Since their debut, VVS have but to attain a tune ranking above the sixes on this weblog, which places them in rarified air. To make issues worse, I consistently get them confused with VVUP, who’ve fared slightly higher ratings-wise. Generally, any act that places greenback indicators of their tune titles is unlikely to enchantment to me, and 7 out of eight songs on VVS’s new mini album arrive with a distinguished “$”.

$tay The Night time closes the album on a barely extra melodic tone than many of the group’s work. VVS’s music is obssessed with entice percussion and that drives this monitor as properly, which is a disgrace as a result of $tay The Night time‘s hooky refrain would work so significantly better with a livelier instrumental. At its finest, it has a chintzy early-2010s nostalgia — nearly like a Rihanna refrain tacked on to a hip-hop monitor by Eminem or Jay-Z. however earlier than you assume I’m evaluating the songwriting right here to these artists, check out a few of the lovely bars on show all through the monitor’s verses:

“I’m not an actor, this isn’t a script
I need the wrist, I need the wrist, I need the wrist to be VVS dripped (Woah)”

“Hop within the V, pull up the road
Shawty so dangerous, she pushin’ that P
I’m down in Florida, ’trigger I bought the keys”

Feels genuine, proper?

Anyway, I used to be enjoying round with giving this a “7” as a result of it’s not actively annoying like so a lot of their different songs, however VVS custom dictates I’m going a notch decrease. I suppose the “$” brings it right down to a 6.75.

Grade: D+