This was a 17-track project. I took two days before giving it a listen. And this time, it wasn’t just a song - we got a lot of those in 2014. This was a big deal to many (projected first-week sales hover around 500,000 copies), because “New Drake” is a thing. This was what she could expect from 2015, when certain songs are played in certain settings at a certain volume to a certain collection of individuals.ĭrake’s latest offering was released, out of nowhere, this past Thursday, the 12th of February. None of what was happening in the middle of the circle truly qualified as dancing. It was more an exercise in jumping up and down, throwing a temper tantrum, screaming at one another, and smiling. To be fair, they weren’t that different from the people in the middle, but seemed more interested in observing the idiots at arm’s length and holding on to their drinks rather than losing them to the floor while potentially getting elbowed in the face. Surrounding this inner circle of humans was another circle of people, also dancing, but mostly watching. Thirty people, adults - only in the literal sense - dancing to Drake’s newest mixtape-album, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late. There were equal parts eye-roll and These are my people in that statement as my friend described what was in front of her: the mess, the melee, the gleeful insanity. Oh, so this is what my 2015 is going to look like. Over my shoulder, in a bar, on a Sunday, before midnight, but not by much, I heard this:
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