"Up 300%" is not true. The stories about the slur in the video were written on Feb 2nd. The week ending Feb 4, the album was up 11%, for a total of 149k units. I highly doubt the 48 hours between the stories and the end of the tracking week accounted for that much of a gap. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9522648/morgan-wallen-dangerous-tops-billboard-200-fourth-week
The week ending Feb 11, it was up 1%, for 150k total units. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9526109/morgan-wallen-dangerous-tops-billboard-200-for-fifth-week
Yeah I don't think there's much of a political component to this at all. The slur story has probably reached a fraction of his audience, not enough to propel it to these heights.
Where the fuck are all these streams coming from? Like if Drake hasn't accomplished this despite being the StreamKing I have a lot of questions about how Wallen did it.
No, I think that there’s a good argument to be made that this is among the most influential releases of the decade. It gets commingled with some others - the James Blake ST, Take Care as you point out - but a lot of what’s happened in pop and r&b since can be traced back to this.
In retrospect I was taken in by a lot of the presentation here, including the way critics wrote about r&b. Thankfully, this is what got me to dig into the genre. I don't really listen to the tape any more for a variety of reasons but it's a keystone release for me. Can track a lot of my current preferences back to this.
as an aside, are frank's albums really commercially unsuccessful? blond is platinum
hell yes, i love her. you can almost always tell when she's had a hand in something. beyonce's little "okay!"s in "savage" are clearly a starrah product and theyre one of my favorite pieces of that remix
Did Laura self-produce this, or work with someone? if this is her handiwork its really good i'd love to hear her behind the boards for gecs more too, my assumption was always that dylan made all the beats.
I've been hearing this name for years but never really checked it out, big fan of the first two songs on here though. glad that "rittenhouse" is NOT about the rightwing gun kid from the blm protests lol
ok? this is like, the opposite of what i asked for, which was for an example of someone getting fired over 12 (re)tweets about the incident. Youre citing an example that had so many tweets about it and became so famous it resulted in a book.
this is almost definitely what happened. the man made "incredible" and "fresh air" and talked in interviews about how hndrxx was the album he always wanted to make, but "mask off" was the song that hit from that era.
rockstar chainz is a future hendrix classic imo. he's usually good for 1-3 untouchable tracks per project. i feel like he might still accidentally back into a really exciting project again at some point.
love the shout out for "never recover," the way baby says "drizzy hit me up like he got another one/money aint even come in from the other one/fuck it im hot so i might as well doubleup" is one of my favorite lines in recent memory.
i kind of keep expecting drake's success to end...if you had asked in 2017 i would have made what felt like a compelling argument that him and taylor swift had both risen to fame on a hyperpersonal songwriting style and were both on an inevitable decline...drake only got more dominant and honestly with the way streaming works its hard to envision what the end of his reign looks like
? He's an adult. He can apologize, or not apologize, for whatever he wants. No one put a gun to his head, besides maybe his bandmates who have the good sense to recognize when someone is about to fumble the bag.
as always it would be enormously helpful if literally anyone whining about this could explain what their fucking issue is or what "cancel culture" is because from where i'm sitting this is a random teenager getting mad at a line they dont understand and posting about it, which has turned into one of the most famous people on the planet pretending they're being persecuted and now someone unrelated to the situation is using it to promote a book. does literally anyone think eminem has been, or ever will be, "cancelled"? what would "cancelling" him look like, what is your fear?
It's kind of funny to say U2 went back and listened to "really old music" from the 40s and 50s. Not wrong, but this song is 34 years old itself. The equivalent gospel song would have come out in 53, but i bet this song "feels" newer than a '53 gospel record did in '87. No idea if this makes sense at all.
I don't think he even did anything wrong, but if you do, what else do you want from him besides a private apology? Does he owe the public some kind of mea culpa for a one-liner on a song that's not even commercially available?
I didn’t jump in the comments to “hate on other artists” I called it my favorite frank album and noted something about the way I experience it. I am sorry you are personally offended that I don’t like MGMT or Coldplay but it’s not like I just randomly shit on someone who has nothing to do with this album.
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