Why Bieber’s “What Do You Mean?” Is A Better Pop Song Than Drake’s “Hotline Bling”
2. Because Drake’s “song” has a terribly horrific afterthought of a beat produced via a toy Casio keyboard and funneled through some fried elevator speakers barely audible over the sound of the mouth breather next to you.
You used to call me on my car phone.
3. Because Drake's vocal performance in this song sounds like a dude that never sang before. Sorry, man. I got nothing against you.
4. Because the production in the Bieber track makes me excuse all of the little “hey ah yeahhhhh oohhh” vocal flourishes these weasely little pop boys always gotta do. Whatever, man. Tone it down, and the song is even better. Also, Drake’s version of a vocal flourish resembles the throat clearing grunt of the mouth breather in 90s elevator music world. “YEAH.”
5. Because the Drake song/video HAS to be a joke. Right? Right. It’s clearly a talented musician making a bet with some producer after some late night studio session. “Hey man, I’m SO popular that I bet I can popularize this song that audibly represents that sweat stain on the once-upon-a-time-this-undershirt-was-white tshirt of the elevator mouth breather guy we saw earlier.” Right?!