Are musicians getting meaner, and can we really blame them if they are?

There's something in being told, "You've been shit, goodnight!"

I once went to a Drake show, when Drake was happy and in charge. Well… perhaps not happy – Drake has made a point of rapping about his disenchantment of fame and money and all the sex with beautiful women he’s having since 2013’s Nothing Was the Same. But this was imperial Drake. 2017 Drake. Touring Views Drake. That show was many things: inclusive, celebratory, manly as fuck, erratic, not sexy, compulsively entertaining and, most memorably of all, hilarious.

Now, I don’t want to kick Champagne Papi when he’s down. And I enjoyed the show. But was it funny when a secondary stage in the middle of the O2 started to (slowly) inflate a 20-foot globe that was too big for the performing area, causing Certified Lover Boy to precariously edge around it as if caught on the ledge of a tall apartment building, no doubt having fled from having sex with a supermodel (I just wish they’d stop asking) who’s boyfriend came home early? Yes. Yes, it was. Not as funny, though, as when Drake shouted from t…