the best part of the Beatles’ She’s so Heavy is the infinity vamp at the end, you know the one that stops abruptly. It just keeeeeps going and it’s all you ever want.
Don’t make me summon Angst to explain progressive music.
Anyone who goes deep into dance music will come to a few road forks, they are all good options but one is techno. Techno is one of the deepest and richest and most sonically interested and exciting. Very complex, very artistic, but grounded in its dance purpose. But to anyone who doesn’t “get” it, it’s the stupidest, dullest monotony.
Kendrick is technoing in rap. But at a truly high level.’
Euphoria starts at 122 bpm in 3/4 time. It ends the section of and switches from organic and slow and sober into straight Super Nintendo guile’s theme on top of a roasted 808 giving us a double timed 140. By my count, total tracks this far up the greater computer music side of pop music in the past 15 years to feature a time signature switch is 0 and total popular tracks in 3/4 time at all was that one track by The Weeknd almost 10 years ago. But these are just details among a whole.
And as I wrote before, every time you think he’s going to land a verse he links it to his next one, he doesn’t stop. Do you have the energy to keep up? This is techno. This a party. This is where the DJ says f your preconceptions we are in greatness now. Shrooms will help.
You don’t have to like it. There’s a million and one things to like you said it yourself. I have found value in changing myself, I used to hate rap like completely, and it took effort. But I won’t for all things even when those things are good and true.
But on this one it’s like, I obviously “see it”, im explaining, quite unnecessarily, how it’s vocally really interesting, so there’s no benefit in telling me it’s monotonous because I literally and physically hear how it isn’t, distinctly and controlled by the artist for effect.
At this point however I don’t want to make my songs experiential association trying to explaining it defense. It’s a great song.
But it’s also in context of a greater rap battle that feels fundamentally different from those before it.
