"don't tell 'em" is a fucking smash, it's one of the biggest songs on pop radio rn and still increasing. also it's gonna chart high in the uk. how does jeremih manage to do this every few years
― dyl, Friday, 10 October 2014 04:06 (nine years ago) link
there isn't even a video for "Don't Tell Em"
― goon kabuki (The Reverend), Friday, 10 October 2014 05:22 (nine years ago) link
Just checked with his publicist; she says the release date is TBA next week ("hopefully"). Says the album is in and everything. Would be interesting to hear the logic behind the marketing of this thing tho
― Evan R, Friday, 10 October 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
i think the idea of them doing nothing to distract from "don't tell em" and then being like "bam here's the album" is interesting (if it works)
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 October 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
how'd they never shoot a video though
how many billboard top 10 songs since, like, 1990 don't have an official vide of any sort? can't be more than a dozen
Yeah it would be a cool experiment. Nothing they could do would make the song a bigger hit than it is now so why bother, I guess. They can promote the shit oh of some future single.
I don't watch or really like music videos so I don't mind that this song doesn't have one. (It's almost kind of refreshing coming on the heels of 2014, which saw critics write almost as much about videos as they did songs)
― Evan R, Friday, 10 October 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
kind of refreshing to see that a song can smash without a video too, a video dropping seems to have so much more impact than the music dropping (cf "2 on" - that song had been around for MONTHS earlier this year, to little reaction, and then the video dropped and boom, everywhere)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 11 October 2014 10:31 (nine years ago) link
pity it's not a better song but oh well
i've come around on this song a bit but i'm still hoping the album is full of old-school jeremih joints
― k3vin k., Saturday, 11 October 2014 12:25 (nine years ago) link
'dont tell em' isn't bad exactly but it's kinda lame in the same way i feel about 'we dem boyz'
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 04:39 (nine years ago) link
I know "Show Me" came first and you love it but imo "Don't Tell 'Em" has a better singer, a better rapper, a better hook, even a better interpolation
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Monday, 13 October 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
also way better, more propulsive beat
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Monday, 13 October 2014 04:55 (nine years ago) link
other than better rapper i dont really agree about any of those things! and 'dont tell em' feels like such a cheap conceptual bite, too
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 05:53 (nine years ago) link
the house reference feels so much more forced ... like the 'show me' ref was about the beat too
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 13 October 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
weird this was such a slow burner, such a bit of fluff
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
"show me" is better but i always thought "don't tell em" was being underrated -- i think jeremih shines thru that song anyway once you can divorce it from "show me"/mustardwave in general
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
i've come around to "don't tell 'em" and rather like it now. maybe i'm just pleased to see that a song in 2014 has finally legitimately crossed over from being a big hit on hip-hop radio to becoming the same on pop.
― dyl, Monday, 13 October 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
"Don't Tell Em" is tied w/ "Rack City" for highest charting Mustard song, history will forget "Show Me," y'all lost
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
also i was never really bothered by "don't tell em"'s similarity to "show me" bcuz jeremih was originally supposed to have "show me" so i can't fault dude for trying to get his slice
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
but ppl like kev or whoever lamenting that "don't tell em" isn't jeremih enough shows the blind spots of auteur fetishization imo
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Jeremih's voice is more valuable than his aesthetic -- he has deep cuts with a distinctive sensibility but when he makes a hit it's just a cool hit song with Jeremih's cool voice on it and the shape it takes doesn't really matter
― Raccoon Newsy Wewsies (some dude), Monday, 13 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
imo denigrating "auteur fetishists" can be useful in a rockist context when people are putting britney spears down or whoever and there are some problematic racial/sexist implications, but me pining for the jeremih of old is hardly the same thing
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 October 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
i mean i just thought it was a lame song and preferred the kind of career jeremih used to have and his old style. i understand him having to hop on trends tho (and obv his career was built on biting dudes like the-dream anyway, so..)
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 October 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
but anyway i've come around on the song a bit, i think it's a respectable 6/10 joint, but it's obviously more of a mustard (who i'm ambivalent about) vehicle than a jeremih one. there's not a lot of technical or emotional range; it's a limited song
― k3vin k., Monday, 13 October 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah it's fine but what stops me getting excited isn't so much where it fits into jeremih's career as where it fits into mustard's; it's a mustard vehicle that isn't even in the top tier of mustard 2014 singles
― lex pretend, Monday, 13 October 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
i don't think it's much to get excited about as a song itself but as an agent to get his album matriculating i feel pretty good about it
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
which perhaps is an objectionable way of looking at the song but such are the economic realities of popular r&b in 2014
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
Chart News @chartnews 16s16 seconds agoBillboard Hot 100: #6(+1) Don’t Tell ‘Em, @Jeremih Feat. @YG [16 weeks]. *new peak*
release the album
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 19:41 (nine years ago) link
Nov. 11
And oh good J. Cole, French Montana and Flo Rida are on it
http://bit.ly/1tiIMOl
― Evan R, Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:04 (nine years ago) link
guest rappers being the worst thing about any R&B album just feels like a given now, i pretty much ignore them. either it's someone terrible or someone good phoning it in.
― some dude, Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:31 (nine years ago) link
Jeremih in album delay shocker
https://twitter.com/Jeremih/status/529348439608655873
Still no final album art or master. No release date set.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
4. “Dumptrucks”
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 November 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
isn't the real breaking news from that tweet that he writes "mih" instead of "my"
Yeah not sure when he adopted that up
i put a lot of work on this album wanna give MIH fans the best #LateNights
obnoxious
― Evan R, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
he's done that forever lol
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 4 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
He's just trying to make people stop mispronouncing his name
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
MIH vs. #mylaugh
― Greer, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
weird http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6327425/jeremih-holding-back-his-career
― J0rdan S., Friday, 21 November 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
This is straight out of an Onion article about Joe Biden:
Jeremih and his touring entourage are reportedly under investigation by police for causing $700 worth of damage to a Fuddrucker's restaurant in Billings, Mont., on Nov. 5. Police claim the singer's crew threw beer bottles when a manager intervened after a 17-year-old female employee complained about the group flirting with her. Charges haven't been filed, but a local radio station, KRSQ, is banning Jeremih's records. The singer didn't respond to Billboard's requests for comment after the accusations, but on Twitter he blamed the "unfortunate incident" on racism.
― Evan R, Friday, 21 November 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
Not sure if I buy the "reclusive" angle—he's not, really—or that any of this rises that far beyond normal A&R disorganization. Interesting to learn he's probably to blame for not having a video though; lotta people wonder about that one
― Evan R, Friday, 21 November 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
buried the lede here:
Late Nights, which the singer describes as "clatchet" -- that's classy ratchet --
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 22 November 2014 05:18 (nine years ago) link
Clatchet and Rank Too
http://www.ticketfly.com/event/950903-jeremih-new-york/i am carefully excited
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
A couple publications are saying Late Nights is scheduled to come out Friday, but they aren't sourcing where they got that date from
― Evan R, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
when i saw he had released another single i was like "at this point i think that's enough singles to be an album"
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
This one sounds closest to something from Late Nights: The Mixtape. Not a bad thing
― Evan R, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 20:10 (eight years ago) link
That would be "Oui", right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtcP0PFifpE
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Pass Dat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn-EU_ahEj8
― Evan R, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 21:27 (eight years ago) link
Definitely out Friday.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:13 (eight years ago) link
"Oui" sounds great on the radio but "Pass Dat" is incredible and really sets my expectations high for this album
― just knocked me cold and left me on the sidewalk (some dude), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link