Now he just sounds like any believer everywhere. This album is so musically backwards looking, and so lyrically staid, it's such a massive disappointment.
I feel like we’re listening to two totally different albums. I’m being gaslit by the exact same people who, let’s be honest, overhyped his earlier work
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
i think the production on this album is really beautiful and spacious and very patiently crafted, and the people who think it's bland are kinda telling on themselves, like they can't deal with chance if he's not overwhelming them with thirty ideas at once. breihan calling it "bright and flat and weightless" smh, shit is dimensional
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
just kinda love hanging out in this particular backyard
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
also the shawn mendes track goes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
^^ agreed, that's def one of the highlights.
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
I’m being gaslit by the exact same people who, let’s be honest, overhyped his earlier work
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
i don't know about gaslighting but this def feels like he went from overrated to underrated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Coloring Book was my favorite album of 2016, but I never really liked Acid Rap either. I guess he is very hit and miss for me, lol.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Acid Rap and 10 Day were both better than Coloring book imo. Still haven't listened to this one yet though.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
this album is great and i love listening to it. “five year plan” is AMAZING
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link
i'm pretty sure "get a bag" is better than "sunday candy"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:25 (four years ago) link
i feel that way also ... calboy sounds good on it too
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
I really like this album? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 04:16 (four years ago) link
ok this is really growing on me now, the production's so gorgeous and there are plenty of hooks they're just a different vibe to the sort of bigness of a lot of colouring book so that + the length made it hard to really get into at first
latest favourite is "ballin flossin"
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:11 (four years ago) link
Ballin flossin is a highlight for me too. Also big fish — gucci sounds great on that
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:33 (four years ago) link
I do want to apologize to Fred who complained that this album wasn’t corny enough which suggests tho we have v different aesthetic criteria he did listen to this album more than 99% of reviewers — this is def his least corny album at least possibly barring the dark parts of acid rap
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 05:59 (four years ago) link
I haven't read the reviews but I was pleased that Chance has toned things down a bit? I remember enjoying Coloring Book but also finding it exhausting and I didn't return to it after a few run-throughs.
Also the dark parts of Acid Rap are probably my favourite things he's done.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:11 (four years ago) link
most of the complaints i've seen have been "this is waaay too corny why does he love his wife so much lol" and i don't get that at all when colouring book went full on "god is great!" for a few tracks and this one is generally chiller and a little more low-key musically too
― ufo, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:16 (four years ago) link
only a few tracks in and his verses are really good but the choruses are mostly deflating
― flopson, Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:25 (four years ago) link
arent the first two hooks just john legend and ben gibbard
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 06:49 (four years ago) link
Yes and they’re the reason I had a bad taste in my mouth the first time through
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
idgi the hook on "all day long" is tight and gibbard really works on "do you remember"
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
this is a very me thing to post but the gibbard hook is like something green gartside would sing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
I’m finally listening to this album now, and... I don’t really understand why so many people are so mad at it? Sure, there are moments that are a bit off, like the white dude screaming on the title track. But for the most part it sounds pretty good.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
It reminds me of Three feet high and rising in a way that very few modern rap albums do, lol.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
man, i dunno what you're hearing there! i hear a lotta different approaches but none of them sound particularly good to me. More power to you for finding something you like though!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Chance really walked into "wife guy" meme territory, huh
I'm DJing a friend's wedding in a few weeks, what song from this do I play?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Probably several tracks but “get a bag”
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
I was going to listen to this but then I saw the name "CocoRosie"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
One of the funniest ways in which chance ended up at this point, where some of his best material is treated as the worst shit in the world, is that there’s no singular cause... instead it’s like a laundry list of little things, down to him putting cocorosie on his album, a self own so specific that explaining it to someone off ilx requires linking to fifteen year old articles about long forgotten hipster parties ... it really has been career death by a thousand paper cuts
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
cocorosie only show up for a few seconds too lol
had never thought about comparing gibbard to gartside but their voices do have a similar weird quality to them and i can hear what brad means
― ufo, Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
it also might explain a reason why i don't really connect with either singer
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 August 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
Timing-wise, he sure walked headfirst into 'wife guy' meme territory
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Jordan I'd stick to his bigger/older hits for a wedding gig but that's just me
― Papa Triste (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
he should have rolled into the 'i love my wife, iigh' stuff tbh, sold shirts or whatever
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:30 (four years ago) link
still, a great album
if it has a weak point to me its that he's pulled back somewhat from certain kinds of vulnerable specifics, which i understand on a level of what fame does to a person, but its unfortunate it happened on an album that is so defined by personal relationships ... nonetheless, great songs
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 22 August 2019 08:31 (four years ago) link
the stuff that doesn't really work for me on this is down to "hot shower" (which is fun and goofy i guess but his voice is really grating on it), the part on the title track where francis yells a bunch, and "5 year plan" (which isn't really bad just relatively dull and saccharine?)
in addition to all the wife complaints i keep seeing people complain about the production being bland and lifeless which is even more baffling, i really don't know what people are listening to.
― ufo, Thursday, 22 August 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link
twitter really hates this guy now huh. he's on that wave where no matter what he does someone retweets with a 'look at this dork' and everyone piles on the hate
― Spottie, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:48 (four years ago) link
I never even got around to the last one but find the ott blowback kinda sad.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
drake toosie slide has had the “salmon gucci slides” song from this album stuck in my head and it still cracks me up that chance and nicki got together for the first time as a voltron of once beloved celebs who suddenly became twitter villains
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
ha otm. honestly this is my favorite project of his at this point.
― Spottie, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link
Yikes.
I finally got the answer now. I understand. Yall trust Biden more than yall trust Ye. I think I understand why, I just don’t feel the same way.— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) July 13, 2020
― jaymc, Monday, 13 July 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
With most celebrities, if I see them trending my first thoughts are "Oh no, did they die?" or "Oh no, are they racist/sexist/homophobic?"With Chance, it's "Oh no, did he say something dumb about Kanye?"— DJP (@djperry1973) July 13, 2020
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 13 July 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
Hi, @chancetherapper. If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this.— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Damn RIP
― rob, Sunday, 6 December 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
avoid confusion with Chance the Painter
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
I am now Dionne the Singer.— Dionne Warwick (@_DionneWarwick) December 5, 2020
― dyl, Sunday, 6 December 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
dionne THEE singer imo
Realized on reading this thread that I'd vaguely (and wrongly) thought of it as a really random Being There reference.
― Lily Dale, Sunday, 6 December 2020 02:45 (three years ago) link
“I cannot stop thinking about this”
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 December 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link