This single is only a tine bit better than Unforgettable, Light Up, and Thank Me Later. Over is the track that became a hut and radio favorite soonest. The lyrical predominant themes are personal relationships and conquering the much desired stardom.
Drake does much singing and puts it first before rapping. Yet the great majority of the set here reflects some other influences. Now, what is Drake’s music? The first tracks, Fireworks in particular, sound like a continuation of what So Far Gone is. There is nothing extraordinary about this design: it follows tried and proved solutions used for albums by popular music performers. Thank Me Later cover depicts Drake in his prime looking somewhere far beyond. Only time can tell how much he can succeed. However, Drake, apparently, made a decision to reach out for listeners not only among classic rap fans, but in some other music communities. It is good when musicians strive to work out their specific concept, approach or style since the very beginning. Well, the artist is entitled to doing whatever he desires whilst his songs are being written, performed and recorded. Many are going to take Thank Me Later as an experimental work because it is simply not done by the standards of the best hip-hop works ever, unlike So Far Gone. Although the time interval separating these two releases is pretty small, the music has things that are far from common. Last year, music lovers had the opportunity to assess the potential of the fresher by the very good EP So Far Gone. For all intents and purposes, the Drake of Views is the same one we got on If You’re Reading This and What a Time, but if his previous proper album ( Nothing Was the Same) foretold anything, it’s that the man peering down from CN Tower sees things differently than the rest of us.The Canada-born and, of course, promising rapper Aubrey Graham, or simply Drake, dropped his debut full-length effort, Thank Me Later, early in the summer 2010. He isn’t too much for the world, though, ruminating on his position as one of music’s biggest names-and those who’d rather he wasn’t-on songs like “Still Here,” “Hype,” and “Grammys.” Maybe the the most affecting acknowledgment to this end is the fact that “Hotline Bling,” a strong contender for 2015 song of the summer, was such an afterthought by the time Views was released that it appears here as a bonus track. There are references here to specific people (“Redemption”), places (“Weston Road Flows”), and experiences (“Views”), along with nods to the influence of the city’s Caribbean population on “With You,” “Controlla,” and “Too Good” (which just happens to feature Rihanna). “I made a decision last night that I would die for it,” Drake raps on “9.” “Just to show the city what it takes to be alive for it.” Drake’s presence eclipsed Toronto just about as soon as So Far Gone dropped, but the city-and what it thinks of him-was never far from his mind. Views, which followed two wildly successful projects in 2015 that he’d branded as mixtapes- If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late and the Future collab What a Time to Be Alive-would confirm him as both, his penchant for immaculate songwriting still fully intact and the pressures of existing as the most popular voice in rap, as well as his hometown’s most successful export, weighing heavy on his mind. He looks less like the superhero he’d made himself into over the course of a roughly six-year rise as singer-songwriter extraordinaire and more like a troubled monarch. On the cover of his fourth studio album Views, Drake looks down from atop Toronto’s CN Tower, paying homage to the city’s notoriously frigid winter temperatures in a heavyweight shearling coat and high-cut boots.
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