NE-YO v THE DREAM

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 *

i'm not sure i'll ever understand people who act like love/hate is SO FAR AHEAD of terius' other albums

ha uh that song was pretty...raw

it's not so far ahead, i just remember it so fondly. i'm srsly coming around to the idea that 'love king' is actually his best

def in the Love King-is-his-weakest-album school. I graduated summa dream laude.

when i step away from love king and think about it rationally it's obv his weakest album but when i listen to it, it just gives me so much pure pleasure - it's kind of like terius just focused everything on giving fans of his sound that hit

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.

same here, i busted out love king for the first time since summer today and it sounded faaaantastic

agree w/ lex also

yeah, he made pretty much a 4.5 star album, which would feel great if that wasn't way off his standard.

eh 7.5/10

I still haven't really given Love King time - is it worth buying? Where in London is good to buy it of a lunchtime? The HMV up the road is useless.

it's definitely worth buying

don't ask me about record shops tho

lame. may amazon it later.

regardless of quality it's weird to hear anecdotes of people who only have/like Love King -- it's by far his least successful album and i would've assumed people getting into him more recently would have done so largely based on the reputation of the first 2 albums?

^^except for those who learned about him through/only read p4k! the mythical elusive hipsterz.

for the completists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=konUhb-Itkc&feature=feedrec_grec_index

poll results are insane. was ILM ever so young?

do any of you dudez have the "let me see the booty" instrumental?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQah5HZiUNc

more completist jamz

that's really him? sounds nothing like him. weird.

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

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:28 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― s&m: sex and masturbating (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:31 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:40 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i also suspected all of our lists would be completely different

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

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 12:50 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:01 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
lex i love you but saying "my love" is the best terius single is just

― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:52 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:53 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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"

― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:57 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
altho i feel reasonably comfortable saying "shawty is da shit!" is his my favorite song of his

― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 1:58 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:06 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― sister soulja boy (The Reverend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:31 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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

― Tim F, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:42 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
seriously how do you crazy bastards keep having this discussion!!

http://imgur.com/VCmNa.gif

― r|t|c, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:51 PM (8 months ago)

ne-yo didn't win this poll by a large enough margin

they kinda both went down the drain at the same time

well i would never use such harsh language wrt terius but i haven't been excited by a ne-yo song since like "mad"

also the unintended side effect of "give me everything" is that ne-yo's next album is totally gonna sound like pitbull's album

ne-yo did say an interview recently that that was the last housey song he's doing for now and he's swearing that style off, but yeah i'll believe it when i see it. anyway ne-yo has a great voice, the unreliability of his output hasn't really diminished that.

ne-yo didn't win this poll by a large enough margin

― dread the flopson (some dude), Sunday, July 17, 2011 1:38 AM (15 minutes ago)

come on son...what has ne-yo done in the last year that's worth a shit?

i'm prepared for a terius revival tbh - "fuck my brains out"/"schoolin life"/"1+1" have me excited, particularly the style he's going for on that former two

that's not a good metric since, as j0rdan said, they've had parallel declines, and i personally don't give a shit about much the-dream has done in the past year besides "Speechless" and "1 + 1"

oh so we're fronting on "yamaha", "schoolin life" and "don't make me wait" now

he didn't write "don't make me wait" fyi

jazmine writes all of her songs

[/jazmine stan]

^^

hm

i stan corrected

hey now

sorry for pedantry rocking, but i genuinely didn't think "in the last year" included the-dream's album from 13 months ago

come on son...what has ne-yo done in the last year that's worth a shit?

are we really writing artists off completely based on one duff album?

i mean it's not like i think libra scale was any good at all, but one subpar album ≠ OMG ~DECLINE~

as far as i'm concerned terius is still reliably excellent too

that album had a few jams. also i'm a big fan of "Pretty Girl Rock" and "U Get On My Nerves"

yes in fact isn't k3v (and anyone with taste) also a big fan of those two?

well there's fan and there's stan. i just feel like the only ne-yo stan around here sometimes.

I got your back

Da-Yo

My Ne-Yo stanning is a few years past its peak.

everyone's is, really, but "Give Me Everything" at least momentarily has me back in love with his voice