André 3000 has surpassed Tool for the longest Hot 100 hit of all time. As Billboard reports, his track “I Swear, I Really Wanted To Make A ‘Rap’ Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time” charted at #90 on the Hot 100 this week — it’s the first song on his new instrumental album New Blue Sun. It clocks in at 12 minutes and 20 seconds, longer than Tool’s “Fear Inoculum,” which is 10 minutes and 21 seconds and debuted at #93 back in 2019. André 3000’s track notched 5.8 million streams over the past week.
Oh wow, this was fucking terrible and I enjoy hour long chill loops on YT… It’s like elevator music, 90s ocean wave sound effects, and bad flutes had a child and that child was Hitler.
How the fuck is this on any hot list?
I listened to the entire thing twice (I do that with all albums I don’t hate) and thought it was incredible mediocre. The comments on YouTube make me think people have never heard ambient music before with how much they’re hyping it up.
I’m happy for Andre that he can just do whatever he wants in life but…yeah. There is nothing about the album that makes me want to relisten. He wrote most of it on the fly while recording. The best parts are the track names
Fantano was pretty excited for it but still only gave it a 6/10
That was a steaming hot turd. I couldn’t last more than 15 seconds.
I also listen to lofi chill beats all day while working and this was 100% not good.
Pitchfork gave it best new music as well