--- title: Drake Views Album: Internet Reaction description: After Drake debuted his highly-anticipated album Views on Thursday night , listeners everywhere began feeling an onslaught of emotions. canonical: https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-29T14:00:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:57.852Z og:title: Drake's Views Is Making the Internet Feel a Million Feelings og:description: "Already missing my ex wife and I never been married before" og:url: https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Drake's Views Is Making the Internet Feel a Million Feelings twitter:description: "Already missing my ex wife and I never been married before" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Drake's _Views_ Is Making the Internet Feel a Million Feelings > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 29, 2016 2:00 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 29, 2016 2:00 PM UTC After Drake debuted his highly-anticipated album [_Views_](http://time.com/4309491/drake-views-from-the-6-album-global-listening-party/)on Thursday night, listeners everywhere began feeling an onslaught of emotions. As they listened to [Drizzy’s sweet voice](http://time.com/4306530/drake-future-summer-tour/) sing heavy-hearted lyrics such as, “Mixing vodka and emotions, tapping into your emotions / Dry cry cause I’m hopeless,” many felt compelled to take to Twitter to express their inner turmoil. **Some spoke of feelings they didn’t even know they had:** > [](https://twitter.com/Chama%5FIs%5FShama/status/725988735620358145) > [](https://twitter.com/LORDMAYERS/status/726031601285644288) > [](https://twitter.com/DrrakeTheType/status/725903144949944321) > [](https://twitter.com/lilduval/status/726034144296337409) > [](https://twitter.com/TPapi%5F/status/725897328389812224) > [](https://twitter.com/cdjeffery32/status/725896754319659010) _Read More:_ [Now You Can Add a Tiny Drake to Any Photo](http://time.com/4310761/drake-views-from-the-6-cover-meme/) **While others tried to decipher the meaning behind the 6 God’s tear-jerking words:** > [](https://twitter.com/kingsleyisilebo/status/726001885350662144) > [](https://twitter.com/MyPotnaB/status/726030741809729536) > [](https://twitter.com/Sandro%5FRH7/status/725898470339530752) > [](https://twitter.com/mrkrabsmeme/status/725902909766955009) Keep calm and continue listening to Drake, everyone. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/"},"headline":"Drake's Views Is Making the Internet Feel a Million Feelings","datePublished":"2016-04-29T14:00:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:57.852Z","description":"\"Already missing my ex wife and I never been married before\"","url":"https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Drake"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4312177/drake-views-from-the-6-internet-feelings/","name":"Drake's Views Is Making the Internet Feel a Million Feelings"}}]}] ```