"I don't wanna be the menace to *** up your mind again," he sings. "Menace," in all its lyrical vagaries and "What You Need" synths is so Weeknd that I had to stop it halfway through and go listen to House of Balloons to cleanse my palate. As mentioned earlier, single "Why" is literally just a Weeknd B-side. Drake impressions and piss-poor The Weeknd paeons. As a lyricist, Woods flits between unconvincing If You're Reading This. It's a characteristically OVO release, which means that it's at least pleasing as mood music.īut the accolades end there. This lends the album that nice narcotized flow that makes these albums palatable and even enticing in the first place. Songs like "Got Me" and "Down Girl" almost mistakenly fall into their own grooves, subsumed by their own fluidity like mountains in fog. His vocals rarely show strain or limits, and he's got a workable sense of melody. Roy Woods is, in and of himself, not a bad singer or rapper. Let's begin with the more positive features.
Unfortunately, Roy Woods (or Wood$, as it's stylized) is yet another addition to the pantheon of horribly dull copycat trap-soulers who are almost wholly unworthy of time or attention. "How can this fly? Isn't this illegal? This is wrong!" I thought. I was wrong, and when I found out that it was, I was beside myself. The hazy, trap-lite production and bemoaning drug references, the Michael Jackson-aping tenor with melismatic falsetto swirling in the background. The first song of Roy Woods I ever hear was "Why." I thought it was a song by The Weeknd.
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