Drake is back with a Miami Vice/Scarface-inspired theatrical video for his '80s-flavored track, "Hold On, We're Going Home," served as the second single from his newly-released third studio album, "Nothing Was the Same." While this short musical film does not feature the 26-year-old Jewish Canadian rapper undergoing a religious rite of passage, it does take place in the very Jewy locale of Miami, where a gun-toting Drake rescues his kidnapped girlfriend. Not exactly shul, but we'll take it.
Drake often blurs the line that separates rap and R&B, but his new single "Hold on We're Going Home" is something else entirely: a plunge into foggy synth-pop. And it finds Drake in full croon, pushing past the boundary established by previous hits "Find Your Love" or "Marvin's Room." Featuring the previously unknown duo Majid Jordan, the song cuts sharply against the aggressive myth-making of "Started From the Bottom," leaving recent tracks "The Motion" and "All Me" to bridge the gap. The synthpop ballad closer to early '80s Lionel Richie than it is to Jay Z, and finds Drake hoping to lock down a little love.
Just like Thicke, Drake addresses his song to a good girl whom he attempts to seduce. His meaning, however, is ambiguous: "You're a good girl and you know it," he sings to a woman in a club, "you act so different around me/I know exactly who you could be." It's possible that Drake, like Thicke, is trying to prise the pants off a demure woman who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to get wild with him. But given Drake's other verses and the mournful tone of the music, it's more likely that "Hold On, We're Going Home" is addressed to a woman acting the familiar part of a bad girl to get attention. You don't need to do that, Drake is saying; hold on to yourself and I'll take you to a place of safety.
The 7-minute-long, obviously gangster-inspired short film, takes place in 1985 Miami and was directed by Bill Pope, shows Drake playing a criminal kingpin who living the life of an '80s throwback baller, celebrating shady business deals with his partners A$AP Rocky, but their fun stops there because Drake learns that his lady has been kidnapped by a rival gang Steven Bauer (of "Scarface" fame), and it transforms Drake does everything in his power to bring her home, as he and his crew into a balaclava-wearing, machine gun shooting SWAT team to infiltrate a warehouse where the thugs are hiding out. "Basically it's a video full of acting because I'm dying to get back into acting," Drake told MTV News.
Drake often blurs the line that separates rap and R&B, but his new single "Hold on We're Going Home" is something else entirely: a plunge into foggy synth-pop. And it finds Drake in full croon, pushing past the boundary established by previous hits "Find Your Love" or "Marvin's Room." Featuring the previously unknown duo Majid Jordan, the song cuts sharply against the aggressive myth-making of "Started From the Bottom," leaving recent tracks "The Motion" and "All Me" to bridge the gap. The synthpop ballad closer to early '80s Lionel Richie than it is to Jay Z, and finds Drake hoping to lock down a little love.
Just like Thicke, Drake addresses his song to a good girl whom he attempts to seduce. His meaning, however, is ambiguous: "You're a good girl and you know it," he sings to a woman in a club, "you act so different around me/I know exactly who you could be." It's possible that Drake, like Thicke, is trying to prise the pants off a demure woman who wouldn't otherwise be inclined to get wild with him. But given Drake's other verses and the mournful tone of the music, it's more likely that "Hold On, We're Going Home" is addressed to a woman acting the familiar part of a bad girl to get attention. You don't need to do that, Drake is saying; hold on to yourself and I'll take you to a place of safety.
The 7-minute-long, obviously gangster-inspired short film, takes place in 1985 Miami and was directed by Bill Pope, shows Drake playing a criminal kingpin who living the life of an '80s throwback baller, celebrating shady business deals with his partners A$AP Rocky, but their fun stops there because Drake learns that his lady has been kidnapped by a rival gang Steven Bauer (of "Scarface" fame), and it transforms Drake does everything in his power to bring her home, as he and his crew into a balaclava-wearing, machine gun shooting SWAT team to infiltrate a warehouse where the thugs are hiding out. "Basically it's a video full of acting because I'm dying to get back into acting," Drake told MTV News.
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