Our 2020 Valentine’s Day trip to Puerto Rico wasn’t even the first time we left town together.īut, of course, getting on a plane with a partner feels more special than boarding a bus with a friend. During the four years that we were friends, we shared secrets over dinner, met up every December to Christmas shop for our families, and looked after each other in ways that never mistook protection for ownership. Our days as life partners don’t look all that different from how we spent our time before we made that commitment. What made turning my best friend into my girlfriend relatively easy was my recognition of how romantic certain friendships can be in the first place. But like in the latter case, “Loyal” treats the act of loving someone through fluid labels with the same amount of care that I’ve used to handle my own relationships. One might suggest this exemplifies the sort of “situationship songwriting” I’ve sometimes dismissed and other times praised in the past. Throughout the song, Party and Drake illustrate a friendship with a woman that evolves over time yet remains reliable. Though “Loyal” lacks the wining and dining most people expect when they imagine romantic music, there’s an almost childlike sweetness to the way it describes closeness, made more serious by what it presumes that closeness means in the grand scheme of things. A rare exception to this is “Loyal,” the OVO duo’s 2019 collaboration in which they sound as sentimental as they ever have about the sort of friendship they’ve both taken for granted in other records. Both men make extremely emotional music, yet neither one of them makes particularly romantic music. Few accomplices are guiltier of abetting this death than PartyNextDoor and Drake, as the former rose to prominence with the benefit of the lines blurred by the latter’s So Far Gone (2009). “Love songs died when singers started singing about things rappers rap about,” I argued. In one of the earliest editions of this column, I observed how loveless most mainstream R&B music has become since the late aughts. This felt like the universe telling us we were exactly where we were supposed to be, paired with exactly whom we were meant to find.įuture And Drake's "Wait For U" Almost Became A Kanye West Track Coincidentally, the last time we were in San Juan, Valentine’s Day weekend 2020, Puerto Rico’s own Bad Bunny hopped on the song’s remix days before we touched down.
The record’s refrain, “You’re my best friend,” became an affirmation we’d randomly (and poorly) sing to each other during quiet moments at home.
A song we bonded over early in our relationship is “Loyal” by PartyNextDoor and Drake. By the time you read this, we’ll be sunbaked on a beach or a balcony in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Today (May 26) marks three years since my girlfriend and I began dating.
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