Still, “Empty” is just calculated enough and just stream-of-consciousness enough to serve as the prototypical Juice WRLD vibe. The album begins with the actually-pretty-good “Empty”, which will be a warm blanket to anyone taken in by “Lucid Dreams”, though Nick Mira’s twinkly keyboard lines aren’t a replacement exactly for the iconic Sting guitar line that winds its way through that hit. The ratio of bangers to duds, however, is not great, and Death Race for Love feels an awful lot like an unabridged teenage diary while the occasional clever turn of phrase and moment of profundity is sure to bubble up, most of it is simple self-indulgence, an onslaught of pure emotion whose sincerity is never in question, but all of which starts to blur together after a mere few pages or songs. Does any of it stick? Sure! With this many tracks to go around, something is bound to. Death Race for Love is, by any measure, a lot, far more Juice WRLD than anyone other than his most devoted followers will be able to handle. There is almost certainly a calculated strategy behind this - the more opportunities an audience already familiar with “Lucid Dreams” has to latch on to the next potential hit single, the higher the likelihood that there will actually be a next hit single. That is a ridiculous amount of product for a single artist in a year, but the iron is hot, and Higgins is determined to strike.ĭid I mention that Death Race for Love has 22 tracks? Death Race for Love has 22 tracks. In the last year or so, he has released two solo albums, one album-length mixtape with Future, two EPs, a smattering of non-album singles, and double-digit guest spots, with another collaborative mixtape (with Ski Mask the Slump God) on the way this year. Juice WRLD is famous - “Lucid Dreams”, the hit single from last year’s Goodbye and Good Riddance, hit #2 on Billboard and was impossible to escape on pop radio for months on end. Jarad Higgins, better known as Juice WRLD, is young - he’s 20 years old, not even old enough to drink, though that little detail doesn’t stop him from walking around with a bottle of Hennessy in his latest video.
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