i just heard a huge bassline from this person, i like
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 January 2014 11:37 (ten years ago) link
U mean Ke$ha?
― J. Sam, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
Kiesza has packed a lot into her 22 years. She's been a navy codebreaker, a national beauty pageant contestant and a tall ship sailor
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Kiesza sounds like a Polish version of Ke$ha
― DDD, Friday, 24 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
lol curmudgeon where did you read that
i'm all in favor of ludicrously made-up musician bios in the 2014
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:06 (ten years ago) link
I am the creator and curator of all things SteamPop.· kiesza.com
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 24 January 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
x-post--it was showing up all over Google
http://www.last.fm/music/Kiesza/+wiki
― curmudgeon, Friday, 24 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
This is tight.
https://soundcloud.com/lokallegend/kiesza-hideaway-2
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
Well, it was until it got to the stupid Black Eyed Peas/Calvin Harris part @ 3:30. Thankful that it was mercifully brief.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
LOL. just posted that song in the Duke Dumont / UK house thread w/o seeing this one.
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Friday, 24 January 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Coolest cover imo
https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1620898_10152191925450449_1715212162_n.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 January 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
lol the "stupid Black Eyed Peas/Calvin Harris part" is so half-hearted and perfunctory, it's as if it were a contractual obligation from the label
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Great video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESXgJ9-H-2U
― groovypanda, Monday, 3 March 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
lol @ N. 12th and kent..
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 March 2014 09:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah prob best video of the year so far. apparently she had broken ribs doing it as well or something?
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Monday, 3 March 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Finally out in the UK and the extraordinary pre-order numbers have propelled it straight to #1 on iTunes.
― all is fair in love and womp (monotony), Sunday, 13 April 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
this song is cool but it seems so... studied
― dyl, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
yeah not especially bothered about the original and can't work out why anyone wouldn't just replace it with the gorgon city remix
― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:21 (ten years ago) link
video makes me like it less as well
that kind of pretty much is what's happening - all the mixes (zac samuels' one gets a lot of play too) are unusually interchangeable imo, it's essentially the acappella going to #1
― r|t|c, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah the original already sounds like a remix of a mythical platonic third tune
― Tim F, Sunday, 13 April 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Second single
https://soundcloud.com/kiesza/kiesza-giant-in-my-heart/s-jzGtj
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Saturday, 14 June 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
from the very first line my reaction is that it won't be long before i can't tolerate her voice anymore
― dyl, Saturday, 14 June 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I'm not enjoying this one as much. The live versions sounded really promising, but her vocals are arse on this, particularly during the verses.
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Saturday, 14 June 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
US Baby boomer Lefsetz is talking about her:
But Kiesza herself is an absolute KILLER!
Doing some research, I find I'm behind the curve. "Hideaway" went number one in the U.K. The video has nearly thirty million views. The only one out of the loop is me. And U.S. radio. But that won't be for long. Because "Hideaway" can't be denied, because of Kiesza herself.
Go down the rabbit hole and you discover the video was done in one take. And I discovered "Hideaway" through my ears, but I clicked through. And I was BLOWN AWAY! The clip had the offhandedness of the early Madonna work. Sure, it was choreographed, but Kiesza seemed to be having so much fun, seemed to need it so much, that I was sold.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 June 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
I'm totally late but "Hideaway" is such a jaaaam
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
Her sound is so 90s, right down to following up a massive hit with a lesser version of the same song a la Livin' Joy/Alex Party.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 21 July 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
― The Reverend,
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 July 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
It's so good. I'm still not tired of listening to it.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Monday, 21 July 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
I kinda love the video too. Sloppy in a good way.
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Monday, 21 July 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
it seems like the opposite of sloppy to me
― dyl, Monday, 21 July 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah even its imperfections are fabricated
not to say that as a negative, just it's better to understand
― r|t|c, Monday, 21 July 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I totally get that. One thing I really like about it is how much room the vocal is given in the mix. It sounds way more naturalistic than most pop vocals do today.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:29 (nine years ago) link
best part is when she's like "ah", "ooh" is pretty good, too
― nap time, my time (karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
that's the problem with the gorgon city remix, no ah's, and the ooh's just aren't the same
― nap time, my time (karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
I like thinking of Giant In My Heart as a kind of "She Works Hard for the Money" refix
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 August 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
who stole the kiesza from the butcher shop?
― rushomancy, Saturday, 9 August 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
i love this take on the video http://rutube.ru/video/5fbdb8ef92282a9dce5a31daa851a03a/
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 09:52 (nine years ago) link
amazing
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
hhaaaa
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 07:24 (nine years ago) link
That's fantastic!
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 12:07 (nine years ago) link
Hideaway is climbing the Hot 100 like a snail. Meanwhile, new single: https://soundcloud.com/kiesza/kiesza-no-enemiesz
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 13 September 2014 00:03 (nine years ago) link
That's my favorite one yet.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 13 September 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
it's not going to get much higher on the hot 100, it just seems like the us radio-listening public is not v receptive to the song and no number of 'impressive'-yet-cold late-night tv performances is going to change that
not feeling this one at all :\\\\
― dyl, Saturday, 13 September 2014 03:55 (nine years ago) link
interesting, thought kiesza was a sure bet. oh well its not that great anyway
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's right if the song's not a hit there's not even any point praising it or talking about it
― lex pretend, Saturday, 13 September 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link
"Hideaway" prob my favorite non-Thugger song this year. This one is just ok tho, doesn't have the same kind of tension
― The Reverend, Saturday, 13 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link
this one is probably the most revivalist song of all the revivalist 90s house songs of the last 18 months but damn if they didn't hit the bulls eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkGIWb1FKBI
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
for some reason i really really dont like this even though it's ostensibly my wheelhouse.
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 20 October 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
All the songs so far released to the public are in a mould that the rest of the album does not fit, and in such a way that makes her definitely a singles artist.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 20 October 2014 16:46 (nine years ago) link
countdown until this vanishes from the internet? http://www.hitrecord.org/records/912376
― katherine, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
lol
it's actually better than most of her recent singles
― dyl, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah, the song itself is actually good, but "steampop"
― katherine, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:34 (nine years ago) link
...which is apparently still a go: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/fashion-beauty/kiesza-i-design-clothes-i-cant-find-30312166.html
― katherine, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
I like this album in the same way I like the Sage the Gemini album. Fairly anonymous but fun and well-executed genre music.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
last half of this is good funhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpKVi1ooQc&list=UU0iwHRFpv2_fpojZgQhElEQ
― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Saturday, 8 November 2014 06:55 (nine years ago) link
^___^
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Saturday, 8 November 2014 07:44 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjcRBs5q9VE
big andrew lloyd webber mood
― maura, Friday, 10 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
this song is very...9th place in eurovision sorta thing
― monotony, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 00:41 (five years ago) link