NE-YO v THE DREAM

terrified

yo this is gooooood

like, really fucking good

it's like "i luv your girl" + "rockin that shit"

lol @ photoshopped jenny craig terius btw

some "luv songs" thrown in there too

i don't think terius' abdomen has looked like that since he was 12 years old

this song = http://web.mit.edu/ryangray/Public/Gnus/thumbs_up.jpg

not sure if i'm mentally ready for a run up to another terius album tbh

what up yall...

he's good

last album right?

k now im excited

this bears no resemblance to "hit it on the road," right?

luv the panning snare cadences

i like how it takes a while for the hook to drop.

this is Los, not Tricky, right? anyone else's ears sharp enough to discern?

jordan will know, and I'll be able to tell once I hear it. Making a stop home to put this on my ipod b4 gym!

hahah... and mr. nash answers my question with a Los call-out during the (great) outro.

plus, those distinctly-Los drums.

time for a few more listens. this is sounding great, tho! definitely hearing the "I Love Your Girl" sound. album lead-off?

"you should know me like that" line brings back his classic mariah demo track "they don't know me"

he has a really strong grasp of how to multitrack / harmonize over himself.

AAAAAH. Already? Jeez. Terius is the gift that keeps on giving. But he's got girls in Toronto (Electrik Red?) so it's all good.

lol @ "girls with weed / girls without it" or whatever

good track. so buoyant!

u dont know me like that

*stunts*

*like my daddy*

if love king is the final part of the love trilogy, what will play the role of the proverbial ewoks in this bia?

40 to 1 odds on lil boosie guest verse

lyrically, this = jay-z's "girls, girls, girls"

plies xxp

I got girls with weave, girls without it...she like "this all mine." "Hmmmmmmm I doubt it."

I got girls on the nouveau, girls on Patrone, girls on that Belvedere, pay me for the song <-- Blame It ref???

a girl outta college - sorry girls, but it ain't nothing like a smart bitch.

btw, Nuvo -- also Patron

i'm not sure what the "pay me for the song" stuff is about -- he might be saying that liquor companies are paying people? idk who knows

i don't think it's a shot at t-pain. imagine if tho...

whatever. shows how much i drink these days. i am too broke for jamie foxx-grade alcohol, j0rdan.

http://www.mediafire.com/?xn1mjlimomw

:D :D :D :D :D

i um...gotta dissent a bit here, not really feeling this quite as much as everyone else is. beat is nice, kinda standard "mr yeah"/"more than just friends"/"hard" bounce (drums are very Los but they both use that piano really similarly so it's kinda hard to tell) but nothing wrong with that. having a tougher time getting into the vocals, really hate when dream puts on that flat affect. it's not bad though, chorus is kinda lazy but it gets better toward the end

ok it's Los

I like the thing his voice does on the line "Got a girl that's shy-yyyy"

i don't think there's anything standard about "mr. yeah"! also it sounds nothing like "hard" -- it sounds patently like the-dream and i think that's great. compare it to like... "walkin on the moon" or something & i think it's way better.

like i think it sounds like TERIUSBOT in the best way -- he has a control of his sound & is working within it while flipping a few things -- it's a bit weird structurally for him & it's a totally hilarious song, i think it slots in nicely with "my love" & "rockin that shit" which were total sonic outliers as singles off lvm

but then again i like 'how to be a lady' more than mariah & don't think 'rockin that shit' is the pinnacle of his singles discog so ymmv

i didn't mean "standard" perjoratively, just that it's a style he's used a bunch of times before

but then again i like 'how to be a lady' more than mariah & don't think 'rockin that shit' is the pinnacle of his singles discog so ymmv

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:32 AM (3 minutes ago)

ha well i also like the e red more than the mariah, but i think it's pretty clear that this fits a lot better with the latter? people complain about his melodic range, especially on the mariah; i think i'm feeling the same thing right now but it's hard to legit criticize him for it because he clearly wrote this song with about 5 notes for a reason - i just wish he wouldn't do it.

i guess a decent reference point for this would be "shawty is the shit!" but i think he does a lot more with that. much better middle eight & chorus & melody - i saw someone mention the harmonies (which totally make "shawty" imo) but i didn't notice them here, gonna re-listen

you might be right idk -- i'm waiting on JUDGE SHIPLEY to deliver the verdict

i think when you get dream working out of his zone sonically you might end up with "hit it on the road" or "let me see the booty"

specifically i like that it works off that glistening, golden "rockin that shit" sound but goes for something more audacious and clubbier and a bit more... gangsta (as much as terius can)

this does sound like TERIUSBOT

b-side material

but I still love it

tbh it is so hard to approach this objectively because i have so much invested in him as an artist. i think it's safe to say though that this song is VERY standard dream - he basically mixes a bunch of ingredients that have made him great (bouncy piano, echo-y chorus, orgasm bridge, "AYY", etc) and for me this time it came out a little diluted for some reason. it's not a bad song tho! i mean love/hate is basically one of my favorite albums ever and even i can't bring myself to give a shit about "ditch that..."

still have super high hopes for the album of course

xxxp my non-bold prediction - shipley will like this more than "hard" but less than "obsessed"

xp dude besides mayyybe the drums this has nothing in common with "rockin that shit" - "hard" is the closest imho

i think this is gonna be a huge hit

the synths are great cause they have that weird texture from "The Beautiful Ones" without going for a full pastiche of that song like everyone else who breaks out that synth timbre does

yeah this could def go top 15 or so - i think that with all of his singles tho so who knows

really? what's different about this single that will propel it to the top

well this is not going anywhere near "the top" but it could certainly be a hit of similar magnitude to his other hits - 15-25 range.

*checks charts, it's not there yet* "IT'S A FLOP!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5vlco4yvSc