I don't know if this counts as much as a hot take anymore, but there is way too much hatred for the show, RWBY. I don't like or care much for it either, but with all these piss take and rant videos, you would think the show shot these people's parents. It sucks Monty died, and he never got his full vision, but it's clear that the writers and people behind the scenes don't know what they're doing at this point just making up stuff as they go along. I don't have a problem with people disliking a bad show, but if these people hate the show that much, then stop watching it, stop talking about it, and stop covering it. There seems to be a lot of these, "I'm not watching RWBY anymore!", yet they decide to still watch it. For some dumb reason, or just to have something to rant about. Not all videos are like this, but there's a great amount of them out there on YouTube cluttering the space. The web show had good ideas, and nice character designs, but as one reviewer pointed out that actually has some sense: Even before Monty's death, they did nothing with the 4 main group, nor any good exploration of the show's side characters. They're just glorified window dressing. It's one of those shows, where the fan-fiction or fan comics are better than the official product. Because the fans manage to actually do something with the characters.
Gorillaz "Humanz" is an awesome album, and those complaining about it having "too much Hip Hop" obviously haven't been listening to the band that much, following them for the wrong reasons, or not paying attention. They missed the fact that Damon has been slowly phasing out the punk rock and hard rock aesthetics, since basically at the start of "Demon Days" and "Plastic Beach". They're still soundtrack variety in those, but there's definitely a lot more R&B and Hip Hop influence in there too. I will concede that the band was kind of pushed to the background with the album in 2017, and that Damon is not in there as much. He actually still is, but he's not singing as much in that one. I'll also can see that they had too many of those little skits, or short segway intros/outros segments that only just there to make the album seem longer than it actually is. Seriously, they might as well have just been part of the full song or not at all.
At least he made it up with the two other albums that came out later. His solo album which is pretty much all him, but a lot of those songs aren't that memorable. "The Now Now" only had three memorable songs. The rest fell into the background. "Song Machine" is a more "true" return to form I guess, but there's still a lot more Hip-Hop, R&B, and Soul on there. I'm not complaining. but I find it funny, almost no one makes a fuss over it in the newer album. Probably because the band is at the forefront again, and Damon is on a lot more of the album.
