This time, Shameless introduces an acoustic guitar, the bridge “Who is gonna you like me” and the chorus “I don´t want to hurt you for you live for the pain”. We get back to the slowness I mentioned before.
Coincidentally enough, I find myself in the middle of the album, which gives the record a second – dance and clean– breather to make me keep listening. It was about time, Can´t feel my face started to play. I don´t mean this in a bad way, but Acquainted reinforces that premise with another sexy slow-paced song (“You got me touching on your body,” reads a line.) If I had to say one word of the album, half through, that would be slow. The song got me moving my head up and down. Keeping in tune with the slow melody from Often, Hills brings in the story of an autodestructive relationship based on drugs and lies.
According to the lyric website Genius, the song features “a poem written by Turkish poet Sabahattin Ali, which Abel sampled in this song.” A line from the poem translated into English reads “Each day without you feels like years” you can watch the Not Safe For Work (NSFW) official video for Often after the break. Often is a sexy – and explicit – slow rap. I like rap, so I can´t say my ears started to bleed, although it was odd listening to this kind of language in slow and ballad-like song. Tell your friends could be the most explicit piece of the record, with an overuse of the N-word, some drug references and the occasional F and B-bombs. And a set of trumpets closes the track in a very Labrinth Let it be style. The piano, clapping and upbeat chorus intertwine to make an excellent collaboration for Labrinth to join. Losers´piano intro somehow made me think of Take Care, the track by Drake and Rihanna. The name Labrinth appeared on the pop-up notification next to the track title Losers the British rapper is set to release a new album in October, and I´m looking forward to reviewing it. The track had a very powerful and theatrical sense and made me want to keep listening. The lines “cause every woman I loved I seemed to push them away” and “that´s real life” seem to set the tone of the album, although (I hope) this can change. Right after I clicked the “play” button on my computer, Real Life made me feel like I was listening to a Ne-Yo track – Abel has a similar voice (I think). Keep in mind that this is the first album of The Weeknd I listen. Beauty behind the madness, mainly because I liked his single Can´t feel my face and his voice reminds me of one of my idols, Michael Jackson. I sat down to check out his latest album. Now is the turn for The Weeknd, or Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer that caught the world´s attention after he posted several anonymous mixtapes on YouTube back in 2010. I like listening to new music and express my thoughts on what I´ve just heard. Another week has flown by: I remember a week ago I was reviewing the new Disturbed album, Immortalized, and on Wednesday gave a listen to Jess Glynne´s debut album I cry when I laugh.