(before reading please reference Drake's Hotline Bling video to understand the backing of this blog)
I’d like to dedicate this specific blog post to the release of Drake’s music video for Hotline Bling because I think it really sums up the way I am feeling at this point of my Milanese experience. To put them in laymen, the lyrical value of the song can be confused for something sad because Drake is lamenting about the girl that he knew before he left “the city” and now she’s off doing whatever and he feels like he doesn’t know her anymore since she no longer calls him. But when I saw the video—with the curvaceous women, bright colors, and Drake’s relentless Latino dad dance moves—I realized that the moods didn’t match and the song could actually be about letting go of your past and taking advantage of that moment to evolve into the self you want to be.