 Thank Me Later has a languorous , ambient production and is characterized by subtle arrangements , obscured keyboards , skittering snare drums , reverbed percussion , sparse beats , moody synthesizers , and minor keys . Lyrically , Thank Me Later has moody , introspective subject matter , and mainly centers around Drake 's introduction to fame and his romances . The Toronto Star describes the content as " about the sorts of doubts , excesses , betrayals and creeping paranoid suspicions that arrive hand @-@ in @-@ hand with celebrity . " Music journalist Greg Kot describes the album as " personal and eccentric , the journal of a flawed , self @-@ doubting regular guy rather than a strutting icon @-@ in @-@ waiting . " 
