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Speeding through the rain does something interesting with layering a distorted version of Joey's voice unser his vocals on the chorus, but otherwise...

See, i get what he is trying to do with the slow and introspective songs on tbe back half, but he did not earn it . Before we can get to the lonely part of lonely at the top he should prove that he is at the top.

Still is probably the best song on the album, but it is more because of Joey's collaborators and Ab-Soul and Rapsody than Joey.

Lonely at the top is unearned.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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3 Feet Away is ... nice. Joey has a nice singing voice, the song is nice, I might listen to it again. It is just not crediblw coming from Joey on an album after the rap royal rumble he started by saying there is too much west coast dick licking.

like, i dont want to listen to you talk about you needing your peace and trusting god after the shit stirring you did.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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Underwater might be the best execution of the sound and feel this album wants to go for. This is not a compliment. We shifted away from the hard beats and raps with this one and honestly... i am fighting myself at this point to finish the album

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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BK's Finest replaces the strings with a piano, but it functions the same. I don't think Joey and his features earned the mood these more classical instruments are going for.

Also, both the violin from Dark Aura and this piano has the same weakness of repeating a melody that is too short. It gets repetative very quickly and because this is the highest pitched sound on the entire track it draws the attention.

Also, I don't like the mixing of this song. I feel like the differemt musical layers were put on top like wooden blocks but they are not interwoven.

i never wanna hear this song again.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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Ready to Love is an okay song, musically. The inatrumental has an R&B feel to it, I am finally getting the vocal texture from both Joey and the feature artist, Ty Dolla Sign ...

...

The lyrics are not giving the same energy as the intrumental to me. Both of the guys are a bit shallow and materialistic in the way they talk to and about this imaginary girl, warnings for the girl to "act right" are issued by both men and there is this little gem which is ...

do you watch yourself in the mirror when you fuck? can you not get it up if you don't think another man envies you? what is this and why is this in a song telling a girl about how despite your upbringing and past heartaches you are ready to risk love and put in the work.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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I fucking hate the beat of Highroller. There is this cacophonie layered under it and I can't tell if it is echo-y voices or instruments but they get really pronounced when the chorus comes in and I fucking hate it

Joey still raps okay, but the featured artist, A$AP Ferg gives a much more interesting voval performance.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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Supaflee has a beat that is more up my speed. There is still something missing for me, it doesn't really hit peaks.

Like, I like it when rappers and singers play with their voice and have wierd little utterances. Doechii's Catfish, for example, is full of that. Kendrick does it a lot too (the ahs in Like That for example) and the whole reason why I like OMG by Sexxy Red is the way she utters the ad libs (that damn at the beginning of the song hits the spot).

I think playing with vocals like that is what gives a song texture, and a textured song makes for a memorable one. Think Poser by SWIM and Jadagrace that is going viral with edits on Tiktok. People are clipping the part where SWIM does the little growl in his voice for a reason.

The bars are there for this song, Joey does really well woth extended imagary and he did a really nice crime scheme in the first half.

this song also has a feature by Bri Stevens who drops in and out for like four bars at a time and I miss her every time she is gone.

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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Swank white is more strings, this time under the vocals.

i was reading the lyrics for this and like, there isn't a lot here topic-wise. He talks about being rich, coming up, knowing about some though people, people around him being fake, him being the best ... but he keeps the same flow and tone almost the entire time and he doesn't say anything clever enough to make this interesting.

Westside Gunn is on this track too, he has a hogher pitched and scratchier voice which I think would have been better supported by heavier instrumentals and more base to let the higher pitch of his voice carry over the instrumentals. basically that string instrument did not do him any favours

Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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Attempt 2 at making it throught the Joey Bada$$ album:

I really fucking hate Dark Aura especially an album opener. I guess what Joey was going for dark as in moody and dangerous but he landed with someone switched off the lamp.

It is a more down beat song where the instrumental is not very interesting. There is this string instrument (violin?) floating over the entire track repeating the same melody and it sounds like it is a layer above Joey's. It makes his words difficult to make out at points and when he trues to get more active with his voice the energy he is trying to create dissolves into he strings.

Lyrically, I didn't hear anything that really caught me ear.

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I haven't managed to get through all of Joey Bada$$'s new album yet, but like ... where the fuck is the guy who made My Town? Can we have him back?

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the urge to comment on this one ASMR artist's video that he looks like he is an anxiety ridden cartoon character that was stuffed into a real human body and is now 5 seconds away from a full blown panic attack is strong but I am stronger (barely, hence why I am here instead)

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So like in Cardi B's new song Imaginary Playerz I know how she meant the line "gloryhole, bitches don't know who they fuckin' with" ... but Cardi and Nicki have beef and if I see how that line can be flipped than Cardi should kind of hope Nicki is still off her game bc if that woman gets clean she will beat her ass on that line.

(just to be clear, I do love that line, it is great, but Nicki is kinda crashing out at everyone on twitter)

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Joey Bada$$ says in his new song Dark Aura to "turn me up in the headphones" . Well I did and the instrumental, which really feels like is a layer above his voice, sounds distorted. And mind you, I have the Sony CH720N headphones, so they are not bad quality.

between this and hiv voice getting lost under the instrumental I am not a fan of this new song. it is funny, bc in the rap royal rumble Joey had the best production on My Town

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I don't care if people are nicer or meaner to me than I expect, I do not like it when they distrupt the social script I am running for the given situation. It makes me feel disoriented and i kinda freeze up.

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For me, AI could never replace real ASMR artists because a real ASMR artist will buy a real keyboard to pour real honey on it to make sounds with it.

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I'd like to see what kind of music is popular around the world and I'd like to ask for a bit of help with it.

If you live outside of the USA and your country has a website or publication that has music charts, what is it called/what's its URL?

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so it turns out that climbing onto a rooftop in the middle of the night does solve all your problems, but i failed to consider that it would create a brand new one