Monday, June 27, 2022

Monday, June 27, 2022

Supreme Court overturns 1973 Roe v.

Wade decision, Oklahoma politicians react Braden Bush Staff Reporter The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision on Friday, overturned its 1973 ruling in Roe v.

Wade, which designated abortions as a constitutionally protected right.

The ruling removes the federal protection of the right to an abortion, and instead transitions the power to individual states to decide whether to allow, limit or ban abortions.

The Supreme Court ruling states: “The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion. Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives.”

A recent Mississippi abortion law brought Roe v. Wade to the spotlight, and after a leak of a court draft opinion

by Justice Samuel Alito in May, rumblings of the overturn began. Now that the decision is officially handed down, states can immediately begin selfregulating abortion.

The decision was commended by many

Republican Oklahoma lawmakers and elected officials.

“I am overjoyed to hear that the Supreme Court has announced its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade today,” U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) said.

“For almost 50 years, our nation has wrongly operated under the tragic belief that there is a constitutional “right” to end the lives of those who cannot speak for themselves. The Court has now rightfully declared that Roe was wrong from the start, and we can begin to chart a new course on the journey to protected life.”

Amongst other elected officials and abortion rights activists, however, the ruling was met with frustration.

“Today’s Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade is a devastating blow for the health and wellbeing of all women,” former Oklahoma Congresswoman and U.S. Senate nominee Kendra Horn said. “It is government overreach, plain and simple, and it’s wrong. Never before has the Supreme Court overturned five decades of precedent to take away rights from more than half of all Americans.

It’s especially dangerous

for Oklahoma women, because a complete ban on abortion starting at fertilization is now a reality in our state.”

Oklahoma currently has a trigger law in place that could potentially revert the state back to pre-1973 laws that rule abortion illegal, except in the case of saving the life of the mother.

In May, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law that bans abortion beginning at fertilization, with exceptions in the case of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother. A provision in the law that makes it a civil issue rather than criminal allowed it to skirt a challenge by the court. It is considered the strictest abortion ban in the U.S. “I am very excited that the Supreme Court made this courageous decision,” Gov. Kevin Stitt said. “Abortion is a state’s rights issue and it belongs to the people. I promised Oklahomans I would sign every pro-life bill that came across my desk and I am proud to have kept that promise, especially today as Oklahoma now has trigger laws to ban abortion in our state.” news.ed@ocolly.com

Abby Cage The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday morning which removes the federal protection of the right to an abortion.

Eugenio Chacarra turns pro, joins LIV Tour Jax Thompson Staff Reporter Oklahoma State Cowboy golfer Eugenio Chacarra announced that he will be foregoing his final year at OSU and turning professional.

While he had announced in April his intention to stay for one more year, it’s been reported that the newly formed LIV golf league reached out to him and offered him a spot.

“I was excited to continue playing for Coach Bratton and Coach Darr and with all of my teammates,” Chacarra said. “However, I recently received an opportunity I could not turn down. It is one of those trains that pass once in a lifetime.”

Chacarra will be joining a group of players that includes professionals from around the world, including a few top players from the PGA Tour like Dustin Johnson, who’ve accepted spots on the LIV golf tour. The tour offers the biggest purses in golf’s history and no cuts, along with a new team format.

Chacarra closed his statement by thanking those that supported him during his journey both before and during his time at OSU. “I will be eternally grateful to all the people and organizations that have been part of the process of making dreams come true,” Chacarra said. “Thank you very much for your unconditional support.”

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On Saturday morning, Eugenio Chacarra announced he will be turning pro and joining the LIV Tour.

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Lifestyle How 'Elvis' star Austin Butler lost — and found — himself in the King of Rock 'n' Roll Jen Yamato Los Angeles Times It was early 2019 in Los Angeles, and Austin Butler already had Elvis on the brain. A friend, hearing him sing along to “Blue Christmas” in the car, had urged him to portray the icon one day; others brought it up too.

Elvis seemed to be everywhere, but it was a dream role that felt impossible.

Then the universe called. Or rather, his agent did, to say that filmmaker Baz Luhrmann was making a movie about Presley’s life.

Coming off several milestones the previous year — filming Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood,” making his Broadway debut opposite Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh” — the rising actor put all auditions and meetings on hold for the next five months to concentrate on landing the role of a lifetime.

“I threw all my eggs in one basket,” said Butler, now 30, with a lingering hint of a honeyed drawl, of the immersion he undertook to nab the coveted lead in Luhrmann’s big-budget gamble “Elvis.” “I knew that the only way that I could do it was if I gave it everything that I had.”

You’d still talk with a bit of the King’s twang too if you went down the rabbit hole as far as Butler did. Before he could portray the American icon in a Warner Bros. production about Pres-

ley’s life and legacy, he knew he had to become a student of all things Elvis. And to know Elvis inside and out, to truly understand him, Butler was willing to give himself fully — mind, body, soul — to the process.

Winning the part It started that day with Elvis’ entire discography, which Butler put on shortly after getting the call, as he painted and plastered the old house he was living in.

He devoured every Elvis documentary, every film, every YouTube fan video he could find. At first, he tried recording himself singing Elvis’ 1956 ballad “Love Me Tender,” but “it looked like an impersonation,” he said, sipping an iced coffee last month at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, “and I thought, ‘I can’t send this.’”

He’d studied the songs and the way Elvis sang, but he wasn’t yet sure that he was the one for the job. Thinking of his mother, who passed away from cancer in 2014 when he was 23 — the same age Elvis was when his mother, Gladys, died — he tapped into what would shape his eventual portrayal. Revisiting “Unchained Melody” not as a romantic song but one of grief, “I sang it to my mom,” said Butler. “And that way of channeling those emotions just felt true.”

When Luhrmann watched the submission from Butler, a young actor he didn’t know anything about, “it didn’t feel like an audition,” said the Oscar-nominated “Moulin Rouge!” director. “It felt like a spycam.”

Luhrmann had been doing his own deep Elvis research and in 2017 traveled to Memphis “undercover.” There he bought a ticket for himself to visit Graceland, slipping in unnoticed among throngs of tourists. Eventually his trips became more frequent and a workspace was set up in Graceland’s archives for him and cowriter Sam Bromell (the two share a screenplay credit with Craig Pearce and Jeremy Doner).

Framed by the unreliable narration of Elvis’ longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks, donning a body suit, an unscrupulous twinkle and thick accent), “Elvis” is no straight biopic. Instead, Luhrmann describes it as an exploration of America, with Presley symbolizing what made it great and Parker as the showman who never lost sight of “the sell.” At the center of the 159-minute film, seen in flashes of magnetism, talent, live-wire energy and, ultimately, tragedy culminating in death in 1977 at age 42, is the vision that both director and star shared.

Everyone has some notion of who Elvis was, “but what gets lost is that the guy is just a guy — it’s the humanity of him,” Luhrmann said. “My number one mission was to humanize him. And that might have been my mission, but Austin Butler was the one that flew the plane. ... It was probably the hardest thing. This is the most impersonated man on the planet. But the humanity, Austin had from the get-go.”

By July, after un-

dergoing months of Elvis workshops — and an unsolicited call from Broadway co-star Washington, who told Luhrmann, “You’re in for a surprise when you see the work ethic of this young man,” said the director — Butler had beaten out the likes of Miles Teller and Harry Styles for the role. Then the work of finding and translating Presley’s heart and soul began.

“That was the test that I saw in front of me,” said Butler, who likened it to being a detective, piecing together a psychological profile with what clues he could find. “How do you take Elvis, who’s seen as this icon or this caricature, strip all that away and find out who he really was as a man?”

Diving into the research Born in Anaheim and discovered at 12 when he tagged along with his brother to an audition, Butler got his start on tween comedies including “Hannah Montana,” “Zoey 101” and ABC Family’s “Ruby and the Rockits” before moving to New York at 20. He grew up watching Turner Classic Movies every night with his movie buff dad, taking in the greats from Hitchcock to Tarkovsky to Kubrick, and remembers the first film he ever saw Sergio Leone’s 1966 spaghetti Western classic “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

“Elvis” is arguably the first chance he’s had to show audiences all he can do as a performer.

He didn’t take the job lightly. “No matter what it was, no matter what

Baz asked, anything, I was all in,” said Butler, who put his life on pause for what became a twoyear project. “Sometimes that’s unhealthy. But for me at that time, I just I knew that this was what I needed to give myself to.”

His research included studying every single Elvis interview until he could recite them out loud. He lived and breathed all things Elvis — the way he spoke, the way he moved, the way he sang, in order to be able to move in the world as Presley at all times.

(Butler’s singing voice is used in Elvis’s pre1960s musical scenes and actual Presley recordings later in the film, at times blended and interchanged so seamlessly that even Luhrmann says he can’t tell who is who.)

Months of rehearsals led to the start of production in Australia in January 2020. Butler worked with voice and movement coaches to organically channel Presley whenever Luhrmann wanted to “unleash” Butler to improvise in character. That March, Hanks and wife Rita Wilson became the first Hollywood stars to announce they’d tested positive for COVID-19, and the “Elvis” production was shut down.

“It looked like the film was not going to happen,” Luhrmann said.

Butler opted to stay in Australia to dig deeper into his preparation.

“I could prepare every day and then sit with my own feelings and ask myself what feels right, where’s my obsession going to lead me today?

WHEN IS LITTLE MUCH?

There is a short chorus that has encouraged me many times. “Little is much if God is in it. Labor not for wealth or fame. There’s a crown and you can win it. If you go in Jesus’ name.”

The woman, who poured the precious ointment on Jesus just before he was crucified, was criticized for “wasting” this expensive item. Yet, Jesus said everywhere the gospel is preached this woman’s action would be told. (Mk 14:3-9) Little things mean a lot as we are willing to serve the Lord. Paul mentions many in Romans 16 who helped him. The Good Samaritan stopped to help the man beaten and robbed.

(Lu.10:30-37) Paul writes as you have opportunity, do good to all men, especially to other believers.(Gal.6:10) When the poor widow dropped the two pennies, all that she had, into the temple offering. Jesus said she gave more the large offerings given. Her “large giving” was in relation to what she had. (Mk.12:41-44)

It started to become more about my own relationship with Elvis,” he said.

Some days he’d go on four-hour beach walks talking to himself, reciting Elvis interviews or perfecting the singer’s particular laugh, over and over. “Just imagine that guy on the beach,” he said with a chuckle.

The real-life relationships From books like “Elvis and the Colonel,” Butler tried to understand Elvis’ psychology through the defining relationships in his life — not only his fraught ties to Parker, but bonds with his wife, Priscilla (played by Olivia DeJonge); father, Vernon (Richard Roxburgh); and mother, Gladys (Helen Thomson). “There were certain voids that Colonel filled early on,” Butler said. “And that becomes conflicting when you start to realize somebody might be taking advantage of you, but you have sort of sworn your soul to them. Elvis was loyal to a fault at times.”

When filming resumed six months later, Hanks gave Butler a typewriter and they wrote back and forth in character, exploring the complicated nuances of the relationship. Sometimes Hanks would watch an Elvis film and write, “’My boy, I watched your new film,’ and he would write about what he thinks of it and what we should do on our next film,” Butler said. “If I had a complaint, I’d write it to him. It helped us figure out our dynamic. I still have all his typewritten letters.”

See Elvis on 3

Many people may plan to give when they receive a great amount of money, but that large amount of money may never come. We may plan to give time or talent to a project when we have more time, but that perfect time arrangement may never happen. Again, the apostle Paul encourages us “as you have opportunity, do good to all men.”

We never know when a little gesture of kindness, with money, or helping in an area of service, spending a little time with a person, a word of encouragement, will be just the action that will be a great help to someone. These can be practical ways of living out the Lord’s challenge to love one another. This is the fulfilling of the many commandments in the Bible: loving people by word and action.

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Courtesy Tribune News Service Austin Butler stars as Elvis Presley in the film “Elvis.”

Butler picked up an abundance of guidance throughout the process.

A month after landing the role, he went to Nashville to tape early-career Elvis tracks at RCA Studio A, where Elvis had recorded, working with session players who’d played with Elvis’ guitarist, Scotty Moore.

“I’m being thrown in the deep end, singing ‘Heartbreak Hotel,’ recording on the actual machinery that Elvis recorded,” he said.

“It was unbelievable.”

Recording artist Yola, who plays influential gospel musician Sister Rosetta Sharpe in the film, gave him singing pointers. Later on set, he was similarly star-struck

by Gary Clark Jr., who plays blues legend Arthur Crudup and offered guitar tips. Not necessarily for playing Elvis, added Butler. “That was just me fanboying over Gary Clark Jr.,” he said.

The film depicts how Elvis’ musical and spiritual lives, intertwined from an early age, were heavily influenced by gospel, blues and Black culture. “I think you couldn’t tell the story without it,” said Butler, whose Presley befriends B.B. King (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) and absorbs the looks, sounds and fashion he finds on Beale Street. “We don’t have Elvis without Black music and Black culture and Black spirituals — it’s so vital to him and an incredibly important aspect.”

For Butler, understanding Elvis’ influences and inspirations helped inform how he portrayed the artist’s evo-

lution and signatures.

“I wanted to feel what he was feeling, and he wasn’t looking at himself. He was looking at Little Richard. He was looking at Howlin’ Wolf and Big Mama Thornton and all those incredible artists down on Beale Street,” Butler said.

“You’ll see a move that Little Richard does and you go, ‘That’s how Elvis moved. Is that where he got that?’ Elvis was kind of a magpie where he pulled things from a lot of different places.”

‘She loved him so much’ After Nashville, Butler rode with Luhrmann to visit places where Elvis spent his formative years. They were headed to Graceland when the director asked him: “Do you want to meet Priscilla?”

“It was so surreal meeting her for the first time,” Butler said. “It really dawned on me that these are the same eyes that looked into Elvis’, that he loved her so much and she loved him so much. All of that just hit me like like a flood.”

They spoke of Elvis, Parker and how he had big shoes to fill. “Then she gave me this big hug and said, ‘You have a lot of support.’ And I left that room in tears.”

At Cannes, where the film premiered in May, Priscilla Presley called Butler’s turn “mesmerizing” on her Instagram account. In an email to the L.A. Times, Presley admitted she was “nervous” to see the film.

“I watched the trailer over a dozen times before I watched the full movie,” she wrote. “When I watched the film for the first time, I was so overcome by emotions that it took me a few days to process. Baz, Tom, Austin and Olivia did a beautiful job.”

Presley said the research and care Butler applied to the role shines through. “It was more than I ever expected. He became Elvis.”

Despite mixed critical reactions to Hanks’ portrayal of Parker, Cannes left Luhrmann feeling satisfied. “At Cannes, they’ll boo you,” he said after the festival debut, admitting that he steels himself for all sorts of reactions. “’Moulin Rouge!’ got a good reaction but a lot of detractors too. My films always have this kind of critical show.” During the 12-minute ovation, he said, “there was genuine emotion in the room.

If I never go to Cannes again, I can be very happy with that night.”

Life after Elvis At some point in the future, Butler would like to move behind the camera and make movies like Tarantino, Luhrmann and Paul Thomas Anderson, writer-directors he admires.

“I love filmmaking,” he said. “I don’t know what else I would do with my life. I’m not ready yet, but there will come a day.”

Coming off his intense, years-in-themaking “Elvis” shoot, his body immediately went into crisis mode, he told British GQ, and he was briefly hospitalized.

“I talked to Tom and Baz because I thought I might sink into a major depression when I finish this because suddenly the only thing I have done, now I don’t have,” Butler said.

“I will feel purposeless, and suddenly the rest of my life is going to come flooding back in a way that might be a bit overwhelming. Baz was like, ‘It might be nice for you to just jump right into something else.’”

Over Thanksgiving

dinner, Hanks mentioned the World War II project he was executive producing for Apple with Steven Spielberg, “Masters of the Air.” Butler signed on and flew to London after “Elvis” wrapped in early 2021 to shoot the war miniseries — just the change of pace he was looking for. He spent the year in London shedding Elvis, returning to life with friends, and taking up pottery as therapy.

One of the key takeaways from his time with the King is in learning from how Presley dealt with fame. “In the beginning, especially, he always seemed very grateful and present, like he somehow was able to see it for what it was and it hadn’t warped his reality,” Butler said.

“And the times in which he stayed true to himself, there’s a lot for me to learn in that because so many people have opinions and ideas about what you should be doing or who you should be or how you should look.

“I think that the lesson in there for me is to try to really turn up the volume of my own intuition and ask myself what I really want to do.”

Finally returning to the States around Christmastime 2021, he had a few weeks to himself before beginning prep for his next job, playing Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen for Denis Villeneuve in Budapest for “Dune: Part Two.” There was one thing he wanted to do.

He went back to Graceland.

Butler noticed he felt different this time around. “The first time that I went I felt like an impostor. I felt too small,” he said. “Going back this time, I felt like I was coming home. I feel like Elvis’ spirit is there.” entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

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Inflation rates reach all-time high ting so high?

The short answer is two things: post-pandemic demand and the war in Ukraine. As the pandemic winds down, demand for more consumer goods is at an all-time high.

Furthermore, the Russian invasion Teyte Holcomb of Ukraine has put sanctions on Russian News Editor goods which many rely on, especially oil production.

As gas prices and the cost of Prices continue to increase, and everyday goods rises, the United States they aren’t projected to go down for has not seen prices like this since the quite a while. In an article published 2008 recession.

by CNBC, Trina Paul says that “there’s Though inflation is a common part not a solid answer, but 2022 seems the of the economy, why is it just now getworst for inflation with prices leveling

out by 2023.”

What does this mean for college students? While the cost of goods around the country seems to be on the rise, OSU just announced that tuition and fees will remain the same as last year.

Earlier this month the OSU/A&M Board of Regents approved a budget increase for the 2023 fiscal year for both Stillwater and Tulsa campuses. Though this budget increase is 1.92% higher than last year, mandatory fees and tuition will remain the same for in-state and out-of-state students.

Though prices are at an all-time

high right now, it’s hard to predict when they’ll finally go down. Paul said predicting lowering prices at a global scale is quite difficult, and many factors play into it.

As prices continue to rise, it is clear that inflation is impacting many Americans. From increased gas prices to supply and demand shortages, these price increases currently don’t show any signs of slowing down.

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File Photo This year’s Fourth of July festival will feature everything from food trucks, to fireworks at Boomer Lake.

Stillwater’s Boomer Blast kicks off Fourth of July weekend the celebration its name is also going to be set to music broadcasted on 93.7 FM. Mallory Pool The show is set to begin at 9:30.

This annual event is free and Staff Reporter open to the public and will take place at Boomer Lake Park. Lakeview Bridge will close at 7 p.m. for the celebration.

One of the biggest Stillwater celThere will be free parking at Stillebrations of the year is happening July water High School’s football stadium 1. Boomer Blast Celebration and Fireand at Cimarron Plaza because vehicles works Show is not a festivity to miss. are not allowed in Boomer Lake Park This year’s Independence Day during the event. At 11:30 p.m., the park celebration will include an entire day at will reopen to traffic.

Boomer Lake with everything from area The schedule of events includes vendors to food trucks to a huge firefood trucks opening at 6 p.m., Stillworks display beginning at dark. water Radio beginning their two hour The fireworks display that gave live remote broadcast at 8 p.m. and the

fireworks show at dark.

The boat ramp and the park will close at 4 p.m. to vehicle and boat traffic. Harned Road will also close at this time.

The main sponsors of the event and annual fireworks show are the City of Stillwater, the Grand River Dam Authority and Oklahoma State University.

As the City of Stillwater describes it, please come join the celebration and “a little hometown hospitality” as the town kicks off the holiday weekend.

For more activities during the Fourth of July weekend, feel free to visit Stillwater’s Farmers’ Market at the Prairie Arts Center on July 2 from

8 a.m.-1 p.m. or, for those of age, take a tour of Iron Monk Brewing Co. at 3 p.m. for $15 per person.

For those that are fans of biking, the annual Fourth of July weekend Tour of Payne is at 7:30 a.m. on July 2. No Drop Tours now hosts this premier road bicycle ride across all paved roads in Payne County. You can choose between 16, 34 or 63-mile routes at a fee of $40 per person.

For more information regarding Stillwater’s Boomer Blast, the Tour of Payne and other weekend events, visit visitstillwater.org. entertainment.ed@ocolly.com

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Castillo chooses OSU, becomes second transfer for Cowboys this offseason Daniel Allen Staff Reporter OSU coach Josh Holliday and company continue to remain active in the transfer portal following the conclusion of their 2022 season.

OSU recently received a commitment from senior outfielder Chad Castillo from California Baptist through the transfer portal.

A native of Santa Ana, California, Castillo earned a starting spot his true freshman season in 2019, batting over .300 in each of his four seasons at California Baptist, including this past season in which he recorded a career high .386 batting average, a .635 slugging percentage along with 11 home runs.

Castillo becomes the second addition out of the transfer portal for the Cowboys this offseason, joining former LSU freshman shortstop Brennan Holt as part of OSU’s 2023 transfer class. sports.ed@ocolly.com

Cowboys entering the transfer portal thus far: Cayden Brumbaugh Colton Bowman Lyle Miller-Green John Bay Solomon Washington Karisa Sheely Photo description

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Discover fascinating stories, spectacular beauty and intellectual puzzles. Advance previous research into fresh territory. Investigate exciting opportunities.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Manage shared finances for growth.

You’re building family security. Find easy ways to economize. Cut waste like forgotten subscriptions. Invest for long-term gain.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — You and your partner are naturally in sync. Coordinate for ease and efficiency. Empower each other. Provide support, encouragement and stability. Share a victory.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Your physical performance is blossoming. Keep practicing for growing strength, endurance and grace. A push now can advance by leaps and bounds.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Romantic moments develop easily. Prioritize love, fun and family. Share an excellent adventure with someone charming. Dreams come true with a disciplined push.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Fill your home with love and music.

Craft and create works of beauty, flavor and delight. Bake and cook delicious family feasts. Generate household fun.

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Solution to Saturday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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Lifestyle Review: Drake's 'Honestly, Nevermind' is a sleek dance music reset Mikael Wood Los Angeles Times

the music — more than one song recalls post-”Missing” Everything but the Girl — Drake is toying with hip-hop’s evolving ideas about masculinity; it’s beguiling too to hear pop’s preeminent solipsist engage with grooves and textures traditionally geared to communal purposes.

(Maybe the privileged isolation of Drake’s peak-COVID-era “Toosie Slide” video finally got to him.)

Does Drake make for a good house diva? His singing on “Honestly, Nevermind” is clearly slathered in autotune, and after opener “Falling Back,” where he ascends into a breathy falsetto, his vocal melodies rarely venture beyond a comfortable midrange. Yet there’s an endearing vulnerability to his delivery in songs like “Texts Go Green” and “Calling My Name” that blends beautifully with the promise of abandon in the production; the result feels melancholy and ecstatic at the same time, as in “Down Hill,” where Drake’s lamenting a relationship in “constant confusion, nearing conclusion” while the drums and keyboards keep threatening to turn into Lionel Richie’s “All Night Long.”

Though the music moves at a quicker tempo than on Drake’s earlier records, he’s still surrounding himself with signifiers of plush sophistication: the cooled-out saxophone that ripples through the album’s instrumental opener, for instance, or the fluttering Spanishstyle guitar in “Tie That Binds.”

But he appears earnest in his desire, whatever inspired it, to meet house music on its own terms. Those propulsive piano triplets in “Massive”?

As essential to the genre as a power chord is to hard rock.

Indeed, it’s Drake’s commitment that makes the album’s closer, “Jimmy Cooks,” so jarring.

Built on a sample of a throbbing Memphis rap track, it’s got Drake and the LP’s lone featured guest, 21 Savage, trading rounds of tough talk about fearing no enemy. “You don’t like the way I talk? N—, say something,” Drake dares one such foe, spitting out the words instead of cooing them as he’s been doing.

It’s a reminder that he knows we’re listening — and that he’s always formulating a response.

To call Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” a flop, as many have since the album came out in September, is to say more about the hip-hop superstar’s overall success than about the perceived failure of a Grammy-nominated LP that broke several streaming records on its way to finishing 2021 as last year’s third-biggest release.

But OK, sure: Unlike pretty much everything Drake had done since the start of his major-label recording career more than a decade ago, the meandering “Certified Lover Boy” fell slightly out of sync with the pop culture zeitgeist.

The album didn’t spin off a series of durable radio hits (though “Way 2 Sexy” went to No. 1) nor did the music take over TikTok and social media in the manner of a modern smash. For perhaps the first time, Drake’s grip seemed to slip.

Which makes it easy to view “Honestly, Nevermind” — the “CLB” follow-up he surprisedropped June 17 just hours after revealing it existed — as Drake’s shot at a reset. Composed almost entirely of sleek, airy club music jams in which he does as little rapping as he ever has, Drake’s seventh studio album marks an undeniable change in course, even if the 35-year-old remains lyrically preoccupied with the petty romantic grievances that have always fueled his songwriting.

Yet what an appealingly perverse choice for a would-be course correction. Yes, plenty of pop stars have been exploring dance music lately, from Dua Lipa to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion (whose “WAP” sampled a classic Baltimore club track) to Drake’s old collaborator, the Weeknd; Drake himself has flirted with the sounds of house music in songs such as “Passionfruit” and “Take Care.”

But here he leans into the concept harder than any other A-list act, laying tightly structured verses and choruses over thrumming, go-forever beats produced by a team led by his longtime studio accomplice, Noah “40” Shebib, along with Gordo and South Africa’s entertainment.ed@ocolly.com Black Coffee. In the tenderness of

Courtesy Tribune News Service Drakes latest album was released last September and still topping charts.