NE-YO v THE DREAM

fancy has the best moment on the album!

"something something about she's tasting wine" ~concertina~

"fancy" really is remarkable - i love the screwed voices come in "all we do is spend this money", "a-t-l-a-n-t-a GA" before the rap. i really love how on the "fancy" and "right side of my brain" he flips his penchant for using screwed up "aaayyys" as party chants and makes them sound like sad, dying dragons

Yeah, "Fancy" is my favorite song.

I'm warming to this album, by the way, for which I love/hate (haha) you guys.

sad dying dragons? ; )

yeah man

i mean i picked dragons arbitrarily but i def think in "fancy" and "right side of my brain" esp that he wants the ayys to not only sound sad but to convey this idea of his huge, powerful persona being as hurt as possible - how about a sad, dying (r&b) gorilla

i feel like there were say "ayyys" on the first album too but i don't remember where

off the top of my head there are ayyys in "shawty is a 10" and "playin in her hair" and neither of those are sad songs, i could be forgetting some

I'm warming to this album, by the way, for which I love/hate (haha) you guys.

― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:02 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i'm in the same boat. i mean i have no idea if this album is really objectively better than the first, i just like it a ton more because there's nothing that annoys me as much as "Nikki" and "Ditch That" and "Falsetto" and "I Luv Your Girl" did.

daer draem,

i knew i was right about u anyway but thnx 4 writing 'hater' all the same, u a sweetie. also it is superb.

<3s, rtc

"you be my julia i'll be your richard" when the reverse is really the case, ahhhh

sometimes i wonder if i'll ever get round to thinking about why i'm so into decoding stalky songs.

there's nothing that annoys me as much as "Nikki" and "Ditch That" and "Falsetto" and "I Luv Your Girl" did.

― som nambulistino (some dude), Thursday, March 12, 2009 9:13 AM Bookmark

conversely, there's nothing on the new album I enjoy as much as any of those songs

go fig

the Kanye track is definitely no "Ditch That"

ive def decided i dont like this as much as the first
its not just backlash-y ilxorism either

no big leap in any direction, but i'm enjoying this pretty solidly on first listen

i'll definitely take him over ne-yo now

I think this was discussed upthread before I heard this but the impulse here is definitely to start with Put It Down and listen straight through to the end. Front-loading the singles makes sense from a "marketing" perspective, but for my own purposes I think I'd prefer them tacked on to the end where I'm more likely to let them play once the real meat of the album finishes.

Some more highlights:

"Your body's the cup, my body's the coffee. And I'm brewin' it!"

LvM Part 2's HUGE chorus.

Waiting until the last possible moment for that ten second burst of drums that closes out Fancy.

Mr. Yeah is so damn happy!

Err...it's such a happy song I mean.

And I'm assuming "Walking on the Moon" will be a single at some point.

check the last minute
of "mr. yeah" though, it gets
all melancholy!

I think the two "Love vs. Money" tracks in the middle of the album are my favorite things he's done, period.

Yeah, I see "Mr. Yeah" as a kind of extension of the stuff that comes right before it. He's saying that he's basically going to be the dependable nice guy that (presumably) took his girl while he was making it rain in the first part! Which we kind of know, um, probably isn't true. The whole sensitive thing is a front -- "can we fuck now?" right into weird atonal whatever the hell that is elastic beat in "Kelly's 12 Play."

J0rdan OTM re: dying gorillas/dragons

Re the melancholy bit of "Mr Yeah", I adore the sad piano that underscores the last few "you can always come around" refrains.

yeah it undercuts
the rest of the song to bits
"it was all a-dream"

omg fancy slayed me on the bus last night. the way it pickes up and then THOSE DRUMS. it's a remarkable payoff and it's completely earned too

lol i cant write right now but daaaamn

151,000

i wish def jam would give him the budget to put on a 'glow in the dark' style tour w/ a live orchestra and shit. i would go to like 5 shows

its great how in "fancy" he gets taunted by these chants that are like hooks from slim thug songs— "all all we do is, we spend this money"

151,000

ok i'm not a chart follower at all, are these big numbers, or not, or what?

ah ok #2. not bad the-dream!

already sold 1/5 of what love/hate has sold

btw im trying to be more keepin it pos abt this record since i realized im kind of acting like simon reynolds on basement jaxx or something

obv this record is great

deej i think you were pms-ing last week

the common thread was only yesterday

^^^^grammatics that are masculine

#2. not bad the-dream!

Ah, actually buying this at Target so I could listen to it on the way home/scan the picture MADE A DIFFERENCE! (In the digital age, my new music purchases are basically limited to CD-Baby-level obscurity and stuff I can buy on the way to the checkout line at the supermarket.)

PS $9.98, check yr local stores.

I love the fact that you bought this at least 50% so you could Scan the Picture.

Oh, I'd only call it 30%.

i bought the Kelly and downloaded the The-Dream. i made a difference the other way!

I downloaded the The-Dream and didn't bother with the Kelly. I made no difference whatsoever!

high five

but HOOS been loving u lately

guys "Fancy" is the 4th single (after "Walking On The Moon")

no way

I can't wait to hear this all over the radio, oops

How have they already picked a 4th single?

if the video isn't a 10 min movie im gonna be so ~*~*pissed*~*~

heard someone blaring "sweat it out" downtown today. turns out someone was j0rdan, lol

you guyz know i
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