Drake – Certified Lover Boy review
One word – snore fest.
„He can’t keep getting away with this!“ is what I though right after finnishing this album – I mean this dude has just made like the 5th album he’s being making for the past like what, 6 years? And of course, he is a very succesfull artist, if not THE most succesfull artist of our generation, so he can afford it – this dude could release literally anything and his fans would still eat it up. He could release an album full of mp3 files of him at the toilet and his fans would still call it „life-changing“. It’s no wonder that there has recently been an outburst of those „Drake the type of dude“ memes, because that’s all he is, a clown and a f*ckboy. Man the last time I fully enjoyed a Drake studio album was in 2015, like what happened? This album also tricks you into thinking it’s good with the opening song being somewhat listenable and his „Scary Hours 2“ EP being actually pretty damn good. It gave me false hope that Drake will finally leave all the Pusha-T stuff behind him and come into his own as an artist, but he is just so indulged in it, it’s frustrating. And it’s not like I want to see this man fail, the opposite in fact, I really am trying my hardest to find one fricking song on this record I would consider great but if my life depended on it, I just can’t. The closest this album comes to an actual good song is the opener „Champagne Poetry“, „You Only Live Twice“ and the song „Fair Trade“ featuring Travis Scott, where Travis must have actually broken his back, because of how much of this song he carried. Those are genuinely the only three examples of a good song on this album, that’s IT. I’m not even gonna talk about the rest of this album, because all the song sound the fricking same, there is no deversity, no flavour, no texture, no anything to these songs – Drake sounds half asleep on most of them and the song „F*****g Fans“ is excuse my language a f*****g joke. I’m honestly not gonna spend more time writing this review then Drake did on making this album, I don’t wanna waste more of anyone’s time here.
Look, here is a question for you – did you like Scorpion? Did you like Views? Then congratulations, you’ll enjoy this record. But if not then please spend your time on something more worthwhile, go check out that new Injury Reserve album for example (review on that one coming soon).
Strong 3/10