May 14, 2022 Haven't seen you post recently. Please write your thoughts on Its Almost Dry in it's thread!
May 14, 2022 Actually really like it's just nothing like what I expected I think thats the main problem
May 14, 2022 Mother I Sober chorus is awful man. I guess its meant to sound eerie but ugh. I need to listen to the album more, it has some good stuff in it, but idk
May 14, 2022 Couple of listens in. This is very good. Like it more than d--- for sure. Will have to give it time to settle.
May 14, 2022 I'm warming up to this more with each listen. I have some issues with it and it's prob at the bottom of his studio album catalogue but it's a really interesting album to me. Really enjoying some of the songs I thought were meh on first listen.
May 14, 2022 it's also funny cuz half the people who hate it hate it cuz they think it's too woke and the other half hate it because they think it's too offensive. So like most things, it's prob a gray area somewhere in the middle rather than being strictly black and white. the concept of nuance is dead.
May 14, 2022 But this is like with every discussion about every topic ever (exeptions ofc). 2 extremes that try to convince the other they are 100% right
May 14, 2022 hilarious to think its either too woke or offensive its nice to listen to an album at times that makes u somewhat uncomfortable but not in an edgy way obviously means im probably not gonna have those songs on a playlist but in the context of the album and listening to it as a whole i think its a fine package
May 14, 2022 Nah u aren’t allowed to criticize kendrick becuase he is the black jesus or something idk what these filthy animals in here have with this clown. Always defending him even tho his music is weird as f--- since tpab
May 14, 2022 f---ing hater get out of here!! But fr I don't even think this album is bad but the way it's hailed as the best album ever made lol
May 14, 2022 Nah that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that like most things in life, the album exists on a spectrum. It's extremely far from perfect, but the fact that a lot of people who hate the album hate it for completely opposite reasons show that valid criticisms of the album exist somewhere in the middle. Or that there are valid criticisms from both sides if you will. But blanket labeling it as either woke or offensive (or this perfect masterpiece from the other end) is lazy and without nuance. I like the album but I also have a lot of issues with it and that's ok.
May 14, 2022 Aside from the weirdo critics who wrote a review and gave it 10/10 8 hours after it came out (which is also lazy and stupid), the reception has been pretty mixed from regular people as far as I've seen. Some people love it some people hate it. I completely understand why it's not for everyone. The album is dense but that doesn't mean you need a phd to understand it, it just means I think critics should at least spend a weekend with it before writing a dissertation on it. The worst part about being a Kendrick fan is all the people who think you have to be smart to understand him (same crowd who thinks you have to be smart to understand Rick and morty), but I guess every big artists' stans are embarrassing. Extremely well said
May 14, 2022 idk wat else but thanks to auntie diaries i cant open any kendrick related twitter threads for like a month now blessed
May 14, 2022 Yeah the twitter discourse was especially terrible and I'm very happy with my decision to recuse myself from it