The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

you say that now...

Oh wow, she's done it again

holy christ the HQ makes it even more amazing

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

ahhh there it was, staring me in the face

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

lol i'd totally forgotten about that! iirc that took an... unedifying length of time to come up with

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 thames
singing to the whale
rescued by the officers
but he aint going to jail

the whale later died

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, July 18, 2012 6:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

hehe

that chris brown thing is not real?

love this obv

PWT available on iTunes now

Wild N Young/Faith video O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXt8vksmdw

Why O_O?

I thought it was pretty awesome.

She is ~MAGNIFICENT~

isn't she!

when "pretty wicked things" came out, ann powers tweeted that it was as though aaliyah and tori amos had had a baby, which i didn't get at first, until i remembered this amos song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aD4egZFxw8

it's the same...percussive/vocal frenzy, that sense of flux and malleability and confusion and something massive at stake but you're not sure what

She's great - and intriguing. Pretty typical of her to start the video off with the least "commercial" of the two songs though - as if she's trying to make sure that Faith doesn't become a hit.

the collaboration you've all been waiting for

http://soundcloud.com/stfutia/drake-dawn-richard-where-were

nooooooo

ehh they were already on a song together on Last Train To Paris -- if this is an indication that industry types are taking her seriously as a solo artist then good

NNNNoooooooooo

nooooooooo

you guys are such babies

let's stay positive guys, goldenheart is now only a month away and it will be drake-less and awesome.

I like this song ok except for the rap verse. Singer on the chorus doesn't sound like Drake tho, is this some uncredited Fauntleroy shit?

http://instagram.com/p/Pri5I9LvJA/

the song titles are officially very exciting

damn, a chief keef feature

??? where?

heh

think i can already hear 'goliath' in my head

he is my david, love is his slingshot, s on my chest yada yada

"Gleaux"??

featuring Lonny Breaux

93 million, 5000 fleaux
and here's one meaux for the heaux

"Faith" is eh.

you are "eh"

Playing "Automatic" twice a day for weeks has that effect.

I spent a good amount of time playing the shit out of "Bombs Away" and "Automatic" and then "Faith" and "Change" sneaked up on me and are now my favorite things on the EP

anyway she said on twitter that "goliath" and "war-faire" are interludes

"Bombs" and "Automatic" are very much my least favorite songs on Armor On. I don't hate them, but they seem so leaden compared to the rest of the album.

^^^^^ totally agree. Hope the album stays away from that whole clappy/sireny sound.

nah the album, and r&b in general, needs to have those massive high-energy shouty bangers right now

i initially thought "bombs" compared badly to "superman" but i grew to love it just as much. and if "automatic" is sliiiightly clunky in execution it makes up for it in narrative

nothing wrong with low energy stuff if it's done well

how the hell are "Bombs Away" and "Automatic" low energy

i was responding to lex's comment that R&B needs bangers or whatever. He has an antipathy to a lot of the mopier stuff that's around now but Dawn's take on it is obviously a cut above. I don't think she does the shouty material as well

i don't have an antipathy to the slow stuff at all - feels like about a decade ago the critical line was that only r&b bangers were any good and the ballads were just unnecessary gloop on r&b albums, and i had to kick against that a bit - but when i say r&b needs bangers it is because there are SO FEW AROUND RIGHT NOW. jeremih? slow stuff. miguel? slow stuff? and those are the GOOD artists. anyone doing club joints tends to go down the electro road these days which is not the same thing. ciara's "sweat" should not stand out as much as it does in 2012. and, i think dawn does bangers superbly, as evidenced by oh her entire career to date from danity kane through dirty money through "superman", "runway", "bombs" etc

Tbh, shouty R&B singers aren't really my thing. When I hear K. Michelle or Elle Varner or whoever, I'm just kind of like ehhhh, next. Keyshia Cole is my sworn enemy.

oh well Keyshia Cole is the end of the world, anyone with ears knows this

elle varner doesn't shout though? and it's not that kind of shoutiness i'm talking about. i'm not even really talking about shoutiness. i'm talking about r&b that would get played in my old street dance class.