Rolling R&B Thread 2010

Ambrosius pushed back AGAIN?

bizarre -- "hey the single is on every station in the country, better push the release date back"

We’ll be releasing her album alongside the US on the 29th November, though just letting it become available no marketing or press push.

weird -- from my end, I'd have guessed Sullivan's new single would be a good fit with a lot of stuff that does well in the UK, especially with the way the vocal's treated

yeah i would have thought so too.

idk, retro in the uk seems to have to be that particularly ersatz, ronsonised style to pass muster on radio, not the cratediggery collage of the jazmine. and black US artists all vanish into an unpromoted void of soft releases and minimal press in the UK unless they're a) well-established or b) "go pop" in a really obvious way (see discussion above), whether that's b.o.b. getting soft-serve beats and rock singers on his hooks or the grim hell that usher's career has descended into.

fantasia and monica albums not promoted one iota over here either.

It's funny how Kelly Rowland has become the circa-2006 kings of leon r&b singer when it comes to us/uk fanbases

feeling this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkje46ta_10

that is very dreamy and reverby

very nice

RIGHT does anyone out there have the og demo version of trina's "here we go" with teedra m on the hook instead of rowland? i ask this every few years and no one's come thru yet :(

yo "slow jam" is my shit !!!!!!!

production kinda reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvM6XK1hL6U

could do without lil keke tbh

who is charlene renee?

nvm feeling the lil keke verse now

can someone recommend me a few songs in this vein, shit like keri's "slow dance" and e red's "devotion" etc, this breathy, sexy falsetto shit? male or female

these are my favorite kind of songs

did u get the teedra moses

damn no i still need to listen to her

teedra's just put a bunch of her mixtapes up on her site for free d/l - you absolutely need complex simplicity though obv

did we miss the new lloyd single??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSkRBCPRf8Q&ob=av2n

his voice is kind.... of strangulated? it's weird. polow on the beat.

does he sound like michael on this or is it just me?

im drunk but DOPE IMO

i love that

i feel like i've heard it before though for some reason

what does the rev think about his voice here

sounds to me like he's taking out some of the heights of his falsetto and aiming more for trey's crowd. definite MJ sound. a bit less gonzo and a really restrained polow beat too.
this is making the rounds on BET right now

Kells style yodeling!

i love that

i feel like i've heard it before though for some reason

― avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Saturday, 23 October 2010 14:01

cuz I posted it already lol

can't listen to that now, but i've been pro-lloyd since like "get it shawty". i posted new lloyd earlier this year.

lex has been really pro Lloyd iirc

haha brainwasher, i knew it! dope song

lolz get a grip, damn near everyone has been pro lloyd round here for years - certainly don't ever recall any outright haters at least

right i didn't mean to imply otherwise - given rev's distaste for someone like holiday's voice i was curious what he'd think of this partic song

This Electrik Red tune is new right? http://www.rap-up.com/2010/10/23/new-music-electrik-red-put-ya-money-on-it-africa/

As of right now, of the top 10 songs on the Hot 100, only "Bottoms Up" is a hit on the R&B chart. Six of those ten songs are by black performers. Eight are by minorities.

I feel like labels for the most part don't really understand this R&B chart schism. They keep pushing back albums by artists who have huge R&B hits that aren't crossing over, even though those artists' core audiences already have their appetites whetted.

lloyd joint quickly becoming one of my favorite of the year

came to the conclusion that "bottoms up" > "blame it"

also this new keri single is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGb6m0JhG8

FUCK ME FUCK ME
IT'S THE WAY YOU FUCK ME

(wow keri lol...)

u getting scherzinger rejects boo?

lmao it is very scherzingeresque in it's slutty desperation

liking the return of rihanna's accent

(wrong thread)

keri :o

i really like it! never got into "breaking point" but "pretty girl rock" was fun and this is even better

I never even heard "Breaking Point" but last night I heard "Pretty Girl Rock" on the radio and man! that is great!

motherfucker you better have heard "breaking point" if you were clowning me for gushing over it a couple months ago

but yeah it's not like it got onto radio or anything

oh wait i guess i did listen to it once and instantly forget it?

lol