‎Thanks 4 Nothing by Tink on Apple Music

Tink’s last long-playing project, 2022’s Pillow Talk, was a wealth of odes to the sort of fun the lovers have when the lights go low. Pillow Talk’s follow-up, Thanks 4 Nothing, has just a few allusions to that zone (“Let My Guard Down,” “Stingy,” “Ain’t Gotta Leave”), but is way more about taking an excellent, hard take a look at yourself in the sunshine of day, assessing what all that fun might truly mean, each to yourself and the person you’ve shared it with. “Thanks for the frustration, thanks for the betrayal, the lies, the deceit,” she offers to a nameless lover on “Thanks 4 Nothing (Intro).” “Thanks for showing me I could survive, I could thrive without you.”

Thanks 4 Nothing is hardly just candied resentment, though. Tink sings from a spot of experience, taking responsibility for her own misguided rules of engagement on “Toxic,” letting ex-flames know just how good they might have had it on “I’m the Catch,” and detailing what it’s prefer to yearn for somebody denying you the energy you deserve on “Someone on You.” She opines on the state of relationships on the whole on “Fake Love” and “Save Your Soul.” The production on Thanks 4 Nothing comes courtesy of longtime collaborator Hitmaka, and Tink mostly eschews guests, save for Ty Dolla $ign and Yung Bleu. It’s almost as if she’s being especially choosy with collaborators in all walks of her life. The guiding ethos there may be one she spells out on “Trust Issues” when she asks, “What could you do for a bitch that don’t need nothing from you?”