![]() On the last leg of this record, Kid Cudi spends this album pretending he’s like Kurt Cobain. The core of the album is eighteen tracks long, and - if that wasn’t enough - Kid Cudi saw fit to add eight more songs of demos and rehearsal demos, which are even more of a wasteland than the core of the record. This thing is almost completely unlistenable. And it's very rare that I define albums in those terms, but there have been some very special albums this year that came out and I had a very strong distaste for. Maybe not the worst album I've heard this year - I mean there's certainly worse records - but the worst album I've had to review. This is easily the worst record I've had to review this year. And genres like grunge and alternative rock and punk music, emotion and attitude are the cornerstones of these styles of music, so Cudi might pull through on this one. What Cudi lacks in musical chops a lot of the time, he has in attitude and emotion. I guess it was sort of interesting to see Scott going in another direction. Actually, the lead singles that were teasing this album - songs like "Confused" as well as "Wedding Tux" and also "Judgmental Cunt" - these songs were kind of intriguing to me. My morbid curiosity got the best of me because I heard it was a rock record. Scott Mescudi's next record, Satellite Flight. Like, he fell off the edge of sanity and started to release some of the worst music of this decade: the faux-rock album he did with that WZRD collaborative side project, also Indicud, which is a record that still haunts me to this day, to the point where I completely skipped over Mr. Rager himself seemed to fall off - and not just quality wise. But, pretty immediately after his next album, Mr. He had a sound, he had a vibe, that I could recognize. And while I didn't really go head over heels for his stuff, I thought his follow-up to his debut was kind of mediocre, I was pretty indifferent to it, but at least he wasn’t like a generic artist to me. He was delivering some very moody, introspective hip-hop that not a lot of other rappers were. Kid Cudi is a rapper, singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist as well, it seems.Who had a pretty promising start to his music career, his professional/commercial music career in the previous decade. Anthony Fantano here, the Internet's busiest music nerd, and it’s time for a review of the new Kid Cudi album, Speedin' Bullet to Heaven. To me, this track had the most emotion and meaning to it, and the lyrics and production did well to transmit that to the listener.Hey, everyone. Overall, I found this track to be my favorite on the album. She manipulates some of the notes well too. Later on in the song, Blige goes on to sing by herself, and I found it to be a solid performance that matched well with the tone of the song while also having a strong voice behind the lyrics. The first hook is interesting and well done too, because Mary J Blige’s clean and strong voice complements the smoky and weighted down characteristic of Kid Cudi’s voice. I found this to be an incredible way to get his meaning across, since it was not limited to the lyrics. The inability to carry on through his addiction is shown through how the song just ends he simply cannot go on. This is a very interesting aspect of the song that brings his tale of how he cannot overcome his drug addiction into a more real realm. At the beginning of this pseudo verse, there is no noise of him snorting drugs. It seems as though he is about to do a third verse at the end, but it abruptly cuts out. His addiction has created despair that he cannot seem to overcome, and the sound of his snorting relates to how he needs drugs to function. To preface, each verse begins with the sound of Kid Cudi snorting. ![]() One of my favorite aspects of the song is how it ends. The production of the song itself goes very well with the vocals. The beats and background effects like screams go well to supplement a sense of dread and fatigue that extends to the listener. There is a sense of weariness and stress in the artist’s voice that really resonates with the listener. Loneliness and dread is a theme that is explored throughout many of this artist’s songs, and here is a good example. Lyrically, the track speaks about the struggles that the artist had with his addiction during the time of recording. My favorite track on this album is “These Worries” featuring Mary J. Rager, is a great album and a personal favorite of mine. Kid Cudi’s second studio album, The Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr.
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