<em>More Life</em> Is Another Smart Career Swerve for Drake
The latest music-category mindbender for the internet age: Why is the rapper’s new release a “playlist” instead of an “album”?
The playbook for pop stardom keeps adding chapters in the internet age, with the surprise album, the visual album, the retail mixtape, the hit-containing deluxe, and the all representing new answers to the once-settled question of how best to package and release new music. Now Drake has offered up another categorical mindbender, calling his latest release, , a “playlist,” despite the fact it’s made up of new songs whose primary author, by iTunes designation, is Drake.
