a.k.a. Drake’s at it again, using the women’s innocence trope to feign emotional ownership??? another notch on the Creepy Drake board.

he manages to take a rather fun radio single to inappropriately pine over an old flame. while he croons his disapproval of her new life, i’m left throughout the song thinking: why is it any of his business?



drake woefully harkens back to a relationship from before he left Toronto, presumably before he really got famous. he recalls their relationship alongside her current lifestyle which he so painfully disapproves of.

this song is the equivalent of facebook stalking, taking a page out of Drake’s Take Care handbook. he employs shame & guilt as a borderline blackmailing as the basis for this song, which is being miscontrued as a song about a broken heart or some garden-variety emotional disappointment.



what bothers me so much about this song is the delivery of this package. it takes a disturbing, generally socially unacceptable narrative & puts into an established radio hit. it’s a subterfuge, along with his signature tone & usage as an undercut to his Meek Mill feud, that allows him to make his masochistic disapproval into a singalong.

it didn’t even really hit me until the last verse: “These days, all I do is / Wonder if you bendin’ over backwards for someone else / Wonder if your rollin’ backwoods for someone else / Doing things I taught you gettin’ nasty for someone else / You don’t need no one else

You don’t need nobody else, no / Why you never alone / Why you always touching road / Used to always stay at home, be a good girl / You was in the zone/ You should just be yourself / Right now, you’re someone else”

& that last line, he’s really saying “you should be who i want you to be”

this verse embodies the vibe of Drake’s signature predatory control mechanism. he seems to have a pattern of isolation & manipulation through his charm & resource.



Drake is a systematic dude, we should know this much. the subject matter, format & timing of this single is assumed to be no different. even in the verse breakdown of the song, the picture doesn’t seem to be fully painted until the last verse. but by then, you’ve hummed & bopped & sung along to the whole song, so now it all just fits into cadence.



what do you think? listen to the song, if you haven’t already