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19loveless91
mag. druž. inf
- #21
- Posted: 04/17/2017 21:08
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Ok so while I'm not a fan of any trap influences or some other production choices when comparing it to TPAB in particular, I still really like it. And while it doesn't seem very adventurous in terms of compositions and lyrics, it also seems just kind of mysterious, compared to relatively straightforward (or at least easier to interpret and more cohesive) concepts of TPAB or GKMC.
Nothing with Kendrick seems coincidental, everything feels carefully thought through. So I feel like I still need to unpack everything that this album has to offer to me conceptually. Like what is the idea behind Fear and how it ties the whole album together. The idea behind album's reversed parts and returning to the starting point. Pride and Element starting on an identical note (first couple of seconds).
Etc.
As far as the individual moments go so far, Fear and Yah (seems almost lazy, but it's right up my alley sonically) are what I'm most obsessed with at this point.
Great album. His discography is already insane.
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- #22
- Posted: 04/18/2017 13:14
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| Skinny wrote: | | A friend said to me that this album feels really effortless, and I think that might be both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness. |
I think this is a great way of putting it. It sounds like Kendrick was keen to strip everything down and make something really clean - a really good direction to take after TPAB.
Had some time to spin this a few times while traveling around for easter and will be writing up a review for my thoughts, but Kendrick has totally lived up to my expectations. As a quick note, I think the U2 feature is actually just boring. Not as bad as I'd prepared for, but I almost wish it was. Just sounds like a Song-Writing-By-Numbers U2 track shoehorned in, and Bono doesn't even sound particularly excited to be there.
The cover art is seeing some backlash but I feel I ought to defend it. Not saying my opinion is any more 'right' but after studying Graphic Design this would absolutely be considered good contemporary design within some spheres. It's deliberately garish, and the photo of Kendrick has clearly been taken with consideration by a professional photographer - comparing it to a Viper album (which it might actually be aluding to) isn't very fair. Only thing I don't like is the dramatic full stop they've added to every title.
Probably my favourite cover of his. TPAB is great but it's too busy to be immediately iconic, imo. It's also a bit of a shaky photoshop job, whoever did it. good kid cover is what it is.
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Hayden
Location: Vietnam 
- #23
- Posted: 04/18/2017 15:09
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I like everything about the cover apart from the deliberately huge parental advisory sticker. I know why the graphic designer is defending it, but I still think it's a little tacky. The rest is fine. Very bold, etc...
Going to read the P4k review in a bit. Fair score.
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- #24
- Posted: 04/18/2017 18:02
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| Hayden wrote: | | I like everything about the cover apart from the deliberately huge parental advisory sticker. |
I've always wondered who enforced the use of that sticker? Plenty of explicit albums without them, and a fairshare of self published albums that have slapped it on to seem official. I assumed it's an outdated label at this point, but sort of claimed by the Hip Hop community as a symbol?
It'd definitely look cleaner without it. If it's a necessity though, I think it was the best place to put it. It kinda adds weight to the right side of the image where the full-stop (period) is, and I like that it's hovering above the bottom to give it that slapped-on look.
I gotta say, I love it when the sticker is made translucent. Looks super clean on Future's HNDRXX and even To Pimp A Butterfly. They could have done something nice like that, I guess.
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- #25
- Posted: 04/20/2017 00:44
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| Puncture Repair wrote: | | I've always wondered who enforced the use of that sticker? |
I don't think they were ever enforced, it is up to the record label to decide whether a disc includes one or not. I imagine that if anything, having one of the stickers on an album causes more young people to buy it than would have otherwise.
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