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Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: what it might mean when you are hearing music as BAD and a defense of Rebirth
Rebirth comes out of what must have been an unbearable time. it’s his reaction to everyone expecting and NEEDING him to be cheerful and wacky and flamboyant when all he wants to do is scream. and if you’ve ever had to pretend nothing’s wrong after your girlfriend broke up with you, or your bike got stolen and you wanted to cry but you were hanging out with your friends and didn’t wanna be a downer, you can understand Rebirth. imagine the pressure on a dude who’s expected to sell more records than anyone else, to constantly be topping his earlier unfathomable successes, and how satisfying it must have been to make a fuck the world, fuck the industry, fuck my life record like Rebirth as a reaction to that pressure, knowing it wouldn’t sell and going off to jail with a middle finger in the air. kind of a rock n roll think to do right?
A dude makes a convincing argument for why lil wayne’s rock record didn’t technically suck. Actually pretty insightful. I’m still not a fan of Wayne, though.