Only a handful of people across any medium have truly been able to make dorky things acceptably cool the way Drake has. It is therefore unsurprising that “Hotling Bling” is quite possibly his dorkiest video yet.
Everything about the show, which significantly revolves around Jake and Amy’s sexually-charged and endearingly mean banter, has to shift with this new romantic commitment.
As a child, people with tattoos were badasses and rebels — I imagined they sat in somebody’s basement, fearless, silent and maybe smoking a cigarette while someone bled them slowly in the name of body art. I wanted to feel that strength. I was petite and black and a girl and tired of being teased and abused. I wanted to flex.
The past few years have seen a proliferation of articles about where, exactly, the women are in mainstream country music. They’re around, for sure, but they’re not getting the attention they want or deserve en masse, most especially on the radio, which drives sales.