By my count, there are 216 seconds of intros, outros, and straight up dead-air across the first five songs on this album. But as it stands, it is an absolute chore to get through. Kane: I’ll concede that if you were to cut the number of songs considerably and rearrange them, you might make a decent album. Even with all that gold in rotation, I had Views on repeat. The spring and summer of 2016 were a good time for music we got Chance 3 and Noname’s Telefone a few months after Rihanna blessed us with Anti and Kanye dropped Life of Pablo.
And tell me you didn’t dance even a little bit to “Controlla,” “One Dance,” and “Hotline Bling” when they came out. Among others, we get a RiRi feature (“Too Good”), which every Drake album could benefit from. “Redemption” and “Still Here” give us classic aggrieved Drake. “With You” is a fun summer song, perfect to drive to. Views gives us a bit of all the things we enjoy. I refuse to believe there are people who actively enjoy a front-to-back listen of Views.ĭave: Front-to-back listening is just one of many ways to listen to music! I’m with you on the idea of the album being too long, but I listen to it more in singles than in its entirety. Kane: That may be true, but if Views contains all the little Drake things, you have to admit it contains way, way, way, too many of them. But what we get in Views is a good snapshot of who Drake was in 2016, basking in the success he built for himself and experimenting a bit with his sound while remaining unabashedly on-brand. He says so himself on “Hype”: “I don’t take this shit for granted / I do my own propaganda.” Some other gems from Views: “I group-DM my exes,” “I had to let go of us to show myself what I could do,” and “That pussy knows me better than I know myself.” Of course, one-liners are quintessential to all Drake content, even those appearing on his lesser playlist More Life. Drake’s definitely well aware of how great his bars are for the ’gram.
We’ve got the boy in his feelings, telling the rap world he’s the best in the game, talking about how he provides for his loved ones, and reveling in all his absurdist, quippy glory. Virali Dave: Right off the bat, one of the things I love about Views is that it gives us all the little Drake things fans have come to know and love. That said, I’d love it if you tried to convince me otherwise. for what he could’ve been, a Views fan-the timing is perfect to convince him that the most polarizing Drake album is actually good. Since April 29 marks two years since the album’s release-and since I always saw T.C. and I first met, we bonded over our mutual love for Drake, only to find that we had very different views on Views. Like most Drake content, the album performed remarkably well -it’s spent more than 100 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 -but whether it is a good album is still up for debate among fans. Of the many points of contention within the Drake fandom, one’s take on Views falls right up there with controversies of alleged ghostwriting.
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