Drake: Views

crikey this really died a death on here quickly huh. i think Feel No Ways is his best ever song; i didn't notice it at first but it's a wonderful thing.

i was talking to my brother about Views today, I said Drake took a massive L with it, then he reminded me it was #1 on Billboard for 13 weeks straight

Yeah really depends on the measure you use. As an album it was a failure, but as a financially successful mass... mission accomplished.

Gotta believe this album will mute a lot of the excitement for the next one, though, so his career may still suffer for its mediocrity down the line

i really like my edit of this that cuts out 1/3 of the songs

Do you have a link? I do remember good songs being in there, but they're packaged with so much redundant emptiness I haven't had the energy to sift them out

I also really, really hate the singles on this album ("Too Good" exempted, if that even counts). NWTS felt like an over-padded disappointment initially, too, but it had the knockout singles to keep me coming back enough for the rest to grow on me

basically i just flat cut out anything that doesn't have at least a tangential connection to R&B

u with me?
feel no ways
weston road flows
redemption
with you
faithful
controlla
one dance
child's play
too good
fire & desire
hotline bling

you could still trim some fat there but this was basically my quick way of making the album listenable

i kinda count summer 16 & 4pm in Calabasas as Views tracks and among the best of this whole batch

i was talking to my brother about Views today, I said Drake took a massive L with it, then he reminded me it was #1 on Billboard for 13 weeks straight

― flappy bird, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:55 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah really depends on the measure you use. As an album it was a failure, but as a financially successful mass... mission accomplished.

Gotta believe this album will mute a lot of the excitement for the next one, though, so his career may still suffer for its mediocrity down the line

― Evan R, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def a new jersey

yeah biggest New Jersey since Born This Way I'd bet

downtown wippin on the wadio

'too good' is the definitive drake song imo

nothing about it on paper is objectionable, together/apart duet, muted/nullified demeanour, lovely melody, all classic all adds up... except him, in his purest form, at his nauseating snide hostile manipulative insincere paternalist weasel worst

j0rd otm, this album is totally salvageable just too many songs on it

first album to top a billion streams.

It's the first album to top 1 billion streams on Apple Music, other albums have done it on Spotify (Lean On is nearly there on its own)

I think the length of the album is a big reason why the album has racked up as many streams as it has--in the new economy, more tracks = more streams.

first album to top a billion streams.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, September 27, 2016 3:28 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heard Drake bought a new 75 inch TV with the earnings

It would amuse Don 'n' Glenn

The string outro on "Feel No Ways" is nice. "Hold On, We're Going Home" still his only timeless song imo.

"nothing about it on paper is objectionable, together/apart duet, muted/nullified demeanour, lovely melody, all classic all adds up... except him, in his purest form, at his nauseating snide hostile manipulative insincere paternalist weasel worst"

I don't get this from "Too Good" at all, it seems pretty genuine.

I think the length of the album is a big reason why the album has racked up as many streams as it has--in the new economy, more tracks = more streams.

― I know hoes that know Ali Farka Toure (voodoo chili), Tuesday, September 27, 2016 4:38 PM (five days ago) Bookmark

well people can press stop

I guess Drake was unable to reach Young Thug for "Fake Love" and so thought he'd have a go at the chorus himself

awkward patois on No Long Talk

wow on quite a few tracks

the having a hard time adjusting to fame trope is p tired by now

i fuck with passionfruit tbh

same

His best album since Take Care if I ignore him. The guests and samples are OK to excellent.

Want to say VIEWS would be a great album if it was cut down to 10 tracks and 40 minutes, but upon revisiting it, I think it would just be pretty good. The dancehall songs are the only ones that feel like expansions on his style, the rest feel like retreads. I like "Feel No Ways" a lot, but can't shake the fact that it sounds like the bitter sequel to "Hold on We're Going Home" (although I wouldn't be totally opposed to Drake further exploring his chillwave side...). Also, the sequencing is terrible. The title track would be a decent closer if the album itself wasn't so exhausting.

Drake shocked me by essentially admitting VIEWS was disappointing artistically ("I was an angry youth when i was writing Views/Seen a side of myself that I never knew" is most direction admission we're going to get) and pivoted with More Life, reestablishing himself critically and further cementing his status as a commercial force. VIEWS will not be his New Jersey.

For what it's worth, here's my ideal VIEWS tracklist:

9
U With Me?
Feel No Ways
Hype
Controlla
One Dance
Hotline Bling
Too Good
Childs Play
Views

Views can't be a New Jersey because Hotline Bling is his definitive track imo.

Views can't be a New Jersey because Hotline Bling is his definitive track imo.

― gospodin simmel, Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:49 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is true

Hotline Bling was released 9 months before Views and was only tacked on to juice the streams count

also true

How much of More Life supposedly being better than this album is because of people actually like it more, vs. the Critical Narrative willing a return to form after such a "bitter" and "dark" album? Which is only true for maybe half of this.

I understand I'm the last one not onboard who just doesn't appreciate dude's current alleged genre-mixing genius. I wonder though

More Life made me like Views better—i appreciate Views's cohesiveness more now

How much of More Life supposedly being better than this album is because of people actually like it more, vs. the Critical Narrative willing a return to form after such a "bitter" and "dark" album? Which is only true for maybe half of this.

personally i prefer More Life because it has more good music on it. just one man's opinion

"Travel through the Caribbean with Drake as he tweets passive-aggressively"

lol flopson, fair. I think it's got a few dope songs vs. his other albums which I don't like in general. Find a lot of the supposedly more "fun" material dull per his usual though, just in a different way. + him reverting to his old mopey personality toward the end

That part in "Free Smoke" where he speeds up his flow is cool tho, first time I've been kinda impressed by him stylistically since I don't know

Today I am going to challenge everyone to just go out and do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy and please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread.

You don’t have to play the song in the background or have some hashtag. This isn’t about streams and all the other tactics being used...just go be kind in any way you can and let’s all watch the world be nice to each other even if it’s for 24 hours.

Thank you

- Drake

and you get a car

Drake becoming the Oprah of rap is very on-brand.

"do something for someone, anything, the smallest thing just to bring another human being some joy"
"please tag me in it somehow so I can see all the love being spread"

basically as long as you tag Drake it satisfies these two conditions lol

His next album will be about being happy and the ridiculous pictures of Drake will reach its peak.

for something that was apparently the biggest song of 2016 i literally never saw or heard one dance anywhere (and still haven't)

which feels especially weird considering i've bumped into heaps of other drake stuff just moseying about over the years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpVfcZ0ZcFM

I find this slightly repulsive

that song is SO POPULAR on the radio

Yeah, this is a weird hit. I mean, I like Drake, but I’ve listened to this song plenty of times and nothing about it sticks with me. I think we’ve just reached peak Drake, where any song he releases is an automatic #1 based on the obscene amount of streams he’ll get for it. I thought he’d kinda peaked a couple of years back, but I guess not.

yeah but this is radio and at night they take call in requests and it's always this or Cardi ppl ask for

Signs flopped just a few months ago, fyi. This is v catchy.

it is catchy indeed, but wtf is up with that video

He’s god.

hah i had typed that then deleted for some reason. otm. part of me hates this ego-stroking video but part of me is like hm maybe this will inspire some youngsters (or anyone) to do some good or nice? idk

sure, in that sense it's nice

but I can't help feeling like it ends being more of a demonstration of power, a celebration of the inequality that Drake is benefitting from and other people are suffering under, and maybe it's because of all the Trump stuff but that kind of gesture probably seems less innocent to me now than it would have 5 years ago