Tainted love: how Drake started pop’s erotic comedown

In music, the joy of sex has been supplanted by nihilism and melancholy. Has the digital age made pop lose its loving feeling?Towards the end of his double album Scorpion, Drake confirms the sting in his tale; something that has defined him as the pop star of his age. Midway through the song Final Fantasy, in which he has imagined the luckless ways in which a hookup might turn out for him, he opines: “I hope that the apocalypse is the only thing that doesn’t come.” This is not...

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