{"id":807491,"date":"2020-05-15T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1000461"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:43:34","slug":"future-sounds-like-he-finally-found-a-good-therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/future-sounds-like-he-finally-found-a-good-therapist\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Sounds Like He Finally Found a Good Therapist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years, Future\u2019s<\/a> music has been about chasing highs. In Nayvadius Wilburn\u2019s world, the addictions may change, but everything else stays the same. Sometimes the drugs are the work of Big Pharma: Comethazine, Codeine, Xanax, Percocet, Adderall. Other times the substance is universal: conquering heartbreak, purging childhood scars, escaping poverty. Then, in rare doses, Future\u2019s pain is specifically Future\u2019s: it will center on the peaks of celebrity infatuation and the messy comedown of its implosion. His constant quest for the perfect hit of serotonin has become our own, bleeding into the way we listen to Future.<\/p>\n

Ever since his mid-2000s mixtape run \u2014 Monster<\/em>, Beast Mode<\/em>, 56 Nights<\/em> \u2014 consumers have been rewarded for mining the latest nooks and crannies of Future\u2019s psyche. We make his pain our pain, and then repurpose that feeling for easy-to-produce memes. Joking about the intense pain that Future has made a primary theme in his work is a cottage industry all its own \u2014 the content wheel that keeps on spinning, if you will.<\/p>\n

On Future\u2019s latest album, the aptly titled High Off Life<\/em><\/a>, he wants us to believe his new addiction is existence, and the positivity one must have to cherish it. In reality, the calm hanging over High Off Life<\/em> is his latest muse and rumored partner, Lori Harvey.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccepting My Flaws\u201d doesn\u2019t fit neatly into the pantheon of Future love songs. It\u2019s devoid of the innocent sentimentality of 2014\u2019s \u201cI Won\u201d or the tropical exuberance of 2017\u2019s \u201cIncredible.\u201d Instead, the ominous wails of the Southside-produced song arrive like the rallying cry of an unending war that finally shows signs of abating. What he\u2019s fighting for is stated plainly: \u201cGive me glory, give me Lori, that\u2019s victory.\u201d The chorus features Future asking the Lord for forgiveness, using a day to \u201csober up,\u201d and admitting that he\u2019s found therapy in his new love. In a clipped and hurried voice Future raps, \u201cI\u2019ve been tryna fight my demons, I\u2019ve been tryna fight my cup,\u201d almost as if he\u2019s trying to convince himself that, this time, everything will be different.<\/p>\n

Future positions him and his partner as allies against the world for the next verse. For four minutes, paranoia and passion are indecipherable from each other. One moment he\u2019s begging her, \u201cDon\u2019t you let \u2019em turn you on me\u201d and the next details the inner workings of their \u201cchemistry.\u201d Future wants the world to know he\u2019s happy but, more importantly, seems concerned with exacting his vengeance upon those who doubted that his newfound contentment was achievable.<\/p>\n

The most telling lyric of \u201cAccepting My Flaws,\u201d arrives without fanfare and finally reveals what Future has been fighting for all along: \u201cFall in love with revenge, hopin\u2019 that\u2019ll kill my demons,\u201d he raps. The drugs and lovers change, but loving adversity, for Future, does not.<\/p>\n

Find a playlist of all of our recent Songs You Need to Know selections on Spotify.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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