Great name!
― I know, right?, Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:26 (fifteen years ago) link
<3 vs $
― Darryl Strawberry (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
In regards to his new album, The-Dream stated:“ This album’s gonna be the same thing - a little more beefed up, I’m just gonna give you more. Every album I’m just gonna try to give you more of me, and what I think about certain things... This album is just gonna be the first album on crack, basically.[2]
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Friday, 26 September 2008 02:28 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003873089
― finger blaster (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
An encore to the heartbreak track "Nikki" from the first album will also appear on the set. The Dream says his third project will most likely include a song in the vein of "Nikki" as well, as he hopes to release a full album of the Nikki chronicles at some point.
this fuckin guy
― finger blaster (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
favorite cuts include the '60s-inspired "You Aint Sh*t"
tfg pt. 2
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
and "Kelly's 12 Play," inspired by R. Kelly's debut album.
tfg pt. 3 + Public Announcement wept
― Andy K, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Dream's new single "Lemme See The Booty":
http://www.zshare.net/audio/50631705135b33d7/
The beat is INSANE. Lil Jon killed it.
― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 30 October 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The beat sounds like that Usher single that never took off and then wasn't even on his album.
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 03:43 (fifteen years ago) link
This kinda sux
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"lil jon kills it"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway i'm not surprised that the dude w/ the screename"put a ring on it" is into this song considering they are stylistic twins
i like single ladies and booty but i'm hoping the whole album isn't in this spare, chaotic direction
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
This kind of backing just highlights how bad his vocals are. LoveHate mostly worked because it was lush.
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i agree w/ you
i mean the beat is fun to listen to and is interesting and engaging from a technical standpoint, but i want stuff that sounds like "playin in her hair" and "purple kisses" and "nikki"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lol @ dream backlash
― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 30 October 2008 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not so much that I'm backlashing against him, as this isn't really what I want from him or something he can pull off.
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
...as much as this...
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
um yeah it's not backlash just the song is only kind of good
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
well it's kind of great actually so it's more of the fact that i'm not totally enthused about this production trend
i've never had a problem w/ his vocals btw
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i was just joking about the backlash
and yeah, I like his voice so I'm not bothered by the sparse production...this is like "i luv ur gurl," i'm sure the album'll have more of the layered stuff
― Hair Weave's Lookin Kinda Purdy (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:30 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i don't disagree about the album as a whole but "booty" and "single ladies" are all over the place and discombobulating (which is cool but can get tiring) whereas "i luv your girl" is really low-key and unobtrusive like snap music
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:32 (fifteen years ago) link
btw i want to start a petition to re-title the album this:
― Darryl Strawberry (The Reverend), Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:38 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 30 October 2008 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
“Kiss” U.S. 7" singleSingle by Prince and The Revolutionfrom the album ParadeB-side "♥ or $"
― 4 Out of 5 Dentists (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 October 2008 07:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i like a lot of the details more than the song...the echoed "eh...eh....eh" is great. i look fwd to the rest of it growing on me.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 October 2008 08:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Most of you guys are insannnnne, this track is fucking awesome! MINIMALSEXYELECTROSPRING! EH EH AHHH!!!
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
looking back it's kinda funny that the official dream thread started out as a ts: ne-yo v. the-dream with the-dream losing.
― aaron d.g., Wednesday, 5 November 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
not that funny, when you consider that The-Dream had just been out for a few months at the time, Ne-Yo would probably still win if the poll were done again today,and there are several Ne-Yo threads but pretty much just this one for The-Dream.
― some dude, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i voted dream
― GOOD LUCK USA! (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 5 November 2008 08:00 (fifteen years ago) link
feelin it'
― lupe fiasco from the hilarious lupe fiasco albums (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 November 2008 02:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it's called "cringing" apparently
― lupe fiasco from the hilarious lupe fiasco albums (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 November 2008 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
how did you know what face I was going to make when I listened to that song?
― The hardman from the hilarious 'ilx' admin log (some dude), Monday, 17 November 2008 03:44 (fifteen years ago) link
how did you know what face i was going to make when i read that "zing"
― "alpha dog" (Tape Store), Monday, 17 November 2008 03:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, not too impressed w/ that... hopefully it's not on the album.
― Hair Weave's Lookin Kinda Purdy (The Brainwasher), Monday, 17 November 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
He changed his single to "Rockin That Thing":
http://www.zshare.net/audio/516822100f886fb0/
Album pushed back to February...
― fart like a whale (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 22 November 2008 05:40 (fifteen years ago) link
he should probably lay off the whole "radio killa" thing until he's got a single that definitely isn't going to flop.
― dumb pseud (some dude), Saturday, 22 November 2008 13:24 (fifteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 03:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i would give everything i own to see The-Dream recreate this entire thing in live action. not sure who would play simon & theodore.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda love 'rocking that thang', actually. it's got that hard-to-pin-down "epic lullaby of the everyday" feeling he's good at ekeing out. although that doesn't seem quite it either.
los da mystro possibly more key to dreamery than tricky at this point? at least while tricky's busy showing off his impressively dead-on pastiches of other producers.
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
don't you think?
'single ladies' - swizz'high price' - bangladesh'touch my body', 'luv' - jd'let me see the booty' - lil jon'touch my body rmx' - polow and by extension timba (altho way more in spirit than in exec really)
i like how its almost as if tricky's deliberately underlining the fact that he's been more of a jobbing bryan-michael coxish type jobbing industry producer for like the last 15 years who got big with a huge record and refuses to replicate/"be an auteur" on the back of it
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i know what you mean...really feeling Los more these days, although i think Tricky is still pretty talented.
― e|t|c (some dude), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
the tricky background check was inspired by listening to the 1996 braxtons album the other week and getting stuck on this song, and then being shocked @ the credits! the other one of his on there is a note-perfect swv 'right here' rip, although neither can stand up to 'so many ways' obv.
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Christopher+Stewart
if anyone got any more of these lying around put em up put em up
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
haha of all that is still trumped by los' one background nugget, but nevermind eh
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 December 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
los da mystro possibly more key to dreamery than tricky at this point?
i almost started a love/hate songs produced by los vs love/hate songs produced by tricky poll but i think we have enough posts about that album
i would've voted for los though
― please don't stop the usic (J0rdan S.), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
"it's got that hard-to-pin-down "epic lullaby of the everyday" feeling he's good at ekeing out. "
I haven't heard the new song but this seems spot on w/r/t the-dream's charms. A lot of my favourite moments on the album are him hanging out with his girl, "talkin' bout dis/talkin' bout dat", mussing her make-up before they're about to go out ("you got you're hair did/I'm about to mess that shit up" being maybe my favourite line in a pop song this year), watching Oceans 11 before sex even (though this was probably included for rhyme scheme purposes only).
I'm actually a bit surprised at how the production credits breakdown on the album, though I guess you could say L.O.S. pretty much does all the prettiest tracks. Tricky Stewart covers more range I guess.
― Tim F, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
tricky does the bigger tracks - i prefer that.
rtc brought it up elsewhere, i forget where, but the-dream's rmx of shontelle's 't-shirt' is u&k.
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh, wrong your/you're in my post, I hate that.
― Tim F, Friday, 19 December 2008 22:11 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the shontelle remix is a good example of what tim's talking about, although personally i do find that affecting warmth far more easily perceived (imagined even, perhaps) in his collaborations (whether duetted or just songwritten) than it is during much of love/hate.
hay tim have u heard that 'touch my body' remix yet btw! i was kinda champing to go off on one about it but you're the only one that subscribes to my ostentatious newsletters tbh.
― the love song of j alfred pitchfork (r|t|c), Friday, 19 December 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
incidentally this is where you go "other duets?" and i cackle and do a big cloak move thing and then man like dbs scoots along with the zshares. probably.
― the love song of j alfred pitchfork (r|t|c), Friday, 19 December 2008 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
haha i think i just wasted a full half hour sternly pondering the-dream, kill me! this is totally what gets my goat about this thread though - is it seriously only me that finds his appeal so complicated? did everyone pick it up and go "wau yes love it" first time they played it? cos it's not enough having al go "he's annoying!" and everyone else go "this is a great album!" and then 400 posts of the itchy & scratchy show when YOU'RE BOTH RIGHT AND IT GOES HAND IN HANDDDDD
― the love song of j alfred pitchfork (r|t|c), Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link