For our second set of field notes I decided to continue looking at the most common places people go to for music on the internet. Last set I looked at a video from youtube, this time I took a look at itunes. More specifically I looked at the responses on itunes to the new single by Lil Wayne, Prom Queen. I always find that looking at the itunes users comments, helps me find a wide array of opinions on the same music. For Prom Queen there was no exception, the opinions varied greatly.
Either the comment was completely for the integration of rock or completely against this new type of music. For the most part they were completely against. One comment tilted "People Let it Rock!" said "Foget the weezy...The man is not 17 anymore. Gangsta Rap has turned into commercial pop music. Wayne is trying new things instead of doing the same song over and over. Do it wayne! Let it Rock!". Another comment tilted "OMG!" said " OMG... this is the worst I've heard from him. I used to love this guy. Oh well...all good things come to an end. So sad..." There were over 161 pages of reviews and many of them were very similar to this. The people commenting were either completely disgusted with the new song or highly approving of it. It was interesting to see that there was rarely anybody taking a middle ground on the song.
The other thing I found hard to understand was that Wayne fans prior to this release were denoucing him as an artist and saying they would no longer ever be fans of his music. I'm guessing their dissapointment with his new music overshadowed their favorite music made by him earlier.
The whole debate between Lil Wayne's new album Rebirth fascinated me so I searched the web for more publications around it and landed upon a website that interviewed the co-ceo of Cash Money Records, Baby, about the new album. Through out the interview it seemed like Baby was trying to defend Lil Wayne's new direction of music and how he couldnt understand why it wasn't be well recieved by the public. He also pointed out in the interview how the record was just not rock it was fusion of hip-hop and rock. At the bottom of this article, much like the comments on itunes, there was an endless number of comments on how Lil Wayne had fallen off and how he's terrible now. One person went so far as to say the he took his Carter III CD and threw it out the window after hearing Prom Queen.
Looking at the comments on both itunes and on the article on hiphopdx.com it seems that the general hip-hop community(if such a thing exists) is extremely dissappointed with the direction that Lil Wayne is going with his album Rebirth. I looked at about 8 websites that had message boards pertaining to the new album and 80% of the feedback was very negative. Only very few people approved of what he was doing.
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