Long overdue; the "Reality Show" album will easily be one of my favorites of the year.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
the not-so-secret fact that Reality Show is a concept album should allow for more rockist venues to write this up rapturously but i guess it didn't happen that often?Blood Orange's rapturous review here notwithstanding: http://saintheron.com/featured/blood-oranges-devonte-hynes-reviews-jazmine-sullivans-reality-show-album/
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Shit I still haven't heard the new one, will need to remedy that
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
If we're posting links: http://www.spin.com/reviews/jazmine-sullivan-reality-show/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
along with everything i've said in the r&b thread this feels like a uniquely topical album as well - so much arty internet music gets the "music for the time we live in" tag, but this really does capture so much of how social media/reality tv/our panoptic age can feel like a minefield to navigate at the same time as a drama to watch, how it creates these archetypes and so on...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
and there are so many layers to this, in the songwriting and the delivery and everything
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
Great great album.
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
i'm seeing her tonight :D
― dyl, Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
i thought she was awesome live; report back!
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Missed her recent DC area gig and she's already coming back shortly. $40 tho.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
she was excellent! amazingly she said toward the beginning that she'd been having issues with her vocals... not that you would have known it otherwise because her singing was really terrific. the set felt very cohesive (beautiful band arrangements too) and went for a little over an hour. part of me wanted it to go longer because it felt like it had just flown by. there were many ~moments~ (her beautiful adlibs in "forever don't last" come to mind immediately) but what really took my breath away was her "in love with another man" encore which legit had me shedding tears.
― dyl, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
"In love with another man" suddenly popped up in the shuffle on the ipod I use at the gym. Very old-school school soulful musical feel to that one.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 21 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
rapgenius making themselves useful for once, jazmine did some video interview and talked about some of the songs and they transcribed it
"mascara"
I was looking at [videos girls uploaded on Instagram], and I was looking at each of their pages, and [they all] looked like a carbon copy of [each] other, and I was like, ‘Wow, their lives look so similar’. [… From] the way they pose, to their bodies— the way their bodies looked— to their lifestyle, [they] all looked like [each] other. I felt like that is something I should document. If only to look back, I feel like this album would be like a time capsule where we could look back and see how we were affected by society, or how how society was at a certain time.
"brand new"
I watch a lot of reality TV, Love & Hip-Hop being one of [the] shows that I watch, and I think that that scenario was probably taken from just watching that and watching women struggle with men who kind of get to a certain status or whatever and don’t really consider them anymore. And not only just on reality shows, just period: I see a lot of rappers [… and it] doesn’t look like he’s seeing a lot of the women he started out with. So I thought that was a story that needed to be told.
"masterpiece"
I think I’ve always dealt with self-image issues, as well as a lot of people— especially women and young girls, and especially young Black girls. It’s me finally being able to accept and even love all the things about me and finding them beautiful.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:13 (nine years ago) link
excellent album but am i the only one who thinks Love Me Back is easily her best?
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
love me back is amazing but i'm still in my first flush of enthusiasm for reality show, still hearing new things and being blown away every time i listen, so at this point it's hard to compare them (plus, they're so different)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 11:52 (nine years ago) link
Jazmine ❤️
― longneck, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't crazy about some of her earliest performances. The leap in songwriting and the interest in concision put Reality Show over for me. She brims with the confidence of an artist who knows what she wants to sound like.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:09 (nine years ago) link
Reality Show really is a fantastic album but Fearless is still my favourite. I know I'm in the minority here but I thought Love Me Back was slightly disappointing. Nothing on there I love as much as Lions, Tigers & Bears, Dream Big or In Love With Another Man.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 13:12 (nine years ago) link
omg i love this album
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
i am always singing either mascara or stupid girl in my head lately. it can be inconvenient.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
ditto but also "brand new" which sounds SO MUCH like a Missy production to me.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:20 (nine years ago) link
i love the way many of the songs on the album twist and turn lyrically from where they begin. i'm still surprised when "silver lining" turns into a song about sticking people up.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
"brand new" is great. both it and "mascara" make excellent use of that point where her voice breaks and sounds painfully beautiful.
i feel like she would sing entire songs in that register on love me back, and even though it sounded amazing, i would worry that she was going to break her vocal cords or something.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link
"#hoodlove" uses her vocal break well, too.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
furthermore,
BOYS HAVE TOYS TOOOOOOOWE KNOW THEY DOTHEY CALL US STUPID GIRLSTHEY CALL US STUUUUUUUUUUUUPID GIRLS
please stop
it's now stuck in my head
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
which one are you, Alfred?cause i know who i amand you have to chooseto use your head or be a stupid girl
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:33 (nine years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:21 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"mascara" sounds like this to me, too; like it meanders, but purposefully
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 25 March 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
― horseshoe, Wednesday, March 25, 2015 7:23 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^otm
― rob, Monday, 30 March 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
x-post- Reality Show really is a fantastic album but Fearless is still my favourite. I know I'm in the minority here but I thought Love Me Back was slightly disappointing. Nothing on there I love as much as Lions, Tigers & Bears, Dream Big or In Love With Another Man.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, March 25, 2015
With ya on Fearless
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:13 (eight years ago) link
can someone explain to me how "stupid girls" is not a huge hit already ?
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Programmers and A&R men are stupid.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
xp feel the same way about stanley/brand new/mascara/#hoodlove and maybe veins and masterpiece too; album is all muscle
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
and forever don't last of course; so strongsaw her do that live with an unplugged guitar, she demolished it.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
"brand new" is the next single i think; like "mascara" it's masterful songwriting and performance but its genius is subtle enough that it doesn't scream SMASH to me
"stupid girls" and "stanley" feel very wasted though - the former might get too many winehouse comparisons (it's not at all hampered by the similarity tho imo) but the latter feels like a song that could really get her over that hump (though i guess "don't make me wait" was a similar song from the last album)
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 April 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
i think "let it burn" might actually be the next single, as it is rising on the adult r&b (airplay) chart on billboard right now
― dyl, Friday, 3 April 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
"brand new" is my fave right now; it destroys me
― horseshoe, Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:44 (eight years ago) link
this ain't fairwho was there?who was lovin you?
Just show me some appreciationOr maybe take a bitch to dinner!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 April 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
― horseshoe, Saturday, April 4, 2015 12:44 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
goddamn i'm so embarrassed kills me
― lex pretend, Saturday, 4 April 2015 13:42 (eight years ago) link
"Brand New" is a good choice. Maybe it can catch some Empire tail, as the storyline nearly matches up with Cookie's.
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Saturday, 4 April 2015 15:03 (eight years ago) link
FINALLY listening to the new album
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
She's playing next Tuesday but I've got a 6 a.m. flight the next day. ARGH.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
i happen to be working a show that she's in later this year and am currently working on a bowl for her with the words "DON'T I DESERVE TO GET THE VERY BEST?" etched into it.
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:45 (eight years ago) link
Would have made a better thread title
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
l'esprit deej l'escalier
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
it definitely leaves a stronger first impression than the first two albums did
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 April 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
The last half of this record is so much fun!!!
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 6 April 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
The last track is really great
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 00:54 (eight years ago) link
http://littledreadridingwood.tumblr.com/post/116974587951/charismablu-my-d1vineright
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 April 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
somehow "lost one" has grown on me even more since "pick up your feelings" came out
― dyl, Thursday, 3 December 2020 05:13 (three years ago) link
that trailer is a little too Dove advert "everyone is beautiful" but at the same time I think if anyone can pull off the nuance and finesse required to make something more complicated and worthwhile it's Sullivan
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 3 December 2020 08:15 (three years ago) link
excited for this. heaux tales, beau tales, Holiday Inn!
― fat ass deep state operative (breastcrawl), Thursday, 3 December 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
yeah I actually don't want to celebrate any CEOs but I am still stoked for this
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 December 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
it's an album and it's out friday
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLty1mCrPA
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
news and track both wonderful
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
man six years exactly she released my album of that year
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
Reality Show has such an awesome opening one-two
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:33 (three years ago) link
that assmake a man leave hoooome
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:36 (three years ago) link
v nice track
my npr-listening mom informed me this would be coming out soon lol :)
― dyl, Thursday, 7 January 2021 05:35 (three years ago) link
It's an EP:
Just a reminder that this is in fact an EP/PROJECT! Everyone calling it an album is giving me anxiety and high blood pressure.😩 Ok...Toodles. Back to the whypipo whypipoin and getting away w it🙄— Jazmine Sullivan (@jsullivanmusic) January 7, 2021
anyway, it's fine I guess, the best songs on it are the previously released ones :|
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:05 (three years ago) link
weird i must’ve misinterpreted the number of songs
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:06 (three years ago) link
well, every other track is a spoken word interlude
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
that’ll do it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 8 January 2021 05:14 (three years ago) link
seems like it’s a Robyn Body Talk sitch where she’ll release multiple parts throughout the year and it’ll form an album when it’s all said and done
― winters (josh), Friday, 8 January 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link
jazmine I'm sorry but I removed all the interludes without listening to them, it's nothing personal
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, 8 January 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
you wanna listen to Heaux Tales without hearing about the heaux tales
― winters (josh), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
I like hearing Ari Lennox on this.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 January 2021 15:48 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgrCYvVYSRE
tinydesk performance!
― k3vin k., Friday, 8 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
after three spins, Bodies /Pricetags / Girl Like Me join Pick Up Your Feelings / Lost One as particularly noteworthy. It's definitely an EP and I have high hopes more is coming. All the subtext is on the surface here, it's hella dark.
I think Pick Up Your Feelings is gonna be in my top ten for last year.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
I was so excited to hear this when I woke up today and then I heard it
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:47 (three years ago) link
Basically there are a few great songs on this including what was previously released (per what Murgatroid said), will definitely be returning to some tracks
― Everything's Blue In This Whorl (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:49 (three years ago) link
I was definitely expecting a bit more from this. The Other Side is absolutely gorgeous but it's the only song here that's on the same level as Pick Up Your Feelings.
― kitchen person, Sunday, 10 January 2021 04:26 (three years ago) link
as a "part one" with more to come, i'm totally satisfied.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 January 2021 05:58 (three years ago) link
perfectly good EP/project
― as#d,.F:ddz;,c#,;;,;,;,sdf' (Left), Sunday, 10 January 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
I hope the follow-up is called Meaux Tales
― boxedjoy, Monday, 11 January 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
heaux tales, beau tales, Holiday Inn!
― partyin' maskless with Rudy G. and Vanilla Ice, it's a gas gas gas (breastcrawl), Monday, 11 January 2021 22:47 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/article/profile-jazmine-sullivan-heaux-tales.html
And she’s been writing Heaux Tales, her first concept album.
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
alsohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUp6q_D1lY
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 03:47 (three years ago) link
This is a good piece of work I likely will never listen to again
― Totino's Fortnite Training Room (DJP), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
in other unlikely headline news:https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/jazmine-sullivan-eric-church-national-anthem-super-bowl.html
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:17 (three years ago) link
this is a great record, no idea why someone wouldn't wanna listen to it again lmao
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
agreed; it rules
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
It's sound, solid.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
in other unlikely headline news:https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/jazmine-sullivan-eric-church-national-anthem-super-bowl.html🕸
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 5 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
who's eric church some country dude
I don't think even jazmine can save the Worst Song Ever
― Left, Friday, 5 February 2021 19:31 (three years ago) link
like jazmine, eric church is an alum of the ilm 77
he is a good artist despite the occasional self-consciousness of his rock rebel shtick
― dyl, Saturday, 6 February 2021 04:10 (three years ago) link
i finally (!) listened to heaux tales and it's honestly really good, confused by the not-even-lukewarm response here
― dyl, Sunday, 7 February 2021 06:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/03/jazmine-sullivan-heaux-tales-ep-r-and-b-great-observer
the lex interviewing her. I can only imagine how happy he was to do this!
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 February 2021 08:13 (three years ago) link
great piece
― dyl, Monday, 8 February 2021 02:36 (three years ago) link
Yep, especially for regarding songwriting as something more than autobiographical plumbing
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2021 02:44 (three years ago) link
new single "Tragic" comes out tomorrow!
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 10:00 (two years ago) link
it sounds great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYB9RvbMhEo
― ten man poland chasing this means hamsik feasts (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 June 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
aw yeah
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2021 14:07 (two years ago) link
love it, hopefully a full-length album is on the way
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 June 2021 23:42 (two years ago) link
I like this one.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 26 June 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
Sounds like a flip of xscape who can I run to
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 26 June 2021 06:17 (two years ago) link
Or Jones girls I guess originally
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 26 June 2021 06:44 (two years ago) link
last night at the BET Awards she did a performance of "On It" with Ari Lennox and while it wasn't as great as her Soul Train Awards performance it was still excellent to see them singing about women's sexual pleasure on their terms. I know we've had twenty years of Lil Kim and so on, so explicit and raunchy isn't a big deal, but I think to see stuff performed with no "gimmicks" etc is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dr8LmhjiYU
― boxedjoy, Monday, 28 June 2021 20:53 (two years ago) link