Anybody enjoying the Sampha album? It sounds superb but it's not moving me at all
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
His singles put me to sleep.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah, his voice is an incredible instrument yet somehow the final product feels empty
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
can't stand his voice so the album is a non-starter
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Monday, 20 February 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
i love "timmy's prayer" but everything else hasn't hit me in the same way
― joshywinty (josh), Monday, 20 February 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Does anybody else's rap/R&B station play that Bibi Bourelly song all the time? I can't figure out what's going on; it's always prefaced with a spoken intro from Bourelly about the song, and packaged so that it feels like sponsored content. The song isn't actually charting from what I can tell.
My station did the same thing a few years back with Tinashe's "2 On," but that song was a legit hit. "Ballin" is just atrocious
― Evan R, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Ack, so here's what's going on http://headlineplanet.com/home/2017/01/10/bibi-bourellys-ballin-confirmed-iheartradio-verge-program/
Inactive since early in the fall, iHeartRadio’s “On The Verge” program is back.Monday, iHeart identified Bibi Bourelly’s “Ballin” as its new urban radio pick.In addition to branding support across the iHeart digital networks, “On The Verge” provides selected artists/songs with guaranteed airplay on the iHeartMedia network of stations. While not enough to automatically take a song to #1, the guaranteed airplay gives selections a legitimate chance to connect with listeners.“Ballin” was up to #39 on this past week’s Mediabase urban airplay chart.
Monday, iHeart identified Bibi Bourelly’s “Ballin” as its new urban radio pick.
In addition to branding support across the iHeart digital networks, “On The Verge” provides selected artists/songs with guaranteed airplay on the iHeartMedia network of stations. While not enough to automatically take a song to #1, the guaranteed airplay gives selections a legitimate chance to connect with listeners.
“Ballin” was up to #39 on this past week’s Mediabase urban airplay chart.
This is nuts. I understand giving a platform to an undiscovered artist to mix things up, but for nearly two months they've been giving constant, national airplay to a song that, as best I can tell, nobody enjoys. It's like they reactivated the program and forgot about it.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link
she is very much an industry plant
― maura, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, like, every part of that song is so extremely cynical, even with out the irony of all those lines about working-class woes coming from a wealthy songwriter to the stars. And her vocal affect is just agony.
Anyway, turns out she's being hyped through the same machine that made Iggy Azalea happen. https://t.co/yTDkDaFYZn
But her failure to gain any sort of traction, even with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free air time devoted to her, makes it all extra sad and obnoxious. Like, it's been eight weeks, maybe it's time to just move on to another artist or song or something
― Evan R, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
id like to observe that im actually not mad at the idea of this mechanism, i mean a kehlani record was semi-launched by it too, we all know it's a lot harder for radio to break records the way it once could & im not mad that they have some kind of panic button if it works on occasion
but of course its also just showing that they push some random ass shit
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
I mean, if they selected a new artist every week or even every other week, it'd be kinda great. A few dozen lesser known artists a year would have some fighting chance at making a name for themselves, and even in a worst case scenario there'd be some gems. Plus it's just always nice hearing new stuff on the radio.
Having the same shitty song force-fed to us for two-plus months though is dreadful, though. Somehow even with all the free airplay, Bourelly's song hasn't even cracked the charts, which tells the whole story. Like, it honestly feels like a clerical error at this point, like corporate decreed this song must be in hourly rotation but forgot to send out the memo saying it was time to move on
― Evan R, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
she also played on some awards show- i forget which- as an "emerging talent." (maybe it was the BET awards?)
― maura, Tuesday, 28 February 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah i heard a payola-spin of "ballin'" yesterday (my city's station had been playing it before it had been chosen for it) and ugh the chorus is really awful omg
it's currently at #26 on the r&b/hip-hop airplay chart, so technically it is charting. tho i find it super sad that radio playlists are now so tight that it is extremely hard for a new artist to break through w/o a mechanism like this (especially true at pop and country radio), i'm at least glad that at least some women are getting chosen for it at urban radio, since they've had it rougher than just about anyone.
― dyl, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
She's a Marylander and her dad Jean-Paul Bourelly was a guitarist involved with Black Rock Coalition bands, plus she wrote some songs for others first...
After attending Blake High School in Silver Spring, Bourelly moved to Los Angeles to continue pursuing her music career, and the City of Angels delivered on its promise. She penned one of last year’s biggest songs, Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money,” in addition to several cuts on Rihanna’s latest release, “Anti.”
From a freelancer's Washington Post review https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/maryland-native-bibi-bourelly-enchants-at-u-street/2016/09/04/99e8610c-72d3-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html?utm_term=.36f6241a5aad
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
Just more background, not defending song or the mechanism that is getting it airplay
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 2 March 2017 14:46 (seven years ago) link
iheartradio has been doing this for a while...
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 March 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
also that song is good
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 March 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
lol yeah it's really nbd
― r|t|c, Thursday, 2 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
new chloexhalle mixtape is really nice
https://youtu.be/O8_PGsVfw8E
― maura, Monday, 20 March 2017 01:00 (seven years ago) link
quite surprised by how good this single from terribly-named new british r&b boy band mic lowry is
https://soundcloud.com/miclowry/whiskey-kisses
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72-Un9QXgrA
i've heard this song on the radio late at night a couple times now and it kinda caught me off guard both times. (yes, it interpolates the soul ii soul classic, but that's probably the least interesting thing about it.) embarrassingly i had forgotten who letoya luckett is but in my defense it's been quite a while since she last made any waves.
(there's a music video too but i didn't embed that b/c there's so much dialog in it)
― dyl, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 06:55 (seven years ago) link
R.L.UM.R. "Frustrated" is excellent…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEAVmj_84K0
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:38 (seven years ago) link
whoa, has that guy done anything else? That's really great... savvy mix of modernist stuff and Showtime at the Apollo-wave
― Evan R, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
there's very little info on him… but I hear that song all the time on the radio…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
Great recommendations all around itt. That Letoya Luckett track is lovely and one of the rare times an interpolation like that doesn't pull me out of the song
And man that Chloe x Halle tape is a stunner, maybe the best R&B project I've heart this year, up there with Kelhani. They're Beyonce proteges? Love how fast the whole thing moves; such great movement and concision. Weird comparison, but since most of these songs are under two minutes it kinda plays like the alt-R&B answer to that Mannequin Pussy album from last year, just a splatter of brilliant ideas that never pauses. "Poppy Flower" and "Wonder"... man.
Lex, wasn't able to stream that song b/c SoundCloud wants me to have some sort of premium account (gross) to hear the whole thing. Preview sounded cool tho
― Evan R, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
that RLUMR single and the Chloe x Halle mixtape are really great! Went back to CxH's EP from last year too and that's terrific too - you can definitely hear a lot of the precision and detail of Bey's s/t in both.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 March 2017 13:43 (seven years ago) link
i think i LOVE the khalid album
― monotony, Monday, 27 March 2017 07:06 (seven years ago) link
No word on the new Trey Songz?
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 27 March 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/mary-j-blige-love-yourself-feat-kanye-west/
― maura, Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
ILM's 2017 Rolling R&B Thread Spotify Playlist
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 03:39 (seven years ago) link
lol i came back to ilm after a week away and saw how many rolling threads were on new answers and actually thought there might be an interesting reason for that! never mind
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 11:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/charts/r-and-b-albums
Hmmmm, Bruno Mars...
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 April 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
i mean, it is an r&b album
the adult r&b station here has been playing his pop hit "that's what i like" a lot lately and it sounds perfectly appropriate right next to mary j. blige's "thick of it" et al so \_(ツ)_/¯
― dyl, Thursday, 13 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
He is successful across many of the charts, true.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 13 April 2017 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Thanks to Lex for the tip-off on the Jacquees & Dej Loaf mixtape – it's very nice.
― Mercer Finn, Thursday, 13 April 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
i'm really into this JHud song featuring Babyface and Ma$e from an adam sandler movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncKGyNksAcw
― flopson, Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:50 (seven years ago) link
Fun song!
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Sunday, 16 April 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
sounds like sukiyaki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUA-DcW1lFc
mixed with mariah carey's 'honey' lol
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 21 April 2017 23:30 (seven years ago) link
ironically 'sukiyaki' was covered by ... a taste of honey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwkKDyKqCQw
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 21 April 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
This is great. Usually singles that double up R&B singers for added star power don't work at all, but here Jeremih and Chr*s Br*wn get a chance to actually harmonize a bit and they really nail it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=94&v=v4R7Q9SAcvM
― Evan R, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:25 (seven years ago) link
embedded a screwy link up there, sorry about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4R7Q9SAcvM
― Evan R, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
How did I not know that Jose James released a full-on pop/modern r&b record?
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 29 April 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
i tried to listen to it but wasnt in the mood atm, any good?
― Spottie, Monday, 1 May 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
New Lady Donli song is dope imo
https://soundcloud.com/ladydonli/ice-cream-feat-tomi-thomas
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 9 May 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link
Cali Roots Festival livestream---so far so good: https://www.livelist.com/caliroots/
― dow, Sunday, 28 May 2017 19:28 (seven years ago) link
Love this
https://soundcloud.com/oneinthe4rest/jiu-jitsu-feat-chris-brown-1
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 3 June 2017 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Pretty close to gorgeous:
https://youtu.be/2jpFSvJ9UEI
Frank Gamble ft. Abra Cadabra, "J'adore"
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 4 June 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
UM how hasn't anyone mentioned "love galore" by SZA?? it's pure heavenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHXfCOjb3fk
― joshywinty (josh), Tuesday, 6 June 2017 05:56 (seven years ago) link
oh that's really nice
― dyl, Tuesday, 6 June 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
SZA album is up: http://www.factmag.com/2017/06/09/sza-debut-album-ctrl-stream/
― PJD PDJ DPJ (DJP), Friday, 9 June 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
this rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6dN_92i58
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
^^^^ enthusiastically seconded
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 20:33 (six years ago) link
the ty tape is great except for the pharrell song which is dogshit
the melody on that one is so off-putting.
― Spottie, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
I kinda like the Pharrell track? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
it doesn't really fit at all, i skip it every time
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
side effects & lil favorite are my uh favorites
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
The Pharrell track sounds as if he's trying to do an Andy Partridge (XTC) impression.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 November 2017 14:53 (six years ago) link
i agree that it's a weird fit in the context of the project, but divorced from that context it's cool, if a little long.
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:18 (six years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, November 2, 2017 7:51 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
side effects is so good
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
love ty but why oh why oh why does he still hang out with wiz khalifa so much
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
well, Wiz signed him to his label
― Spottie, Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
still though
― bodak horseman (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 November 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTTfquV0iE
a bit of a step back for them but it's a charity single (released for world children's day) so i'll let it slide. that mixtape from earlier this year is still very good
― maura, Friday, 17 November 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fVxrkQcXyE
haven't listened to the full-length but among the small # of youtubes i perused from the lyrica anderson album this is the one i'll prob come back to most. (i also like the instrumental break section in the music video to "don't take it personal" [not a monica or jermaine jackson cover] but it's not present on the album version!)
― dyl, Saturday, 18 November 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
Enjoying the Neisha EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQENPNd7d0
― Evan R, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link
Only just realized that H.E.R. spawned an answer record:
https://soundcloud.com/officialmusichim
― maura, Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
Pronoun tour with THEY and Us3 in the offing
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 7 December 2017 20:24 (six years ago) link
quick check suggested charles x has not been mentioned on ILX before and a quick scan of his last album suggests he's pretty greatthe video for "Can You Do It" is from last year but is showing as part of an animation festival this month; give it a spin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRcLv2EzwA
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 05:47 (six years ago) link
I wish I'd heard "At the Club" last month
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:22 (six years ago) link
so good
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
I really like the Lyrica Anderson album! It's nice to hear this ~smoky ambience~ Tinashe-style of production with someone with a full and rich voice instead of varying degrees of Aaliyah softness it usually comes with. I didn't realise she had a hand in Elijah Blake's "I Just Wanna..." which is one of my favourite r&b singles this decade.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 16 December 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
just came across this album, which is really nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj2mAGm7rz0
― maura, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
^^^ this is so good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
nice, like the weird bass synth on that.
― Spottie, Thursday, 28 December 2017 06:12 (six years ago) link
Rolling R&B Thread 2018
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 3 January 2018 10:49 (six years ago) link