Love all the videos for the singles on this album...
― Mercer Finn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
i think "smfu" (the non-remix) was a single before "december sky" but none of us noticed it at the time. dawn keeps tweeting cryptic things that make me hopeful that a video for "automatic" might be imminent?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
OTM, 'Faith' works because there's only one of it
yes yes yes yes
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
Oh! the new track has that singing bowls sound that I was loving so much on it.
Also crazy disco string arpeggios. I am loving the attention to detail on the production of this thing.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
new track is brilliant.
she said on twitter it was swapped from the EP for "change", which was prob the right decision thematically
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
this interview is really great http://allhiphop.com/2012/06/06/a-diddy-dirty-money-liberated-dawn-richard-has-armor-on-for-her-next-phase/
"I’ve always had a love for talking to manatees"
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
will be all the more bittersweet in a few years when she's finally reduced to collaborating with seapunk aquacrunk waverave producers :/
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago) link
... saying that tho can someone tweet her drexciya's number
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
bubble metropolis vol 1, the fish suite
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
But I stayed three years at Nicholls State University, majoring in marine biology, and then I was doubling up dancing in the NBA with the Hornets as a Honeybee.
she's like the love interest in a teen movie
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Haha
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECWtBGjgoo&feature=g-all-u
― uberweiss, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
she's a very lucky girl that "tryna turn me on cos you think i'm operatic" happens to be a better/funnier/truer lyric than "operational" like she was fumbling for
― r|t|c, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ahhhh how had I not listened to "wild 'n' young" before now??? I want dawn to make these overwrought percussive epics 4eva.
― Tim F, Monday, 18 June 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
"Automatic"!!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
More Dawn/Druski. From an upcoming full-length set for October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuKEmWQvnk
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
whoa
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ that atmosphere
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
i should try to get over my dubstep allergy maybe, that half-time bit had me wrinkling my nose tbh
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually running a little cold on this one. It's repeats a lot of Armor On's motifs without adding much to them
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's even more structureless, which is reading as a plus to me right now
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, strikes me as a refinement if anything
awesome stuff
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
nice to hear gozilla popping up at the end for the ginuwine cosign too
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
*dz
O_O holy hell
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:03 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol yes. does anyone do remixes that take all the dance elements of a song OUT?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
If there were a special edition of Usher's new album that did that, I would be all about it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
O_O this song is amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
why must it only be in youtube quality
SO MANY amazing sonic and vocal details in this
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a Soundcloud link: http://soundcloud.com/rapup/pretty-wicked-things-dawn-richard
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is rather massive
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
this is at least the third really good dubstep r&b song from this year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Every time I think it can't get any better, it does. It's like one of those videogames where it keeps going up to another level and then another one and then another. The ~sonic textures~ ... this really is just a walking exercise in what ~sonic textures~ are and should be. Also the things her voice does at the end. I don't know if it's digital manipulation (and not even the obvious pitch-shifting) or if she's really singing that but the way the main and backing vocals twine together from 3:00 on - I don't even care if it's manipulated but some of those swoops and especially where she goes up the octave at about 3:25 - the vocal arrangements are like some John Tavener kinda shit.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost what are the other two?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
the one on the usher album and the one on the bieber album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
i care for u & as long as you love me
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
WCC OTM re: the vocal arrangements, I wish there was more drone layering/vocal line reflection in them to make them go full-on Taverner
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
it should be noted that putting studs on the underside of fake fingernails is pretty next level
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I love how "I Care For U" teases (threatens?) to drop but never does. I think that's my issue with this new Dawn track; when it actually breaks open it's not so thrilling.
But the sonic details on it really are incredible
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
It's just the intricacy of the polyphony that is completely slaying me. There is just such detail, the composition is just staggering.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the vocals are as mind-blowing as the production details - the sudden space around the whoops at 3:40 is just so...light and airy and clear
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
lot of overstating dubstep itt
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm neutral on the dubstep. I just get slayed by the vocal acrobatics on display, that's a hell of a way to pretty up a blahblahbogstandard drop.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
well i'm just using the very general definition. say edm or whatever, idk.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
it really is a tour de force vocal performance - as well as the acrobatics the really subtle touches, like when she murmurs "i ain't ever felt the same since" and you just gasp.
i love how it doesn't do anything as straightforward as just break open from an ominous start - it goes through stages of increasing intensity that culminate in the half-time digital storm.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
let's not say edm but also let's not have this argument. it's not "a dubstep song" obviously.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
xxp yeah i know, and the song does go halfstep for a bit, but it just seems part of the modern production language now imo and isnt deserving of being bracketed in a kinda passé-loaded way like it was britney five years ago
idk it wouldnt have really crossed my mind if i hadnt read it here is all
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
and nor did it for the ursh/bieb jams
eh ok maybe the bieb
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
WOO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OOO-OOOOO @ 3:39 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link