goretex 💁🏽♂️Aug 15, 2025
LeaveSerious question though
Do you guys ever get the impression some of these very... intense... drake stans are getting paid?
Because I can't imagine any other reason to act dumb
Are u f***ing stupid
Aug 15, 2025·1 reply
iHypeThey aren’t.
Lose Control is the most faceless song ever and will never be a song anyone thinks of when asked to name the most memorable songs ever.
It is popular for being inoffensive elevator music/waiting room playlist music, not for being uniquely catchy. Those are two different things.
Usher - Yeah, OutKast - Hey Ya, Spice Girls - Wannabe, Carly Rae - Call Me Maybe, In Da Club, etc are examples of huge classics that are known as being universally catchy and “try not to sing along to” type songs.
Nobody is ever putting on Lose Control in a function and everybody of all demographics and generations is screaming out the lyrics lmao.
Did I say it was generational or did I say it was extremely catchy?
A song like Gucci Gang is extremely catchy and it’s absolute garbage
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replygoretex
Idk why you keep pushing this no one ever agrees with u bro
Nobody listens to that song for the Drake verses
- Aug 15, 2025goretex
Dude just made that term up to not admit Drake has more rap hits than pop
???
Melodic rap is literally a subgenre of rap
- Aug 15, 2025·2 repliesTheFader
Did I say it was generational or did I say it was extremely catchy?
A song like Gucci Gang is extremely catchy and it’s absolute garbage
And I said it’s not extremely catchy.
Play Lose Control in a room and nobody is bursting out singing along.
The song been on autoplay everywhere and on radio for years straight. Most people know it, however it is not extremely catchy. There is a clear difference.
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyiHype
And I said it’s not extremely catchy.
Play Lose Control in a room and nobody is bursting out singing along.
The song been on autoplay everywhere and on radio for years straight. Most people know it, however it is not extremely catchy. There is a clear difference.
Okay and I’m just supposed to believe this completely hypothetical scenario you just made up?
“It’s not catchy because if you play it in a room full of people they won’t know it”
According to… what exactly?
Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFaderDNA. by Kendrick has 1.3B streams
Drake doesn’t have any hits that are just three minutes of straight bars
His closest thing would be 0 to 100, which has 516M streams
do not disturb literally has more streams ☠️
- Aug 15, 2025Leave
The point is, drake has far MORE of a pop crossover than kendrick
But they both have huge fanbases
The point is that those fans who listen to pop drake and bang the melodic back catalogue that you ignore when you talk about the streaming totals every month probably didn't really get involved when drake decided to drop entirely rap focused songs against a RAP focused artist with a similar sized fanbase
So when 100% of kendricks casual and serious fans got behind him, about 30 - 40% of drakes fanbase had no horse in the race
drake still outsells/streams without them.
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
Okay and I’m just supposed to believe this completely hypothetical scenario you just made up?
“It’s not catchy because if you play it in a room full of people they won’t know it”
According to… what exactly?
You can’t read because I in fact said “most people know it” not they won’t know it.
It’s a hit but that’s all it is.
For something to be extremely catchy surely there should be some well known lines, or some type of chorus that grabs everybody immediately when it comes on.
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyMafia Boss
do not disturb literally has more streams ☠️
My fault, overlooked it. It has 557M. Still way way less than DNA.
- Aug 15, 2025·editedLeave
Serious question though
Do you guys ever get the impression some of these very... intense... drake stans are getting paid?
Because I can't imagine any other reason to act dumb
Kendrick actually has people on payroll all over twitter/social media. You should focus on your side being paid first.
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyiHype
You can’t read because I in fact said “most people know it” not they won’t know it.
It’s a hit but that’s all it is.
For something to be extremely catchy surely there should be some well known lines, or some type of chorus that grabs everybody immediately when it comes on.
The catchy part is… the melody of the hook…
- Aug 15, 2025·1 reply
Nigga thinks pop songs need quotables
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
The catchy part is… the melody of the hook…
The melody of that song isn’t extremely catchy
- Aug 15, 2025TheFader
My fault, overlooked it. It has 557M. Still way way less than DNA.
do not disturb being a therapy outro song with no hook hitting .5 billi more impressive then a hype song over a billi 🤔
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
Nigga thinks pop songs need quotables
Your reading comprehension is horrible. Lots of songs regardless of genre that are extremely catchy tend to have well known lyrics.
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyiHype
Your reading comprehension is horrible. Lots of songs regardless of genre that are extremely catchy tend to have well known lyrics.
A popular pop song does not need well known lyrics to be considered to have a catchy melody. What are you even talking about? There’s plenty of pop songs with generic run of the mill lyrics that get by on their catchy melodies, The Weeknd has several
- Aug 15, 2025iHype
The melody of that song isn’t extremely catchy
Okay? I and many others think it is. Are we wrong because you said so?
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
A popular pop song does not need well known lyrics to be considered to have a catchy melody. What are you even talking about? There’s plenty of pop songs with generic run of the mill lyrics that get by on their catchy melodies, The Weeknd has several
Where did I say NEED?
Lose Control has no iconic lines (which yes are VERY common amongst the most catchy pop songs), no iconic chorus, no well known melody.
You play that song and it absolutely is not a highlight song to play during an event. It is simply background music
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyiHype
Where did I say NEED?
Lose Control has no iconic lines (which yes are VERY common amongst the most catchy pop songs), no iconic chorus, no well known melody.
You play that song and it absolutely is not a highlight song to play during an event. It is simply background music
The song is extremely catchy. It’s not NOT catchy simply because you say so
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
The song is extremely catchy. It’s not NOT catchy simply because you say so
What part of the song you singing and expecting the average person to immediately join in on?
- Aug 15, 2025·1 reply
This nigga think he the Catchy Police I’m crying
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyiHype
What part of the song you singing and expecting the average person to immediately join in on?
Another random hypothetical that you just made up
So a song is only catchy now if a random person harmonizes with you if you start singing it in public?
- Aug 15, 2025·1 replyTheFader
Another random hypothetical that you just made up
So a song is only catchy now if a random person harmonizes with you if you start singing it in public?
It’s not really hard to answer.
Almost EVERY goat level catchy Pop song actually has at least one line you can sing and everyone immediately catching on.