Drake Is in Crisis-Management Mode, but He’ll Be Fine

The Pusha-T diss has already forced Drake to write a Notes app apology, with another response record presumably on deck. But when the movie’s this good, who wins is almost beside the point.

It doesn’t seem so far-fetched to imagine that the movie Drive was the seed that grew into Drake’s album Scorpion, due out in June. 

Which is to say that it seems almost appropriate, given the album announcement itself and the hyperstylized emptiness of the movie in question. (Have you heard Drake’s newest single, 

“I’m Upset,” yet? Nothing really happens in it, either.) Because I can’t help myself, I recently went to Hollywood Forever Cemetery and saw Nicolas Winding Refn introduce his 2011 film to a field full of fans who donned leather racing gloves and satin jackets to relive it. Refn replayed the hits from Drive’s promotional tour:

 It was meant as a love letter to Los Angeles, where he loves working; about how he and Ryan Gosling carpooled and sang a duet to REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling”; and about how the carpool, and thus the Gosling duet, happened because Refn, despite building a movie around the eerie calm of driving at night, doesn’t drive.