Rolling R&B Thread 2010

yeah, and luda's verse does it no favors...so many lines with the same inflection as "i fill her up -- balloons!"

yeah luda is obv superfluous

but i can't blame them -- idk what rapper i would even call for a verse on an r&b song nowadays aside from drake (if i was a label exec/producer) and he obv wouldn't fit on that song

it's mildly astonishing to me that ciara and t.i. have never done an official song together

i was thinking t.i. but his guest raps are equally as middle of the road as luda's

there are so many rappers these days whose primary or secondary function in life is to appear on R&B songs. granted a few of them are in jail right now, but if all else fails there's always Fab.

tip murdered that new diddy/dirty money song imo

yeah, he's done a fair few classic guest verses - obv so has luda, but the ciara/luda combo feels a bit stale now.

i don't feel like there was a whole lot of thought put into color schemes, warddrobe, and esp lighting in the ciara video, but the dancing is absolutely incredible!

The "Ride" video is not available in my country and seems missing from Youtube

I'm reppin' for "Ciara To The Stage" from Fantasy Ride.

"i fill her up -- balloons!"

this laziness is getting tiresome.

yeah, i'd like to take those kind of lyrics and bag them up in some kind of...bag.

Kelis live and new album in July...hmmmm

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/arts/music/23kelis.html?ref=music

i think i'll be ripping off that "what kind of weird" line from caramanica

cuz in this case, the answer is a derivative and boring kind of weird based on acapella

ppl who hate on "Acapella" are the worst kind of disgusting savage imo

"4th of July" off of the new album is like... Sheer ecstasy, waaaaay better than "Acapella" (which I like)

listening to a david guetta beat is like getting beat over the head with a brick

sometimes I like being beat over the head with a brick.

just sayin sometimes unsubtlety is absolutely the right and needed thing

late pass but did we ever talk about fix me up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6bKVx21m1E

not really feelin his falsetto

been listening to this long-lost 90s danny boy (of 'i aint mad at cha' fame) album on death row that's belatedly come out now - understandably not quite as good as you'd breathlessly expect something mainly produced by quik and devante to be, but still some really good vintage stuff on there. check the 'it's all about u' epic lullaby realness:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7544510127a2c4a7/

this is his classic joint btw, inexplicably hilarious video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VTRMW2iaTE

this isn't exactly current r&b, but y'all should check out Little Ann.
http://soul-sides.com/2010/02/little-ann-going-in-deep.html
More available on youtube and interwebs or you can buy the LP
http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=9kgpddrnbt

(xp well ok not inexplicable, it's the groovin on water in his big winter coat at 1:18 and painstaking sandcastle craft at 2:28)

The Junior cover sounded exactly like I thought it would.

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I know we've spoken about the mind-opening "Ride" video, but have we spoken about this anywhere?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u3iLdLTRgQ&feature=channel

Although it seems a little bit like two different songs put together, I love that despite the obvious budget constraints this is the first video I've really noticed Ciara with a personality.

i just saw the ride video and my mind was fucking opened. talk about personality

i market it so gooooooooooooddddd

i just saw the ride video and my mind was fucking opened. talk about personality

― la senora (surm), Monday, 3 May 2010 06:19 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

^this. DAYYUUMM GURL!!!

i market it so gooooooooooooddddd

― The Brainwasher, Monday, 3 May 2010 06:24 (1 hour ago)

^^^^^YESSSSSS

ciara looks like she's auditioning for street fighter IV in that ride video

lol totally

i market it so gooooooooooooddddd

― The Brainwasher, Monday, 3 May 2010 06:24 (1 hour ago)

^^^^^YESSSSSS

― the gay guy from vampire weekend (Tape Store), Monday, May 3, 2010 9:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what are you guys even talking about

that line in ride. honestly you should have seen my face when that line happened, and she was in that coat thing

i like dropped my sandwich

honestly you should have seen my face when that line happened, and she was in that coat thing

― la senora (surm), Monday, May 3, 2010 3:39 PM (25 minutes ago

YASSSSS I was screaming at the computer screen lmao.

http://vimeo.com/11465235

love this video

has someone posted Blauw with the ciara leaks?

O_O at video

this is funny! 'dance with you' by the futhamuckas - like an early low budget black eyed peas, except they can't dance. found while browsing thru electrik red's back catalogue and shonky phone camera videos .. it probably belongs more in a rolling pop thread but i dont go on that. don't bother with their earlier songs by the way! but this one is sort of impossible not to like (someone will probly hate it within the next 30 seconds)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T6CDK7MGSQ&feature=related

electrik red has been doing shows w/ the futhamuckas, and the one song i heard of theirs - "the bitch" - was literal dog shit

they're like the r&b version of the teriyaki boyz

ok, I think I need to watch the actual "If It Isn't Love" video now to recover

haha! oh well i laughed.

i actually like this song okay -- the one dude is too gay to be singing about girls and the other two are not gay enough to be dancing like that tho

lol