With fans eagerly waiting for her album release, Summer Walker finally dropped Over It on Friday. After the release of the hit remix “Girls Need Love” featuring Drake, Walker’s album was highly anticipated by fans. The album was further teased with singles “Playing Games” and “Stretch You Out (feat. A Boogie wit da Hoodie).”
Waking up the R&B genre, the album also features Bryson Tiller, Usher, 6LACK, Drake, PARTYNEXTDOOR and Jhene Aiko.
With 18 powerful tracks, Over It will have fans going from wanting to swear off relationships forever to contemplating contacting an ex while drunk to swearing off relationships again, all while crying on the bathroom floor, just to end with listeners wanting to profess their love and invite their exes to come over.
It is the perfect compilation of toxicity and beauty that will have you singing your heart out confused about why her lyrics are so relatable. Each song on the album conveys a different mood, and the swift change of emotion is so calculated it takes listeners a moment to pull themselves together between each track.
Walker opens with the title track, “Over It,” which sets the tone for the whole album. Her first line, “Am I really that much to handle?” says it all. The exhaustion conveyed in Walker’s voice and her lyrics is clear: She is sick of men making empty promises and not being able to handle her in relationships.
The fourth track on the album, “Drunk Dialing…LODT,” is a two-part song, showcasing Walker’s soothing vocals filled with soul, heartbreak and love. The song brings listeners a story about breakups and love and how alcohol can intensify the relationship between the two. It is a brilliant showcase of how torn a woman can be when it comes to contacting someone you know isn’t good for you, but you love, anyway.
Walker sampled the R&B song “You Make Me Wanna…” by Usher, his first major hit as a solo artist in the late ’90s, on her fifth track, titled “Come Thru.” She then proceeded to feature Usher on the song, intertwining old lyrics from the original hit with new ones.
Walker not only intertwines the old lyrics of Usher, but also Destiny’s Child in “Playing Games,” by reiterating the groups message of calling out your lover in order to prove their loyalty.
“Fun Girl,” the seventh track on the album, introduces the idea of women having a distorted image of themselves because of how men treat them and the hypocrisy of men being able to do as they please without being reduced to hypersexuality. She opens with, “I remember what you told me / Said I wasn’t made right, said I wasn’t cut right / That’s why I’m so lonely.”
Walker and Jhene Aiko team up on the 15th track of the album, “I’ll Kill You,” conveying the message that they would do absolutely anything to protect the love they’ve finally found in their significant others.
With the jaw-dropping lyrics, “If them b------ 'round you, better be blood / If it ain't me or your mama, shouldn't be showin' you no love / Please forgive me, I know that I'm stingy / 'Cause baby, I'm gang 'bout you,” Walker and Aiko make it known that they mean business.
Walker grows up in the album. She finds her voice and brings fans an album that is not for the weak-willed. Over It is not just an album — it’s a heartbreakingly beautiful composition about the ups and downs of life and relationships.
