yes
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Given that I'm the only person on ILX who still like The Love Below
*stays hidden in the shadows*
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I like The Love Below and Lupe Fiasco and "Nothin' on You" has nothing to do with the former and only sounds like the least interesting stuff by the latter.
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ke$ha's album has a 58 on metacritic -- i can guarantee you that drake's rating will be 25+ points higher than that
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
― gonjasufi smacker
plz to explain?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Listen to his little call-out bits in the pre-chorus; there are strong shades of Andre 3000 there, particularly on tracks like "Roses".
― drop it like it's hot, Elena (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0h7CR-pOJs&feature=related
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, BoB is an obvious Andre 3000-wannabe, but drawing any more specific lines between "Nothin' on You" and The Love Below is tenuous at best and I don't hear what you're talking about at all.
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also while i actively try to hear at least singles that are charting or artists who seem to be gaining some pop culture traction, i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
if we assign each a dummy variable, "nothin on you" is "terrible" and the love below is "not terrible"
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
obv everyone is talking about the "i planted a money tree/ which is ironic/ because my mom was a florist" line― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:55 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:55 (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
better yet with this shit is he drops "isn't it ironic that the girl i wanna marry is a wedding planner" the track right before
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ha even as a love below defender, a lot of it is terrible, but the difference is it's never terrible because it's bland m.o.r. soft rock
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
b/w drake and alanis, i'm beginning to think canadian language arts education does not go to the trouble of explaining irony
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
The song sounds like a goofier version of "Roses" (sonically, not in subject matter; there you'd have to look more at songs like "Prototype") with rhymes written by Lupe Fiasco; ergo, what I am saying is that it is drawing sonically and thematically on different parts of The Love Below filtered very strongly through songwriting sensibilities represented by Lupe Fiasco on tracks like "Superstar", all packaged together in something more harmless and radio-friendly.
It strikes me as mostly harmless, which is why I don't get the outright antipathy leveled towards it (whereas with someone like Drake I totally get why everyone here hates him, because he is offensively terrible).
Thus concludes my dazzling star turn as Cap'n Save-a-B.o.B.
― drop it like it's hot, Elena (HI DERE), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i wasnt even gonna check if someone'd already done a oh yeah that's right i'm doing alanis morissette gag
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
more a lol canada gag
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hey guys how about:
my dad called me up knowing that i still listenand he still got his foot outguilt tripping
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
:/
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/2zi9evp.gif
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
:D
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop. "Nothin' on You" sounds like contemporary soft rock. Not hearing the connection.
And it is totally harmless. Which is at least 50% of why I hate it.
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
other 50% is Bruno Mars. in spirit of not wishing death on anyone, I'm hoping someone at least severs his tongue or crushes his larynx or something before he has a career.
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm starting to think i should listen to the drake album for the lols
how exactly is this receiving any critical acclaim at all? how is it not being universally mocked?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"Roses" sounds like 80s synthpop.
I mean, I like "Roses" but how is this even accurate?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u lex
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i definitely don't take critical reception as a gauge of whether i should be listening to something or not. quite the opposite in fact. most critics' taste sucks.
dude, you cannot turn on hot 97 on NYC without hearing drake, about 10x an hour. seriously. if you don't listen to the critics, do you at least give the radio plays some weight on your gauge?
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't live in NYC? drake hasn't even had a top 40 hit here
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i know you don't. but it's an indicator, especially if you aren't listening to the critics.
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
what i'm asking is, if you're not listening to the critics, and you're not paying attention to what is being played in the urban music capital of the world, then what are you basing on what you listen to, as a critic?
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
obvs we can't look at sales figures yet cause the album isn't out... maybe then you'll listen
GIVE DRAKE A CHANCE
that's all we're saying
― m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
non-new yorkers aren't really required to give one fuck about new york, just so you know
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
and lol at ny being the "urban music capital of the world" at any point after 50 cent blew up
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the billboard chart isn't just NY
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
obv. if by "capitol", you mean the US, my bad, but that word does imply a city.
― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
listen im just as stupefied at drake's success as much as anyone else. i find him completely atrocious and i cannot understand why the hip hop community has embraced him.
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
he bringin in that bieber fan money
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
for the record, uk urban radio is more nyc-centric than it is of anywhere else and drake gets as much exposure as anyone else (top 40 or no). whether that fact constitutes a relevance that demands attention here on the other hand...
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it does.
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
noted urban music scholar cutty has spoken
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
re: lex not listening to the record?
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
critical responsibility of uk resident lex to listen to the record
― r|t|c, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
there you go
― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 00:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TAcdzhLZJ9I/AAAAAAAAD3s/c95MkNSr86Q/s400/09.jpg
― pokám0n (dyao), Friday, 4 June 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
that rosetta stone lyric has the gotta be the worst.
― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 4 June 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TAc9iV7OHsI/AAAAAAAAD4E/5bTTgSuv7AI/s400/11.jpg
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 4 June 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
loooool
― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
and it's in "deep thoughts" font
― cutty, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― ksh, Friday, 4 June 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link