Single Rating: 8.1/10
As I mentioned in my Finally Famous review, the entire album was pretty good. Finally Famous was lyrically strong thanks to its wordplay and style, Sean used a really mellow flow which really worked and gave the album a more down to earth party feeling, but the best part of the album was the production, Finally Famous shined in giving a real big party feel thanks to Sean’s style complimented with the album’s slick production, in so many tracks, the production was just really good, and for that I ask, since “Marvin & Chardonnay” was one of the best produced songs on the entire album, how did it do as whole since it’s the third single of the whole record?
Marvin & Chardonnay is one of those songs that felt like it was purely a party track. I mean, it’s not exactly an ‘electronic’ track with a lot of synth and base like most mainstream tracks, it’s really not a danceable track. “Marvin & Chardonnay” was more of a party track in the sense that it felt like it can really be used in parties, like it was built for parties, and honestly, that was one great thing about this track, it was a party track but at the same time it was not something danceable, that’s something Big Sean’s whole album had, and this track was one of the best examples of those type of tracks here with a strong party feel.
Lyrically the song was typical Big Sean, it was basically about Sean and Kanye both talking about sex and girls and how after they have sex with a girl they do it again in the morning after bringing drinks, which are Marvin and Chardonnay in order to ‘set the mood’. The concept for the track was clearly nothing special or original, but content isn’t very important when a song is all about ‘style over substance’, and for “Marvin & Chardonnay”, the song was definitely style over substance.
As I mentioned, “Marvin & Chardonnay” was more style over substance, and it showed. The concept didn’t need any thinking, but it’s a bit more precise than the concepts on other artists’ songs. So there was really little substance in the song, but look at the style here, the beat sounded like a bed squeaking, Sean and Kanye’s verses where delivered in very similar ways, each verse used just one or two rhyme schemes in the whole song, the song depended on a lot of wordplay and metaphoric stuff, and the beat changed a lot between the verses and the hook. So clearly, those few things where clear indications that there was a lot of style put into “Marvin & Chardonnay”.
The song depended a lot on using just one flow. Big Sean and Kanye both delivered solid verses, and what made there verses similar was the idea that both verses where really close to each other, I mean, they both used similar flows as each other, both used just two different rhyme schemes in there verses, plus with both verses together the felt like a complete puzzle, I mean, if the song was just Big Sean, or still featured Kanye., but he had a different verse, I don’t think the song would have had the same feeling of having really easy rhymes, but at the same time balanced right and put in the right way.
When you look at the production on this track, it was something really different. The beat changed from the verses to the hook, in the hook the beat was more instrument influenced and sounded like the real high class music that was used a lot in G.O.O.D music, and it was something that was seen a lot on Big Sean’s Finally Famous album. When you listen to the beat during the verses, it sounded a lot like a bed squeaking, and I think that was something great for the song, because it gave the beat an added element, it gave the beat more of a feeling that’s like ‘something’s going on’, so that added element to the production was really good, making the production of this song really stand out.
Out of everything great on this song, there was just this one issue, which was at the same time the song’s best feature. As I mentioned, this song was style over substance, the best song for me are normally between 40 to 70% style, 30 to 60% substance, bad songs are normally between 80 or 90% style, and 10 to 20% substance, this song faced a really strange and unusual issue, it was about 75 to 80% style, and at the same time 30 to 40% substance. So I guess what I’m saying here is that the song had too much going on, I mean you got a lot going on just the hook its self, with a lot more going on with the beat, on the verses, everything. The issue with “Marvin & Chardonnay” song was that there was too much going on, thus affecting the quality that this song has in my opinion.
“Marvin & Chardonnay” was a good choice for a single for the Finally Famous album. it had many things a single these days needs to be successful, the song had a strong party feeling, chill lyrics and really slick production. The song also had some of the good side of hip-hop’s best features, such as the strong flow, great wordplay, and just a feeling of being a complete puzzle. Overall, this song isn’t nearly the best off Finally Famous, but it’s still a pretty great song, and will most probably be a really successful banger soon.
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