What pisses me off about this record is that any halfway dedicated juice fan knows how many absolute bangers this man has in the locker. I get the label wants to send a message about battling addiction and overcoming mental health issues and other vices, but you have to draw the line somewhere. It boggles my mind that half baked shit like go hard or terribly mixed songs like wandered to LA are on here while he has songs like Arctic Tundra, London Tipton, Reminds Me of the Summer, Autograph, Chimp, Etc. So many bangers, and a lot of them are basically finished. They could've easily made this album hit after hit but instead they just sprinkled some diamonds in the rough. Disappointing.
The label doesn’t care about sending a message about dealing with addiction. They’re just gonna keep pooping albums together as long as the juice fan base is still around
You ain’t a true juice fan if you go hard wasn’t the most asked for track and autograph and remind me of the summer are release they’re just old singles
All of Fantano’s 2021 scores so far: 0/10: 1 - Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse 1/10: 0 2/10: 8 - Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden’s Gate - twenty one pilots - Scaled and Icy - Migos - Culture III - Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket - Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed - ZillaKami - DOG BOY - Coldplay - Music of the Spheres - = - Ed Sheeran 3/10: 8 - Eminem - Music to be Murdered By (Deluxe) - Florida Georgia Line - Life Rolls On - Justin Bieber - Justice - girl in red - if i could make it go quiet - Logic - Bobby Tarantino III - Deafheaven - Infinite Granite - Drake - Certified Lover Boy - Young Thug - Punk 4/10: 14 5/10: 25 6/10: 32 7/10: 61 8/10: 37 9/10: 6 - Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises - St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home - Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix - JPEGMAFIA - LP! - Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki - Arca - KicK iii 10/10: 2 - Spellling - The Turning Wheel - Lingua Ignota - Sinners Get Ready NOT GOOD: 2 - Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist - Hobo Johnson - The Revenge of Hobo Johnson NOT BAD: 1 - Steven Wilson - The Future Bites No Score / Rating: 4 - AJR - OK Orchestra - Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor’s Version) - Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks - Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version) Classic Reviews: 5 - The Roots - Things Fall Apart - M.I.A - Arular - Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral - Portishead - Dummy - Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanand Redux Reviews: 1 - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (7/10 -> 9/10) Cal Chuchesta Appearances: 6 - Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (Redux Review) - Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz - Weezer - OK Human - Denzel Curry x Kenny Beats - Unlocked 1.5 - Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever - Kanye West - Donda
I can 100% guarantee that they had better tracks to choose from, such as sandman, purple monclear, jack and jill, if you want to match the depressed as vibe of this album songs like remind me of the summer, alright, red moonlight, and this is just the tip of the really good unreleased but leaked tracks I have personally heard. This is just a case of a terrible label and most likely some wack decisions from his own mother who apparently has final say in what comes out. I still hold very high hopes that more good posthumous albbum can come out bc I have heard so many better unreleased songs.
i’m a big big fan of juice but i’m not surprised or upset about this. wish labels knew when to leave well enough alone. LND felt more authentic, cohesive, and thoughtful and this just felt like leftovers, even the album name (album still had a ton of great songs bc juice don’t ever rlly miss, some songs r just more memorable than others)
@@lalaleo_lol W pfp 🤝 and yeah there were some songs that weren’t as great but imo juice never really had bad songs, just forgettable ones. and there were def more forgettable ones here than on any of his other projects
@@b1gBud00bo1 😂 but there’s a difference I’m not spamming YB better, just responding to spammers lol probably should not be telling people to do something better but whatever lol
It feels weird to me that these are released as "albums" and not just compilations of rarities or whatever. Most artists tend to have a cohesive vision for their records, and while there's nothing at all wrong with playlists or whatever it feels weird to have someone else package the music that was made to craft a narrative that might not have been there if the actual artist had still been alive. I'm not really against releasing b-sides or rarities but it feels weird for them to be advertised as LPs when they're really just unrelated demos that got polished off.
That’s why Prince’s posthumous catalogue has been handed so well. Piano and A Microphone comes from a single session recorded by Prince on a cassette, Originals had a cohesive theme when it came to the songs picked and it was presented exactly as such, and Welcome 2 America was already made by Prince as a cohesive and thematic record with New Power Generation that just happened to be sitting in the vault. So much respect has gone into his legacy and pretty much all of those albums just stand in his discography as something that fits alongside all the iconic Prince songs and albums.
A perfect example of a posthumous record being handled extremely well would be Circles by Mac Miller. Jon Brion did an excellent job at executing the purpose and the narrative of the record, and almost enhancing the narrative by Mac's death, which even though was an overdose, seems all the more melancholic with songs like That's on Me and Good News.
The album starting with Burn gave me so much hope for the whole record, it was such a great start and it's really sad to see that it wasn't continued throughout the album
@@saiyaman5932 they only added the metro mark and the gun shots and violins and the violins added to the song the gunshots I think could've been left off but it doesn't ruin the song because it repeats like twice on the hook before the verses start
@@callumjohnston35 I know you ain't telling me to listen to Kendrick. Pretty much everyone here has listened to TPAB and most of Kendricks stuff. And it is a good song.
Mac Miller continues to be the golden example of how artist and their music should be treated after they pass away. I hope Juice's team slow down and are more careful with his future music
Completely agree. Another good example (like him or not) is Lil Peep. His legacy and remaining music is being released in a, for the most part, very respectful way. Gotta thank his mum for that!
Maybe it’s because Swimming and Circles are conceived and created in the same period of his career (swimming in circles). So it just won’t feel disconnected from Mac. It completes his work in progress.
I went and listened to "Eminem speaks" just now, I'm not a fan of Em. that gave me the chills and made me sweat, just like when I was still in my addiction. God damn. Stay away from pills and lean. It is so not worth the high when you have to crash back down and fix your life..
Bruh juice has over 1300 unheard songs in the vault plus over 700 leaks.. soo he made over 2000 songs in his career. Juice still has another album after this one that’ll be much better and is the highly anticipated The Party Never Ends that was supposed to drop in place of this “fighting demons” but it got delayed. Because they wanted to drop an album with the documentary coming out this month. So you could say this album was quickly put together and rushed because they originally were going to drop a different album this year. But that will be coming next year and this album will also have a deluxe.
this album felt like it was for the hardcore juice fans. Pretty much every single song was either a popular leak or a highly requested snippet. With that being said I think that this album is good but it lacked a lot of aspects an album should have because the songs felt more determined by the community. It just sucks hearing people say this album is reaching for new Juice music when there's albums worth of completed music left, it just came down to poor selection.
Not poor selection my guy. This album wasn’t about sales. Not everyone wants an album full of radio songs. Real fans wanted the deep cuts and they delivered. I knew once the track list came out everyone was gonna say it was bad and cry about it I was right.
We are nowhere near the bottom of the barrel with songs btw, they just chose some weird songs imo. There's a minimum of 500 workable songs only judging from songs leaked online. Also Juice's mom has final say in everything that comes out apparently and she gets any of the money that he would have been making as confirmed by Juice's photographer
They didn’t choose weird songs everyone just wanted a legends never die again. Tired of hearing you little kids cry about it the album shit was fire asf
I’d rather them just release music as compilations. Not albums. It doesn’t deserve the title of a juice album, but i do think the music should be released
This is kinda facts. Although Juice had albums he wanted to release in mind which I think should still release. Such as The Party Never Ends, A Naruto Date In London, Outsiders
The record labels are ruining the legacy that musicians leave behind after they pass away. This would have been great as part of a b-side compilation instead of a full album.
@@dalvinathan2822 label doesnt make any money. all goes to his mom and the foundation created in his name. contract with label ended after legends never die so now they just distribute it
@Central Intelligence Agency all the songs work well together on the album, i find it to be structured well. None of this means its ruining his legacy at all. The way you said it is really confusing and doesn't explain anything very well, either that or it doesn't explain it at all. Juice WRLD's legacy is to release music and help people with dire problems more like the problems he had and have the music reach out to the person hearing it. The legacy is only ruined if they don't release that said music. The structure of the album released, the song released, or an amount of "Random Songs" released does not destroy the legacy whatsoever. If it's released, people listen to it, and people are helped by that music...then his legacy is complete. And the point of them leeching off of his image makes no sense, they're releasing music off of his name so no crap, but all of the music and funds go to actual needs like helping people with problems that juice had and go to juices parents. If they don't release any other album then there you go..you can say his legacy was destroyed. But for right now? His legacy is NOT destroyed.
there is WAY MORE material for juice wrld and I don't see juice wrld not being talked about for another decade. It is ashame from the weird art cover hands and unlistenable feline. I feel like the team was rushed to create this project because the original second album got cut last second. I do believe the 3rd album will be way better but until then I will enjoy the creative mind of juice wrld. Also lnd was the best mixed album by far.
i dont know if u meant being talked about for another decade or to have music released consistently for another decade. But there is definitley enough music to release for another decade but would defintiley be the wrong decision to make unless they want to squeeze the life out of his unreleased music for money and fame like they did with x. But with what juice has left we could get 2 maybe 3 if were lucky good albums that have a good tracklist with more good songs than bad ones. After that i feel like the music would start sounding more incomplete, repetitive and wont be up to the standards that music is at in the future.
@@JAAndo Well only time will tell but there are thousands of songs on youtube that sound complete, I mean most these songs on the sound like older juice besides burn, imagine the late 2019 juice songs. Juice wrld loved making music and giving his family money. I don't see his team ever not releasing juice wrld records, especially because he is gaining more listeners each day.
Big juice fan but you properly rated this. It's his worst album by far and contains some really poor tracks that are either unfinished or inadequately put together. Sucks that he's not around to curate these because I'd assume some of the songs added here were throwaways he didn't even intend on putting out...I wonder how different his legacy would be if he were alive. There are some tracks which I really love like: Burn, Doom, Not Enough, and good ones like My Window/Feel alone etc but you hit the spot for the most part.
Yeah I can agree with this, none of the songs were too bad in my opinion but mostly mid and kinda forgettable with a few highlights, but tbh I expected that. This album was kinda slapped together last minute to complement the HBO documentary so they prob had to dig to find good vocals in his catalogue and didn’t have enough time idk. Solid 5 for me
They just did a bad job picking songs, juice has so many finished songs in his vault that they could’ve picked. Instead they pick go hard with one verse and they ruin songs like feline and wandered to la cus of their bad mix
Considering the circumstances of his passing, hearing the label still put a bunch of banal freestyling about popping pills and doing drugs on the album is kinda odd, and the interview clips just come across as awkward compensation
This should have been the last real album of him, with all of his good unreleased songs. Its a shame that they released something that unpolished. Every dead artist needs a management that honors his legacy (f.e. Mac Miller)
As a gigantic Juice fan since late 2017 who went to see his concert and related heavy to a lot of his material, I gotta say Bibby and the label really messed up this album, they released the wrong songs with bad mixes (sometimes even sounding worse than the leaked version) and with terribly mainstream beats. they’re some of the most popular unreleased tunes that I listened to but they definitely weren’t the best unreleased tracks out there. There’s a big difference. Still feel like there’s one more great album worth of material (young god, Scarface, Toxic Humans, etc) but they really were lazy about this one. Really upset cuz I was rlly thinking this was gonna be great.
Ik bro any fan could make a good album. But I'd also love an album that are songs juice hasnt previewed or been leaked etc. Like I haven't listened to them in a long time I stopped in like March so I didn't ruin everything. But if we got songs like bottle, game, nightmare, cigarettes, plug yk those song would be dope. Nightmare I also wanted a Denzel curry ft. On cause that would be hard asf
@@user-ko6th4mn9q if you don’t listen to leaks you just aren’t a hardcore juice fan. 95% of his music will never be released and some people don’t wanna listen to the same 60 songs.
@@jrocksburr2724 I do listen to leaks. But I’m not mad that most of this album was leaks bc I tell myself that it’s my own fault bc I shouldn’t be listening to leaks. I would understand being mad about leaks being on the album if Juice was alive still bc he could just make more music but he can’t now. Also an album having leaks has nothing to do with the quality of music.
Definitely not legends never die. The production was not nearly as good on this, and the songs sounded kinda like throwaways from his last album. I gave it a 5 so respectable rating. The features are very forgettable. Sad for the hype brought to it. There’s definitely better unreleased stuff from him. Sad
I think this album was more targeted towards the diehard juice fans while LND was just rushed together for the casual listeners. That’s why most of this project is filled with snippets so many people were begging for years (already dead, W2LA, Feel Alone) as well as the sadder leaks that were much loved within the community. TPNE looks set to be showing the happier and more hype side though so it has the potential to beat both albums.
They should do like a "legacies collection" and put like 50 unreleased songs on a volume and release like 1 or 2 a year and build up something not 20 tracks that feel half produced.
I think for someone like Juice, an artist with an extensive amount of music in his arsenal, the move should be to not make/force anything more. It’s done. He did what he could, so that’s what the fans should receive: the work, time and effort of Juice. LND, to me, is his strongest and most captivating album. The others didn’t really get me hooked like that to be honest. I haven’t listened to this, but I’m scared, just by reading the song titles and features. I feel fans should dictate what is to be put out at this point. Clearly, the label is struggling to give the fans what they deserve.
No what Juice is my favourite artist I would be so annoyed if they just announced they aren’t releasing anymore music. Why would you want that if you are fan of Juices music?
@@user-ko6th4mn9q I said to not make anymore “new” music. Have them release what he made while alive. Anyway, it will get to a certain point where maybe his music release should come to an end. Or at least have a big break. Leaks are all over the place anyway.
I generally really enjoyed this album, Maybe I'm just easily pleased as a Juice fan, But this has become one of my favourite Juice wrld album, I prefer it to LND
imo this album is such a mixed bag. There are some really high points and some really low points, with this album having his best and worst song imo. (Burn and Go Hard respectively), while LND was more consistent, it’s highs weren’t as high as FD
I just don’t know why this was made other than money. Legends Never Die felt like a more-than-serviceable posthumous album for him that seemed like it had his touch still in it- but this one? It’s not really a surprise that it’s not as good; it’s bordering of “XXTentacion posthumous album” levels of being so blatantly for money without none of what made Juice WRLD's music his.
How does any of this seem like it’s for money?? They are delivering music for the fans, and obviously you aren’t one of those people. Just because your favourite music reviewer gave it a poor review doesn’t mean it’s a cash grab. He has 3k finished songs and to not release them would be a complete waste of Juices talent. His mom is in complete control over what gets released and what doesn’t, and most of the money goes to his family and the charity made in his name. Know what you’re speaking about before you say anything. Don’t ever compare posthumous Juice music to a posthumous X album.
People laugh at hearing “he has 2000 songs” but like you can legit listen to 600+ leaks that are completed songs. It’s so annoying to hear that the label is scrapping the barrel. They make it seem like they are but they have more content at their fingertips then nearly 90% of other artists that are alive 🤕🤕🤕
I feel you man, so many mainstream people that don’t really know anything about Juice say that the label is scrapping the barrel and milking him as much as possible
It seems like they made a posthumous album that didn’t display juice’s artistry. They wanted to send a message but didn’t want to show people how great of an artist juice was. We can see the songs they had available in leaks, maybe some clearances were the problem but who knows.
Yall also gotta remember that this man has thousands of songs in the vault. Imagine busting your ass off, recording hella songs every day, only to tragically pass away and then have none of the music release? idk that seems like so much hard work gone to absolute waste. (you may wonder why his posthumous albums aren't that good, its simply because the label is sub-par at best, they have so so so much material that they can work with, but they still end up releasing sub-par material.)
@@Bornagainvillain the vast majority of juices unreleased music is significantly better than his released music. Every artist is different and juice just so happened to consistently record bangers 🤷♂️
Bro there's a reason they're in the vault. That shit probably sucked to him and he was more than fine keeping them away from the public. Making the decision for him and releasing all of his WIPs seems... weird. Not cool.
@@Brrrrrrre a lot of it is leaked or has snippets online. I agree, a lot of juices unreleased music is better than the released. Burn was leaked a while ago and i have been listening to it for a while and it still hasn't got old to me, i still love the song and what they did with it.
LnD is unmatcheble at this point. Must say this isn't the worst posthumous project we've heard from passed artists, but Fighting Demons definitely lacks dedication and diversity at least on the instrumentals. the mixing doesn't bother me that much, but overall, mid album with some bangers and others with potential.
See there were some good songs like burn doom not enough feel alone etc. Those needed releases but there were definitely some songs that could've been left out or swapped like the song sometimes should have been on it and ik for a fact Anthony would like it.
But like if they're planning on releasing his better songs on the deluxe. Cause there were songs like pills in the regal, adore you go pro etc that were supposed to be on it or the party never ends. But idk I can name 15 songs rn off that album that could've made the theme a lot better. Nightmare could've fit it as it's supposed to be a darker take then what lnd was were it had a few hard hitting songs but it had it's happy uplifting songs which I loved. I just hope the party never ends has more hype and fun songs yk?
This album was good in my opinion, but not as heavy as Legends felt. The track that stands out the most to me from Fighting Demons is My life in a Nutshell, that track feels very personal and really shows some genuine and unfortunately sad aspects of his life. Most of the other tracks seems to be for style and saying things and promoting themes we've heard before. Overall this album is fairly enjoyable to me, but I don't think it comes very close to reaching the meaning and weight that Legends has.
Just off enjoyment alone fighting demons blows LND out of the water for me. LND I kind grew bored of while 90% of these fight demons tracks I’ve been listening to for a very long time due to leaks
For me the difference between this album and the one that was put out for pop smoke is that with this one, it’s genuinely an important project for ppl to listen to. This man passed from an OD and in songs like rockstar in his prime show the irony and mindset juice had. Prolly thought he was invincible. Ppl gotta learn from this death and realize all these drugs will eventually kill you.
However, by making this an album focused on drug addiction, some of the included songs are underwhelming, incomplete and weak. I know for a fact that if the record had some of juice's leaked and more complete songs, this album would have been much better.
@@ps-qi6jd it seems like they focused this album to give even more attention to drub abuse and overdosing. Even tho i enjoyed some teacks and is disliked a couple of others, the album was an incredible hard listen to me. Especially burn sounds just like a cry for help and rockstar in his prime seems so cynical.
Man who tf cares. That’s practically a reoccurring theme with every damn song at this point. They not just gonna keep hundreds of quality songs tucked away just because it’s related/hits hard to his death. And it shouldn’t be a criticism to diminish the performance of the track. As a juice fan who’s listened to hundreds and hundreds songs of his it’s one of his most impassioned vocal performances, with high approval within the fanbase, but for some reason overshadowed by the average person due to how eerie it is. I know you might not have been taking away anything from the song but I just had to say this
That's the ugly truth, shying away from songs with certain lyrics won't change what happened to juice and certainly won't help anyone struggling that could possibly benefit from hearing it.
I totally agree with this score and I feel like LND has a lot more replay value and longevity than fighting demons because I returned to LND alot more than I did fighting demons this week and alot of the songs on FD felt like I was just listening but I couldn’t take anything away from it
I never listened to Juice wRLD outside of his major hits but I have always been against these tacky posthumous albums. Now there are exceptions like the Mac Miller Postumous where it was mostly complete and was a body of work that the artist clearly put their creative vision into it and likely would’ve wanted it to be released… But these totally chopped and screwed, demo tracks that the original artist had no say in releasing: I think it is a stain on their memory.
Bruh juice has over 1300 unheard songs in the vault plus over 700 leaks.. soo he made over 2000 songs in his career. Juice still has another album after this one that’ll be much better and is the highly anticipated The Party Never Ends that was supposed to drop in place of this “fighting demons” but it got delayed. Because they wanted to drop an album with the documentary coming out this month. So you could say this album was quickly put together and rushed because they originally were going to drop a different album this year. But that will be coming next year and this album will also have a deluxe. Do these ain leftovers or chopped and screwed don’t go spreading false info. This is how juice made most of the songs besides the ones with features. He freestyled all his music and did it this same way. These songs just didn’t appeal to you, all of these were previously leaked. If you don’t like the album and can’t relate just say that
When you complained about dry claps, I felt that. I really want my claps to have more of a "moist" sound and I guess you share that sentiment, which I really appreciate.
This was definetly more intended towards hardcore fans like myself. I personally enjoyed it but can totally understand why someone outside of juice's fanbase wouldnt
They’ll be at least 1 more album they’ve said, grade A said the next one will show a happier and more energetic side as they probably feel like theyve ran the well dry with sad songs, especially as he has so many energetic and hype songs in the vault
to his diehard fans, doesn't feel disrespectful at all. Perhaps they should go the mixtape route from here on out, but this is what his fans wanted and have been blowing up lil bibby forever. He has way more unreleased songs. over 70% of this album is on soundcloud leaks, and they are all still up there!! I think that shows this is not about the money frankly
bibby mishandled the album so badly. after the name changes and the constant release date changes it doesn’t surprise me that the album is lacking in quality as much as it is. but be sure that there is definitely no shortage of tracks left behind from juice. it’s just a matter of actually using the ones that are worth using for a commercial release
The man has 1k-2k completed songs because they were mostly freestyles. They could put out albums for years if they wanted to. His work ethic was insane.
i am definitely not surprised Juice’s label is continuing to release his music, but man, i was really hoping they would just let the man rest. i think one album is okay. one that they were working on before they died. Mac Miller is a great example of that. Circles was released and the world of music is better because of it. Mac wanted that record to reach people. did Juice want this record to reach people? we’ll never know, but my money is on no. not in this way at least.
Ya know, these posthumous albums could honestly be so much worse. SOOOOOOOOO much worse, but they aren't, thankfully. Maybe label's are actually feeling pressure to make these good fucking albums now, or at least listenable ones, and I'm here for it.
I hope in a future album of Juice WRLD they release more of his aggressive hip hop / rap kind of music. Stuff similar to Syphilis and Nuketown. Its a style thats barely been touched for released music but he has so much unreleased of that style. I just have a feeling that it won't be released because a lot of the lyrics in those songs, to a lot of the general public who sees juice as "emo hip hop sad boy music" would make them react like "Holy shit did he really just say that?! We need to cancel him!!"
Dude said he had over 400 songs in the inventory if he released and album with on average 10 songs an album every year he could still be releasing music in the next 40 years
It’s sad because you mention that it seems like they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for material. The reality is he has like 1K unreleased songs that you can go find and a good chunk of them are very very good. Not sure why the label chose some of these songs when they almost have an endless pool of music to pull from.
I loved the album ngl. Like yeah it had its flaws but I’ve been listening to Juice since the SoundCloud days so it’s more of a nostalgia thing for me. But yeah. Definitely had its flaws production-wise imo
Juice has so many absolute bangers. Like very hard trap or even experimenting with rock ish type style songs. I would love to see his fanbase be able to listen to his other styles he was trying. He isn't only an emo rapper (which he's basically only known for). Honestly he was just finding his sound which may sound crazy.
Holy shit guys an album isn't bad just because Fantano says so. I will never understand how one man's opinion can affect you so much, have an original thought for once. The album wasn't perfect but I know half of yall were bumping this on your snapchat story and crying until this video came out and now you think its trash
The sad part is they are not really scraping the bottom of the barrel. There is dozens of complete Juice WRLD songs that sound amazing, but instead of using those they are putting together this crap and ruining his music
Juice wrld had collabed with BTS before, back in 2019 in their track All Night, so the song on Fighting Demons was probably done during the same period. Suga wasn't tacked on randomly.
@@NolanDickinson I think not a lot of people did LOL it wasn't a very well known song, but still they seemed to have a good relationship before his passing, he'd even travelled to Korea back then specifically to work with them
As someone who was at the listening party for FD yeah it was about the same, fans all around me looked very underwhelmed by the second half of the album (after Feline) Which is ironic considering near the beginning of the event Grade A said to cut them some slack and that they were trying to create an album and handle Juice's legacy with care and respect, lol.
This album was Juice weakest album, imo. I feel like if he was still around, the album would have turned out A LOT better with his input. Some of the songs on the album, the unreleased/OG versions were a lot better than what they put on the album.
What pisses me off about this record is that any halfway dedicated juice fan knows how many absolute bangers this man has in the locker. I get the label wants to send a message about battling addiction and overcoming mental health issues and other vices, but you have to draw the line somewhere. It boggles my mind that half baked shit like go hard or terribly mixed songs like wandered to LA are on here while he has songs like Arctic Tundra, London Tipton, Reminds Me of the Summer, Autograph, Chimp, Etc. So many bangers, and a lot of them are basically finished. They could've easily made this album hit after hit but instead they just sprinkled some diamonds in the rough. Disappointing.
such fucking facts
he has too many Godly unreleased songs that need to be released
The label doesn’t care about sending a message about dealing with addiction. They’re just gonna keep pooping albums together as long as the juice fan base is still around
artic tundra is with nicki minaj she can release it on her upcoming projects
You ain’t a true juice fan if you go hard wasn’t the most asked for track and autograph and remind me of the summer are release they’re just old singles
All of Fantano’s 2021 scores so far:
0/10: 1
- Tones and I - Welcome to the Madhouse
1/10: 0
2/10: 8
- Greta Van Fleet - The Battle at Garden’s Gate
- twenty one pilots - Scaled and Icy
- Migos - Culture III
- Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket
- Kacey Musgraves - star-crossed
- ZillaKami - DOG BOY
- Coldplay - Music of the Spheres
- = - Ed Sheeran
3/10: 8
- Eminem - Music to be Murdered By (Deluxe)
- Florida Georgia Line - Life Rolls On
- Justin Bieber - Justice
- girl in red - if i could make it go quiet
- Logic - Bobby Tarantino III
- Deafheaven - Infinite Granite
- Drake - Certified Lover Boy
- Young Thug - Punk
4/10: 14
5/10: 25
6/10: 32
7/10: 61
8/10: 37
9/10: 6
- Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
- St. Vincent - Daddy’s Home
- Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Phoenix
- JPEGMAFIA - LP!
- Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
- Arca - KicK iii
10/10: 2
- Spellling - The Turning Wheel
- Lingua Ignota - Sinners Get Ready
NOT GOOD: 2
- Architects - For Those That Wish to Exist
- Hobo Johnson - The Revenge of Hobo Johnson
NOT BAD: 1
- Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
No Score / Rating: 4
- AJR - OK Orchestra
- Taylor Swift - Fearless (Taylor’s Version)
- Limp Bizkit - Still Sucks
- Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor’s Version)
Classic Reviews: 5
- The Roots - Things Fall Apart
- M.I.A - Arular
- Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
- Portishead - Dummy
- Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanand
Redux Reviews: 1
- Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (7/10 -> 9/10)
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The lack of Cal appearances is a tragedy. Has Melon commented on how he’s clearly trying to faze him out?
Why do you guys care so much about his scores?
@@AFMCarlos thats like the whole point of fantanos reviews
@@AFMCarlos lol i’m just keeping track cause why not lol
Where is CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST by Tyler, the creator
Really didnt want this album but i knew it wasnt going to be good or really respectful to his name but after seeing that album cover it was solidified
I can 100% guarantee that they had better tracks to choose from, such as sandman, purple monclear, jack and jill, if you want to match the depressed as vibe of this album songs like remind me of the summer, alright, red moonlight, and this is just the tip of the really good unreleased but leaked tracks I have personally heard. This is just a case of a terrible label and most likely some wack decisions from his own mother who apparently has final say in what comes out. I still hold very high hopes that more good posthumous albbum can come out bc I have heard so many better unreleased songs.
TPNE definitely HAS TO BE A Hype based album by him
the thing is, juice has too many good unreleased songs, i wish they added them
i’m a big big fan of juice but i’m not surprised or upset about this. wish labels knew when to leave well enough alone. LND felt more authentic, cohesive, and thoughtful and this just felt like leftovers, even the album name (album still had a ton of great songs bc juice don’t ever rlly miss, some songs r just more memorable than others)
Demons just sounded bland and kinda repetitive and dry tbh
@@lalaleo_lol W pfp 🤝 and yeah there were some songs that weren’t as great but imo juice never really had bad songs, just forgettable ones. and there were def more forgettable ones here than on any of his other projects
amazing pfps
@@luxxers W
@@193kaige7 bruh my ass needed to fucking annotate to figure out who typing
Fantano, you can’t give this album a 4 just because it’s Juice WRLD’s fourth studio album.
Yb better
@@Pure100percentfacts_ Ratio + Juice Wrld better + quit spamming YB better find some better to do
@@humanbeing1076 Same for you
@@b1gBud00bo1 😂 but there’s a difference I’m not spamming YB better, just responding to spammers lol probably should not be telling people to do something better but whatever lol
@@Pure100percentfacts_ L
This is an extremely accurate review. Yea I like the album, but it definitely could’ve been produced better.
Tf you doin here goofball
@vague lmaooo
true label planned to release the party never ends but got rushed by the documentary coming out.
but a 4 nah this dude trippin. even my music better than a 4
He died my nigga 💀
It feels weird to me that these are released as "albums" and not just compilations of rarities or whatever. Most artists tend to have a cohesive vision for their records, and while there's nothing at all wrong with playlists or whatever it feels weird to have someone else package the music that was made to craft a narrative that might not have been there if the actual artist had still been alive. I'm not really against releasing b-sides or rarities but it feels weird for them to be advertised as LPs when they're really just unrelated demos that got polished off.
insanely good point
my opinion of why they do this it’s easier to promote an album (aka sell more) than just a collection of loosies
That’s why Prince’s posthumous catalogue has been handed so well. Piano and A Microphone comes from a single session recorded by Prince on a cassette, Originals had a cohesive theme when it came to the songs picked and it was presented exactly as such, and Welcome 2 America was already made by Prince as a cohesive and thematic record with New Power Generation that just happened to be sitting in the vault. So much respect has gone into his legacy and pretty much all of those albums just stand in his discography as something that fits alongside all the iconic Prince songs and albums.
A perfect example of a posthumous record being handled extremely well would be Circles by Mac Miller. Jon Brion did an excellent job at executing the purpose and the narrative of the record, and almost enhancing the narrative by Mac's death, which even though was an overdose, seems all the more melancholic with songs like That's on Me and Good News.
It would be fine if they just dropped 20 song collections every few months or so it would take them so long to run out of songs lmao
The album starting with Burn gave me so much hope for the whole record, it was such a great start and it's really sad to see that it wasn't continued throughout the album
@@saiyaman5932 they only added the metro mark and the gun shots and violins and the violins added to the song the gunshots I think could've been left off but it doesn't ruin the song because it repeats like twice on the hook before the verses start
@@saiyaman5932 bro its literally the same as the og…
@@saiyaman5932 It is literally the same as the OG what are you talking about
@@bryannguapp713 he just wants people to think he’s cool for listening to juice leaks
@@andrewgrassi4630 He prolly heard the Fan Made Version and thinks thats the OG
Burn has to be one of my favorite opening tracks of any album of all time.
You haven’t listened to a lot of albums then
listen to wesleys theory lil boy and let that shit fucking open your closed eyes
@@ryan7102 true I guess. But define what "a lot" is
@@callumjohnston35 I know you ain't telling me to listen to Kendrick. Pretty much everyone here has listened to TPAB and most of Kendricks stuff. And it is a good song.
@@callumjohnston35 just listened to it it’s ass
Burn is one of the best songs of 2021 I will stand by this
Unreleased version?
Yes
Anthony, you can’t rate this a 4 just because the girl of your Dreams rated you a 4
U sound mad lol
@@tk11rj lol no I’m not I’m just joking. I liked the album but I respect other people’s opinions and don’t get overly triggered about it.
dropped to a 3.5 cuz of the tache
Mac Miller continues to be the golden example of how artist and their music should be treated after they pass away. I hope Juice's team slow down and are more careful with his future music
deluxe for fighting demons coming next year and then another album with hype songs, after that i think their done with albums
@@allthrills3086 hopefully, I think singles spread out overtime would be better
Completely agree. Another good example (like him or not) is Lil Peep. His legacy and remaining music is being released in a, for the most part, very respectful way. Gotta thank his mum for that!
Maybe it’s because Swimming and Circles are conceived and created in the same period of his career (swimming in circles). So it just won’t feel disconnected from Mac. It completes his work in progress.
Those albums were already completed before macs passing, that includes circles.
The only thing that surprised me about this review is that 'Eminem speaks' isn't Anthony's least favorite track
Nah he hates Justin Beiber more than Eminem
I went and listened to "Eminem speaks" just now, I'm not a fan of Em.
that gave me the chills and made me sweat, just like when I was still in my addiction. God damn.
Stay away from pills and lean. It is so not worth the high when you have to crash back down and fix your life..
Unpopular opinion but fighting demons isn’t all that bad.
Is great
Fr it's a 9 imo
Still blows my mind that a 2nd posthumous album is such a huge thing
wtf is that pfp
@@er1c.. A drawing of Uzi and Carti kissing
@@jimmyl27 did you pick that pfp as a joke cus thats honestly hillarious👌
Bruh juice has over 1300 unheard songs in the vault plus over 700 leaks.. soo he made over 2000 songs in his career. Juice still has another album after this one that’ll be much better and is the highly anticipated The Party Never Ends that was supposed to drop in place of this “fighting demons” but it got delayed. Because they wanted to drop an album with the documentary coming out this month. So you could say this album was quickly put together and rushed because they originally were going to drop a different album this year. But that will be coming next year and this album will also have a deluxe.
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this album felt like it was for the hardcore juice fans. Pretty much every single song was either a popular leak or a highly requested snippet. With that being said I think that this album is good but it lacked a lot of aspects an album should have because the songs felt more determined by the community. It just sucks hearing people say this album is reaching for new Juice music when there's albums worth of completed music left, it just came down to poor selection.
Not poor selection my guy. This album wasn’t about sales. Not everyone wants an album full of radio songs. Real fans wanted the deep cuts and they delivered. I knew once the track list came out everyone was gonna say it was bad and cry about it I was right.
@@Thatguy55595 this just shows that juice wrld fans have terrible taste in music lol
@@callumjohnston35 you sound slow my guy. Keep crying and keep following whatever narrative your daddy Fantano gives you sheep
@@Thatguy55595 hope he see this man
@@callumjohnston35 someone has a big ego and thinks he’s better than other ppl
We are nowhere near the bottom of the barrel with songs btw, they just chose some weird songs imo. There's a minimum of 500 workable songs only judging from songs leaked online. Also Juice's mom has final say in everything that comes out apparently and she gets any of the money that he would have been making as confirmed by Juice's photographer
They didn’t choose weird songs everyone just wanted a legends never die again. Tired of hearing you little kids cry about it the album shit was fire asf
@@Thatguy55595 yo imma huge juice fan and loved the album, just said that because that’s probably what most people think lmao
@@jp_cam finally someone with a brain who can form their own opinion without copying the nerds narrative respect my dude
@@Thatguy55595 it just wasn’t good imo, felt much lazier in this aspect to keep it short. LND was a much better effort, say what you will about it.
@@nbabackcourtmedia good thing no one asked or cares
I’d rather them just release music as compilations. Not albums. It doesn’t deserve the title of a juice album, but i do think the music should be released
This is kinda facts. Although Juice had albums he wanted to release in mind which I think should still release. Such as The Party Never Ends, A Naruto Date In London, Outsiders
Yeah and for no profit or for charity, like mixtapes.
@@staigenerator2949 no for his mother and family and girlfriend imo
The record labels are ruining the legacy that musicians leave behind after they pass away. This would have been great as part of a b-side compilation instead of a full album.
what would the difference be it’d still be an album
@@dalvinathan2822 label doesnt make any money. all goes to his mom and the foundation created in his name. contract with label ended after legends never die so now they just distribute it
Idk how they're ruining his legacy, they just announced the album like 5 months ago and didnt drop it until December, just like LND.
How can you say it is ruining his legacy, this is a better album then most that will drop next year. BTW feline is underrated and it it my favorite
@Central Intelligence Agency all the songs work well together on the album, i find it to be structured well. None of this means its ruining his legacy at all. The way you said it is really confusing and doesn't explain anything very well, either that or it doesn't explain it at all. Juice WRLD's legacy is to release music and help people with dire problems more like the problems he had and have the music reach out to the person hearing it. The legacy is only ruined if they don't release that said music. The structure of the album released, the song released, or an amount of "Random Songs" released does not destroy the legacy whatsoever. If it's released, people listen to it, and people are helped by that music...then his legacy is complete. And the point of them leeching off of his image makes no sense, they're releasing music off of his name so no crap, but all of the music and funds go to actual needs like helping people with problems that juice had and go to juices parents. If they don't release any other album then there you go..you can say his legacy was destroyed. But for right now? His legacy is NOT destroyed.
there is WAY MORE material for juice wrld and I don't see juice wrld not being talked about for another decade. It is ashame from the weird art cover hands and unlistenable feline. I feel like the team was rushed to create this project because the original second album got cut last second. I do believe the 3rd album will be way better but until then I will enjoy the creative mind of juice wrld. Also lnd was the best mixed album by far.
feline is fixed now
@@faith.W oh cool just listened to it, sounds better, but still a little weird
i dont know if u meant being talked about for another decade or to have music released consistently for another decade. But there is definitley enough music to release for another decade but would defintiley be the wrong decision to make unless they want to squeeze the life out of his unreleased music for money and fame like they did with x. But with what juice has left we could get 2 maybe 3 if were lucky good albums that have a good tracklist with more good songs than bad ones. After that i feel like the music would start sounding more incomplete, repetitive and wont be up to the standards that music is at in the future.
@@JAAndo Well only time will tell but there are thousands of songs on youtube that sound complete, I mean most these songs on the sound like older juice besides burn, imagine the late 2019 juice songs. Juice wrld loved making music and giving his family money. I don't see his team ever not releasing juice wrld records, especially because he is gaining more listeners each day.
feline isnt even bad i dont understand all the people complaining about the mixing
Lets be real, one posthumous album is enough, no matter who it is. Let them rest.
you don't understand how demanding juice wrld's community is. they WANT more music, just cuz Juice has many many songs in the vault
unless they are releasing albums that were finished before the artists death
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He has 3000 finished songs stop talkingg
I disagree. As long as the music honors the musician and isn’t just a money grab like with X I love that new music continues to be put out
It’s okay Anthony, we know you are fighting demons
Big juice fan but you properly rated this. It's his worst album by far and contains some really poor tracks that are either unfinished or inadequately put together. Sucks that he's not around to curate these because I'd assume some of the songs added here were throwaways he didn't even intend on putting out...I wonder how different his legacy would be if he were alive.
There are some tracks which I really love like: Burn, Doom, Not Enough, and good ones like My Window/Feel alone etc but you hit the spot for the most part.
Lmao another sheep following the narrative
@@Thatguy55595
Get a life
Speak for yourself I loved this album
Bro every song is 🔥 & this is coming from a very critical pov after listening 5x through before deciding to rate it
@@YungCertified318 great rating bro 😎
Yeah I can agree with this, none of the songs were too bad in my opinion but mostly mid and kinda forgettable with a few highlights, but tbh I expected that. This album was kinda slapped together last minute to complement the HBO documentary so they prob had to dig to find good vocals in his catalogue and didn’t have enough time idk. Solid 5 for me
Gotta be the worst take I’ve ever seen
@@Thatguy55595 why 😂
@@kyle4586 everything he said was something a sheep would say. Fantano has the most toxic stans who just regurgitate whatever he says like it’s fact
@@Thatguy55595 Jus say you haven't listened to the album
They just did a bad job picking songs, juice has so many finished songs in his vault that they could’ve picked. Instead they pick go hard with one verse and they ruin songs like feline and wandered to la cus of their bad mix
Considering the circumstances of his passing, hearing the label still put a bunch of banal freestyling about popping pills and doing drugs on the album is kinda odd, and the interview clips just come across as awkward compensation
Tbf that was all he rapped/sung about on literally hundreds of songs, hundreds lol they don’t have much too choose from.
This should have been the last real album of him, with all of his good unreleased songs. Its a shame that they released something that unpolished. Every dead artist needs a management that honors his legacy (f.e. Mac Miller)
pipe down kid he’s a rap dude
As a gigantic Juice fan since late 2017 who went to see his concert and related heavy to a lot of his material, I gotta say Bibby and the label really messed up this album, they released the wrong songs with bad mixes (sometimes even sounding worse than the leaked version) and with terribly mainstream beats. they’re some of the most popular unreleased tunes that I listened to but they definitely weren’t the best unreleased tracks out there. There’s a big difference. Still feel like there’s one more great album worth of material (young god, Scarface, Toxic Humans, etc) but they really were lazy about this one. Really upset cuz I was rlly thinking this was gonna be great.
Ik bro any fan could make a good album. But I'd also love an album that are songs juice hasnt previewed or been leaked etc. Like I haven't listened to them in a long time I stopped in like March so I didn't ruin everything. But if we got songs like bottle, game, nightmare, cigarettes, plug yk those song would be dope. Nightmare I also wanted a Denzel curry ft. On cause that would be hard asf
Stop complaining bc you’re mad you listened to leaks
@@user-ko6th4mn9q if you don’t listen to leaks you just aren’t a hardcore juice fan. 95% of his music will never be released and some people don’t wanna listen to the same 60 songs.
@@jrocksburr2724 I do listen to leaks. But I’m not mad that most of this album was leaks bc I tell myself that it’s my own fault bc I shouldn’t be listening to leaks. I would understand being mad about leaks being on the album if Juice was alive still bc he could just make more music but he can’t now. Also an album having leaks has nothing to do with the quality of music.
@@Majjjinboof cigarettes lmao
his leaks > what they ended up releasing
Great review Anthony! Totally agreed with all your points on this album.
Unsubscribed.
can’t be a Fantano video without the “great vid! unsubscribed.” comment, huh
Imagine unsubscribing because of someone’s opinion 🤦
@@eldoubleuu lol are you new here?
Anthony, you can’t give this album a 4 just because you have a mustache.
Definitely not legends never die. The production was not nearly as good on this, and the songs sounded kinda like throwaways from his last album. I gave it a 5 so respectable rating. The features are very forgettable. Sad for the hype brought to it. There’s definitely better unreleased stuff from him. Sad
No one cares what you think kid
@@Thatguy55595 i do
@@yueofficialsp9766 ok
I think this album was more targeted towards the diehard juice fans while LND was just rushed together for the casual listeners. That’s why most of this project is filled with snippets so many people were begging for years (already dead, W2LA, Feel Alone) as well as the sadder leaks that were much loved within the community. TPNE looks set to be showing the happier and more hype side though so it has the potential to beat both albums.
@@ChuckGibbs39 finally someone that has a brain
They should do like a "legacies collection" and put like 50 unreleased songs on a volume and release like 1 or 2 a year and build up something not 20 tracks that feel half produced.
I think this is honestly juice’s worst album. But there are a few good songs like always.
I think for someone like Juice, an artist with an extensive amount of music in his arsenal, the move should be to not make/force anything more. It’s done. He did what he could, so that’s what the fans should receive: the work, time and effort of Juice. LND, to me, is his strongest and most captivating album. The others didn’t really get me hooked like that to be honest. I haven’t listened to this, but I’m scared, just by reading the song titles and features. I feel fans should dictate what is to be put out at this point. Clearly, the label is struggling to give the fans what they deserve.
U should check out burn and doom and feel alone those are the only I would recommend to you the rest u probably won't listen to again.
No what Juice is my favourite artist I would be so annoyed if they just announced they aren’t releasing anymore music. Why would you want that if you are fan of Juices music?
@@Majjjinboof Heard them a while back through leaks lol Burn is an incredible song.
@@user-ko6th4mn9q I said to not make anymore “new” music. Have them release what he made while alive. Anyway, it will get to a certain point where maybe his music release should come to an end. Or at least have a big break. Leaks are all over the place anyway.
@@birdsfly7199 huh? Make new music? How tf would they make a new Juice song? With an AI? Wdym by make new music
the cover looks like one of those "this pic goes hard, feel free to screenshot" memes
I generally really enjoyed this album, Maybe I'm just easily pleased as a Juice fan, But this has become one of my favourite Juice wrld album, I prefer it to LND
imo this album is such a mixed bag. There are some really high points and some really low points, with this album having his best and worst song imo. (Burn and Go Hard respectively), while LND was more consistent, it’s highs weren’t as high as FD
@@primalracc1381 Yeah I get what you mean. I personally have just been really enjoying this album
We gone have atleast 30 more albums you know how much unreleased songs he made melon?
I just don’t know why this was made other than money. Legends Never Die felt like a more-than-serviceable posthumous album for him that seemed like it had his touch still in it- but this one? It’s not really a surprise that it’s not as good; it’s bordering of “XXTentacion posthumous album” levels of being so blatantly for money without none of what made Juice WRLD's music his.
Very disappointed in the album tbh
How does any of this seem like it’s for money?? They are delivering music for the fans, and obviously you aren’t one of those people. Just because your favourite music reviewer gave it a poor review doesn’t mean it’s a cash grab. He has 3k finished songs and to not release them would be a complete waste of Juices talent. His mom is in complete control over what gets released and what doesn’t, and most of the money goes to his family and the charity made in his name. Know what you’re speaking about before you say anything. Don’t ever compare posthumous Juice music to a posthumous X album.
@@polarhero57 Calm down
It is nowhere near as bad as xs posthumous albums
@@polarhero57 theyre trying so hard to find the most overdramatic songs juice made. Hes got much much better leaks than the ones on this album
People laugh at hearing “he has 2000 songs” but like you can legit listen to 600+ leaks that are completed songs. It’s so annoying to hear that the label is scrapping the barrel. They make it seem like they are but they have more content at their fingertips then nearly 90% of other artists that are alive 🤕🤕🤕
fr based off how this album sounds I can see why people think they are running out of music lol
I feel you man, so many mainstream people that don’t really know anything about Juice say that the label is scrapping the barrel and milking him as much as possible
It seems like they made a posthumous album that didn’t display juice’s artistry. They wanted to send a message but didn’t want to show people how great of an artist juice was. We can see the songs they had available in leaks, maybe some clearances were the problem but who knows.
I think of this album more as a soundtrack for the documentary, as opposed to it's own album.
Yall also gotta remember that this man has thousands of songs in the vault. Imagine busting your ass off, recording hella songs every day, only to tragically pass away and then have none of the music release? idk that seems like so much hard work gone to absolute waste. (you may wonder why his posthumous albums aren't that good, its simply because the label is sub-par at best, they have so so so much material that they can work with, but they still end up releasing sub-par material.)
Many artists record music that they NOT want released. EVER.
@@Bornagainvillain the vast majority of juices unreleased music is significantly better than his released music. Every artist is different and juice just so happened to consistently record bangers 🤷♂️
@@TrivialTriumph948 how would you know the vast majority of his unreleased stuff is better?
Bro there's a reason they're in the vault. That shit probably sucked to him and he was more than fine keeping them away from the public. Making the decision for him and releasing all of his WIPs seems... weird. Not cool.
@@Brrrrrrre a lot of it is leaked or has snippets online. I agree, a lot of juices unreleased music is better than the released. Burn was leaked a while ago and i have been listening to it for a while and it still hasn't got old to me, i still love the song and what they did with it.
LnD is unmatcheble at this point. Must say this isn't the worst posthumous project we've heard from passed artists, but Fighting Demons definitely lacks dedication and diversity at least on the instrumentals. the mixing doesn't bother me that much, but overall, mid album with some bangers and others with potential.
See there were some good songs like burn doom not enough feel alone etc. Those needed releases but there were definitely some songs that could've been left out or swapped like the song sometimes should have been on it and ik for a fact Anthony would like it.
But like if they're planning on releasing his better songs on the deluxe. Cause there were songs like pills in the regal, adore you go pro etc that were supposed to be on it or the party never ends. But idk I can name 15 songs rn off that album that could've made the theme a lot better. Nightmare could've fit it as it's supposed to be a darker take then what lnd was were it had a few hard hitting songs but it had it's happy uplifting songs which I loved. I just hope the party never ends has more hype and fun songs yk?
"LnD"
Another sheep following the narrative from nerd boy
Have you not heard X's posthumous albums?
This album was good in my opinion, but not as heavy as Legends felt. The track that stands out the most to me from Fighting Demons is My life in a Nutshell, that track feels very personal and really shows some genuine and unfortunately sad aspects of his life. Most of the other tracks seems to be for style and saying things and promoting themes we've heard before. Overall this album is fairly enjoyable to me, but I don't think it comes very close to reaching the meaning and weight that Legends has.
Yeah anyone calling it mid is either a teenager or has half a brain. Most kids calling it mid are just crying because their grail wasn’t on it
Just off enjoyment alone fighting demons blows LND out of the water for me. LND I kind grew bored of while 90% of these fight demons tracks I’ve been listening to for a very long time due to leaks
I only like my life in a nutshell and doom
@@FireFun63 lol
@@Thatguy55595 what are ur top songs
For me the difference between this album and the one that was put out for pop smoke is that with this one, it’s genuinely an important project for ppl to listen to. This man passed from an OD and in songs like rockstar in his prime show the irony and mindset juice had. Prolly thought he was invincible. Ppl gotta learn from this death and realize all these drugs will eventually kill you.
However, by making this an album focused on drug addiction, some of the included songs are underwhelming, incomplete and weak. I know for a fact that if the record had some of juice's leaked and more complete songs, this album would have been much better.
@@ps-qi6jd Nope
@@ps-qi6jd it seems like they focused this album to give even more attention to drub abuse and overdosing. Even tho i enjoyed some teacks and is disliked a couple of others, the album was an incredible hard listen to me. Especially burn sounds just like a cry for help and rockstar in his prime seems so cynical.
I don’t think he thought he was invincible at all. Have u listened to his songs? Half of them r him paranoid about dying
@@markusschafer9572 Yeah the songs are extremely deep and heartfelt, but that doesn't mean they are all great.
I have no problem with this review. Still better than Certified Boy Lover
Couldn't disagree more. This is a solid 7-8 imo
Rockstar In His Prime is one of the most eerie songs that they could've put on this Posthumous album
Man who tf cares. That’s practically a reoccurring theme with every damn song at this point. They not just gonna keep hundreds of quality songs tucked away just because it’s related/hits hard to his death. And it shouldn’t be a criticism to diminish the performance of the track. As a juice fan who’s listened to hundreds and hundreds songs of his it’s one of his most impassioned vocal performances, with high approval within the fanbase, but for some reason overshadowed by the average person due to how eerie it is. I know you might not have been taking away anything from the song but I just had to say this
@@RFN22 i wasn't criticizing it.
That's the ugly truth, shying away from songs with certain lyrics won't change what happened to juice and certainly won't help anyone struggling that could possibly benefit from hearing it.
Melon please review Polo G - HOF 2.0. I know it’s a deluxe but let’s be honest it basically it’s own album 😭😭
I totally agree with this score and I feel like LND has a lot more replay value and longevity than fighting demons because I returned to LND alot more than I did fighting demons this week and alot of the songs on FD felt like I was just listening but I couldn’t take anything away from it
Lol
I never listened to Juice wRLD outside of his major hits but I have always been against these tacky posthumous albums. Now there are exceptions like the Mac Miller Postumous where it was mostly complete and was a body of work that the artist clearly put their creative vision into it and likely would’ve wanted it to be released… But these totally chopped and screwed, demo tracks that the original artist had no say in releasing: I think it is a stain on their memory.
yea they are really weird and most of em suck. this one included
No one cares what you think kid
@@Thatguy55595 I do and I agree with their insight. Posthumous albums always came across as odd to me.
Bruh juice has over 1300 unheard songs in the vault plus over 700 leaks.. soo he made over 2000 songs in his career. Juice still has another album after this one that’ll be much better and is the highly anticipated The Party Never Ends that was supposed to drop in place of this “fighting demons” but it got delayed. Because they wanted to drop an album with the documentary coming out this month. So you could say this album was quickly put together and rushed because they originally were going to drop a different album this year. But that will be coming next year and this album will also have a deluxe. Do these ain leftovers or chopped and screwed don’t go spreading false info. This is how juice made most of the songs besides the ones with features. He freestyled all his music and did it this same way. These songs just didn’t appeal to you, all of these were previously leaked. If you don’t like the album and can’t relate just say that
@@demonnogo too bad they don’t to me juice wanted his music heard cry about it
Juice has around 3000 unreleased songs. We’ll be getting new Juice WRLD albums for plenty of years.
I thought this was good
When you complained about dry claps, I felt that. I really want my claps to have more of a "moist" sound and I guess you share that sentiment, which I really appreciate.
This was definetly more intended towards hardcore fans like myself. I personally enjoyed it but can totally understand why someone outside of juice's fanbase wouldnt
They’ll be at least 1 more album they’ve said, grade A said the next one will show a happier and more energetic side as they probably feel like theyve ran the well dry with sad songs, especially as he has so many energetic and hype songs in the vault
Album is nothing shy of disrespectful. Couldn't keep listening. Really need to let an artist die, part of a the beauty in art is where it ends.
to his diehard fans, doesn't feel disrespectful at all. Perhaps they should go the mixtape route from here on out, but this is what his fans wanted and have been blowing up lil bibby forever. He has way more unreleased songs. over 70% of this album is on soundcloud leaks, and they are all still up there!! I think that shows this is not about the money frankly
bibby mishandled the album so badly. after the name changes and the constant release date changes it doesn’t surprise me that the album is lacking in quality as much as it is. but be sure that there is definitely no shortage of tracks left behind from juice. it’s just a matter of actually using the ones that are worth using for a commercial release
wow bro didn’t even mention the best track
“Eminem Speaks” you fell off
I'm surprised juice had this much material considering he wasn't in the limelight for that long
The man has 1k-2k completed songs because they were mostly freestyles. They could put out albums for years if they wanted to. His work ethic was insane.
It's the label. Trust me there are enough serviceable leaks they just aren't using.
i am definitely not surprised Juice’s label is continuing to release his music, but man, i was really hoping they would just let the man rest. i think one album is okay. one that they were working on before they died. Mac Miller is a great example of that. Circles was released and the world of music is better because of it. Mac wanted that record to reach people. did Juice want this record to reach people? we’ll never know, but my money is on no. not in this way at least.
they could be releasing a lot more tbh with how many unreleased there is so its really not that bad
Bro you realize how much unreleased bangers he has that are leaked
this album was soo bad i felt like doing drugs on an airplane
Ya know, these posthumous albums could honestly be so much worse. SOOOOOOOOO much worse, but they aren't, thankfully. Maybe label's are actually feeling pressure to make these good fucking albums now, or at least listenable ones, and I'm here for it.
They should stop making them.
You should review the new chief keef album
why's eminem flexing surviving an overdose on an album by someone who died of an overdose lmao who authorized this.
how is it flexing?
who authorized this stupid take
Bro what??? He was sharing his experience
I don’t think they’re close to running out of songs but they messed multiple songs on this album up
I hope in a future album of Juice WRLD they release more of his aggressive hip hop / rap kind of music. Stuff similar to Syphilis and Nuketown. Its a style thats barely been touched for released music but he has so much unreleased of that style. I just have a feeling that it won't be released because a lot of the lyrics in those songs, to a lot of the general public who sees juice as "emo hip hop sad boy music" would make them react like "Holy shit did he really just say that?! We need to cancel him!!"
so disrespectful to juice to release this shit
Dude said he had over 400 songs in the inventory if he released and album with on average 10 songs an album every year he could still be releasing music in the next 40 years
there are so many songs ready to be dropped. he has 3000+ songs but there’s easily more that 300 great songs.
lol relax
@@guts-7210 ?
Cap, no way he recorded that many songs
@@gregmango he confirmed it himself before he passed. He could freestyle whole songs in 5 minutes idk why y’all surprised
@Miami Ken
No that’s no cap. I have over 700 leaks on my phone 👍
It’s sad because you mention that it seems like they’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for material. The reality is he has like 1K unreleased songs that you can go find and a good chunk of them are very very good. Not sure why the label chose some of these songs when they almost have an endless pool of music to pull from.
I loved the album ngl. Like yeah it had its flaws but I’ve been listening to Juice since the SoundCloud days so it’s more of a nostalgia thing for me. But yeah. Definitely had its flaws production-wise imo
I agree with your statement
Tbh, girl of my dreams was pretty good, at least listenable compared to the other collabs.
Juice has so many absolute bangers. Like very hard trap or even experimenting with rock ish type style songs. I would love to see his fanbase be able to listen to his other styles he was trying. He isn't only an emo rapper (which he's basically only known for). Honestly he was just finding his sound which may sound crazy.
The figure on the cover, the one behind Juice - looks like a straight rip off from Shadow of the colossus - the iconic video game from PS2 era.
I think of this album more as a soundtrack for the documentary, as opposed to it's own album.
Burn was the only song on this album that was even on the doc
Until the plug comes back around is a top 5 juice song and not enough and burn are both top 10
The fact he gave this album a 4 and swimming a 3 is astonishing. Really shows how people experience music differently.
He’s smelling Pizza Hut as we speak
After listening to it, this is the most mid juice album next to death race for love
1:10 lmaooo this is misinformation
Holy shit guys an album isn't bad just because Fantano says so. I will never understand how one man's opinion can affect you so much, have an original thought for once.
The album wasn't perfect but I know half of yall were bumping this on your snapchat story and crying until this video came out and now you think its trash
That's quite a JUICY mustache you have there, Anthony, but it would mean the WORLD to me if you'd finally shave it.
Good album, but Legends and especially Death Race For Love still have a place in my heart.
i agree
I feel the same way too
The sad part is they are not really scraping the bottom of the barrel. There is dozens of complete Juice WRLD songs that sound amazing, but instead of using those they are putting together this crap and ruining his music
Im a juice wrld fan and, I agree with this 4/10
Man's own grandma can pass away and remembers she made a song and will shit on her even tho she died....smh
@Nozzrul coming from a mid artist im not surprise let me dumd it down its whack
I was anxiously awaiting this review
same
There is no way fantano thinks this garbage tape is on the same level G&GR
i thought this was better than his last album. This was really good.
How tf
dogshit take
trust me they're not scraping the bottom of the barrel they haven't even scraped the surface
I love how they tried to not call this a money grab, but threw in BTS for no reason
Juice wrld had collabed with BTS before, back in 2019 in their track All Night, so the song on Fighting Demons was probably done during the same period. Suga wasn't tacked on randomly.
@@gravity909090 had no idea
@@NolanDickinson I think not a lot of people did LOL it wasn't a very well known song, but still they seemed to have a good relationship before his passing, he'd even travelled to Korea back then specifically to work with them
I liked the suga track
As someone who was at the listening party for FD yeah it was about the same, fans all around me looked very underwhelmed by the second half of the album (after Feline)
Which is ironic considering near the beginning of the event Grade A said to cut them some slack and that they were trying to create an album and handle Juice's legacy with care and respect, lol.
This album was Juice weakest album, imo. I feel like if he was still around, the album would have turned out A LOT better with his input. Some of the songs on the album, the unreleased/OG versions were a lot better than what they put on the album.
You need to remember that this is 1. A posthumous album and 2. A soundtrack for a documentary.
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If someone is rating how much they enjoyed the work, stuff like that has rly nothing to do with “how much someone would enjoy it”
@@salmanderxd6141 Your opinion is your opinion, but they chose songs that fit the documentary, not the best possible songs that they could have chosen
@@hughlucas8545 yeah…? But they still put it out as an album… so it should be judged as an album… not a soundtrack lmaooo