No, what this song points to is a friendship failure on par with the plot of a Shakespearean play. Rihanna would never betray Drake because Rihanna is Queen and/or a god. Drake and Rihanna are the type of best friends I believe in my heart Monica and Chandler started out as before confessing their undying love in that one Friends episode. She’s onstage dancing and performing with him. Considering this is a song about complete and utter betrayal (or just making Drake mad - who can be sure), we know it takes Rihanna out of the mix. “Keep The Family Close” Stand-out lyric: “All of my ‘let’s just be friends’ are friends I don’t have anymore / Guess that’s why they say you need family for”

Which is how we justified combing through each track on Views and trying to find Rihanna somewhere. The world of Rihanna, our best friend.īecause while we know they’re not really together and we know they’re just friends and we’ve accepted that they’re total professionals, we still choose to dream of a reality in which Drake and Rihanna channel a Nora Ephron movie and find love in a hopeful place. Some of us need to delve deeper into cultural contexts to use Aubrey’s carefully-written lyrics as a gateway into a world we have no real access to a world we have no real business approaching.

Drake views from the 6 album stream