tbh childish gambino's "3005" is pretty dope except for the corny punchlines, and it's about to become huge
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6141123/ariana-grande-my-everything-track-list-the-weeknd-big-sean-aap?utm_source=twitter
"My Everything" is due out Aug. 25, and will feature production from Ryan Tedder, Benny Blanco, Max Martin, Rodney Jerkins, Oak & Pop and Harmony & Tommy Brown. "I never thought I'd be able to say this, but I love this album five times as much as I love 'Yours Truly,'" Grande told Billboard in April. "They're different, but I love this one so much more."
― Greer, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link
problem's problems are that iggy azalea exists and that ariana secretly doesn't sing it well. it seems like a desperate attempt to blow her up into a massive pop presence instead of a semi-niche presence. which is probably necessary nowadays but still. i'm worried this record is gonna be entirely blaring-production covering her attempts at singing via whisper-shout and then like 3 ballads where she's allowed to show off
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
She previewed two other tracks that seemed fairly subtle in comparison to Problem's production, but only one of them made the standard tracklist.
― Greer, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 02:47 (ten years ago) link
if Oak & Pop and Harmony Samuels are involved there should be at least 2 songs i enjoy
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 03:25 (ten years ago) link
rip the rascals
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
people got to be free
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
i will never forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdZl59kyvkQ
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
5 features not including the producer features seems like a bit much, especially with them all right next to each other like that.
― Greer, Monday, June 30, 2014 12:56 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this seems like a pretty standard ratio for an event album? and as far as selection it has asap ferg where it could've easily had macklemore. her breakout single was with mac miller. the features smack a lot less of label trying too hard to blow her up than i might have expected really
― een, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
It's not Ferg that's the problem. IDK it's more the idea that Ariana is a big enough star in her own right now, she shouldn't need seven feat.s to get people to buy her album
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure everybody needs seven feat.s to get people to buy their albums
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 06:04 (ten years ago) link
Idk it's very 1st verse Big Sean 2nd verse Chance
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link
features don't really sell albums and haven't in like 10 years. it's more of a psychological thing, artists and labels think that's just how you have to make an album and it becomes an easy talking point.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 11:02 (ten years ago) link
adele to thread
― maura, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:08 (ten years ago) link
meanwhile
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jessie-j--ariana-grande--nicki-minaj-bang-bang-world-premiere-july-29-265347111.html
"In what is sure to be the musical event of the year, international superstars Jessie J + Ariana Grande + Nicki Minaj have collaborated for the powerhouse anthem "Bang Bang" out July 29 via Republic Records."
-_________-
― maura, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 12:13 (ten years ago) link
maybe ariana grande just likes rappers on her songs
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:06 (ten years ago) link
if anything having a rapper on your song would make it harder for you to sell albums to a crossover audience so i don't think that's the strategy
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
yeah I mean look at what happened to Mariah Carey
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
ariana grande is definitely, above all else, just a millennial whose idea of good rappers is big sean and mac miller.
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
i mean, we're talking about someone who memorized every line of "Guap."
wait what do i have to do with this
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
sarge's guide tape
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
i once almost listened to more than 30 seconds of "3005" but corny punchlines make up basically the entirety of the lyrical content so i couldn't
― dyl, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:45 (ten years ago) link
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2udxagx.jpg
quite the who's who
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
wow. the Year of Ma$e continues.
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
Ryan "Ryghteous" Tedder
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
oh boy, Childish Gambino on a Biggie beat. i'm guessing "Mo Money Mo Problems"?
― some dude, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
guetta :(
― katherine, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
― The Reverend, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 6:01 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he's totally derivative dont get me wrong.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
The intro will probably be the best track.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 20:30 (ten years ago) link
The Cashmere Cat credit was not expected.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
What a random writing credit from Harry Styles.
― Greer, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
What worries me about this album is that Yours Truly was great but it wasn't because of Grande herself, rather the personality that was built around Grande from the throwback vibe and 90s Mariahisms. Her Disney background worked for her because the songs were sweet and retro and cute but she doesn't seem a strong or versatile enough performer to sell something like Problem and you only have to look at her in the video to see how awkward she is with it, and the idea of her doing EDM bangers or whatever doesn't inspire me with great hope for this.
I mean, Problem is a great single but when you've sang on Right There, Baby I, Piano, You'll Never Know and The Way, your world-conquering breakthrough should really be better than a tween-friendly take on The Whisper Song.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
I'm just sad Babyface won't be on this at all.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 23:34 (ten years ago) link
our world-conquering breakthrough should really be better than a tween-friendly take on The Whisper Song.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 4:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is the most bizarre reading of this single
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 00:44 (ten years ago) link
she sang good on Yours Truly
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
her whisperiah impression is pretty nasally
― dyl, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
What worries me about this album is that Yours Truly was great but it wasn't because of Grande herself, rather the personality that was built around Grande
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, July 1, 2014 4:32 PM (Yesterday)
foh
― james brooks, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 08:25 (ten years ago) link
lol otm
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 10:31 (ten years ago) link
Her next single: http://www.kiisfm.com/articles/featured-472399/premiere-ariana-grande-break-free-12527297/?=38383
Meh.
― Greer, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
i like this... it's kinda EDM gone 80s?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:29 (ten years ago) link
:(
the chorus sounds like a prechorus bridge and the production is pretty lifeless... i thought i was fine with her remaining firmly at the center of rhythmic crossover but this is not what i had in mind :/
― dyl, Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
sounds like rihanna passed on it
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 3 July 2014 00:36 (ten years ago) link
:|
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 July 2014 01:09 (ten years ago) link
dope track
― een, Thursday, 3 July 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
katy b does this better
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Thursday, 3 July 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
zedd has still basically written one song
― katherine, Thursday, 3 July 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
? was thinking how much this doesn't sound like "clarity" and "stay the night"
― een, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
It wouldn't sound completely out of place next to the stuff he did on Artpop.
― Greer, Thursday, 3 July 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
"Knew Better / Forever Boy" -> “Thinking Bout You” are an astonishingly great album closer pair. “Thinking Bout You” sounds like the 1980s exploding in the distant past, and the event horizon suddenly washing over 2016 in a beautiful, melancholy rush of incandescent fractals.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
dangerous womanthank u nextyours trulysweetenermy everything
― ufo, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
a lot of basic lyrics around the same, one-dimensional bedroom theme (“Greedy” probably worst offender)
nah i love that this record is extremely horny
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 02:36 (four years ago) link
It’s not so much the “good girl gets ‘dangerous’” theme in itself (although that does get old) as that the lyrics of those songs are kinda corny, and sound like Max Martin at his Max Martin–est.Like I love “Bad Decisions,” but the line You've become my favorite sin — it’s distractingly “songwriter-y,” no one talks like that outside a Swedish recording studio.
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:31 (four years ago) link
...of course, the same song also features That Bridge, which perfectly sums up / restates the album’s theme in one killer verse:
Don't you know I ain't fuckin' with them good boys?Know you love me like ain't nobody could, boyIf you want it, boy, you got itAin’t you ever seen a princess be a bad bitch?
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 03:52 (four years ago) link
(AG has a credit on the track, and I’d love to think she wrote those bridge lyrics herself — it sounds like her “voice” — but that may be too good to be true.)
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
thank u nextdangerous womanyours trulysweetenermy everything
― bunny slopes, Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link