Not every collab on “Fighting Demons” works as well for Juice’s doom-drive lyrics and insistent, cantabile vocals.
So, although downy and flossy, “Girl of My Dreams” works as its reiterative instrumentation and Suga’s looped lower-octave rap-sing wrap around Juice’s cut-and-pasted croon like a an elegantly fancy ribbon. Luke track, “Girl of My Dreams” is, yes, fluffily produced, but more potent and reliant on Juice’s preferred instrumental break from past recordings – the clicking, metronomic guitar. BTS has been hot to collaborate in 2021 with everyone from Coldplay to Megan Thee Stallion, and pairing Suga’s baritone with that of Juice’s is synchronistic. This brings us to the most talked-about collab on “Fighting Demons,” “Girl of My Dreams,” with Suga of BTS. As a guest shot, Bieber and Juice sound as if they’re playing off one another – the very point of what a dynamic feature should sound like, whether or not its host is living or deceased.Įminem’s appearance here, flinty and staccato as it is, also fits, albeit oddly, as Juice and his mellow flow were part of “Godzilla” from Em’s oft-ignored 2020 album “Music to Be Murdered By.” Co-produced and co-written by Louis Bell and Harv (both of whom work with Biebs on the regular), the gently jiving and soulful track is there to support Juice’s jazziest-ever vocal line, with Bieber offering up a similarly slippery sing-song-iness. Here, however, despite its inventive vocal, the vibe feels forced, and “Not Enough” is, indeed, barely sufficient.įinding new versions of Juice WRLD’s steady baritone is what makes a cut such as “Wandered to LA” with Justin Bieber so delicious. Luke, attempts a similar brand of hypnosis with “Not Enough,” by lifting Juice’s flat, but breezily melodic vocal tones through heavenly, upwards-moving chord changes - you know, like every Dr. Another name-above-the-title producer, Dr. With “Burn,” the track’s producer and its vocal centerpiece seem to have a different mission: to drill its repetitious whistling effects and Juice’s maudlin, mantra-like lyrics into your head so that they bounce like balloons, then pop when exploded at the song’s finale. The Metro Boomin’-produced “Burn,” featuring an AutoTuned Juice, isn’t as gloomily poetic as “Already Dead” or as illustrative of a life in decline as “Feel Alone,” with its “Losing my mind / But it’s okay, it’s fine,” refrain. A lonely floating piano, played in what sounds like an imaginary distance from the singer, only bolsters the track’s empty feeling.
I be fighting some demons song skin#
Here, Juice’s desires and prayers to remove himself from that cycle are as evident (“All my suffering / Is really getting under my skin / Maybe I should try to pray again”) as his resignation (“Lost my heart, lost it all”).
This seeps through every pore of “Already Dead,” its lean vocal melody slithering insidiously through his angst-driven lyricism like a snake. 2019 due to an accidental drug overdose, had long-documented struggles with drug addiction and mental illness. The collection holds surprisingly (and happily) few features, the evil hallmark of too many post-mortem albums. The tracks on this, this second of Juice’s posthumous releases (after 2020’s “Legends Never Die”), range from dully repetitive to dynamically adventurous, and include some surprisingly jazzy vocal tricks. As far as posthumously released albums go, though, the dreary-dreamy “Fighting Demons” aptly shows off Juice’s penchant for disconsolate lyrics and dimly lit but infectious hooks. What the emo-inspired rapper-crooner would have thought of this collection, which includes laconic leftover freestyles and unused vocal tracks rewound to fit fresh beats, is a mystery. 9’s inaugural Juice WRLD Day in Chicago and the premiere on the 16th of HBO Max’s “Into the Abyss” documentary, the next chapter in Juice WRLD’s melancholy story unfurls mirthlessly, but melodically, with “Fighting Demons.” As far as a packed, posthumous promotional schedule goes, this December is further proof that it’s Juice’s WRLD, even if the “Lucid Dreams” hitmaker isn’t here to live in it.
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