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The Fool is the fifth solo studio album by the Swedish rapper Bladee. A surprise album, it was released on 28 May 2021, through Year0001. The album was produced by Lusi with contributions from a variety of record producers. The Fool is a pop rap album that scales back and softens the sounds used in Bladee's previous album, Good Luck (2020) with Mechatok. Using Auto-Tuned vocals, the album explores themes of love, illusions, and existentialism. Its title is a reference to the tarot card of the same name and extends as a metaphor into the album itself. Fellow Drain Gang member Thaiboy Digital is featured on the track "Inspiration Comes". The Fool was considered one of the best albums of the year by The Fader and Dazed, and received further approval from Pitchfork and laut.de.
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Hanging on to the threads of my 20s, but now fully ready to accept old head status if listening to this sterile, mumbling-ass horseshit is what's necessary to stay current.
The Fool is a rather generic rap/pop album by Swedish rapper Bladee. It is over-produced an is full of auto-tune. All tracks sound simular and as a whole it's just boring.
1) Cover is not indicative of the content 2) Guy really needs to get over himself
I vaguely know about Drain Gang, but I've never bothered to check out any of their music. Was expecting something like Viper or some real wacky experimental shit like that, but this just sounded like really mumbly boring nothingness to me. Not for me.
Perhaps the worst album on both the official and user submitted list.
It’s pretty good, though I don’t understand why some people like his music so much
Rating: 6/10 Best songs: The fool intro
I liked this okay… kind of mellow rap that wasn’t my favorite thing but not a bad listen.
Not entirely trash As if Pewdiepie made a comedy trap album 3
Cloud rap, pop rap, trap. Ni fu ni fa.
Decent emo-ish neo-rap. And enjoyable listen, though lyrically it didn't do a ton for me. I may be irretrievably aged out of its demographic.
You guys hate this shit huh? The future is now fellas
Generic. This sounds like a 1000 other things out there. Nothing notable about it. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 3/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Draingang represented, although this isn’t album I would have chosen. There’s stronger material out there
Didn’t do much for me.
Cloud rap, pop rap, trap. Ni fu ni fa.
Not for me
This didn't click for me. It's not bad, but felt pretty bland
What was that ADD autotuned hyperpop album that was already on the list? The 10000gecs? This is virtually identical. 3 minutes of this and I'm good.
Too much autotune.
You know in a show where somebody's cousin is a SoundCloud rapper?
I can only assume that Bladee is pronounced 'Bladdy', as in, 'This is bladdy rubbish!'. It's a rare example of where I'm very grateful for autotune, because it means that Skynet is putting some effort into making this "not monotone". More than can be said for the actual human behind it. Musically, I'm not sure I can describe this as anything other than skittish wodges of bass, accompanied by some soaring synths. It's unimaginative, and just leads me to wonder who on earth put this together. There's been a couple of reviews out there about this being what music is now, and I fundamentally disagree. Another compared it to 100 Gecs and I absolutely disagree with that too. 100 Gecs may use heavy autotune, but their stuff is a grab bag of fun. This is a bag of warm flatulence. At least it's only just over half an hour long.
3/10 what a waste of time
The cover "art" should've been a clue. The first two seconds should've been a clue. I heard the whine/mumbling and I skipped to the next song. More of the same. Wish I hadn't listened at all. I had plenty of warning. Not worth it.
The Fool is terrible, average trap beats pulled from a stock pile and some shit autotune mumbling over the top. 1.
oh god no. please no