Summer Walker - Get Over It

Summer Walker’s “Still Over It” is a breakup album that plays to her strengths to create some excellent heartbroken R&B unfortunately separated by deserts of empty space.

By Griffin Jacobs

Summer Walker’s new album “Still Over It” is phenomenal at its best points but is bloated with an unfortunate amount of filler. On tracks like “You Don’t Know Me,” “Section 33,” and “4th Baby Mam,” she manages to convey heartbreak through excellent storytelling and her vocal inflections. This would be standard for this kind of R&B, but it stands out on an album where Walker sounds like she’s only trying to hit the right notes and sound pretty. That advantages the handful of great tracks but works to the detriment of the rest of the record.

At least half of these tracks aren’t worth coming back to. They lack detail and emotion in Walker’s lyrics and voice and all blend together, sounding like what AI would make with an algorithm based on every R&B album since 2016. That isn’t helped by these instrumentals either, whose minimalist sets of drums and bass all sound practically the same.

Those instrumental choices are a major problem for this record, as when the beats pick up energy, Walker does as well, producing some of her best work on tracks like “That Right There,” “No Love,” and “Ex for a Reason.” The latter of which makes me feel like more of a hot girl than Megan Thee Stallion’s entire discography. 

Despite a good amount of filler, I would still recommend it just for its few gems, as this could have been an album-of-the-year contender if it was 30 minutes instead of an hour.