Nobody’s really getting the essence of what I'm saying. You’ll never feel the new album the way you did the first three or four, because those records came with your life.. first love, heartbreak, summer nights, memories you lived through.

The new one? It’s just you in your room with headphones, hoping it hits the same, but it can’t. Those first albums aren’t just music, they’re part of who you were back then.

Sounds like you have an existential crisis you need to come to terms with. This has nothing to do with an artist “peaking” and everything to do with life passing you by.

it has to do with you all never being satisfied with new Drake or Cole albums

Yeaaaa…. Lock thread!

David Bowie dropped a bunch of mid after the 1980's but bounced back with his 2010's album run.

RIP

Drake peaked like 3 times? and depending on how you view CLB, he was commanding socials at the time

Madonna

Herb is a top 10 rapper from the 10s imo

people only experience heartbreak and attachment to albums once?

OD was a classic to me that I didn’t understand why until Morale and by then had been through 3 heartbreaks lmao. you can definitely experience that emotion again, and again, and again, and again until you’re old and dying lmfao. I got separate memories to Rodeo than I do to Astroworld than I do to Utopia because they all came at the right time

When Gucci came out of jail mans hit his 2nd peak hasn’t been the same since

Idk I feel like blonde hits harder for me now compared to when I was 16/17 when it first dropped

I find a lot of albums have aged really well for me as I’ve gotten older and experienced more.

okk got it, I'm still depressed. Lock thread.

Twin peaks

? Lebron done it 4 times

I live within the vicinity of Chicago so he's real popular here. I get why you'd say that but personally I feel like his first two tapes are head and shoulders above everything else, to the point I can't fully appreciate his other tapes

So I guess that is an instance where I'd say he peaked

twice mentioned

Last year I discovered albums, mangas, and movies that I'd now say are among my all time favorites in their respective mediums. And I've been engaged with all three since I was a kid.

And during times of my life when I wasn't finding new favorits, it was more because I was too busy or had other priorities than anything.

Without rambling on I don't think it's just media that works that way, you can keep growing and challenging yourself your whole life.

Gucci before jail > Gucci after jail

hope this guy doesnt have a girlfriend

Dylan peaked in '63 then again from '65-'67 then again in '75-'76 then again '97-'01 then again in '20 but he is the goat so light work

Madonna:

1984-1987
1989-1992
1998-2005

Drake isn't capable of a "Ray Of Light." It just solidifies how much of a relic of a time he was.

I really want to go on a lengthy schizo rant about peaking and growth, but tl;dr let the currents of life take you where they will.

@op
I've been struggling with this a lot this past year because I like to think of my life as a constant climb towards who I want to be, and last year was an utter failure on that front. I was in a better place 2 years ago.

I feel so frustrated because I thought I had it all figured out. Then I got a felony and lost my dream job. I stopped doing the d**** I got a felony for immediately but that doesn't matter at all.

I can't get a job anywhere, so I can't make new friends or get p**** because I'm broke. At first the isolation was helpful but now I'm going crazy and can feel my social skills deteriorating.

Hopefully I get into grad school. Because until this felony is expunged, which won't happen until I'm in my early 30s at the earliest, I won't be able to get a good job. Blah. That's how it goes. Anyways terrible threads like this remind me of what I'm missing out on because I can tell I'm in my mental and physical prime and I can do NOTHING with it.