Rolling R&B Thread 2012

yeah i remember she had some bangers back in the post-flo rida days

haha i was going to ask if anyone remembers her pre-fame stuff from when she was just another r&b blogfailure but having searched it turns out i have nothing less than a whole folder of 2008 demos on a old hd...? why man why??

btw wiki reveals she goes way back with d'mile who is all over various ddm stuffs

inviting anyone who might know to tell me some beautiful lies about how the teairra mari mixtape's worth hearing

someone recommended it to be the other day, i haven't got round to it yet though

"coins" from the other year was such an underrated jam

*me

My underrated Teairra jam from the other year was "Body". And her turn on the "Pum Pum Shorts" remix.

okay beautiful lies time: Leaving aside "I Do Like" (exactly what you'd expect) and "Click Flash" and "Mercy" the thing done got this kind of electrik red meets journey vibe, the beyond of beyonce's "dance for you", all power sex ballads, over sung and over produced and lacking in tunes, but sort of in the best one night only way. Check "Another Round" and "Lovemaking" and "U Did That" on this tip.

Hey R&B peeps, is there a separate thread for new classic sounding soul & R&B anywhere? Didn't wanna start one if it'd be redundant but also didn't think posting Lee Fields gorgeous "moonlight mile" cover would be appropriate here.

traditionalist stuff doesn't get a ton of attention itt but it's perfectly welcome when someone does want to talk about it, in my experience

I'd be interested in being exposed to more classic sounding soul. It'd be nice to hear something beyond the one obligatory retro-soul track that is now a staple of every big R&B album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzfy7aKB9oo

^dig this!

'wrong side of a love song' is freakin' amazing. actually on some hot buttered soul shit

Hey R&B peeps, is there a separate thread for new classic sounding soul & R&B anywhere? Didn't wanna start one if it'd be redundant but also didn't think posting Lee Fields gorgeous "moonlight mile" cover would be appropriate here.

― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Friday, July 13, 2012

Xchuckx and I talk about Lee Fields, some classic soul and current Southern soul (with the tacky sounding synths that many folks hate) over here:

Chitlin Circuit Double-entendre -filled Soul 2004 (and onward) Theodis Ealey's "Stand Up In It" is a song of the year

Sometimes even tim f. will weigh in with a line-dance favorite

cross-post from pop thread but this new jojo/shebib single is the shit

serious "promise" vibes

free tape store

http://soundcloud.com/futuresounds-bgr/jojo-demonstrate

i was wondering lately what happened to tapestore p

haha

i haven't talked to him in a bit... i should reach out. i think he's really focused on film stuff. miss him tho.

i can't quite decide on first blushes if that song's kinda underpolished or if it's a persuasive roughness

good though

it didn't strike me as immediately amazing but i think it really opens up

demmmmonnnnnstrrraaaaaatte

also that chunky, stuttery pre-chorus thing is hella 'writing on the wall' or something, i really dig

where are the "promise" vibes? seriously. "promise" is huge and lush, this is...underpolished doesn't even begin to cover it.

this just makes me think about how once again jojo's official singles don't live up to the promise of her unofficial stuff

idk mans, personally if it sounds like you can ride a horse to it in super slow-mo with a romantic sense of purpose i file it under promise

defence calls for the world renowned promise arbitrator k3v to resolve this thorny dispute

it's a bit static and small-sounding for that imo

rtc otm on both accounts

defence calls for the world renowned promise arbitrator k3v to resolve this thcorny dispute

― r|t|c, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:51 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

haha guys

i dig this definitely, and can see some "promise" in it - the percussion follows a somewhat similar cadence (sorta pushing it tho), and parts of it match the weightlessness of "promise", one of its finer characteristics. the production is a lot sparer, especially in the verses, which i think is what lex is referring to, which makes it feel a little less smooth i guess. good find nonetheless

http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/4fec9ea16bb3f76373000010/john-roberts.jpg

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/images/smilies/smash.gif

lol @ smash.gif

this is super-dope btw, esp the parts right before the chorus where it goes all double-time just for one line

i really don't like the drum sounds either - they're too loud and they kind of thud in a really unvibey way - cf how light and soft the percussion in "promise" is. iirc this is one of those things that repelled me about the production on take care as well.

and the song is just not there, god, my attention just wanders about 5 times in each verse.

yeah it does need a big breakdown or something, gets a bit circular and anaemic

generally agree about 40 beats but jojo has enough about her to plump it up to an extent so to speak

it's good, flirts with dope, def not super-dope

It makes me think of "Final Warning" more than "Promise". :O

yeah.... those guitar stutters are def "final warning".... not sure how i didn't place that

i think when the chorus opens up it resembles "promise" a bit

yes

these comparisons to all-time-classics are doing this song absolutely no favours you guys

you know what totally bangs? this robin thicke single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8f2EYdR3uw

old news i know but it never really caught my ear much when i listened to the album. really suits his voice well

Gonna save myself the embarrassment of trying to embed a Bandcamp track here (can it be done?) and just link to the page, but this Melodie "Classic Love" track strikes me as a better stab at '70s soul than most of the R. Kelly album

http://melodiesoul.bandcamp.com/track/classic-love

these comparisons to all-time-classics are doing this song absolutely no favours you guys

― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:50 PM Bookmark

Come to think of it, "Demonstrate" might be better than the entire oeuvres of Aaliyah and Ciara combined. Little to do with Jojo, though. It's all the genius of 40 Shebib.

this robin t is quite good in his usual sort of way

evan that melodie song is awesome, gonna download that EP

don't know a thing about time signatures but its pace is great, the thing is just in motion

it's in 4/4 but it has some nice syncopation

i didn't notice when jade alston released her video for searching - the song's ok and the video is ok - but she just released a video for Sober which is maybe the best song on the mixtape/ep, along with missing you lately and the intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZswiRYzmyY&feature=plcp

video is a blast in a budget sort of way, the track is still fire.

uh huh / i do it like this / i get sober by shaking my hips

That is really fun; probably the first thing I've seen that sells Jade Alston as an artist a lot of people would be interested in and not just a niche act

Ha, I like that song but "R&B as Rich Harrison would know it" seems about as far away from the zeitgeist as possible in 2012, the very definition of niche. This seems a lot closer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShxTG-QoxEA

Ha, and as if on cue, Popdust chimes in with an endorsement of "Sober." http://popdust.com/2012/07/23/three-awesome-tracks-jade-alston-cinnamon-girl-hanna/

I do like "Searching," but the crossover appeal on that one is somewhere between zero and three dropped Twitter followers, depending on which scale you're using

At least that one sounds like it could get on r&b radio, they like that 40 Shebibified shit. I don't think there's a radio format right now that would go within a football field of "Sober". It sounds like she's trying to do 12% of Electrik Red numbers.

i always thought "bill gates" sounded like the crossover hit in waiting on the alston mixtape

i like "sober" but there's something just a touch awkward about it, like it goes a bit faster than she's comfortable with

Seriously. Why are you all debating chart prospects instead of grabbing a hairbrush and chanting along to the bridge. ffs.

video is really fun