It just feels like they didn’t optimize it for headphones, because on louder speakers it sounds pretty good honestly

it should be meant for all speakers...drake run his own career and u can tell bro done became super sloppy

American expreeeeeeeeeeess my love

drake doesn't make music the world falls in love with anymore

yall need me now so here I go

One of the most important things an engineer has to do is making sure a mix sounds good on any type of speaker, and 40 himself talked about that in an interview years back.

Can’t have something sound great on one type of speaker and sound like garbage on a different type of speaker

stans make up excuses for anything

no grown man or young man can honestly say they like this song without being a beta

Did he make music in past that people fell in love with instantly? He’s always gotten hate at the outset of anything he releases outside of like the Versace verse and 5 am in Toronto lol

I feel like NWTS and IYRTITL were two projects of his that got a very strong initial reception, you can probably add Her Loss in that mix as well

I agree

Ehh idk it’s always been a mixed bag for about two weeks and then it’s like this mega hit/classic album. NWTS and Take Care got absolutely s*** on when they first dropped

Well, the bass is so loud that the lower quality vocals actually are easier to hear when the bass kicks in heavy, somehow.

If they would’ve kept the high quality vocals they probably would’ve been competing since the entire song is buried under the 808 basically

you know like I know drake became bland and his music became unseasoned...you right I love him up until Scorpion lol

NWTS has his highest review scores in his entire discography though

To me it’s always felt like NWTS was the one Drake project that collectively everyone liked

Anybody making multipoint posts about how the song is an instant drake classic and you can’t s*** on it OR saying it’s the worst song ever and only cuck betas enjoy it, is a bit off the deep end

It’s just another avg drake song lol

The way he does that is smooth as f***

what you consider high quality vocals is more like way too much EQ

I agree, but i also feel like, they made a conscious decision to make sure it sounds really good in one type of setting and said f*** the rest. It sounds like they legit mixed it at that club showing and left it that way

It is what it is bc I don’t think they could’ve made it sound better on headphones without making it knock less on the whip / room speakers

Nah bruh you ain’t heard? Can’t criticize anything he does otherwise you a hater

I mix audio myself but yeah that is part of it

But these vocals are super low quality or they may have just removed highs so the low doesn’t cut through them as much idk

IYRITL was universally loved wasn't it? Only old heads and people who thought he was acting too hard were still hating at that point

True I’m a hater

mediocre is the new norm for drizzy....I havent got an I'm on one since im on one...

I said what I said

bass needs to be louder or more saturated

it’s loud but not LOUD ENOUGH