his lifelessness to his music, this airbrushed airlessness, that makes it hard for me to really warm to him.
Nailed it.
One thing I enjoy about rap is that it's free on the manufactured personas that infest most of "celebrity culture". Not that rappers personas are any more "real" or not manufactured - I'm not saying that for a second - but the majority of them don't do that horrible blanding out of all difference and interest which is what I feel when I've been unfortunate enough to listen to Drake. He seems largely to exist to map over rap's creativity onto the mainstream pop market.
I work with 16-17 year olds and I can confirm that Drake's looks are a massive hit with teenage girls. The mopey shit feels like a direct appeal to that market. I realise I'm adding nothing new to Internet Drake Studies with any of these statements but there you go. I'm a bit behind on what the internet says, 'cos I dislike him so much.
And also - I actually cannot and will not believe that someone responsible for the fucking atrocity that is the "Hold On, We're Coming Home" video could ever make a good record. That shit is such a creative nadir it renders the rest of the his career irrelevant. He'd have to do, I don't know, a record with Slick Rick and Bambaattaa that cures cancer to come back from that.
Nailed it.
One thing I enjoy about rap is that it's free on the manufactured personas that infest most of "celebrity culture". Not that rappers personas are any more "real" or not manufactured - I'm not saying that for a second - but the majority of them don't do that horrible blanding out of all difference and interest which is what I feel when I've been unfortunate enough to listen to Drake. He seems largely to exist to map over rap's creativity onto the mainstream pop market.
I work with 16-17 year olds and I can confirm that Drake's looks are a massive hit with teenage girls. The mopey shit feels like a direct appeal to that market. I realise I'm adding nothing new to Internet Drake Studies with any of these statements but there you go. I'm a bit behind on what the internet says, 'cos I dislike him so much.
And also - I actually cannot and will not believe that someone responsible for the fucking atrocity that is the "Hold On, We're Coming Home" video could ever make a good record. That shit is such a creative nadir it renders the rest of the his career irrelevant. He'd have to do, I don't know, a record with Slick Rick and Bambaattaa that cures cancer to come back from that.
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