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Originally Posted by louder
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Yeah, I read that. They make some good points. As I listen to the album I find that there are some decent moments, especially the song with that Malcolm Mclaren sample (forget the title... Feel no ways?) but that overall it really is just a massive testament to how limited Drake is as a rapper, singer, lyricist and even a pop culture figure.
I like the fact that it got a 6.8 -- historically, that's pretty much the lowest score an album can get from Pitchfork and still hope to make the top 50 of the year (as Beck's Sea Change did in 2002, after getting that exact same rating) -- and I'm REALLY glad they chose to take a second to talk about Kanye and Kendrick, and how the music those two artists have made has "worked" in a way that Drake's, undeniably, has not.
I was going to lose my shit if Views got a higher rating than Pablo, or even untitled. unmastered, because it would just mean that music's primary barometer is broken.... which it may well be, but still ... NOBODY other than Drake's teeny bopper super fans is going to claim that he's "better" at anything than Kanye and Kendrick, and if that started to happen, I'd have to remove myself from the conversation entirely.
Oh, also, if it got a higher rating than Lemonade, I was going to be super offended, since Views is, essentially, the anti-Lemonade: a
men's rights album with no social or political compass whatsoever that opts for humble-bragging over true honesty and contains no truly heart-rending moments of clarity or perspective.
So, justice is served.