I’m a really anxious person.
I’m constantly thinking about how things can go wrong, how they will go wrong or how they have gone wrong. For a long time I thought this was just how people lived, you wake up, panic about decisions you need to make and then go about your day. People would tell me to relax but my response was always “nigga how do you NOT think?”. I learned how to mask my anxiety as aloofness; instead of being worried someone might not want to talk to me, I wouldn’t speak to people because “I didn’t feel like it”. I was drawn to stand up comedy because I liked the idea of being in control of a social situation. I didn’t have to worry about embarrassing myself if I had the power. While I still have moments of extreme dread, therapy and self discovery have made things much easier.
When I see Summer Walker, I see a lot of these similar traits. People complain that she’s stiff or shy or unprofessional, but to me I see someone who’s thinking about a thousand things at once. I relate to her energy, so with that I decided to give her new album “Over It” a chance.
Summer Walker is an awkward girl with tattoos who smokes weed and doesn’t like to go outside. In other words she is the woman of my dreams. She reminds me of a cat, she seems stand offish at first but once you really get to know her she warms up.
“Over It” is full of songs about wanting to spend time with someone special and no one else. This isn’t an album you listen to on a night out. This is an album you listen to when you’re getting dressed, sit down on your bed and take a 3 hour nap with one shoe on. Seriously, this is good “I ordered an Uber home and haven’t told anyone yet” music. She just wants to be with the person she feels comfortable with so she can finally be herself. It’s really sweet.
It’s sweet til you realize that this isn’t a woman you wanna break up with. I’m 80% sure that Summer would pull a knife on you if you pissed her off enough. I have a strong feeling she’s said “nigga you think I’m playing with yo-oh my god oh my god I didn’t mean to actually cut you, I just wanted to scare you, I didn’t tell you to bleed this much” at least 3 times in her life.
This is a solid introvert album, this is an album for people who get in relationships so they don’t have to go out and meet anyone else. I heard that if you play “Fun Girl” backwards Summer gives out her UberEats promo code. If I had to criticize anything about it, I would say that there are some weird tonal shifts. While it’s clear that Summer does what she wants when she wants, the radio singles sound so dramatically different than the rest of the album.