First Impressions: An Extremely Early "More Life" Review
"More Life" was one of the most anticipated albums of the year, and is one that is surely to gather a load of reviews and opinions. When Drake announced a March 18th release date, he had the world gathered around the radio like it was 1950. Equipped with 22 songs that highlight the versatility of the "6 God", the album will take many through a roller coaster of love and hate moments. With major albums like this, we always listen to the project and tweet about our opinions, as we experience it for the first time. In a new series called "First Impressions", I want to highlight certain albums and give a review on how I took the album on my initial listen. Then when time has passed and I had time to sit with the album, this will show the growth of the album revealing if it had a negative or positive impact on me in the future. With that being said, here's an extremely early review of the …show more content…
From there Drake transforms into Island Drizzy for four of the next five songs excluding "Jorja Interlude". While "Passionfruit" I'm sure will be one of the most popular records from the album, it's not something I can’t see myself going back to listen to. While I could see myself listening to this at a summertime cookout with friends and family, the song seems like a diet version of "Hold on We're Going Home" from “Nothing Was The Same”, which I still love today. This section of the album for me is nothing more than background music providing you a soundtrack as you're trying to sell a random woman dreams at whatever kickback you're attending. At this point I'm getting frustrated as each song passes, and I find myself begging for him to go back to the more traditional OVO sound. Ask and you shall receive as the album moves to Sampha and
"More Life" was one of the most anticipated albums of the year, and is one that is surely to gather a load of reviews and opinions. When Drake announced a March 18th release date, he had the world gathered around the radio like it was 1950. Equipped with 22 songs that highlight the versatility of the "6 God", the album will take many through a roller coaster of love and hate moments. With major albums like this, we always listen to the project and tweet about our opinions, as we experience it for the first time. In a new series called "First Impressions", I want to highlight certain albums and give a review on how I took the album on my initial listen. Then when time has passed and I had time to sit with the album, this will show the growth of the album revealing if it had a negative or positive impact on me in the future. With that being said, here's an extremely early review of the …show more content…
From there Drake transforms into Island Drizzy for four of the next five songs excluding "Jorja Interlude". While "Passionfruit" I'm sure will be one of the most popular records from the album, it's not something I can’t see myself going back to listen to. While I could see myself listening to this at a summertime cookout with friends and family, the song seems like a diet version of "Hold on We're Going Home" from “Nothing Was The Same”, which I still love today. This section of the album for me is nothing more than background music providing you a soundtrack as you're trying to sell a random woman dreams at whatever kickback you're attending. At this point I'm getting frustrated as each song passes, and I find myself begging for him to go back to the more traditional OVO sound. Ask and you shall receive as the album moves to Sampha and