Loved This…

I can safely say this is one of the most insightful articles I’ve read in my life… I was Googling Naomi Campbell and this story about her being an Editor-at-large of some publication and I came across this article Titled: Nonstop Pop Machines about Drake and Rihanna. The blurb caught my attention:

“Rihanna keeps making music so you’ll not stop thinking about her; Drake, because he can’t stop thinking about himself.”

It’s a review of their new albums, done so well… written by Nitsuh Abebe for New York Magazine.

Excerpts: 

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On her new album, Talk That Talk, the production line is catching up with Rihanna. The record sounds rushed: The songs will take one good idea and hastily stretch it to full length. Ideas are thin on the ground; worse, the mood is strangely unfun. Rihanna has cycled through a lot of personas, none of them incredibly convincing, but lately she’s focused on telling us all that she really enjoys sex. (Rihanna telling us she enjoys sex is like her manager saying nobody’s forcing her to record; it’d never have occurred to me to think otherwise until they mentioned it.) Sex is a rich and noble topic for pop, and sometimes it’s empowering to insist on it, the way Rihanna does here: “I want you to be my sex slave,” “I wanna fuck you right now,” “I’ma give it to you baby.” But it’s startlingly depressing to deliver those lines in the dispassionate voice of a bored professional. By the time she sings “I’ve been a bad girl, Daddy,” it sounds like she’s halfway through a double shift, and I find myself wishing her a solid vacation…..

The review itself is very similar to what Zamani wrote about it here. READ HERE

and on Drake’s Take Care, Nitsuh says… 

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Drake must produce music at a quick clip for the same reason last week’s episode of a reality-TV show needs to be followed by this week’s episode and yesterday’s blog posts need to be followed by today’s. More than any other successful rapper—yes, even Kanye West—Drake’s music is self-reflexive: His great confessional topic is what it’s like to be Drake, to experience the situation Drake is experiencing, publicly, right this minute. Some of the deftest lines on his new album, Take Care, are the ones where he raps about how people perceive him, while simultaneously trying to affect how people perceive him. What’s amazing is that this level of meta is a totally ordinary quality in today’s pop and hip-hop worlds—not to mention the world of listeners publicly performing and presenting and perceiving themselves and one another, day in and day out, on Twitter or Facebook or YouTube or in the halls of a school somewhere…..

Makes you wanna read more hey?

Read the whole article HERE.

I’m a new fan of his/her work!

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