bravo for alluding to a slightly forgotten early nineties rumpshaker that I heard a million times a day in Miami
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 March 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
btw ILM knows what I think of Rihanna generally but the use of "Diamonds" in this scene is so ideal that I love the tune now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsBRg2fs_3U
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 March 2015 18:34 (nine years ago) link
i feel like a lot of pop albums have been preceded by "this is my most personal/timeless to date" talk only for the lead single to be something like this, i assume it's trolling and am amused accordingly― lex pretend, Thursday, March 26, 2015 3:08 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, March 26, 2015 3:08 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, "This is my most personal" sells better to the public and your fanbase than "this is a collection of radio bangers and whatever StarGate and Dr. Luke had lying around their studio floor when I stopped by"
― Greer, Monday, 30 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Pop singers who specialize in thumpers use "personal" as a disinfectant to wipe the supposed impersonality of the machines or something (Madonna sued to say this shit all the time).
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 March 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
i like Rihanna right now. she sounds fresh. i don't have many problems with Bitch Better Have My Money, American Oxygen or FourFiveSeconds. BBHMM and American Oxygen are tops.
― surm, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Pour It Up sounds very different to me, i wouldn't put it in the same bucket as Bitch Better Have My Money
― surm, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
Bitch Better Have My Money has grown on me 100%
American Oxygen is turgid trash, where is the Rihanna who slyly cheered against the US in every World Cup match
Still better than fourfiveseconds obv
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
american oxygen isn't a real rihanna song
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
who slyly cheered against the US
somehow i don't think that was exactly biting political commentary on her part, more like a troll (which, for the record, is fine as far as i'm concerned)
i wouldn't go far as to call "oxygen" trash but it's def not her lane.
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
*go so far
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
wow i just heard it and it's pretty bad, the production in particular is awful
― dyl, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
it reminded me of ny state of mind but you know abt ALL OF AMERICA
gotta say I like 4,5 seconds tho
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
bitch better have my money is like, dope. that's pretty much all i have to say about it. it's v Caribbean. and i think most people will be grateful that i have something to listen to besides Tinashe now.
i dunno, i'm a sucker for American Oxygen. i like her in front of that flag.
my new British intern asked that i play "Unfaithful" yesterday, i think we're going to get along just fine.
― surm, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:26 (nine years ago) link
i'm hitting a bit of a wall when it comes to recommending songs to my nephew-in-law. He's 9, and gay, and out to his parents (awesome kid.) so he emails me song recommendations and vice versa, but i don't know where the line is. on the one hand, i don't want to recommend that he listen to "bitch better have my money," because he's like, 9. on the other hand, at our last Thanksgiving, he started singing Lana del Rey's "i fucked my way up to the top" in the middle of dinner. so. hard call.
― surm, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
wow
what does he recommend to you? if he keeps up w/ music Rihanna is most likely already very on his radar so he may know it anyway?
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
yeah i bet he does - he does listen to Rihanna. and his mom already told me that she really doesn't care about it. currently he's been into Marina and like, random Calvin Harris feature songs. so i'm trying to steer him in the right direction. but he's recommended some good shit in the past. finally got him to listen to Cassie Cassie.
― surm, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:52 (nine years ago) link
eheh, reminds me of my girl cousins who were around that age a few years ago and during a family gathering were singing a very famous song in France at the time "Parle à ma main", including the disturbing line : "Les mecs ils sont tous nuls ils pensent qu'à nous mettre des doigts" (guys all suck, they only want to finger us") !if you are interested...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FamibkUH4
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
hahaha
― surm, Thursday, 9 April 2015 13:56 (nine years ago) link
well at least hes not listening to the uncensored version of kanye's all day
― StillAdvance, Friday, 10 April 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
i listened to this song 3 times this morning before 9am and 1 of them included wake 'n bake and fresh coffee and it was like breakfast
― surm, Friday, 10 April 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
just an update on my 9-yr old nephew: he emailed me about b**** today. he's into it, of course.
― surm, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Child abuse, tbh
― Cousin Slappy, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
the times....
― surm, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
I love this song
― Immediate Follower (NA), Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i can't
― surm, Friday, 24 April 2015 05:36 (nine years ago) link
that "james joint" interlude that came out the other day wasn't bad
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Friday, 24 April 2015 06:12 (nine years ago) link
Still loving #bbhmm after how ever many weeks it's been
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Friday, 24 April 2015 06:18 (nine years ago) link
"bitch better have my money" is brilliant yeah
― lex pretend, Friday, 24 April 2015 06:26 (nine years ago) link
3 times a day for me
― surm, Friday, 24 April 2015 06:26 (nine years ago) link
i have yet to hear it in the wild, and can only faintly remember the couple times i listened to it on the internet when it was new.
― frogteasip (some dude), Friday, 24 April 2015 09:36 (nine years ago) link
if the charts are anything to go by then the public is really not taking to "american oxygen" at all, in which case public otm
― dyl, Friday, 24 April 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Is that one even being promoted to radio? That and "James Joint" didn't seem like an official part of the singles campaign along with "Seconds" and "Bitch"
― frogteasip (some dude), Friday, 24 April 2015 14:32 (nine years ago) link
she released "american oxygen" for the ncaa tournament
― J0rdan S., Friday, 24 April 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
the only part that turns me off really is "WE sweat for a nickel and a dime"
rly?
― surm, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
fwiw wikipedia sez it had radio adds dates for hot ac and pop formats
― dyl, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
james joint is nicei still haven't found bitch bhmm in the wild yet either
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 April 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i have, it called to me from inside a cigar bar and i went inside. it was bumpin. i told this story already but i'm telling it again
― surm, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
ps i haven't heard this james joint
― surm, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
luv bbhm$ now, feel like it shd be a total summer jam or at least it will be for me personally
― johnny crunch, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
on three occasions diff acquaintances of mine have sung the bbhm$ hook while idling and when i asked them if they like the song they all shrugged lol nah not really tbh
in conclusion it's like a very effective vine preview appetizer, in my world of ambiguously annuated people at least
― r|t|c, Friday, 24 April 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
tbh i don't think I've heard it for more than a vine's loop of time since the very first time i listened
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 24 April 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
He's 9, and gay, and out to his parents (awesome kid.)
sorry but I don't think it's possible for a kid of 9 to know what their sexuality is
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
well no one asked you, friend
― brosario nawson (m bison), Friday, 24 April 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
James Joint is amazing and p gorgeous, which bodes well considering it's an "interlude". Thinking abt going out hunting for Bbhmm in the wild
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 25 April 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Oh and American Oxygen is good, esp for one of those bombastic "meaningful" cinematic (ws it consciously written for that Empire show?) pop tracks. Love the bizarre production. P puzzled by 45Seconds tbh, "unfinished" sounds right and Kanye's verse abt going to jail is just silly
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 25 April 2015 10:33 (nine years ago) link
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Friday, April 24, 2015 7:22 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sorry but you're wrong, and kind of a dick
― surm, Monday, 27 April 2015 06:12 (nine years ago) link
xp yea love the bizarre production too. it keeps me hooked.
― surm, Monday, 27 April 2015 06:19 (nine years ago) link
It's like they stuck all the ideas they forgot to use on FourFiveSeconds on AO instead
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 27 April 2015 07:19 (nine years ago) link
― surm, Segunda-feira, 27 de Abril de 2015 7:12 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Not kind of a dick, he's just being a pure scumbag.
― Nourry, Monday, 27 April 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
my ranking of the songs she's released so far this year: Dancing In The Dark > Towards The Sun > American Oxygen > James Joint > BBHMM > FourFiveSeconds > As Real As You And Me
― frogteasip (some dude), Monday, 27 April 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
radio here cuts out the instrumental part toward the end and the song is very lacking w/o it
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
I've been playing the Joey Labeija remix (which seems to have been disappeared from soundcloud, so I can't link) out instead of the original
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
if "umbrella" isn't her best song what is? this live soundboard i've had for 7 years of her covering "is this love" doesn't count.
― soyrev, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 07:07 (nine years ago) link
"rude boy"
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
let's not even pretend to forget about "if it's lovin that you want"
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:50 (nine years ago) link
but also "only girl in the world" to be really real
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link
co-sign "Rude Boy"
― some dude, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:04 (nine years ago) link
"only girl" is still soo good
"umbrella" chorus lyrics punch me right in the gut
― surm, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
^^^^^^
― dbs, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:14 (nine years ago) link
TURN UP TO RIHANNA WHILE THE WHOLE CLUB'S FUCKING WASTEDDDDD
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 November 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
^^literally every time i've been drunk since this song came out that's gone through my head
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 November 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
not sure when this stopped being a mess and started being my single of the year behind "cool for the summer" but that's where we're at now
total freedom dropping this @ corsica studios last week >>>>>>>>>>>
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
we all lit
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 6 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
honestly what the hell is going on with this album
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 7 November 2015 07:46 (eight years ago) link
Joey Labeija remix >>>>>>>
― The Reverend, Saturday, 7 November 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
lex otm
― marcos, Saturday, 7 November 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
lol I didn't realize she released albums almost exactly a year apart for 4 years in a row, like mid-to-late November of 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and then nothing in 3 years
― Ina-Garten-Da-Vida (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 04:23 (eight years ago) link
Yep, she was almost up there with Electric 6 in her ability to put out a new album every year.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 18 November 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
If you count the re-release of Good Girl Gone Bad in '08, she technically put something out every year for 8 years
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 18 November 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
anyway it looks like this album might be coming out on friday
― art baengels (monotony), Monday, 23 November 2015 12:04 (eight years ago) link