{"id":974369,"date":"2020-01-10T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=936165"},"modified":"2020-01-10T15:29:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:29:42","slug":"drake-and-future-have-fashioned-themselves-as-blissful-blue-collar-blokes-on-life-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/drake-and-future-have-fashioned-themselves-as-blissful-blue-collar-blokes-on-life-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake and Future Have Fashioned Themselves as Blissful Blue Collar Blokes on \u2018Life Is Good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It does not feel like \u201cLife Is Good<\/a>.\u201d In fact, life feels terrible. There is a palpable sense of anxiety filling in the air as the threat<\/a> of another war looms, and Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s new mustache is a wispy atrocity. Future<\/a> and Drake<\/a> are above such petty grievances and concerns. Their latest collaboration \u2014 \u201cLife Is Good\u201d \u2014 positions them narratively and visually as allies of the working class, and as such they maintain their position above the fray.<\/p>\n

In the Director X-directed visual, the What A Time To Be Alive<\/em> duo dress in garbage men garb, hawk cellphones, tinker with cars at an autobody shop, and have more fun working at a minimum wage fast food restaurant than anyone ever has in the history of American capitalism. Even the first words of \u201cLife Is Good\u201d double down on this notion: Drake complains about having to work on the weekends (I\u2019m not sure, if I were Drake, I would ever know what day of the week it was). Across the 4-minute song, the lines dabble between what will be intensely relatable to some (\u201cHaven\u2019t done my taxes, I\u2019m\u2005too turnt up\u201d) t0 ready-made Olive-Garden-dinner-date captions for others (\u201cI go tremendo for new fettuccini\u201d). By the time Drake raps, \u201cWine by the glass, your man a cheapskate, huh\u201d it\u2019s hard to tell whether he is poking fun at the mediocre masses or partially reminiscing about the times when he was known for fucking up the double cheek kiss.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife Is Good\u201d functions like a good episode of SNL<\/em>. Two well-known celebrities remake themselves and play with their image in short, digestible bursts. Some of the jokes hit, while others do not.<\/p>\n

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