Juice WRLD - Fighting Demons ALBUM REVIEW

Fighting Demons sadly isn't as successful as last year's Legends Never Die at upholding Juice's legacy.

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FAV TRACKS: BURN, ALREADY DEAD, YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND, NOT ENOUGH, UNTIL THE PLUG COMES BACK AROUND

LEAST FAV TRACK: WANDERED TO LA

JUICE WRLD - FIGHTING DEMONS / 2021 / GRADE A / EMO TRAP

4/10

Y'all know this is just my opinion, right?

[aidanbourn]

What pisses me off about this record is that any halfway dedicated juice fan knows how many absolute bangers this man has in the locker. I get the label wants to send a message about battling addiction and overcoming mental health issues and other vices, but you have to draw the line somewhere. It boggles my mind that half baked shit like go hard or terribly mixed songs like wandered to LA are on here while he has songs like Arctic Tundra, London Tipton, Reminds Me of the Summer, Autograph, Chimp, Etc. So many bangers, and a lot of them are basically finished. They could've easily made this album hit after hit but instead they just sprinkled some diamonds in the rough. Disappointing.

[ayhaanjiwani]

i’m a big big fan of juice but i’m not surprised or upset about this. wish labels knew when to leave well enough alone. LND felt more authentic, cohesive, and thoughtful and this just felt like leftovers, even the album name (album still had a ton of great songs bc juice don’t ever rlly miss, some songs r just more memorable than others)

[sweep_swoop]

Fantano, you can’t give this album a 4 just because it’s Juice WRLD’s fourth studio album.

[VamshiOhgs]

The album starting with Burn gave me so much hope for the whole record, it was such a great start and it's really sad to see that it wasn't continued throughout the album

[petergotbored]

It feels weird to me that these are released as "albums" and not just compilations of rarities or whatever. Most artists tend to have a cohesive vision for their records, and while there's nothing at all wrong with playlists or whatever it feels weird to have someone else package the music that was made to craft a narrative that might not have been there if the actual artist had still been alive. I'm not really against releasing b-sides or rarities but it feels weird for them to be advertised as LPs when they're really just unrelated demos that got polished off.

[ItsSolo]

This is an extremely accurate review. Yea I like the album, but it definitely could’ve been produced better.

[doodbro]

Burn has to be one of my favorite opening tracks of any album of all time.

[Gamessy]

The only thing that surprised me about this review is that 'Eminem speaks' isn't Anthony's least favorite track

[jimmyl]

Still blows my mind that a 2nd posthumous album is such a huge thing

[alexgore]

Burn is one of the best songs of 2021 I will stand by this

[Sheeprampage]

this album felt like it was for the hardcore juice fans. Pretty much every single song was either a popular leak or a highly requested snippet. With that being said I think that this album is good but it lacked a lot of aspects an album should have because the songs felt more determined by the community. It just sucks hearing people say this album is reaching for new Juice music when there's albums worth of completed music left, it just came down to poor selection.

[jp_cam]

We are nowhere near the bottom of the barrel with songs btw, they just chose some weird songs imo. There's a minimum of 500 workable songs only judging from songs leaked online. Also Juice's mom has final say in everything that comes out apparently and she gets any of the money that he would have been making as confirmed by Juice's photographer

[humanbeing]

Anthony, you can’t rate this a 4 just because the girl of your Dreams rated you a 4

[_Wrd]

Unpopular opinion but fighting demons isn’t all that bad.

[mrball]

I’d rather them just release music as compilations. Not albums. It doesn’t deserve the title of a juice album, but i do think the music should be released

[iamryan]

The record labels are ruining the legacy that musicians leave behind after they pass away. This would have been great as part of a b-side compilation instead of a full album.

[patrickcardwell]

Considering the circumstances of his passing, hearing the label still put a bunch of banal freestyling about popping pills and doing drugs on the album is kinda odd, and the interview clips just come across as awkward compensation

[ekotpos]

It’s okay Anthony, we know you are fighting demons

[soulfulb]

Yeah I can agree with this, none of the songs were too bad in my opinion but mostly mid and kinda forgettable with a few highlights, but tbh I expected that. This album was kinda slapped together last minute to complement the HBO documentary so they prob had to dig to find good vocals in his catalogue and didn’t have enough time idk. Solid 5 for me

[ikGREENY]

As a gigantic Juice fan since late 2017 who went to see his concert and related heavy to a lot of his material, I gotta say Bibby and the label really messed up this album, they released the wrong songs with bad mixes (sometimes even sounding worse than the leaked version) and with terribly mainstream beats. they’re some of the most popular unreleased tunes that I listened to but they definitely weren’t the best unreleased tracks out there. There’s a big difference. Still feel like there’s one more great album worth of material (young god, Scarface, Toxic Humans, etc) but they really were lazy about this one. Really upset cuz I was rlly thinking this was gonna be great.