"When I get You Alone" is amazing, wtf is wrong with you people?
― musically, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:48 (seventeen years ago) link
Apocalypse in five...four...three...
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― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm kinda in the middle on this dude, I get the feeling I'd like most of the songs on his album (his newer one) taken out of context, but listening to it one stretch is a giant fucking chore.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
timberlake is totally different! i'm being more specific that 'white dude doing soul,' like i can't actually imagine inviting a girl over and then putting on timberlake, its too omnipresent and obvious
there are some garbage songs on this album for sure, but there are some great ones also and when i listened to it yesterday the quality/crap ratio was pretty favorable
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link
(and timberlake being different goes beyond timberlake being popular ... he's also much less about sexytime babymaking music or whatever)
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
'i need love' = foxxy
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
the closest i've been listening to lately would be DWELE but obviously his stuff has a v. different production aesthetic, vibe-wise tho v. similar
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
if i was a girl and a dude invited me over and put on this album i'd run away as fast as i could, i mean how can you even listen to 'teach u a lesson' without being really creeped out? it's vile!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
Nah, i've been playing this album pretty often at dinner parties (hate me now) and it's goen down pretty well. The two are pretty different. Thicke has a whole ballroom / light latin feel.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I've noticed his penchant for bossa rhythms.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
his first album is totally underrated. i think i'm the only person i've ever heard of who liked it.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link
-- lex pretend, Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:29 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
almost every guy i talk to couldn't care less, but ladies love this
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
i dont know about that particular song tho, i'd have to listen again
'i need love' is the office fav
(My previous post was prompted by his BET performance, which was pretty much the definition of "weaksauce".)
-- HI DERE, Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:23 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
also his voice is kinda weak live. saw him at the jazz cafe a while back. the girls ate it up cos of that song everyone loves (i like it too) but other than that, the albums kinda soporific.
-- titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, June 28, 2007 1:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Have you guys not seen the performance of "Shooter" on the Tonight Show? He kicked asssss! Lil Wayne, too! They were unstoppable.
― Tape Store, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I found it
― Tape Store, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
that song stands out in a bad way on the album
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
yeah I've softened on my "Shooter" hate slightly but it's still horrible in the context of Tha Carter II (unless you mean on the Thicke album).
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Hearing "Oh Shooter" (not "Shooter") makes me really want to check out his first album. I really don't get why people love the Wayned "Shooter" so much. They took what was already a great track and in the most artless way imaginable added Lil Wayne dropping Diddygrunts and a verse about how homosexuals are keeping him off radio. Once I heard the original I felt no desire to go back.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
hah i meant horrible in the context of the thicke album, i thought it worked well in the carter ii where he was doing beats that were kind of all over the place from 'receipt' to 'fireman' or whatever (although i don't really need to hear it again or anything)
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
i hadn't heard the original when i heard the wayne version and i also love that donna summer/digital underground/soulja slim bassline
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
i dont like hearing lil wayne in an otherwise graceful/classy candlelight romance context
― deej, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Wayne sounds fine on "All Night Long."
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
If Wayne's verse didn't already confuse what "Shooter" was about, the video adds fucking wacky neighbor hijinks. There's a reason this flopped.
― da croupier, Thursday, 28 June 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
i think i like the song pharrell wrote best. its the most fun and funky in any case.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
what song did pharrell write?
'teach u a lesson' is weird. Lyrics are kind of :-/ :-/ :-/
i'm down with the production aesthetic tho, and the vocals are cool, he knows how to not push his voice to hard, let it just sort of sit there
but yeah lyrics on that one are pretty wack
i agree that wayne is much better on 'all night long,' its like a standard R&B guest verse! less corny wayne showboating
― deej, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link
lol posting about love songs alone on a fri night :(
hah i just had a holy shit moment when i realized that i had totally seen the video for his first single back in the day and been sorta o_O about it, totally didn't realize it was the same dude! what a shitty haircut! http://youtube.com/watch?v=nNg0ReHeTiM
― deej, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Robin Thicke has been around for quite a while (he was writing kinda big pop songs in the 90s)
― Tape Store, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link
And "Shooter" haters are ridiculously wrong! It's insane and awesome...my fav. single of last year!
― Tape Store, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:48 (seventeen years ago) link
ok lex jr.
― deej, Saturday, 30 June 2007 05:57 (seventeen years ago) link
/ethan jr.
his concert on mtv they've been showing is shit hot damn. his drummer is fish fisher and totally rules the stage.
― chaki, Sunday, 1 July 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
his drummer is fish fisher
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 July 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.prefixmag.com/media/robin-thicke/magic-mp3/18790/
banger!!!
― deej, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
4 on the floor B-D
― deej, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 04:53 (sixteen years ago) link
only in the intro. the rest is hot shit.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link
u rite
― deej, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the intro is the best part, but im sorry this track has the built in dna of a "hit" written all over it. cue summer club anthem
― oscar, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:08 (sixteen years ago) link
i like that it opens w/ bongos + 4 on floor, good for mixing
― deej, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:09 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah and that intro disco bassline w sweeping strings is a nice touch :)
― oscar, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i just drunkenly bought this on itunes. it's gonna make a great brass band tune.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:13 (sixteen years ago) link
haaa u dudes performing again in chicago soon?
― deej, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:17 (sixteen years ago) link
probably not until the fall unfort. going on euro tour this week. we're doing <a href="ABC's "Iesha": Classic or Super Classic?;>this song </a> now at least.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 05:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I always forget how o_O the lyrics to "Lost Without U" are.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I always thought those Tahiti Village ads were hilarious.
"Who know? You might start up a little romance"http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/alanthick_tahiti.jpg
― Rand Paula Abdul Jabbar (van smack), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
stand by my defense of this lp
― challopian youtubes (deej), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I might listen to nothing but Robin Thicke in 2012.
― Love stream of mic checking (Eazy), Monday, 2 January 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago) link
omg robin thicke's wikipedia photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Thicke
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
Incredible longread about how cursed this song was
― limb tins & cum (gyac), Sunday, 9 April 2023 16:06 (one year ago) link
There was a lengthy discussion in the “Pfork sux” thread
― hypnic jerk (morrisp), Sunday, 9 April 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
really good article, one interestingly enough that seems to have mirrored the discussion of the song itself on ILX as it progressed over time (though conversation on it dried it after the trial mostly)
― Trout Fishing in America (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 April 2023 20:33 (one year ago) link