I'm actually running a little cold on this one. It's repeats a lot of Armor On's motifs without adding much to them
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's even more structureless, which is reading as a plus to me right now
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, strikes me as a refinement if anything
awesome stuff
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
nice to hear gozilla popping up at the end for the ginuwine cosign too
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
*dz
O_O holy hell
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
i should try to get over my dubstep allergy maybe, that half-time bit had me wrinkling my nose tbh
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:03 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol yes. does anyone do remixes that take all the dance elements of a song OUT?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
If there were a special edition of Usher's new album that did that, I would be all about it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
O_O this song is amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
why must it only be in youtube quality
SO MANY amazing sonic and vocal details in this
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a Soundcloud link: http://soundcloud.com/rapup/pretty-wicked-things-dawn-richard
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is rather massive
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
this is at least the third really good dubstep r&b song from this year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Every time I think it can't get any better, it does. It's like one of those videogames where it keeps going up to another level and then another one and then another. The ~sonic textures~ ... this really is just a walking exercise in what ~sonic textures~ are and should be. Also the things her voice does at the end. I don't know if it's digital manipulation (and not even the obvious pitch-shifting) or if she's really singing that but the way the main and backing vocals twine together from 3:00 on - I don't even care if it's manipulated but some of those swoops and especially where she goes up the octave at about 3:25 - the vocal arrangements are like some John Tavener kinda shit.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost what are the other two?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
the one on the usher album and the one on the bieber album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
i care for u & as long as you love me
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
WCC OTM re: the vocal arrangements, I wish there was more drone layering/vocal line reflection in them to make them go full-on Taverner
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
it should be noted that putting studs on the underside of fake fingernails is pretty next level
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I love how "I Care For U" teases (threatens?) to drop but never does. I think that's my issue with this new Dawn track; when it actually breaks open it's not so thrilling.
But the sonic details on it really are incredible
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
It's just the intricacy of the polyphony that is completely slaying me. There is just such detail, the composition is just staggering.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the vocals are as mind-blowing as the production details - the sudden space around the whoops at 3:40 is just so...light and airy and clear
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
lot of overstating dubstep itt
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm neutral on the dubstep. I just get slayed by the vocal acrobatics on display, that's a hell of a way to pretty up a blahblahbogstandard drop.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
well i'm just using the very general definition. say edm or whatever, idk.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
it really is a tour de force vocal performance - as well as the acrobatics the really subtle touches, like when she murmurs "i ain't ever felt the same since" and you just gasp.
i love how it doesn't do anything as straightforward as just break open from an ominous start - it goes through stages of increasing intensity that culminate in the half-time digital storm.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
let's not say edm but also let's not have this argument. it's not "a dubstep song" obviously.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
xxp yeah i know, and the song does go halfstep for a bit, but it just seems part of the modern production language now imo and isnt deserving of being bracketed in a kinda passé-loaded way like it was britney five years ago
idk it wouldnt have really crossed my mind if i hadnt read it here is all
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
and nor did it for the ursh/bieb jams
eh ok maybe the bieb
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
WOO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OOO-OOOOO @ 3:39 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
kinda felt like thunder, kinda felt like rain kinda felt like him and the storm was the same
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
This is how amazing this song is: I went and listened to the leaked Thom Yorke solo track just now. And then I turned it off and actually came back and listened to this Dawn Richards track instead. That's right. This song is stronger than lust.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:12 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think i'm realizing that my ear picking this stuff out is from coming up in the midwest hearing shitty post-hardcore bands. so many raggedy ass halftime breakdowns, i can't even explain to you. whether it's dubsep's 'fault' idk, but don't tell me skrlx himself doesn't know!
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
anyway i'm pretty far afield now, carry on.
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
no hold on what bands are these, i'm intrigued
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
cos i am hearing dubstep drive like jehu in my head and tbrr i'm liking it
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
you say that now...
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow, she's done it again
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
holy christ the HQ makes it even more amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
can i just say how remorseful i am that i let the revelation that Dawn studied marine biology come and go without making a "porpoise built" joke
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh there it was, staring me in the face
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
was it you that captioned a picture of chris brown with a dolphin as "you got fins and i got fins" back in the day? hahaha
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol i'd totally forgotten about that! iirc that took an... unedifying length of time to come up with
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
in the absence of any records of the incident, reproduced here from memory are the lyrics of a young chris brown's song to the stranded thames whale as performed on mtv c2006:
i'm on the london eye, over the river thamessinging to the whalerescued by the officersbut he aint going to jail
the whale later died
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
hehe
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
that chris brown thing is not real?
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
love this obv
― Tim F, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
PWT available on iTunes now
― dayo, Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Wild N Young/Faith video O_O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXt8vksmdw
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link