https://soundcloud.com/chris_brown/what-would-you-doperhaps now that he's finally in jail and unlikely to pop right back out producers will stop giving him hot tracks? It's frustrating.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
or you could just come to terms with him being kinda good? lol looks like he's not in jail either. Apparently the girl was crazy.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i still dislike "cupid" if that makes you feel better. terrible song
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
anyway this new Ye Ali song is teh shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENg9zHxuE5E
that chris brown song is nice in that it doesn't try and bash you over the head but it also doesn't really have much of a chorus to it & it's a blatant rip off of "what do you mean?" just grafted onto more traditional pop house instead of trop house
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, September 1, 2016 12:31 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark
surprised you fuck with something that sounds so much like bryson tiller, i like it tho
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
huh i could have sworn we had a "king of hearts" thread or poll, but i can't find it now
"lay it down" >>> cupid imo
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
polow brought it on that record tho imo
this was my fav off that record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLwnojWx0Ac
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
in retrospect a lot of it sounded like a trey songz album
i KNOW there's a thread...iirc forks started it?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 1, 2016 11:52 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can see how it sounds like bryson tiller kinda, and i know that's the knock against dude, but it doesn't sound like a drake song to me except in the most "minimal/icy R&B slow jam sung by dude being a sleazeball" sense
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
and sounding like fake drake songs is basically my issue with bryson tiller
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah the production is not really a misty 40 shebib rip off, it's more about his melodies & such
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
"traphouse jodeci"... another repellently insolent nu-r&b nobody
― r|t|c, Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
you dont like that song tho?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
I've long suspected a song or two was literally intended for trey songz. one of the no-name guest rappers on the record even calls Lloyd Trigger
― Evan R, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
lol
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
This new Tink is fire http://youtu.be/3wpl_BrNhuo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
I really like this jesse boykins III album
https://soundcloud.com/jesseboykinsiii/sets/bartholomew3rd
― ANU (sisilafami), Sunday, 11 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
we all agree on usher/future rivals right
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 September 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
New Bell Biv Devoe slaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrY2_4AKKs
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
new Lloyd is nice and fizzy https://youtu.be/OiuxlwDWpBU
― maura, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSDsieKkx0
R&B group produced by Super Furry Animals' Cian Ciaran.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
lmfaoooooo i originally thought the lyric in usher's "rivals" was 'call your baby that's only on Tidal' -_________-
album's got some (other) good trax
― dyl, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah it sounds pretty good? maybe w/o the standout tracks of looking 4 myself but w/o the garish genre hopping
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
I like the Usher album and really hope that the prolonged Tinashe-Dream collabo thing actually works out for her. What else is there to look forward to in 2016?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 September 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
more banal longneck posts?
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
Sorry. Im Sorry. Im trying to remove it
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 09:16 (seven years ago) link
.........Let me rephrase the question. Where do you guys go to find out about upcoming releases? I tried searching for fall 2016 r&b albums and came up with basically nothing outside of a tba tinashe.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 September 2016 09:43 (seven years ago) link
the usher album's a funny one. i found it simultaneously intriguing and insipid, before it ultimately dwindled away into the unmemorable. hard ii love!! i guess it seems an accurate reflection of the bright n trite wanderings of a post-relevant prodigy who never really got to become a particularly interesting person? (oh cool a horrible bust of me, i'll put it on the cover. it's flawed, that's interesting. we all have flaws.)
he's like a sort of jet set gap year tourist at this point - well-mannered, inquisitive, fleetingly engaged but m/l detached from the emotional current. each track has an attentive intricacy to it that adds up to a sort of light charm but not much more. it's not uncreative, in its way. it has a vague cohesion, of sorts. on the radio 'rivals' felt to me like the realest since confessions, but here it's just surface, no ache or sensuousness or whatever. on 'missing u' he sings "i miss you girl!!" exactly like he does on 'throwback', but it's just empty. feels like there are lot of moments like that here, where you can't tell between subtle callback and blank reflex memory.
i'm guessing a few other of these tracks would perk up ears out of album context too; 'crash', 'fwm' have a enjoyable low key bounce like 'show me'. 'bump'/'let me' (and 'no limit' preceding too by extension i suppose) forms a nice kind of abstracted atl tribute suite that suggests a vacuum-pack ciara
i dunno, it passes the time. there's no desperation or cynicism here, which is fairly admirable. i wouldn't want the "garish genre hopping" as j0rd correctly describes of the prev album all over again but there was at least a glee to it. [adam scott face moment before delivering "are we having fun yet"] Usher is No Longer Looking 4 Himself, And That's Okay (Meh Though)
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
quite enjoyed that nyt style profile recently where he's all up on visvim and his metal pouch for keeping crystals. "Normally I’ll put a labradorite or rose quartz in the pouch — anything I feel like I need at the time."
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:28 Bookmark
one of the ways you can tell e.r is an industry plant is that "slaps" is literally the only possible word u couldve deployed to put a positive bay-area-nostalgia-bubble spin on a track that's pointlessly senile in any other context. kudos!
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link
you saw right through me
― Evan R, Friday, 16 September 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
usher album is one of those records where the songs sound minor out of context but then together they make more sense, but still the album itself can't also help but feel... minor as well, just slightly less baffling to think about from an A&R perspective. the one thing that's weird to me is why the album is so serious and morose. it's still an agreeable R&B album so it's not even like art-y serious like say anti (ugly bust on the album cover aside), but i thought "good kisser" & "don't mind" (plus even the "blurred lines" rip off w/ nicki) fit him better thematically than a lot of what is on here, even if those songs weren't amazing or anything (i consider "don't mind" canon tho).
i do think "bump" is pretty sick though, even tho the part at the end where "love you down" floats on by makes me wish he had just recorded a bass track just for the fuck of it. also the 8 min song at the end somehow justifies itself.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 16 September 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah i think i saw some words like brooding and seductive written about it and idk maybe it was just me but the album's emotional scale kinda p much passed me by in its entirety, never mind what registers where on it. just seemed like expert exercises in style like i was on the other side of the booth glass observing the whole thing done in one take, not much depth of stagecraft to it
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
Usher already feels like a relic from another era, alas
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
describes the knock on urshers whole body of work. xp
― Spottie, Friday, 16 September 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
noticing that No Limit is a carbon copy of Jeremih Planes
he sounds great on the title track
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 16:17 (seven years ago) link
half of this record sounds p great
― Spottie, Friday, 16 September 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
I just noticed on the Wiki page that he's got two solo songwriting credits.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
oh nice he wrote the 8 minute track. dream/tricky produced bump
― Spottie, Friday, 16 September 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
xp that would explain why i like no limit so much!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 16 September 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
I'mm not cool with Usher and Rubén Blades attempt to write their own "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link
the "fwm" "rivals" "tell me" run is by far the highlight of the album. "crash" is also kinda great (tho it was a bit too subtle for radio). i still don't like "no limit" and even its sonic similarity to "planes" does little but remind me of how superior the latter is, even considering the turd guest rap. much of the rest of the album is passable production in service of songs that are not quiiite there.
― dyl, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
FYM probs my top choice off this atm
― Spottie, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:33 (seven years ago) link
i'm amused that the album opens with him saying "i fucked up. i'm man enough to admit it... but i don't know if it makes a difference." reminds me of the spoken "i hope you can accept that i'm man enough to tell you [that i have impregnated another woman]" from "confessions pt. 2" (prob the most ridiculous lyric of his career, like brah, it's not how man you are that'll be the hard part to accept!!). in light of that this almost seems like #personalgrowth until it descends into that cringe-inducing 'conversation' w/ priyanka chopra (why?)
― dyl, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
looking 4 myself definitely did have a couple of truly awful tracks but its highs were high enough to compensate. its typical tracks were of a higher standard than the typical tracks from this one alas.
― dyl, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
i do wish "let me" had taken more influence from the inoj version of "love you down" rather than the ready for the world orig lol