Cause when the roof caved in and the truth came outI just didn't know what to doBut when I become a star we'll be living so largeI'll do anything for you
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 01:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Duh.
Did Loon use this sample, too?
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think so - it's pretty recent for a loon sample
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:34 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I mean "Hide and Seek"!
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah thats what i mean! was loon actively making music after 2005?
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:44 (fourteen years ago) link
well, here you go
"What You Say" Loon featuring Christopher (2009) - a cover of Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap song)
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 November 2009 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
where did you even hear this?????
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2694/thementalistredjohnsfri.jpg
― bamcquern, Thursday, 19 November 2009 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
He's on Alexa Chung today!
― bamcquern, Monday, 23 November 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"whatcha say" is amazing btw imo
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Although this guy's got nothing on Drake or Trey Songz.
― bamcquern, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
hm
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
truth hurts
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 07:36 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno if this is old news but
http://youtu.be/hwvbCzbfVUk
awesome
― ww2011 (tpp), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/28/jason-derulo-tattoos/
― ۩, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
horrendous review. let's use it as a barometer for the state of current music criticism.
didn't know mr desrouleaux had his own thread
― dyl, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
"talk dirty" is a pretty fun/wacky song
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
2 chainz verse is kind of a masterpiece too
"her pussy so good i bought her a pet" is a classic dad joke
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
huh, had no idea yanks were unfamiliar with this commonwealth chart topper
yeah it's great! 'trumpets' v cute too imo
― r|t|c, Sunday, 19 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure Jason Desrouleaux is my actual least favorite musician.
― Emined - FAP God (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 January 2014 23:55 (ten years ago) link
Wanna hear this new track but YouTube is down. My gym plays Jason DeRulo's 2009 hits fairly regularly, and it always makes me really happy hearing them. 2009 or so was such an awesome time for happy pop music, and DeRulo pretty much embodies that era for me.
― Evan R, Monday, 20 January 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
derulo's 2009 music made me pretty reliably unhappy
― dyl, Monday, 20 January 2014 06:16 (ten years ago) link
can't help but wonder how much better "talk dirty" could be if performed by someone w/ personality like idk trey songz
and had that last clip removed
― dyl, Friday, 24 January 2014 22:16 (ten years ago) link
someone who can sing like idk trey songz too
― The Reverend, Friday, 24 January 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
talk dirty is great but "the trumpets dago" is supremely uncute rtc you crackhead
― chekhprivan (wins), Friday, 24 January 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Ok, "Talk Dirty" is fun but obviously Trey should have sung it and Derulo should have fucked off.
― raggett neds of your summer dress (The Reverend), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
late to the talk dirty party, but it's great
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 April 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
it's been all over pop and R&B radio for months… and yeah it's a fairly weird recording… if people ran around trying to crown "a song of the winter" or some such shit, this would be a prime candidate…wouldn't be surprised if Girl talk fucks with it…
― veronica moser, Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how much money the Balkan Beat Box dudes are making off of that sample
― posi riot (some dude), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
The transition to the bridge is surprisingly awkward in that song.
― steendriver dysphoria hoos (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
"Wiggle" is....uhh.....yeah
― Neanderthal, Friday, 18 July 2014 01:02 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak-OUYwCbmo
― everybody chives this is nowhere (Eazy), Friday, 18 July 2014 02:08 (nine years ago) link
Christgau:
Albums accomplish this better than singles, often by exploiting our craving for musical confection to expose us to harder stuff -- savories, meat and potatoes, crusty bread, tropical fruit. One of the two I've had on my mind while writing this is a best-seller. The other is by a 59-year-old who's been taking his 1937 Gibson on the road for decades. Neither has gotten the recognition it deserves. Say hello to Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and Hamell on Trial's "The Happiest Man in the World."
Granted, Derulo's never all that hard. His third album comprises 11 songs about pragmatically carnal sex so mind-blowing that three times he proposes matrimony behind it. I value both sex and matrimony too much to recommend this life strategy. But compared to the predatory Chris Brown of "Loyal" or the chauvinistic Trey Songz of "Foreign," he's so exuberant and playful he helps me get why guys and dolls fall for it--even share their thrills some, vicariously. And his command of contemporary hookcraft is musicianship aplenty by me.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 18 July 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
zzz
― dyl, Friday, 18 July 2014 02:42 (nine years ago) link
yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_mxDuaOOjI
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 March 2015 04:11 (nine years ago) link
this song is incredible
this is like if ilx incubated a pop song
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 March 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
"Ridin' Solo" is still one of my top guilt pleasures (guilty as in I don't expect anyone else to be on board).
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Friday, 20 March 2015 04:32 (nine years ago) link
this is my favorite song
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 March 2015 04:59 (nine years ago) link
heart of plexiglas
― maura, Friday, 20 March 2015 05:39 (nine years ago) link
Oh man, I want to like this, but I'm wishing the chorus did something...more.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 20 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
it is already a very generous chorus
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 20 March 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
This is by far my favorite Derulo song, despite the falsetto coming like four years late.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 20 March 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
idk i heard it the other day and have already forgotten everything about it
― dyl, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
you're tripping
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 March 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link
Heard this the other day, and yeah, it's nice, but really, it treads awfully close to Maroon 5 territory, which makes me uneasy. Obviously JD's voice is at least tolerable, though, which is a major step in the right direction.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
this song makes me very happy
― nxd, Friday, 20 March 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah listening again i feel like it is squarely in maroon 5 territory or even like mkto lol, not particularly interesting
i actually like some other desrouleaux songs that basically everyone hates tho so what do i know ;_;
― dyl, Friday, 20 March 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah listening again i feel like it is squarely in maroon 5 territory or even like mkto
the production is way more dynamic than anything done by these two bands imo
― J0rdan S., Friday, 20 March 2015 17:53 (nine years ago) link
m5 "love somebody" x the only mkto song that ppl have heard
― dyl, Saturday, 21 March 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
idk it's very ersatz but it's hardly "uptown funk"
― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 March 2015 10:35 (nine years ago) link
vis-à-vis the raves upthread it's somehow both much better and much worse than expected
― lex pretend, Sunday, 22 March 2015 10:36 (nine years ago) link
it's the same as uptown funk but disco as template makes its inherent woe cut closer, too close ime
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 March 2015 10:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah not rly into this sorry boys. tryna take me out to dinner i cancel it
i lolled at this.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 March 2015 11:37 (nine years ago) link
still not sure what shift k3y deserves for replacing my daily internal dialogue with that exchange
he does not deserve his awesome new jam being ignored though, u scumbags
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 March 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
Do you mean "Name & Number"? I love it but I am weirdly into his ropey vocals on it.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 March 2015 12:00 (nine years ago) link
I note "Not Into It" was finally released! Some 18 months + later.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 March 2015 12:01 (nine years ago) link
yas kween name & # is what i mean
i read ropey as inviting karaoke
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
Shifty is for the people.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 March 2015 12:08 (nine years ago) link
eh "Hold On" definitely wanted to be "Adorn" but none of these songs really have much in common with "Adorn"
My GF texted me about "Jealous" being an "Adorn" knockoff and I trust her judgement.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Sunday, 22 March 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
wow I don't hear it. Still sounds like post-Justin laptop soul moves.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 March 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
"Adorn" is quite literally laptop soul.
― raih dednelb (The Reverend), Sunday, 22 March 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
^ lol yep!!
slow the tempo on "adorn" a few bpm and the similarities are pretty striking
― dyl, Sunday, 22 March 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
i can see the connection between "jealous" and "adorn" ... i still see "adorn" as being outside that group of songs tho
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
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this song is so good
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 March 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
he looks like the biggest fucking goober and yet his vocals are so weirdly endearing and sweet
he sounds and looks like the 5th most important member of a second-tier boy band
AND YET
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 March 2015 22:52 (nine years ago) link
ya i think i said b4 his singles are all on a runtish jordan knight tip
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 March 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
yes exactly
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 22 March 2015 23:08 (nine years ago) link
But what better song of personal liberation is there than "Ridin' Solo."
― with HD lyrics (Eazy), Monday, 23 March 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't into this song at first
But my officemate kept on playing it and now I think it's great, it's one of "those" songs
Looking forward to hearing this everywhere
He was also playing the new Carly Rae and I still think that song is bad and not good and doesn't improve with casual brushes
Sorry Carly, next time... maybe?
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
lol that crj song really sank like a stone after a week of people losing their minds about it
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:48 (nine years ago) link
The CRJ single is only being added to radio today.
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:51 (nine years ago) link
Cap'n Sav-a-Rae
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
heard that in the wild on sunday
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
i wouldn't be surprised if the crj song doesn't really pick up
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link
arguing that "adorn" is the genesis of songs like this is one of the worst insults i've seen about it. i don't hear it? i mean if you change everything about the production and tempo maybe but those are quite big things.
as a song this one is really nowhere near "jealous"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm not massively in love with this but it doesn't really seem offensive?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:44 (nine years ago) link
so this album's good, including the Keith Urban-Stevie Wonder collaboration.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
what a strange career this guy's had
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:33 (nine years ago) link
on one hand i'm pretty embarrassed for having liked "whatcha say", otoh i love "trumpets" and "want to want me". i don't think i have any idea what is and isn't a good song with this dude
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
Caramanica, somewhat baffled, calls him chameleonic. I say the guy has scored the most frictionless hits of the last few years.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
all I ever wanted was some fuuuuuunnn
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 July 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
debates upthread about whether "WTWM" fit into the "Style" lineage but imo "Cheyenne" gets far closer to belonging to that bloodline
― carly bae jepsen (monotony), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
Totally.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 01:55 (eight years ago) link
so did y'all end up getting tired of "want to want me"
― dyl, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
Nope!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
not tired of the album either
No commentary on his judging "So You Think You Can Dance?" or his performing "Cheyenne" on last week's show? Let Mary Murphy's non-renewal not be in vain...
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
"X2CU" is incredibly good
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
terius-level outro
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
I JUST WANT X2CU
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:51 (eight years ago) link
This album's goodness was such a surprise that I haven't done a good job proselytizing.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
i had forgotten while writing about tropical house that matoma produced that song on here w/ j lo -- at the time the album came out i had no idea who he was. apparently it's the next single.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 October 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah "X2CU" is fantastic, so annoyed it's not a single
― some dude, Friday, 16 October 2015 01:44 (eight years ago) link
Prime Michael Jackson would have killed "X2CU."
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 1 November 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
uhhh
https://www.thehits.co.nz/video/jason-derulo-shocks-fans-by-singing-classical-opera-and-he-sounds-incredible/
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 05:43 (five years ago) link
hmmm I'm no expert but that sounds more like an opera style impression than actual opera singing
what an abomination of a song
― niels, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
It is popera for sure but still
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
oh yeah he delivers it fine, just before the show goes over a cliff
― niels, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link