Well.
This is a music post.
Drake has a new song called One Dance. Nice beat. Kind of fun to listen to. But not a great song.
Look.
I have written twice about Drake. Once for Take Care <with Rihanna> and once for Hold On we Are Going Home .
I want to like Drake’s music. I tend to like his delivery, I tend to like his voice <when it isn’t filtered thru some production technique> and I tend to like the rhythm & flow of his music.
That said.
I sometimes find his solo songs slightly tedious. Frankly, he seems at his best when not singing alone … in particular when his voice is tempered by a female voice <his voice and Rihanna’s mesh better than almost any duo out there>.
And to make my point I will use the oft-ridiculed Justin Bieber. Say what you want about the Beebs lack of maturity but the boy has a set of pipes and can sing.
He took One Dance and made it the song it should have, and could have, been.
Well done Beebs.