NE-YO v THE DREAM

i assumed it was going to be too but i think it's really beautiful

for a wispy singer, he could've picked a worse cover choice than an aaliyah song

i dont get the point

& the 'improvements' on the beat are not that

i don't think there's supposed to be much of a point to it

it's just a dude singing a song idk, it's nice

it's okay

it's just a dude singing a song idk, it's nice

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 17, 2010 7:56 PM (3 hours ago)

yeah this, i'm a stan but i love tracking down dream demos of songs he wrote for other artists, he's got a bunch of those floating around and theyre cool

i will assume you are not intending to imply what you seem to be implying there

but yeah, turns out dude is a fairly good interpreter, too

??

it seems that you're implying that the-dream wrote "one in a million" for aaliyah

lol

Kim Kardashian Is Recording Music With The-Dream

THIS NEEDS TO BE TRUE SO MUCH

oh god the storch/paris vibes are so overwhelming

and that led to brilliance

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/The-Dream_performing.jpg
Haters gonna hate.

Leak out now.

I loved "One in a Million" immediately.

"one in a million" is so great!

lol this thread is so confusing. ne-yo's leak right? not the-dream/kardashian leak?

yeah this thread is for the-dream discussion

i bumped the YOTG thread the other day, still haven't listened to this yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tpl9LtkRRw

I love watching this dude dance. Great song too.

how would we rank terius' singles as lead artist, then?

was going to put this on al's poll thread but thought he might not appreciate yet more terius talk there, and there aren't really enough to merit a thread of their own. thought it might be interesting though as terius' singles don't tend to be the most talked-about of his songs, and are def his most "generic"...anyway i go:

my love
shawty is da shit
sweat it out
i luv your girl
rockin' that shit
let me see the booty
walkin' on the moon
make-up bag
love king
falsetto

falsetto
rockin that shit
sweat it out
shawty is da shit
i luv ur girl
my love
make-up bag
let me see the booty
love king
walkin' on the moon

rockin' that shit
shawty is da shit
sweat it out
love king
walkin' on the moon
i luv your girl
my love
let me see the booty
make-up bag
falsetto

i also suspected all of our lists would be completely different

well, so far "sweat it out" has a consensus bronze medal

makes a kind of sense -- it's obviously great but chartwise a very minor hit that didn't have a video so noone feels quite right about putting it in first or second place

lex i love you but saying "my love" is the best terius single is just

shawty is da shit
falsetto
i luv your girl
sweat it out
my love
rockin that shit
let me see the booty
love king
walkin' on the moon
make-up bag

anyway i'll rank these as singles and not necessarily as songs or parts of albums

"shawty is da shit!" > "rockin that shit" > "sweat it out" > "falsetto" >>> "love king" > "i luv your girl" = "my love" = "walkin on the moon" >> "make up bag"

altho i feel reasonably comfortable saying "shawty is da shit!" is his my favorite song of his

i don't think i'd ever have guessed that "my love" would become my fav terius single at the time, but it actually inspired this bump - it's probably the dream song-in-isolation i drift back to most regularly, i kind of feel i know every nook and cranny of it by heart

shawty is da shit
i luv your girl
sweat it out
falsetto
rockin' that shit
walkin' on the moon
make-up bag
my love
love king
let me see the booty

shawty is da shit
rockin' that shit
falsetto
sweat it out
my love
i luv your girl
make-up bag
let me see the booty
love king
walkin' on the moon

seriously how do you crazy bastards keep having this discussion!!

http://imgur.com/VCmNa.gif

hahahahaha

rofl

i could've abstained but tbh i can't resist any opportunity to shit on "Falsetto" and "Make-Up Bag"

massively back into 'love king'. haven't listened to it much since it was released but last few weeks i'm just obsessed again. sex intelligence -> abyss is seriously the best shit he's ever done. i do still + always have a fondness for love/hate era terius where it was relatively simple...........obsessed with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqeqt2sxek

i play love/hate to ppl who are massively into love king and they don't get it at all. like that kinda massively produced terius opera is amazing but how can you not like the gorgeous simple love songs? don't get it

l/h is still album of the decade to me -- altho i prob didn't get into it until like three weeks after its release

three months**

word. i can sing it word for word, front to back.

those rubbery promise drums on should've been you!!

shawty used to be up in my picture like painter

those are like classic los da mystro drums

drum pattern reminds me of the "luv songs" drums

^^last three posts pretty much have me convinced this will be my favorite song of the week, don't let me down

it's great

i play love/hate to ppl who are massively into love king and they don't get it at all. like that kinda massively produced terius opera is amazing but how can you not like the gorgeous simple love songs? don't get it

― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Sunday, November 28, 2010 7:32 PM (19 minutes ago)

yeah it's funny this woman i work with was playing love king at work one day so i burned her his first two and electrik red's - she was already familiar with the singles but didn't really dig either of the first two albums, i didn't get it at all.

i still consider love king to be pretty clearly his weakest album but i enjoyed it pretty well in the car on the way back to school today - title track has grown on me a lot since way back when it leaked - i think it's a great opener now. parts of the album still drag for me, unfortunately - apart from a few great moments i can't get into the first "sex intelligent", "nikki pt. 2" is a waste of a great first 60 seconds, "panties to the side" is just....(although i think i said once that i do love the "...call me" -> *"turnt out" starts*, likely just because i'm so glad it's over), and "february love" is still pretty lifeless for me.

"fila", "yamaha", and "turnt out" are obv among his best, tho

i dunno i was def of the "it's his weakest album" school of thought but now i'm not sure. it's def my album of the year and i think its pretty fucking solid until 'panties' which is just ..... * euggggh *