The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

i found a random acapella they uploaded to youtube of one of the best songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDHLQtq1pLM

i've been trying not to be all hinty-hinty or whatever about the album so i'm just going to leave this here:

the r&b hounds of love.

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:15 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark

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

one of my favourite mean girls scenes :)

new ep is out and the first track is pretty gorgeous

why is she releasing another excellent EP if not to fuck with our year-end lists?

i cooled on armor on a lot but "and the bells" is sort of a condensed version of why i fell in love with it. just this endless build.

also this is probably a terrible way of describing it but "miles" is sort of d'n'b clams casino and it's amazing

jesus fucking christ @ "wynter"

okay i guess all of the tracks are great, thanks again dawn

is "wynter" a diss track

seems more of a character-based thing

ha, I found it interesting that she would title a track "Wynter" too

well 'heaux' seems to be like her #2 most faovrite word

this is amazing

ep is fantastic

loving all this nupostdubsteprnbsoundz

stop trolling

lol what?

"nupostdubsteprnb" kmt

u mad about this instance of REVERSE-GENTRIFICATION RNB??

u gonna deny that there is some wubwubwubing on this remix that ms. richard herself included on her new ep??

lol you mean "December Sky (EDM Remix)"?

yes - if something else is going on here please tell me!

I thought Lex would get madder about the Clams Casino comparison

does lex even hate edm more than anyone else? he had that cataracs album on his year end list

my objection was your characterisation of it as a new genre, over-emphasis on a particular sound that everyone in pop is using and implication that r&b's worth lies in its "nu"ness

i was just lolling that it's called 'EDM Remix'

i'm actually totally fine with EDM (apart from the fucking meaningless term "EDM", fucking hell americans you're so basic when it comes to dance music). "starships" and "pound the alarm" are two of my favourite singles of the year. i'd far rather have "EDM" than wishy-washy gentrified r&b

it was just a meaningless string of buzzwords placed in series, thought you could tell I was being playful by not spacing between 'em but w/e ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

implication that r&b's worth lies in its "nu"ness

Haha wau people will see this implication in anything these days.

it was just a meaningless string of buzzwords placed in series

yes this was what was annoying!!!

i h8 buzzwords

except for "kmt"

well you can relax I was using them 'ironically' or maybe even 'sarcastically'

I thought 'postdubstep' would have been what gave it away, tbh

buzzwords and dreadful prose: a necessary evil?

Stoked for the witch house revival.

scared for the witch house revival

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'The Dreams in the Witch House' would be a decent Dawn Richard album title, is it too late to sub out 'GoldenHeart'?

I could have sworn someone's SN was 'The-Dream in the Witch House' a few years back, but can't find it.

Anyway this is amazing - is it being marketed as an actual Christmas EP?

was really looking fwd to it but i'm off the bus for this ep tbh, can't be doing with her without the structure

it's fine but after a year of "EP in name only" it's funny to get an EP that's really an EP

Haven't decided whether I think this is amazing or agree with rtc, so probably some of each.

Sonically there's something very late 90s female pop-electronica about this - Ray of Light in particular.

There's definitely now a clear trajectory whereby each release is getting progressively less rooted in mainstream R&B tactics (although the unclear status of this EP - i.e. is it considered a kind of one-off side project or not - makes this perhaps a not so reliable conclusion to leap to).

I'm interested in whether this is something Dawn has thought about in strategic commercial terms as well as simply in terms of following her muse: it's possible that it really does make more sense to go in this direction and carve out a respected niche than to compete in a playing field where these days many more entrants fail than succeed.

yeah this doesn't seem to be connected to GoldenHeart like "'86" (or "Pretty Wicked Things" i guess?) so i don't think it's anything more than throwing out some music to the fans. whatever hopes i had for her as a commercial force are pretty much gone now and even if this is getting a little further from my pedestrian mersh tastes already i'm still on board.

btw "'86" definitely gets mercy in the "sick of shit named after years from the 20th century" rant from earlier today

i know this'll sound like a dickish thing to say but i had wondered how healthy it would prove for an artist's rare interactions with the outside world to only be with very interested, very committed parties

then again dawn is hardly the first case study of this

i dunno, i have to wonder if being in the industry and a semi-public figure without attracting great fame nor great scorn is actually a bubble of stanbase positive reinforcement or if someone in her situation faces much more rejection and criticism in their daily life than a boldface name

think rejection would only take on a silent form, which leads to the same withdrawal anyway

signed, a long-term ilm poster

Sonically there's something very late 90s female pop-electronica about this - Ray of Light in particular.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:07 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah even for being the most "structured" cut i found the drumnbass number far too close to the bone personally

plus being called 'miles' it should have been a 'children' homage WHAT WERE U THINKING DAWN

basically i can't help thinking that if i were hypothetically scornful of the whole dawn mystique this ep would be exactly my satirisation

one of those tracks uses the most famous breakbeat of all time rite?

heh well if anyone would know it's these boys