So that wasn’t quite what I was hoping for.
Yes Logic’s newest album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind has just released, and I
can’t help feeling that it might just be the worst one of his 5 studio albums.
And the crazy thing is I’m not even close to alone in this, Logic’s most dedicated
fans are so disappointed that they’ve theorised Logic will be dropping a second part to this
album that’s actually good and well constructed.
I want it to happen but I don’t buy it.
I believe there is a story to this album, but it’s just gonna be continued on his
next studio album and not a supposed second part related to this one.
At the very least, the points in this video will be under the assumption that Confessions
is the real, full, final form of this specific album.
So in this video, I’m gonna be explaining why I feel like it was a let down.
This is CDTV, you can go over to my twins channel to see his first reaction to
this album, and let’s talk about Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
“UP MEETS BT” (Misleading Hype)
The biggest thing that set this album up for failure was how Logic hyped it up and what
he strongly suggested it was gonna be.
On twitter and even in interviews, Logic stated that this album would be Bobby Tarantino meets
Under Pressure.
This was amazing news, as Under Pressure was Logic’s debut album and his most lyrically
impressive one to date.
It was so well constructed and not a single track was wasted, it’s incredible from front
to back, one of my favourite rap albums ever.
The idea of Logic revisiting this sound and modernising it by using his more Bobby Tarantino
trap sound is a really cool concept... then the album dropped and it was more like Bobby
Tarantino 2 meets Everybody, not what anyone really wanted or expected.
Songs with half baked concepts that don’t really dive deep, Logic giving us trap style
music that was really monotonous because we heard it all before, that wasn’t what he
said this would be.
I mean, there’s the sample from Gang Related that plays at the start of Mama.
Is that it?
Is that the Under Pressure aspect of this album right there!?
In my opinion, there are only 3 tracks that match the lyricism and quality from Under
Pressure, and those are the title track, Mama, which is the only genuine example of Bobby
Tarantino meets UP, and Lost In Translation.
All fantastic tracks, and the 3 best on the album, but it’s only 3 out of 16.
The rest aren’t even close.
As I said, people are theorising that this is just part 1, the Bobby Tarantino side of
Confessions, but I feel like there’s almost a 0% chance that a second side to this album
exists that is supposedly the “Under Pressure side”.
I feel like this is what we’ve got and it just completely missed the mark on the Under
Pressure side of things.
“I Don’t Give A Damn ‘Bout Lyrics”:
When Logic said “I don’t give a damn bout lyrics” on Don’t Be Afraid to Be Different,
I really believed him man.
Now there is a theory that explains why the lyrics might be lacking, and we’ll get into
that, but first let’s look at why they’re just weak on their own.
“Who’s biracial only in his *****?”. “Rhymin like I’m Dr Suess, I’m Sam I am/I don’t
give a damn bout lyrics”.
“They wanna see a black man fall down, they wanna see a black man lose, they wanna see
a black man fall down, they want more blacks to sing the blues” times 2.
As you can see, subtlety is not a strong suit on this album.
But it goes even further than just some dumb lines.
We have the man who made the suicide awareness song 1-800, the man who made a song about
how crippling his anxiety can be, that very same man - says he wishes he had bipolar disorder
because Kanye West has it and he makes great music.
Are you serious.
And on top of all those lyrics that stand out as bad, the biggest issue is that most
of the album is just so bland and devoid in terms of lyrics and content that the project
is just not fun to listen to.
I understand at this point that Logic is insanely rich, there’s only so much he can say about
it but yet he talks about it on nearly every song here, and not even in any type of witty
way.
Yeah, lyrically this just might be the worst album that Logic has ever released, it’s
even less committed to its concept than Everybody and that is insane.
He really hyped this up to be an album that talks about the dangers and effects of social
media, something that would have thought provoking bars and interesting themes, then only really
covered it on like 3 songs and the rest were lyrically dry songs that sounded like Bobby
Tarantino extras full of filler lines and the generic Logic bars & rhymes we’ve come
to expect.
(Theory/Storyline):
Now the theory about the storyline is that this album is best listened to backwards,
yep the old DAMN. theory again, and it’s supposedly the character of the robot A.I.
named Thalia imitating Logic’s voice and pretending to be him, if you remember she
displayed that she could impersonate people on The Incredible True Story.
I’ll leave a link below explaining this narrative if you wanna fully understand it,
it makes a fair bit of sense.
If this narrative is correct, on one hand, this at least gives a reason for the really
lazy and recycled writing on here, and the bars that are really out of character for
Logic, plus it makes the long form storytelling of Logic’s discography really impressive,
but on the other hand, did the writing really have to be THIS lazy and recycled for us to
get it.
Like it partially feels like an excuse or that he went too far with it.
Isn’t the Bobby Tarantino character already the one you use to be more relaxed lyrically?
Why couldn’t Thalia still be lyrical, and instead fully flesh out the hypocritical part,
going against Logic’s beliefs to show something is up?
Is this super intelligent AI not smart enough to write sick bars?
If this theory is true, it means Confessions is essentially just a stepping stone to the
next Logic album where this story will be continued, I’m assuming Ultra 85, only there
to serve the story and not actually be great music as well.
For me, it’s insanely well put together story wise, but it makes this album almost
feel like a waste, because Logic unintentionally made the music not that fun to listen to by
intentionally dumbing it down, IF this storyline is correct.
I just feel like this really could have been pulled off in a way that didn’t cause so
many people to dislike the album.
Conclusion:
So, the way things currently are, I legitimately think this might be my least favourite Logic
project so far, the worst one.
At the very least, it’s my least favourite studio album from him.
He seems to have had this issue lately of promising that his albums are gonna be something,
then they come out and it turns out they aren’t really that close to how he described them.
There’s nothing worse than setting people up to think one thing is coming and then give
them something else.
That happened with Everybody, and it happened with Confessions, somehow to an even more
disappointing extent.
This is the 4th time in a row that I haven’t came away from a Logic album or mixtape feeling
like it was amazing, so I’m not sure if I can even bring myself to get hyped up when
he announces the next one.
Then again, maybe I just need time for that disappointment to wear off, I’ll never know
until we hear that next announcement.
So what did you guys think of Confessions Of a Dangerous Mind?