R&B 2015

Damn, that Nieah track ruins some gorgeous production with some miserable vocals.

― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko)

I don't think so at all although she comes from a collective of female rnb producer/performers so knob twiddling might be her main forte.

tantalising v. bozeman news, notwithstanding timbaland's presence:

On the music front, Bozeman finished two albums last summer and will be releasing them both this year. Before her solo debut Music is My Boyfriend drops this summer, her collaborative album with Timbaland, Opera Noire, will arrive late February/ early March and is, what she describes, “so powerful it’ll hit the [music] industry in a way it’s never been hit before.”

"race jones" isn't on itunes though :(

new luke james is rather beautiful, i hope he continues in this gothy cosmic vein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaDpVF0D21Y

also quite enamoured of "ice cream" by someone called audrey rose featuring remy ma and fetty wap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1XnH--XaLU

wow that v bozeman song is really something. jaw-dropping, how on earth has it been on the internet for months without blowing up already

such a wonderful surprise to see her do something so terrific too, i loved her on "'til the end of time"

i rep v hard for this v. bozeman single from a couple of years ago, "poison"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvznv1hDJVc

seems like she's on this empire tv show and her career's getting a commensurate boost?

"race jones" apparently co-written by cee-lo!

rnbass plus salt n pepa? love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No0qMR3jINk

:D

oh my god LOVE IT

second pro-female song from mustard in a row after the jordin sparks one. is he ATONING??

touch of old rasheeda in the way she snaps down on "earthquake"

this song is my platonic ideal of pop

So much gold in this thread lately.

"Figure 8" makes me really want Mustard to produce a Rye Rye comeback album.

err, I guess comeback isn't the right word but you know what I mean, an album ppl care about

New Raheem DeVaughn album is out.

I like the song "Pretty Lady" (with Trombone Shorty). But that's to be expected with my interest in N'awlins brass

got put onto this other malibu n helene song "starin at it" that i think is better than "figure 8" cc: lex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr46FKbT2Ig

yh i found that on itunes with "figure 8", i think it's excellent but not better

prefer figure 8 but both are great. both on spotify btw and they have a cover of chris brown's loyal on youtube. really like both of their voices and after listening to the maliibu ep it's clear that they're a good combo/sound better with each other than alone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9pnBZv_TWs#t=183

very nice!

the year's first SPRING JAM

loving the groove

Produced by Pop & Oak. But Tamia really owns this one; could imagine a version of it that just sounded like a Miguel retread

tamia's voice is so lovely

High-octane Sevyn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-GlW8n3r_E

that tamia is really nice

not very forward thinking but it's a fun song

that new sevyn is a banger

people who like pretty vibesy r&b with no real songs might enjoy this https://keiya.bandcamp.com/releases

on the subject of which, that rahel album only seems to have been "released" as a soundcloud stream, what is the point of that

(it's the kind of album where the hitherto uncatchy single really pops out, the sun is streaming into the kitchen right now and i'm enjoying this sound washing over me but i can barely remember what's happening as it's actually happening)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g2lDLZ0urw

sorry d'angelo this that real sophomore heat the game's been missing

not very forward thinking but it's a fun song

― the plight of y0landa (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, February 25, 2015 12:14 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol who talks like this

loving the inc song. trying to place what the solo's channeling

"forward thinking" is the worst most meaningless phrase, i'm sure i was guilty of it in my early writing days

inc are still the worst get it out of here

i tweeted this to jordan recently but it bears repeating: only Inc that we acknowledge is Murder

i've been listening to the inc album a lot recently, this track sounds pretty good

oh, and we touched on this in her thread, but the new estelle album is excellent. she does classy x insouciant so well.

tamia album will also feature collaborations w/ the-dream and tricky stewart apparently

lol the inc

https://soundcloud.com/bemyfiasco/mondaymorningblues

hating inc is basic. find me other R&B that does what they do better (or other R&B that does what they do at all) and i'll reconsider

:|

that might mean they're making unique indispensible R&B or maybe just maybe it means they're not making R&B at all

lol who talks like this
― raccoon tanuki dye dashiki nefertiti edges kinky (some dude), Wednesday, February 25, 2015

"forward thinking" is the worst most meaningless phrase, i'm sure i was guilty of it in my early writing days
inc are still the worst get it out of here
― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 25, 2015

@raccoon and yet their music is clearly r&b, primarily?

lol clearly it is time for me to drop that display name

hahaha ouch

wow that bemyfiasco track is awesome. it does not go where i expected it to after the intro!

http://www.bet.com/news/music/2015/02/26/luke-james-hits-the-stage-at-the-highline-ballroom.html
This was a good show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsiN0W15w0U

love this song

the relative paucity of r&b shows in boston is one of the few things that makes me entertain moving back to nyc