Drake - VIEWS (Discussion Thread)

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I feel like Views is BY FAR the best song on here. Why can't he give me a album full of that flow and vibe? I keep thinking it's coming but he keeps pump faking
 

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lol drake was the number one trend last night and at least six or seven songs were trending individually


yeah, when it very first dropped. Bruh, today is the official release date and it's nowhere to be found. TLOP, TPAB, WATTBA and other top albums were trending for days after. This album came and went like a fart in the wind in less than 24 hours
 

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After some Twitter sparring with my boy who hyped me for IYRTITL to disappoint me :francis: I decided to give this man Aubrey a chance.

I had low expectations for this, because he hasn't impressed lyrically in like 3 years and I always preferred his rap to his R&B. This is the first project where that's the opposite. Outside of Weston Road Flow and Views, he coasting on the few rap songs this album has, and of course its hard to take braggadocio Drake serious after Millergate, but he or whoever (ghost)wrote those 2 songs display why I and listeners lIke me prefered the Drake the MC overy Drake the crooner. Except he's no longer an MC.

I actually do think he's improved as R&B artist. The smoothness of this album is double edged sword because it serves it's purpose but it's very light, just like NWTS it's drowsy overall, but that album was bright as hell, this one is a little moodier so the production is more compelling to listen to.

Of course we know 20 songs is too damn long. Even if he's showcasing the side that he's actually improved on. Really any album over 16 tracks leaves lots of room for error.

U With Me*
Feel No Ways
Weston Road Flow*
Redemption
Controlla
Too Good
Summer's Over*
Views*

The asterisks are the top half of the standouts for me. 8 out of 20. If this was 12 or 13 tracks I think this album would be received differently, same thing I said about Take Care (which I hated on first listen and respected after). Despite the R&B side improvement, I'm not really compelled to revisit an album in which I'm only cool with 40% of it. I also called the direction of it 6 months ago which further detracts from its mystique. Cool album for the females, but the stans going "new Hov" and "2010s GOAT", in the context of hip-hop, GOTTA stop.

2.75 out of 5. If it was 13 tracks, it could've been probably as much as a 3.5, 12 forgettable records to 8 good ones screws things up. Within his 5 major projects post-SFG, it's smack in the middle...not as listenable as TML (I'm in the extreme minority on that album) nor as alluring as Take Care, but more committed sonically than NWTS and a better showcase of one of his dual talents than It's Too Late.

Will do numbers, but just doesn't match the near 2 year hype. But the hip-hop classic expectations are gone and I will actually appreciate Drake going forward if he lets the magic number 30 carry him into the R&B lane.
 

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So if you search Views in twitter these are the related searches

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Think that sums up most people's feelings about this album. A few hot songs but nothing that will be remembered.
 

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Album is solid. I kind of left with the same impression as when I first heard Take Care, it was okay at first but after a couple listens grew on me as well. Some songs were eh, but there are a bunch I know I'll be playing a lot of. Drake doesn't have a classic still, just solid LPs.

I wish he didn't take Popcaan off of Controlla though, I was like highkey like :sadcam: when I didn't hear Popcaan on it.


Grammys is what What A Time To Be Alive should've sounded like. Can't wait to yell Future's verse highly inebriated with a drink in hand all summer though :heh:
 

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Had to go revisit his prior albums after listening to this and holy shyt dude has definitely regressed something serious.

You would have to be bat shyt crazy to say that this is better than Take Care or Nothing Was The Same.

With the hoopla with Meek and the ghost writer stories. I think he is a artist who seconomic guessing himself which explains this lackluster ass album.
 
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