Kiss It Better Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/27/2025 at 3:47 PM, J-esper said: Overall his trajectory since releasing Montero has been odd. You have an album with Miley, Doja and Megan features but cut the era short. Then J Christ and then it took an even worse turn. Expand i'm still mad at him for paying dust to Scoop that was the 4th hit of the album waiting to happen
VerdantHue Posted March 28 Posted March 28 This is the first project I like from him. I'm into it. Why is everyone so concerned about him not being appealing anymore, can y'all just enjoy the music, seesh.
Cap87 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 5:39 PM, VerdantHue said: This is the first project I like from him. I'm into it. Why is everyone so concerned about him not being appealing anymore, can y'all just enjoy the music, seesh. Expand These folks are obsessed with charts. Lil Nas X has made it clear to just enjoy the music for now while he's still recording the actual album. 4
2ne1k Posted March 28 Posted March 28 Regardless of the turn of events, a lot of the songs on this are great. I especially love Big Dummy and Need Dat Boy. Glad he's no longer chasing virality and is just making good music now 1
CottageHore Posted March 28 Posted March 28 See, when all you do is rely on cheap gimmicks and provocative behavior, this is what you get. No career can be sustained without true talent and artistic integrity. 1
Cap87 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 10:58 PM, CottageHore said: See, when all you do is rely on cheap gimmicks and provocative behavior, this is what you get. No career can be sustained without true talent and artistic integrity. Expand The music is being received well 1 1
El Nino Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I'm so TIRED and OVER artists releasing EPs and single after single with no album. You might as well surprise release and let it play out naturally. He has had an album since what? 2021 and now he's pulling a Cardi B. Dreamboy already feels stale.
El Nino Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I love how every thread people pretend like his "fall off" isn't due to homophobia. They'll say things like he's too sexual while Sabrina Carpenter simulates sex in front of 8 year olds. Lets call a thing a THING. Instead of helping him out, you punks add to it and point the finger as if an agenda isn't happening. He is the ONLY openly and visually queer artist to have such huge mainstream success then suddenly it is gone? Come on now. 3
El Nino Posted March 28 Posted March 28 What happened to Omar? He was gaining traction then it went poof. Yeah, homophobia is the culprit.
Cap87 Posted March 28 Posted March 28 On 3/28/2025 at 11:17 PM, El Nino said: I'm so TIRED and OVER artists releasing EPs and single after single with no album. You might as well surprise release and let it play out naturally. He has had an album since what? 2021 and now he's pulling a Cardi B. Dreamboy already feels stale. Expand There's a new article that confirms his album coming this summer
Rico Shameless v2 Posted March 29 Posted March 29 I just made a playlist like this the other day drop the album British cig
penguintim Posted March 30 Author Posted March 30 Spotify Day 1 Song Daily streams Total streams HOTBOX 184,510 4,466,552 LIGHT AGAIN! 38,634 8,430,274 DREAMBOY 21,358 437,084 BIG DUMMY! 23,535 543,027 SWISH 19,841 459,824 RIGHT THERE! 41,286 746,675 need dat boy 16,411 3,606,975 LEAN ON MY BODY 114,409 1,175,154 Total 459,984 19,865,565 2 1
aleksanderbgu Posted March 30 Posted March 30 I'm just happy he's releasing new music, don't care about the rest 2
Nashe Posted March 30 Posted March 30 the way his and Lizzo's careers ended simultaneously they even shared that big Grammys night
mxoonlight Posted March 30 Posted March 30 On 3/28/2025 at 11:20 PM, El Nino said: I love how every thread people pretend like his "fall off" isn't due to homophobia. They'll say things like he's too sexual while Sabrina Carpenter simulates sex in front of 8 year olds. Lets call a thing a THING. Instead of helping him out, you punks add to it and point the finger as if an agenda isn't happening. He is the ONLY openly and visually queer artist to have such huge mainstream success then suddenly it is gone? Come on now. Expand I don't agree fully with this, but I see what you're saying. The thing is he was sexual last era and got two smashes. His fan base are like straight Gen Z boys (you can tell from the YouTube comments)... they're not going to gag over him going full femme and the audience that would (gays/girls) were turned off by his shock jock antics and signed off on him years ago. J Christ being distasteful, a complete Montero retread with the video and being a bad song stopped everything right in his tracks. Because he doesn't have a public persona outside of his online trolling and UGC videos, people don't identify with him and support him in the way a project like this needs. Light Again is the best song he's ever released and had it been released in Q1 rather than Q4 with a better video, it would've had a shot. All of the tracks on this are good to great. I think his label still believes in him because of OTR, so my guess is their pivot is going to be making more Madden soundtrack sounding music like Industry Baby, but I think he should kind of take a step back and find a way to rectify his persona and show what he's learned in the years off through performances rather than dilute the sound. Everything that got dropped should have made the album. And there are mainstream artists succeeding with openly, visually queer projects (Troye/Sam to a lesser extent, Conan kind of) but they're obviously not black and not rappers, so I do understand and agree with you being defensive over it. I would love for him to find a way to make this era work so that it can open the door for more queer rappers in the future.
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