Over It by Summer Walker
Over It is the debut studio album by American singer Summer Walker. It was released on October 4, 2019, by LoveRenaissance and Interscope. The album has spawned the singles "Playing Games" and "Stretch You Out", and will also feature the remix of Walker's "Girls Need Love" featuring Drake. Aside from Drake, the album features collaborations with Bryson Tiller, Usher, 6lack, PartyNextDoor, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and Jhené Aiko, with most of the album produced by Walker's boyfriend, London on da Track. Walker will embark on the First and Last Tour in support of the album from October 25. Promotion An "old school" commercial was released via Walker's YouTube channel on September 30 to promote the album, which was compared to infomercials for R&B albums from the 1990s.Few days before the actual album release, Walker promoted the album by putting various payphone in various cities painted in the theme of the album. A phone number was to be dialed to listen to the album few days before.
Summer Walker doesn’t look the way she sounds. The Atlanta singer’s face tattoos are more in line with the aesthetic of her hometown’s many hip-hop superstars than that of ’90s golden-era R&B acts like Mary J. Blige, Xscape and SWV, but the makeover feels right for the moment. On Walker’s heavily anticipated <i>Over It</i>, which follows her 2018 breakout mixtape <i>Last Day of Summer</i>—as well as the <i>CLEAR</i> EP—the singer recontextualises some familiar-sounding frustrations and reckonings about hard-earned romantic truths by way of throwback sounds and contemporary real talk (all of which sounds even richer thanks to Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos).<br /> “Did I ever ask you to take me to go shopping in Paris?/Or go sailing overseas and just drape me in Gucci?” she asks on the Bryson Tiller duet “Playing Games”. “No, I never had an issue, go to the club with your boys, baby/I never wanted you to stay too long, just wanted you to show me off.” Later in the song she borrows a few bars from “Say My Name”, Destiny’s Child’s eternally catchy ballad of the underappreciated lover. <i>Over It</i> is indeed peppered with references to the R&B of Walker’s childhood: Producer London On Da Track utilises a vintage 702 sample for “Body” and builds the beat for “Come Thru”, which features Usher, on the keyboard line of the ATL icon’s 1997 “You Make Me Wanna...” The album also boasts guest spots from Drake, 6LACK, A Boogie wit da Hoodie and long-dormant moody-R&B hero PARTYNEXTDOOR.<br /> The vantage point of <i>Over It</i>, though, is wholly the singer’s own. The exchanges in Walker’s verses sound like they could have been grafted directly from text messages or pulled from a FaceTime conversation. “Am I really that much to handle?” she opines on the title track. “You wanna be a good friend to me/Why don’t you pour up that Hennessy/Light up a few blunts so we can get high,” she sings on “Tonight”. “Too much Patrón will have you calling his phone/Have you wanting some more,” she advises on “Drunk Dialing…LODT”. Walker’s words are so relatable they seem destined to become social media captions. <i>Over It</i>, then, is a project whose title betrays its maker’s constitution, one certain only to leave fans wanting more.
