Calm down, people: Drake's new dance album isn't the disaster you think it is
, Drake released his seventh album on Thursday night with only a few hours’ notice. The announcement forwas accompanied by smeary, metallic cover art that made you wonder if the iconic grunge record it shares half its name with would mean Drake—a noted genre chameleon, or thief, depending on how you look at it—would pull a 2010-era Lil Wayne by copping the punk rock sounds that have permeated mainstream pop as of late .
If you can make it past the annoying squeaky bed sounds on “Currents” and the paranoid energy of “Falling Back” , you’ll be rewarded by the album’s stellar middle section, where things really begin to gel and glow. “Sticky,” a bouncy highlight where Drake actually raps and speaks in French, is followed by the album’s longest and most exuberant-sounding track, the aptly titled “Massive.”
That’s followed by “Flight’s Booked” and “Overdrive,” which sound like companion pieces where Drake fights for a “divine bond,” as he describes it on the latter song, featuring an awesome guitar outro. “Tie That Binds” similarly spotlights a Santana-esque guitar solo; in fact, the entire second half of the track is completely Drake-less, featuring only instrumentals and backing vocals.
Things grind to a halt with the weird pitched-down vocals of “Liability,” before giving way to the big finale: the 21 Savage-featuring “Jimmy Cooks,” which frankly doesn’t sound like it belongs on this album at all. Like “Sticky,” it’s pure rap, aka what most of the world expected from Drake.
And yet, that return-to-form finale apparently hasn’t been enough for those who were expecting a hip-hop album and have been cracking jokes on Twitter comparing these new songs to mall music. To that, I can only ask, did you all really want more cringey, TikTok-baiting songs like “Toosie Slide?” Though not a perfect album,shows us a musical and cultural juggernaut willing to experiment with his sound and to throw his fans for a loop. You can call him divisive, but you can’t call him boring.
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