Yesterday, I showed you Drake’s new video “Find Your Love”, and I commented about how the overhyped rapper was growing on me, thanks to said video as well as his appearance as a co-writer and background vocalist on Alicia Keys’ “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)”. The song, a standout track on Keys’ latest album “The Element of Freedom”, has been getting significant rotation in my apartment for half a year now. While I guess the lyrics of the song can be interpreted […]
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Maybe There's Something About This Drake Kid: "Find Your Love"
I have no problem admitting my love for mass-appeal pop music, but I also think I’m smart enough to look past hype and like something based on musical merit (because yes, even mass-appeal commercial music can have merit). For the past year or so, the frenzy around Canuck TV star-turned-rap phenom Drake has felt all too much like unwarranted hype. How does a moderately talented, moderately decent looking kid with no street cred become hip-hop’s next big thing otherwise? The […]
Smoothed-Out Sundays: "Un-thinkable (I'm Ready)"
Alicia Keys’ albums have a tendency to wear off of me fairly quickly. I’ll rave about them when they first came out, but six months later, there will only be three or four tracks that I really like. Each successive album of hers has had more replay value than the one before it, and 2009’s “The Element of Freedom” might be the first Keys album that I can legitimately say I love all the way through. Well, except for the […]