NE-YO v THE DREAM

should be a closed parenthesis after "playin in her hair"

i just think it sounds good.

please tell me that "I Luve Your Girl" isn't one of the reasons people rave about his album. wtf is wrong w/ that dude, shit is horrible.

love/hate is so brilliant. one of those albums where after every time you listen to it you think a different song is the best.

It really is the gift that keeps on giving.

please tell me that "I Luve Your Girl" isn't one of the reasons people rave about his album. wtf is wrong w/ that dude, shit is horrible.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

this is the only song i dont really like on the album

i luge your girl

lol

i guess the sentiment is pretty shitty but i think the chorus is pretty irresistible for singing along to. look at shorty rooooooolll, look at shorty goooooooooo etc.

also "radio killa/trick beat the track up like gorillas" is a pretty catchy thing to toss off in the intro

not like it makes the song any better just that it gets stuck in my head all the time

i hate that part

that song is pretty wack and forgettable, definitely compared to the rest of the album

yeah i mean there are 6-7 better imo i do like it though

i wish he would've made 'fast car' the 3rd single

i could give a fuck if the sentiment is shitty, it just sounds awful. i don't even know how this guy was able to sell songs as a writer if he did scratch vocals on the demos.

nah I luv ur girl is one of the best songs on the album. " FUUUUUUUUCK THAT NIGAAAAAAAAAAA".

the g-unit remix "I fucked your girl" is pretty good as well.

worst song the album is "mama" , even though it's not bad.. and I find myself skipping "ditch that" a lot even though I like it because it messes up the flow btwn "purple kisses" and "luv songs"

it's not really exemplary of the sound of the album though, so if you don't like it you should still check out the album

if you don't likle "i luv your girl" I have to steal one of deej's lines and ask "do you even party?"

'mama' is great

he was on 106&Park yesterday and he said his new album is already finished and it should be coming out this year.

There seem to be a lot of moments throughout the album where he needs to finish off a verse or something but doesn't know what to say, so he repeats a phrase over again or just makes noise (see "Luv Songs": "It's nine in the morning/I'm horny, you're horny/Ooh-ooh, Ooh-ooh"). I found this kind of goofy at first but it's become endearing over time.

It took me a while to come around to "Fast Car" for some reason. Now it's one of my favorites.

i always forget how awesome "purple kisses" is

the spoken word bridge in "ditch that" sounds like some chromeo shit. that whole song is awesome. "closer" sounds a lot like it though im not sure which is better

I've really been feeling "I Luv Your Girl" and "Nikki" lately...when this thread got bumped I revisited this album heavily and have been thankful for it

I love it when put dem pretty lips on meEEEEEEEEE
PURPLE KISSES
PURRRPLE KISSES

is this album becoming an ILX cannon classic now? Because that would be pretty funny.

it already is

would have pushed thru even earlier if Tim F. had heard it

why would it be funny

yeah im trying to bump this thread so ppl remember it-- but i dont even know who really liike it besides brainwasher, me and deej and rev begrudgingly (ok potm12 as well-- what about rtc? thread of missing tape store?)

likes it

i remember matos or jess or someone slamming it on idolator but BIG UPPING "livin a lie" which is one of my least favorite songs on the album

is brainwasher going to be giving us some "lol white people like r&b" pseudo-forks shit here or something

there are albums that you just know ppl will recognize based purely on the sound coming from the speaker and this is one of them.

hes just talking about how he was talking it up and no one was paying attention for awhile

A-T-L-A-N-T-A G-A IS WHERE I STAY

I think I'm like the only frequent R&B poster who doesn't like the guy, maybe rtc too. I still think Tricky Stewart is pulling most of the weight in that creative partnership, the production >>>>>> the lyrics/melodies in most of their stuff.

rtc like him he was just having trouble writing about him

tricky only produced like half of the album, this guy named L.O.S. produced the rest

i think i might agree with that but a lot of the metaphors are pretty hilarious/great. like the whole idea of "luv songs">>>>>>>>>anything and every metaphor on "double up" that people were raving about

also now that Chris Brown has made like 3 songs that I genuinely like he's definitely my least favorite voice on the radio.

xpost - I was referring mainly to their for-hire work to other artists, although with The-Dream solo stuff I think I prefer the Tricky productions to the Los Da Mystro ones anyway.

i forget which song but dream even gets in a better sex planet line than anything on "sex planet"

actually 'sex planet' has a uranus joke scratch that

speaking of r kelly

what is with that raheem devaighn "customer" remix? did he really have the gall to say "I have some good lemonade"?

hahahaha I like that remix but I really hadn't had a chance to pay attention to the lyrics yet

alex I agree that prod.>lyrics, vocals whatever...dream is half production half personality, I think I just love all the "Ayys!" and "yezzirs" and all that

So I finally started listening to "Livin' a Lie" outside the context of the album, after several months of Matos raving about me how its the best song ever and me not really being that excited about it. And it is pretty great, but totally unconvincing after almost an hour of Dreamer making a dick out of himself.

Bmore OTM about Tricky Stewart being the stronger half of the partnership.

nah those melodies are totally a huge part of why the songs are great. songwriting is real important to his stuff.

living a lie is good but its not like some huge album standout or something

"Livin' a Lie" = single of the year.

melodies are great, I'm not a big vocal expert or really the type to care about lyrics, but obviously melody is most important so that's kind of a given... I really care of the melodies weren't there.

Not so crazy about the "ella"s though

Xp

really wouldn't care if*

crazy

i mean it's good but idk how one could think it's even that much better than "ditch that"

xpost to alfred

i cant think of anyone who doesnt post on ilm or who isnt constantly thinking about their village voice poll saying "this is the best song of the year" when that song is on.

well then.

This istough, but I think the right answer is T-Pain.

vs. future vs. chris brown vs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBE0sQC5L8

this poll is about hats right?

dare anyone to listen to love/hate after a 5 year hiatus and not be moved

such a great album

Love vs Money also

https://t.co/YgdLWxqHpZ

— THE-DREAM (@TheKingDream) September 20, 2023

this is good! very memoirs-y