Play Me Some Simpin, Mane: Drake - Nothing Was the Same

im into 'worst behavior' & 'the language'

Ack! Keep forgetting that "Take Care" was a single!

"305 to my city" is total garb

actually i kinda like this song... there's at least layers to this beat

305 to my city is def the weakest on the record

i like this album more than any of his others. from a musical POV, it's easily the strongest imo.

I liked the "Take Care" through "We'll Be Fine" sequence on TC, with Drake working his flow around the sumptuous beats. After this one he's just going MEH MEH MEH MEH in that way of his I can't stand.

I like "Hold On, We're Going Home" more now than I did last month, although I gotta get over this lech singing "You're a good girl and you know it"

the hooks, the beats, songfulness in general are stepped up in a big way

too bad everything he raps abt is so lost-in-your-head boring

'hold on we're going home' is like the reverse 'take care' to me in that it sounds better on the album than radio

I haven't managed to fall for "Hold On" yet. I guess I'm looking forward to hearing the album, but "Started From The Bottom" kinda killed my boner for this.

agreed that "305 to my city" is the weakest thing here, down to the why-didn't-you-just-get-future? eye-rolling detail appearance.

i dunno though, i've always found drake relatable-- moreso than kanye, even, and that holds for me on this record.

no one would know detail was on that song if he hadn't decided to put him on the tracklist

from a musical POV, it's easily the strongest imo.

yeah i just don't get this at all. take care has better production by MILES.

if you really dig the production on this album you should go back and listen to 'so far gone' ... it's a dead ringer in a lot of places

better beats than just about anything on this album

over my dead body, take care, marvin's room, lord knows, cameras, doing it wrong, the real her, look what you've done, the ride

sensitivity is fine but aubs is a pretty poor example thereof

it's not really sensitivity though, it's scare-tildes sensitivity, sensitivity as posturing, it's pure ego. drake has never once penned a line that makes me think "THAT REALNESS" - he has no insights into the human condition to offer. the hardman mockery of him has never quite rung true b/c obv there's nothing wrong with emotion or sensitivity as countless rappers before him have demonstrated; it's because he uses signifiers of it to prop up his ego

his best singles are obviously "best i ever had" and "the motto" btw, "take care" is piss-weak and "started from the bottom" is laughable

that was my exact point, fool

check ralph tresvant iirc

Loving this alternative cover:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSPb3JiCYAEmj_P.jpg

Ironic 'started from the bottom' tweets vs serious ones. Which is worse?

I don't like the songwriting or beats on any of those songs j0

Renn what do u find "relateable" about drake? Other than being Canadian lol

how does anyone solemnly sit thru 'the language' without mentally shouting versaceversaceversaceversace over the verses idgi

"the motto" and "best i ever had" are the best drake singles

I don't like the songwriting or beats on any of those songs j0

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, September 18, 2013 9:36 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

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i certainly don't see what makes them superior to the production on this record

imo everything is just tighter ... less meandering

katherine's tumblr post on this was really good

d, i'll respond to this when i have more time. just wanted to say i'm not ignoring your question.

Yes! What she said about "Hold On..." is what I tried to say last night. It's such a stupid song, lacking any of Drake's "self-awareness" or whatever.

lot of great pop songs are stupid though

katherine's tumblr post on this was really good

― 乒乓, Wednesday, September 18, 2013 4:48 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
link?

oh hi

a) thanks!

b) http://katherinestasaph.tumblr.com/post/61597928034/some-scattered-thoughts-on-the-drake-album-and-women

c) (anything stupid said in this post is due to writing it at like 2 a.m. with a neck cramp. this is my story that I am sticking to etc)

hah i wasn't sure if linking to it would be cool or not. but yeah, really good

lot of great pop songs are stupid though

― J0rdan S

yes but this pop song asks us to feel sympathy for the hero saying overwrought, masochistic twaddle about his relationship

tbh it would be better if it were at all masochistic

"Endlessly, I can't get over you/You left your mark on me" sounds masochistic to me

ennhh, just sounds like generic pickup-line flattery

oh man you mention the GTA V review "fallout" which made me swear this is my last year in the fuckin' game.

great piece katherine.

yah

I like this album a lot, but ultimately I'm probably filing this away in the Late Registration/Amnesiac/Neon Bible folder of really good, not-quite-great albums that don't do quite enough to distinguish themselves from their predecessors so they can't quite escape the shadow of the album that came before them

i can't wrap my head around the idea that late registration isn't distinguished from college dropout

Probably stupid of me to open up another Late Registration debate, especially since I do love that album. But ultimately I think of it mostly as a continuation of College Dropout, expanding on the same ideas. It adds some new tweaks and offers some amazing standouts, but doesn't break radically from what came before it. It's not an 808s or a Yeezus.

i prefer LR but i don't object to the idea. he practically asked for his 2nd and 3rd albums to be thought of that way with their titles.

same way Drake was practically asking for obvious jokes by making another Drake album and calling it Nothing Was The Same

lol the ideal rapgenius artist

excellent stuff as ever, katherine. (can someone explain the GTA thing to me quickly? video games are so far off my radar i don't even know what they look like.)

But I don’t have Drake feelings; to me they’re almost a red flag. If someone tells me he relates to women the way Drake would, I would be rather put off.

POW

bonus pts for the "matte black truck" mention obv

the other thing i liked about that reminder is kalenna presaging the wu tang glomming

i'm listening to this now and i physically shuddered at "girl don't treat me like a stranger, girl you know i seen you naked" pathetic attempt at power play. this dude is gross

I'm not being an original here but ugh, massive cringe at the 'Courtney from Hooters on Peachtree' line.