You can hear Drake singing around Jackson's singing on "Don't Matter To Me." TUCKER: A few months ago, there was an Internet rumor that Drake had chosen a most unlikely collaborator, a track with Paul Anka, the 1960s pop idol and author of "You're Having My Baby." Turns out Drake has used a sample of a track produced by Anka - previously unreleased music by Michael Jackson from a 1983 recording session. How you go from that to ending up with someone just like? How can you be angry on a night in July, and be warm with me when it's freezing outside. Said you want a simple life, and that's not me. Then you block them so they can't see you liking someone just like me. I follow one your friends, you unfollow me. You say I led you on, but you followed me. Listen to the way he talks and sings his way through this cool, shimmering bit of romantic melancholy called Summer Games.ĭRAKE: (Rapping) Yeah. He also has a couple of tracks that toggle back and forth between the two. This collection contains a fair number of compositions on which Drake sings as opposed to rapping. TUCKER: "Scorpion" is a big, expansive affair - 25 tracks that total almost an hour and a half. All these followers, but who going to follow me to the end? I guess I'll make it to the end, and I'm going to find out then.
All these people taking miles when you give them an inch. (Rapping) They always ask, why let the story run if it's false? You know, a wise man once said nothing at all. The only ones I want to tell are the ones I can call. Breaking news in my life, I don't run to the blogs. Until you staring at your seed, you can never relate. I was hiding the world from my kid, from empty souls who just wake up and look to debate. I know a girl that saves pictures from places she's flown to post later and make it look like she is still on the go. I know a girl happily married till she puts down her phone. I know another girl that's crying out for help, but her latest caption is, leave me alone. Then she finally got to Rome, and all she did was post pictures for people at home because all that mattered was impressing everybody she's known. Drake can make taking pictures and posting them on social media sound like a cry for help, or, as he says on the song "Emotionless," scrolling through life and fishing for praise.ĭRAKE: (Rapping) I know a girl who's one goal was to visit Rome. Drake is just taking it to the next level. There have always been mopey guys in pop music. He elicits our pity in a manner so dramatic, framed so artfully it can seem like a form of wit. He presents himself as being unceasingly under attack, unlucky in love, besieged by rivals and those jealous of his success. KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Drake takes pride in the quality and variety of his own moodiness. Girl, you know I set it up for after dark. After dark - you can put your phone down. Rock critic Ken Tucker says Drake's new work is both downbeat and very much what people want to hear right now.ĭRAKE: (Singing) Yeah.
It's a 25-track double album called "Scorpion." It went platinum the day it came out and broke streaming records on both Spotify and Apple Music. Now he's released one of the biggest musical events of the summer. The rapper and singer Drake is arguably the biggest star in current hip-hop.
0 kommentar(er)
