It’s hard to know for sure, but when a love song comes this close to an elegy, it brings to mind fellow melancholic romantics like Morrissey, Robert Smith, "God Damn the Sun" Michael Gira, and Leonard Cohen, which is a good place for Majical Cloudz to be at this point in their career.
The line, "There is one thing I’ll do, if it ever goes wrong, I’ll write you into all my songs" may be the one thing that exists in the present. "Downtown" is, on one level, a song about the good times in a relationship, when things are flush with excitement and discovery and everything seems perfect: "Nothing you say/ Will ever be wrong/ Cause it just feels good being in your arms." But the way Devon Welsh sings the words, and the way Matthew Otto's skeletal instrumentation floats around them like a ghost, makes you think that at least some of it can be placed in the past tense. Dej for one, per her characteristic, slightly-detached persona, is happy to keep it about the moment. "I guess chemistry is true, but I don’t know if it’s the Hennessy or you"-a brief thought he quickly eschews for more threesome- and dick-related pastures. But there’s also a more tangible distance between the two, at least for Wayne: "Girl you don’t love me, you just love my doggy style," he drawls. The song slides and grinds by the flicker of a "couple candles", and there's an immediacy to Dej's lyrics. Young Thug), there’s something a little less affectionate and starry-eyed about this one. Future, "My Beyoncé" with Lil Durk, "Shawty" ft.
Yet compared with some of the other sexytime songs Dej put out this year ( "Hey There" ft. His involvement brought wider attention to the slow-burning drunk sex jam that had originally appeared sandwiched in the middle of Dej’s Sell Sole mixtape. Remixing Dej’s "Me U & Hennessy" was one of his more successful musical contributions of the year. In 2015, she followed through, putting out her first studio EP #AndSeeThatsTheThing, while touring on Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint Tour, after getting a shout-out from Nicki herself at the BET Awards.īy contrast, Lil Wayne was dealing with his Cash Money fallout, the indefinite postponement of Tha Carter V, and a slew of disappointing solo releases.
Dej Loaf came into the year with the kind of cosigns that dreams are made of: Drake on Instagram, a slew of high-profile "Try Me" remixes, a slot on Erykah Badu’s year-end tour, a feature with Eminem.
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