I agree, Born This Way is a pretty good album. I think what really brings it down in quality is the SEVERE distance between the best songs and the worst songs. I mean, Heavy Metal Lover, The Edge of Glory, and You and I are almost flawless in every way, but Americano, Highway Unicorn, and Hair are just absolutely ATROCIOUS!
I actually don't mind Bionic, ATRL just drags underperforming albums and its really not fair.
I actually love HU and Americano but I have enough sense to know how ****** they are, especially compared to the first two good ones you listed.
Former child actor Aubrey Graham's much-vaunted sensitivity and introspection is more hollow than ever on his second album. It's mostly condescending to women and consists of self-pitying whinges about expecting sympathy for liking strippers. In place of characterisation and detail, he repeats lines as though casting around for a prompt – often as an inadequate excuse for a hook, as on Cameras and Make Me Proud – and drops wretched clunkers such as "Shout out to the Asian girls, let the lights dim sum", and "She said, you're such a dog; I said, you're such a bone." Drake is insipid as a singer; the low point comes on Crew Love, when he and the Weeknd moan aimlessly about their first-world problems. As a rapper, he is inert to the point of catatonia and his foregrounded voice becomes swiftly intolerable. Drake's self-absorption is such that when he drones "Man, all of your flows bore me: paint drying," one assumes he's looking straight in the mirror. At heart, he doesn't seem to realise that introspection is only worth a damn if you're an interesting person.
Probably something from Ke$ha.
