The timing is really interesting (if coincidental) in the wake of the Frank Ocean reveal, since K. Michelle has been openly bi for a while, and she addresses it smartly on the opener: "I done been around the world, slept with some girls, smoked a little weed but that don't define me..."
― Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
"There are hardly any songs I even want to skip on the Nicki album though!" the alleged attacker was quoted as saying on a message board Monday night. Friends insist he was acting "normal" in the days leading up to Tuesday's incident, which is being considered the worst act of violence against primary school children in London's history.
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 July 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
the best songs on the bieber album pass the drunk-on-the-night-bus litmus test of pop easily, the usher album seems more and more try-hard with every listen.
what is the k michelle mixtape called? i can barely download music or watch youtube any more
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 23:23 (eleven years ago) link
i've always liked nicki's verse on the inspirational track! but that is, in fact, one of the few songs that i do skip
xp It's called "0 Fucks Given," which is about right.
It's streaming/downloadable here: http://www.thisisrnb.com/2012/07/new-music-k-michelle-0-fcks-given-mixtape/
― Evan R, Monday, 9 July 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
she's got the title right at least
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 23:15 (Yesterday) Permalink
lolled twice.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
considering 90% of what ilm has given a fuck about this year that's practically a recommendation at this point
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
for serious she was talking about ilm?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
in truth i want to hear the k. michelle mixtape - perennially an artist where my failure to fall head over heels in love feels like a problem with me rather than a problem with the music.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
what?
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
everything i read on the internet atm makes me want to hear no music ever again and talk about nothing that i'm actually listening to
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
i dare you
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/MWVTy.png
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
So K. Michelle definitely picked the wrong day to release her mixtape. Ah well.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
i saw her video about masturbating on MTV Jams today
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:50 (eleven years ago) link
of the three r&b things released this week that i listened to today, the wynter gordon ep was the best. bit more straightforward than "stimela" would have had you expecting but still pretty good.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
the k michelle one has me a bit worried about her tbh, it has its high points but overall has this vibe of someone who missed her moment. what is she doing in a reality tv show and naked on the cover and talking about her ass somuch :(
still better than frank ocean, mind.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
K Michelle is autotune hell
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
(at least on the first track)
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
please don't listen to this if it's your introduction to her!!!!!
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
her mixtape from a couple of years back, what's the 911, is AMAZING
this is just odds and ends of someone who has no idea what she should be doing
though dan should def hear wynter gordon's "stimela"
http://soundcloud.com/wynter-gordon-doleo/stimela
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I want to go back to K Michelle but my first impression is "imagine if Keyshia Cole wasn't completely terrible and could sing"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
okay "Stimela" is great
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
even if it does sounds like it's named after an STD
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
it sounds like an outtake from So
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
these are my top 5 k michelle joints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH21KcQzI1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlCMetckhu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi1mhFQjhu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exXltbeIW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRF6inHDMlc
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
"stimela" is the zulu word for locomotive
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
if she would holler less and sing more, she wouldn't be so flat at the end of that performance of "Where They Do That At"
I like her voice a lot, tho
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, there's a just-fucking around quality to a lot of this mixtape, and at 24 tracks it is scattered by nature—definitely a mixtape, not an album—but there are a lot of gems throughout and I'm constantly in awe of her voice and her confidence. I think "Irrelevant" holds its own with most of the tracks Lex posted above, too
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i like "irrelevant" - it was on a previous mixtape tho
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
That Wynter Gordon song is like listening to Dolores O'Riordan from The Cranberries try to sing Drakewave. Ugh.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
am I more out of touch than I thought or does that comment make absolutely no sense
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I do admit part of me was thinking "lol Wynter's backing track is a little like sped-up Frank Ocean" but how do you get any type of Cranberries vibe off of her
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'd say Shakira.
The track's good.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
xp yeah, wtf.
I didn't realize her EP was out tho. Gotta check that. "Stimela" is one of my favorite songs this year.
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
Could go Cranberries or Shakira, since they both since in half-yodeled Alanis Morissettisms. I went with Cranberries, because I like Cranberries less
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
by that logic you could say Jordin Sparks sounded like Dolores O'Riordan on "No Air"
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
which no one would actually say because it would be super stupid
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
nice
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
It's a lot closer to Dawn than Drake anyways.
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah but even the Dawn EP is closer to Drake than some ppl here want to admit
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Guys did you know that everything in this thread is R&B and Drake is R&B ==== you are all listening to DRAKE.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ajKytShi_c
can we least get the correct case study up?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
xp Oh come on; is that seriously what you thought I was suggesting? Do I really have to post side-by-side embeds of "Faith" and "Take Care"? Obviously the two acts share a fair amount of common influences, especially when they are both in their downtempo modes, which is often lately
― Evan R, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
Surely the real damning comparison is that Wynter sounds like Y Kant Tori Read (e.g. "Cool on your Island").
But I generally approve of this sound being revived.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
but "cool on your island" is amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Who here hates "Take Care" for its music / general structure?
AFAIK most people dislike Drake for his voice, then his lyrics, then maybe the really really wishy-washy sonics of stuff like "Marvin's Room" (but that is the smallest group of Drake haters).
So invoking Drake as the boogeyman because an R&B tune is all emoto-house seems like missing the point of Drake hate.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
yeah sorry "damning" was meant to be in scare quotes. I agree!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
anyway even a novice like me can hear the afropop foundations of "stimela", from its name to the rhythms and the ululating. this is the track it was based on, it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Bb7p9gggc
and yeah a lot of the rest of the EP is weirdly 90s female singer-songwriter alt-rock which is a GOOD THING, if surprising
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link