Dec 19, 2015

What do you think are the best songs of the year?

 

Dec 19, 2015

what? "self-absorbed" would be the best descriptor of the hook alone. the song's about how mad drake is that some girl he used to f--- with isn't locked in a room waiting for him to fly back to toronto. i'm not knocking the song because it's misogynistic--lots of great music is--but it's pretty pathetically self-absorbed.

well, i'm saying that the singing/rapping on here is nothing notable, and is in fact pretty bad, in the verses especially. you can disagree, but you can't really say it doesn't speak to my central argument, lol.

i'd disagree with you. drake is aggressively middlebrow to the point that he's pandering. he's a c-grade version of s--- that's interesting. if drake is your favorite restaurant, you aren't leaving your house very much.

if the song were from an unknown artist i would listen to it once and never ever click on it again.

 

Dec 19, 2015

Either an Eminem or Machine Gun Kelly song

 

Dec 19, 2015

Guest Verse of the Year will be one of the next polls.

 

Dec 19, 2015

I'm liking this Applebee's metaphor TBH

 

Dec 19, 2015

Either Alright or March Madness
for me personally March Madness

 

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Dec 19, 2015

how is that a reach, that's literally, explicitly what the song is about

 

Dec 19, 2015

yeah take 5 pato, that is exactly what it's about

i still like the song though

 

Dec 19, 2015

It's only a reach if English isn't your first language

Finish this line for me:

"Ever since I left the city you....

 

Dec 19, 2015

I've literally never heard Hotline Bling outside of brief ~5 second snippets in vines and s---. I have no plans to change this

 

Dec 19, 2015

Best Friend by Yelawolf is probably my personal favorite. As far as song of the year though, any genre, Hello by Adele, and I actually like it. As far as hip-hop, how bout Back To Back by Drake? Best song from the defining beef of the year.

 

Dec 19, 2015

I was actually petrified when I initially clicked this thread because of the past nominations

I was expecting like phenomenal and best friend by yela on here

 

Dec 19, 2015

god

 

Dec 19, 2015

Drake is not "mad" lol

 

Dec 19, 2015

I feel like the self absorption is boring and doesn't lead to anything

 

Dec 19, 2015

No that's definitely the work of the devil

 

Dec 19, 2015

with obvious exceptions--songs about his/her childhood, emotionally vulnerable things, some narrative songs--rappers are selling some sort of cool. you get people to connect with you by saying things the audience wants to say. drake engineers his music to connect with the maximum number of people. the fact that he thinks (even if he's right, which he clearly is) the best way to do this is to act like a shitbag control-obsessed ex-boyfriend is corny and lame and i can't respect it. if drake weren't rich he'd be laughed out of a lot of rooms he thinks he belongs in, and that's not a quality a rap star should have.

EDIT: he also doesn't make good music. i feel like i need to reiterate that--before we get to any philosophical disagreements, the song is just bad.