

GIVE DRAKE A CHANCE

that's all we're saying

non-new yorkers aren't really required to give one fuck about new york, just so you know

and lol at ny being the "urban music capital of the world" at any point after 50 cent blew up

the billboard chart isn't just NY

obv. if by "capitol", you mean the US, my bad, but that word does imply a city.

listen im just as stupefied at drake's success as much as anyone else. i find him completely atrocious and i cannot understand why the hip hop community has embraced him.

he bringin in that bieber fan money

for the record, uk urban radio is more nyc-centric than it is of anywhere else and drake gets as much exposure as anyone else (top 40 or no). whether that fact constitutes a relevance that demands attention here on the other hand...

it does.

noted urban music scholar cutty has spoken

re: lex not listening to the record?

critical responsibility of uk resident lex to listen to the record

there you go

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that rosetta stone lyric has the gotta be the worst.

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loooool

and it's in "deep thoughts" font

hahahaha

http://cdn.giantmag.com/files//2009/05/drake1.jpg

The 2010 version of this is going to be epic.

did the first sequel over the summer: worst Drake song on the radio PART TWO

andy k on his blog compared (i think) drake's vocal tone to a game show buzzer. that about sums it up

leaning on a game show buzzer!

"Marvins Room" is a good contender for 2011.

ha i think this might be his first woozy sadsack R&B song that i actually kinda like. also i kinda doubt it'll be a radio hit, although that's probably wishful thinking.

ok i just got to the "i've had sex four times this week" part i retract my halfhearted defense