Ciara - One Woman Army (2012)

LET ME IN YOUR HEAD
WATCH YOU LEARN SOME
TRYNA SEE YOU SWEAT
WATCH YOU BURN SOME

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntfHBPpcon4

this single is everything i need

I am amazed that this is happening but I am also very happy.

not really grabbing me

"""(2012)"""

^ lol

not really feeling this song

was waiting for this to grow on me and it has dutifully obliged

i show you how to move to my tempo
yeah i know you like this tempo

This is okay.

this song isn't very good, but i'm loving them promo pics for this era:

http://necolebitchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ciara-One-Woman-Army-Promo.jpg

http://necolebitchie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ciara-One-Woman-Army-Promo-pic.jpg

please tell me the first one is the cover

http://oi48.tinypic.com/opp9wy.jpg

omg

i accept her apology

dit

new one http://hiphop-n-more.com/2012/08/ciara-living-it-up/

^ very good!

it's sorta generic but the hook is there & it's way better than "sweat"

Ciara's singles art is almost always better than her actual album cover art.

New song is nice

yeah i fuck with this

i like this

"sweat" is amazing though

i'm particularly thankful for "sweat" as an example of r&b in 2012 that's actually made for dancing to rather than ~vibing out~ to in some annoyingly vague way

yeah, totally agree, even as somebody who likes vague vibe-out R&B. "Sweat" is awesome

Feel like it's only a matter of time until there's a minor crunk&B revival, and when there is, I hope Ciara spearheads it. That sound is exactly what radio is missing right now

it is missing. and yeah i think Sweat is pretty beautiful. the chorus is so *weird* in a good way

crunk & b mostly sucked, good riddance

:O

:o|

:)

o_OOOOOOOOOO

ijc

http://www.rap-up.com/2012/09/09/new-music-ciara-sophomore/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dXSwnOvwVI

Okay CiCi....

so it's a sub-par rip off of Promise then?

^ That's still a 9/10 at worst.

oh i'll probably still like it

oh my god that is so shameless. with the vocoder and everything.

excited tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DLA8Be7P9w&

hey, there's even a spoken word bit!

like this a lot

really like "sophomore" - is there a no-dj version out anywhere?

eh

kind of love this now

the pre-chorus is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5BsvBR14xM&feature=player_embedded

i was just gonna post that. hits my sweet spot obv, even if "got me good" : "gimmie dat" :: "sorry" : "promise"

why is no one else making r&b to dance to though!

Also performed Sorry on tv. She looks so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Nc8ayAdpM

is "got me good" actually on itunes anywhere?

it's so disappointing that she's gone with "sorry" and "got me good" as singles when "livin' it up" and "sophomore" are out there. I CAN'T HELP YOU IF YOU WON'T HELP YOURSELF CICI

ya livin it up is really a jam, still playing it all the time. been listening to that that old 'urban bass' remix of gimme dat a lot lately too.

ok i love "got me good"

MY BACK IS ACHIN I'M SO IN LOVE>>>>

does anyone think it's a masterpiece?

it's one of my top 10 albums of the year but that's just par for the course w/cici

this is great but i may actually like the alunageorge album more?

jesus it's not THAT bad

haaaaaaaaa

haha awesome

u mad

why even bring that up tho

because i'm listening to both albums right now, both came out stateside this year, i prefer the alunageorge, they're both pop singers?

ciara vs. alunageorge seems a weird comparison

I've been playing both in repertory. Dunno what to tell you. I'm enjoying Laura Marling and Baloji above both of them but those feel notably less applicable.

it's neither a masterpiece nor does it suck. all i said was that i've been coming back to it a lot and considering it for top 10.

guess that song will be the "echo" of this era
what's "Echo?"

I'm pretty sure that "hola hola hey" thing in "Livin' It Up" is lifted from "Electric Boogie," but the song is good enough that it only bothered me for 10 minutes or so.

"echo" is maybe THE great lost ciara song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EuZOBbQ-DQ

everything about it screams ubiquitous summer jam, accompanied by a video featuring insane choreography on streets and maybe in parks, except for the fact that she just shoved it on to fantasy ride as a bonus track and no one heard it

the quality on that youtube video could be better. either way, the beat is a bit too mechanical. sounds a bit lumbering/severe. was listening to goodies and 1-2 step today as i found the cd i bought way back at hmv (2 for a tenner) and hadnt even unwrapped it. both still sound amazing. lil jon is/was underappreciated.

post-evolution and prior to 'body party' i think the only one that's really for real stayed with me is 'ciara to the stage'

handful of amuse-bouches along the way of course but ultimately not what i wants for dinner

Naw, man, "Ride" is the very def. of success without effort.

"Ride" was garbage, the whole Ciarius alliance was mostly a bust, rtc otm

HIGH PRICE
ECHO
PUCKER UP
WORK
I'M ON
BLAUW
RIDE
GIMMIE DAT
GIMMIE DAT (URBAN BASS REMIX)
HEAVY ROTATION
WANTS FOR DINNER
I RUN IT
SPEECHLESS
DEUCES
SHUT 'EM UP
WAKE UP, NO MAKE-UP

^^10/10 keepers between the evolution and ciara let us not FRONT here. all better than "body party" too FYI

the evolution is her worst album imo

there's good stuff all over fantasy ride and it's leftovers + every single off the-dream album is fire

lex's list looks mostly good... "heavy rotation" is one of her best album tracks imo and there's good slow songs all over that record

i'd say "ride" is her best single after all the stuff on the first album

yeah i didn't even include the stuff that i really like but is just, like, 8/10, not quite in the top tier or whatever... "you can get it", "rattla", "yeah i know" etc

just backing up and rtc's pic of this era is, of all things... "ciara to the stage"???????????? like not even i particularly rep for that one

Not sure what is less comprehensible, people thinking this album is a masterpiece or people thinking it sucks.

― Tim F, Monday, 19 August 2013 12:15 (3 days ago) Bookmark

so now how many more times a day will lex have to shriek the same spiel before u realise cici has always been the proxy arena for the cold war against stansmanship

it's important to give in to one's inner stan for a select 2-3 artists imo

it's only noticeable b/c few other people are with me though, no one notices when i stan for beyoncé

What's the sample in "Echo?" This is gonna drive me nuts all day now. There's a 2006-ish song that uses a very similar synth pattern.

i'm with you on the ciara stuff?

honestly where i stand, 'goodies' is brilliant singles some good album tracks and a bunch of filler, the evolution is her worst and least consistent record despite again having killer singles

fantasy ride is like 60% pretty damn great but horribly mismanaged, and usher track aside, 'Basic Instinct' is front to back her most consistent and enjoyable listen.

the new one doesn't have quite as many highs for me as the last one but is still more consistent than the first two, if lacking in anything as massive as her best work, body party aside.

the evolution is her worst and least consistent record

jesus christ this thread is the worst and least consistent

Did Jord really just say "Ride" is better than "Promise"?

"promise" is way better at the very least by virtue of coming first. lyrically & vocally i think it could be argued that "devotion" is more impressive. "promise" to me is just a virtuosic producer and his most virtuosic.

― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:48 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the word "just" kind of degrades how amazing and singular and groundbreaking i think the production is

― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:50 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not to put too fine a point on it but 'promise' trounces 'devotion' line for line and e.r deliver not a single one of those to the effect ciara achieves. i seriously can scarcely believe i find myself even having to argue that here.

― r|t|c, Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:05 (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

WELL i was never a huge fan of ciara as a vocalist so i think if anything her & e-red break even. "devotion" might have weaker lyrics overall due to stuff like the hors d'oeuvres line but i love the "expose my devotion" lyric above all

― kushighway (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 10 October 2009 22:11 (3 years ago) Bookmark

if Jordan didn't say it, i will - Ride is better than Promise.

fwiw i don't concur that 'ride' is "garbage", it's pretty okay, but just idk... i guess my inner stripper has higher aspirations

promise to ride is like mount olympus to a tin shack, stop embarrassing yourselves people

ciara to the stage has a similarly blurry quality as Ride in my book. both of em are perfectly hazy. these days Ciara to the stage and Like a surgeon are p much the only Cici songs i listen to.

oh and I don't remember.

Ride is better than Promise.

But neither is as good as AlunaGeorge, right

well yes i overlooked "promise," i was making a generalization

It's ok, the misunderstanding outed the real lunatics

tin shack >> garbage. I could at least listen to my iPod playlist of Ciara tracks in my tin shack.

speaking of garbage: lol I forgot "Love Sex Magic"

al yer an analyzer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMIcAiPwCU

I kinda remember that one fondly as one of the more pleasant stops on Timberlake's latter day parade of blandness tbh. Xp

in what universe is LoveSexMagic more pleasant than Ride

LoveSexMagic is one of the most embarrassing songs of the millennium, i think JT had more chemistry with madonna

So she's pregnant, I really hope this doesn't spoil her ability to dance brilliantly and coo sensually over immaculately produced midtempos

so uh

i just had a private listening party for this album wit my boyfriend 2 years too late or whatever. and it's kind of ... great.

Saw this thread revive and briefly got really excited like "oh yeah maybe this album is going to finally come out" then I remembered that it already did and I got a little sad.

yea but like, it was really weird because i kind of assumed it didn't do so well, but when we were listening to it, there were at least 2 or 3 songs that i swear i heard a bunch of times

(besides body party)

She's been talking about a new album coming again soon despite the fact that she's about to give birth.

Still find it funny in this thread that over the space of 2 months j0rdan went from saying that The Evolution was her only GREAT album to calling it her worst album.

sorry again for being tardy to the party but, i really can't get over some of these tracks

that one with nicki that opens the album w/ the explicit video p much made my night the other night