Posts tagged My Life

• When I read that Drake’s album leaked, I gave it a listen as people on twitter were talking so much about it, and production by Jamie XX and rumored Lex Luger work made more interested a lot more interested than the previous singles. 
• On, my first listen, I was kind of blown away by the first 6 songs, especially the opener of “Over My Dead Body” with the opening vocals from Chantal Kreviazuk. I definitely soft crooned “over my dead body” the first few times I listened to that song.
• I don’t know where this rumor started, but until the album came out the credited producer of “Cameras” was Lex Luger, which helped make that particular song an early highlight. It was actually done by 40 with some help by Drake, but imagining Luger doing this type R&B track would have been such a step up from his stuff like “That Way”. But, either way, the song never stopped being a favorite and I would have enjoyed it if it went on for the entire 7 minute run time.
• So, on my second listen of “Look What You’ve Done” I was walking back to my dorm from class and had to stop the song before Drake’s grandmother called in, to keep myself from crying and breaking down in the middle of campus. My first listen of the song, I didn’t know where it was going, so I was caught off-guard by Drake’s examining his different familial relationships. But, on that second listen and understanding better where Drake was coming from, I couldn’t help but see it reflect my life back at me, after I was just in an argument with my parents. 
• “And I leave out and you call me, you tell me that you are sorry/ You love me, and I love you, and your hearts hurts, mine does too”. 
• “The way you got your hair up, that’s me, and that voice in your speaker, that’s me”, stuck with me because it is a feeling of drowning in sorrows that I have tried to avoid recently, which makes listening to the opening so painful, as I feel like the girl just sitting around in self-pity, as their previous love has already seemingly moved on. This has created a tension listening to the album that remained unresolved even a few months later, because Drake is the main character telling his perspective of this story, which is fine except when I am one that is crying from his actions.
• “I hate when people say they feel me (I hate that shit), it’ll be a long time before you’ll feel, if ever (for real)”. At some point in December, I texted my friend saying that if I catch myself rapping the lyrics of “Over My Dead Body” or “The Ride”, I’m clearly not having a good day. 
• I kind of wish, I spent more time on this point, but this album turned Drake around from a guy I kind of sort of liked on hooks to one of my favorite current day rappers, which is something I certainly didn’t see happening when I first started the album. 

I was born!

Once again at this blog known as “Question Mark Exclamation Point” creator, David Turner for those that didn’t know, is celebrating his birthday! What does this mean for you? Nothing! Absolutely Nothing!!!!!

Way too much has happened to me since March 26th, 2011. I finished my first year of college. I was published at Pitchfork. I’ve made some pretty cool new friends at school and gotten to know some of you internet guys better (once again shout out to meeting Brandon, Adam, and Monique at the Danny Brown show in November).  

This week will actually resume my writing about music, so until then listen to “I Don’t Like” and “Same Damn Time (Remix)” on constant repeat at THE SAME DAMN TIME. 

Listen to the Space Jam Soundtrack recently? If no, seek it out, or at least listen to the theme song on Youtube. Last Saturday, I was at party where the theme was 90s but I was mentally too out of it to enjoy it. And I was also too lazy to dress up for the theme unless a plaid long sleeve shirt and shitty pants counts as 90s—someone told me they did, so I ran with it. Sources of inspiration for dress ranged from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the AIM symbol, Rugrats, Britney Spears, Men in Black, and the adjective of “Grunge”. Plenty of people were having fun and in the end that’s all that counts, but as I was trying to identify if some guy was Tupac, Soulja Slim, or Lil B channeling Lil Wayne, the rapid nostalgia and too soon throwbackness of the whole thing was a bit overwhelming.

Would I have had a better time if I didn’t hear a Pussycat Dolls song, (“Don’t Cha” if you were curious) and instead heard “Everybody Dance Now”, probably but maybe that’s asking for too much. Most of the people there would have been in middle school during the early/mid 2000s, and a lot of the music skewed in that direction, because while I love “Say My Name” should that really count for the 90s? Then again I am complaining about a lack of verisimilitude at a college party I did not even properly dress up for. So not that it matters much, but one song I am surprised did not get played was “C’mon N Ride It” by Quad Cities DJs, who did the theme song for what…Space Jam.

I mentioned listening to the Space Jam soundtrack to some friends, and they were like “O yeah, I remember that movie and soundtrack”, which is pretty good considering some of these guys would have been three, when they first saw it. And while Michael Jordan and R. Kelly are names that won’t be forgotten when mentioning Space Jam, I doubt the Quad Cities DJ’s will get as many mentions. And maybe I would’ve liked this 90s revival more if people remembered the time like I do or better yet if they remembered the 90s how I wish I remembered them. I couldn’t have identified a Quad Cities DJs song a few weeks ago, so again maybe no one would want my 90s because I just learned Mark Walberg was a rapper, who had actual hits!