he has 5

not one 10/10

EARL w ldls and SRS fr

NWTS is def a 10/10

velvet rope one of the greatest albums oat

More proof 😆

yeah thats part of why its so special, looking backwards while still making something unique and influential in its own way and masterfully done

Such a hater lol

frank sinatra too

Isaiah has 10s?

you're telling me

college dropout
late registration
graduation
808s
MBDTF

aren't classics? you drunk?

Exactly. Yes is basically unlistenable to me after Going For the One. I Wish they just retired in the late 70's

closest to a 10/10 but drake doesn’t belong to the 10/10 club imo

Explain how his first 7 albums arent classics

No its not lol. But If you think it's perfect then lol

they might be classics, but they aint 10s in my eyes

they 10/10 too

Going for the One is the last one i've heard. im kinda expecting Drama and 9015 to be at least okay though

those are all perfect albums lmao

With 305, Own It & Connect?

Ye got 1 ten and its yeezus

AH = No wanderlust

KL = 2 versions of Wanderlust

KL is clearly superior

it’s great but i feel like it doesn’t get going until self control, and then the interludes kinda stop it from being perfect

there’s no way frank was working with vegyn and asap rocky without having listened to dean blunt’s work. i believe his work isn’t as grand, hut
touches on a lot of these topics to a greater effect. i just have a personal preference for minamalism

the way the album is structured reminds me a lot of black metal. pretty sweet being this super experimental track that starts off as a p much a noise track, feels sm like the climax of black metal. the shift between lighter meandering tracks into the darker heavier stuff.

imo the execution of this structure is done better in black metal. controversial i know, but black metal just speaks so much more to me than blonde.

i kinda always felt unfulfilled whenever i did a front to back listen to blonde which i talk about later here. black metal just felt like everything i wanted to feel with blonde. this is all just imo, i know ppl won’t feel the same way at all. but with the collaborators both artists work with, the themes they explore, and their love for experimenting / pushing boundaries i can’t NOT compare these two great artists.

another issue i have is with the interludes and how they frame the narrative of this record.

frank’s always done interludes but this album has the weakest feeling ones imo. idk they just don’t feel cinematic the same way “songs about women” or the playstation start up sounds on CO did for me. i like the backing track used but it gets kinda repetitive especially when you’ve listened to this album so much lol.

the are are so hit and miss for me. good guy is perfect. be yourself is cute, and facebook story is just a horrendous sore spot. pretty sweet to close to you is perfect. i don’t get why it has to be broken up by this story.

you can say just skip it, but these moments are important for a frank album. and honestly he’s done these short little moments better in his career.

nikes is a great introduction don’t have issues with it but futura free is just... disappointing. doesn’t live up to what is being set up by white ferrari / seigfried / godspeed imo. i like the lyrics but just kinda doesn’t give me the emotional release i’m expecting from those last three songs. feels like a s***ty endless song.

if blonde was a movie i’d say it has a great introduction scene, but doesn’t really get going until the climax. ending kinda falls flat. but overall a great movie with a great story. i’m just not giving it my full attention the entire time.

by any and all means it’s one of the best records of last decade, and will probably be remembered as THE album of the decade, only next to MBDTF. it’s genre bending without even caring. it’s got great songs, some decent songs, but comes together to tell a great coming of age story. it resonates with so many in my generation, but i don’t think it personally resonates as much as it does my peers.

i think blonde has some of the highest highs of any record i listened to since i started getting serious about music. but i don’t think it’s the perfect end all be all record everyone makes it out to seem.

i also feel like the beauty of frank’s storytelling is it’s vagueness, and that anyone can place themselves into these stories. this record does that very well, but i still kinda miss the more direct stories like most, novacane, forrest gump.

but i get that’s what the album is going for, less fully developed stories and more so vignettes fleeting moments. i think it’s well done but other artists are attempting to capture this “life through instagram stories” thing with the same creative energy as frank.

by any and all means i find this record fantastic but i just don’t think it’s this monumental larger than life record that some people
make it seem