Album is good but critics are doing the most with the praise only because it's Beyoncè.

You gone listen to these vocals and the ones on HNM and still be baffled? I like both albums btw

We all know Drake's singing range. Did they really expect him to be hitting Adele/Mariah Carey notes on the album?

Music is about way more than just vocals though

They said not having videos was revolutionary lol

One good song tbh

Caring about reviews in 2022

aside from maybe church girl, most of these songs are a mix of 70s/80s disco and funk (Plastic off the Sofa, VIRGO Groove, Summer Rennaissance) or LGBTQ+ ballroom and vogue culture. That’s where a lot of the references/quotes/ song structure come from

If your calling the more spoken/commentary talk-rapping bits ‘ratchet’ it’s because you don’t understand the subgenre and the LGBT+ audience she’s catering to.

You know how white people do

When your favorite musicians aint got Bobby brown jaw

“ which is why I don’t understand why Pitchfork used that as a critique against Honestly, Nevermind” - because his delivery, flow and overall presence was terrible.. not only was his vocals not making up for the lyrics but he’s not nearly as charming/witty as Beyonce in DELIVERING the lyrics in a believable way.. Drake was literally lifeless that entire album which is what made his asinine lyrics sound even worse!

Exactly, they randomly choose now to be hyper critical of a rappers singing vocals

Drake sounded horrible and his engineers f***ed up his autotune.. that’s his fault

Drake has been delivering singing vocals like that his entire career and they’ve given him positive reviews before.

They specifically made a point of criticizing the lyrical content of HN, not his delivery of said lyrics.

Saying Renaissance’s lyrical content is a “conduit for Black anger” literally makes no sense because almost every song on here is either made to dance to or hear in a club setting. They’re just over-complicating it because it’s a Beyonce album and they want to seem woke.

We expected it to SOUNd good atleast.. and he hasn’t had issues with this on bops like Too Good, Passionfruit and 24 amongst others

The vocal performance doesn’t justify the huge gap in score

They basically gave her s*** a 90 and his a 66 that’s nearly a 30 point swing

I could see if that gave HNM a 7.5 and this like an 8.5, that would be reasonable

They aren’t even trying to hide their biased-ness anymore

It sounds good. People who just over scrutinising drake because it’s the cool person to hate just doing their usual

reloads a keeper

If you think his singing on Too Good and Passionfruit sounds good, that means you think his singing on HN sounds good because it’s the exact same delivery and cadence he’s used in his singing his entire career.

It was just a meme to hate on the album the night it dropped and people have ran with that ever since

Yeah it’s about melody. And the melodies on HNM are wack for the most part.

as someone who likes Honestly Nevermind

the bad reception on that album was set in stone the moment the second half of Falling Back kicked in

That poster was saying the drastic difference in scores for the two albums can be explained in the difference in quality between Drake and Beyoncé’s vocals.

To which I replied, music is about way more than vocals

Drake has NEVER sounded as bad vocally as he did on HN.. stop lying breh! We all loved that cover of Kanye’s 24

They wouldn’t have complained about Drake’s lyrics if the Melody, the flow and his interpretation was hitting.

For example:

beyonce on heated on paper looks like
“ Like stolen Chanel, lock me up in jail
Cuff me, please, 'cause this ain't fair
Dripped in my pearls like Coco Chanel
Uncle Jonny made my dress
That cheap Spandex, she looks a mess”

But when you HEAR it on record it sounds like:

(3:50)

And it’s the HARDEST part of the song.. why!? It’s not because the lyrics necessary cut deep or even make any real sense.. it jus that she sounds energetic and lit as f*** saying them.. that’s charm, that’s wit, that’s presence. She makes us believe her

Drake on the other hand sounded like he needed a good nap lol

Ok, well I think it might be a few reasons. But if I had to number them, the lack of good melodies would be first on my list of things that account for the drastic difference. He just sounds like he’s riffing on every song. Like these guys.

“that means you think his singing on HN sounds good because it’s the exact same delivery and cadence he’s used in his singing his entire career” - baby his autotune was set in the wrong key and his falsetto passages were OFF. Wayy to much dip on the chip especially those first few records
Even his stan critique this.
Stop capping..

Who tf told him he could sing for all those tracks with his autotune e set wrong.. he did it to himself tf