Drake’s doleful phrasing captured the disavowed sadness of hedonism

Evidence

This hedonist’s sadness — a sadness as widespread as it is disavowed — was nowhere better captured than in the doleful way that Drake sings, “we threw a party/yeah, we threw a party,” on Take Care’s “Marvin’s Room”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1306

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