Rolling R&B Thread 2008

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x59ko2_chris-brown-forever_music

well it's the single off the reissue (or whatever they call it) of the album so even if you weren't too good for it originally it wouldn't have mattered

it is good though, it's not one of his top 3 or 4 singles imo but good enough in the context of pop radio. weird for a polow production also.

its basically str8 up club music like that janet 'rock with u' joint
lovin it

i dont like it as much as 'kiss kiss' but its great

i dont know if this ever got posted in here or 07 r&b but this brown/t-pain song that i guess is leftover from the sessions they did for exclusive is pretty good. doesn't have the hitness at all of "kiss kiss" but would make a cool album track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utmflIMdUE0

did anyone check the album btw? are the songs with big boi and wayne any good?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/145447713116d7aa/

i love you gifts remix!!

this is like music only rubber ducks can hear

big boi track on chris brown's is great, kinda think of it as the sad guy on the other side of mccartney 'leavin'

wayne track depends on yr jazze pha mileage - song is no particular shakes but really very nice all the same, as ever, i never know why people hate on the guy

so fucking hyped about hearing gifts remix when i get home.

jazze pha really is too hated on, i've come to the conclusion that he's really a relatively minor offender when it comes to talented producers who say obnoxious shit on most of their tracks.

yeah he probably needs a thread or poll of some sort, were it not for the thought that collating his tracks over the years seems like a charmless kind of thing to do. like, he just does his thing?

he was quite funny on "cooking with jazze" also! when i was really in no mind to be amused by it!

cb 'forever' is nice and happy and does not annoy for a change but won't be making me budge from my overall position on such matters i don't think

really slept on jennifer hudson 'spotlight' (though i don't blame myself particularly). the way it never goes in for the big pyrotechnic chorus you're steeling yourself for only seems to make it that much more persuasive as the song goes on; that kinda dulled everyday angst slowly gnawing away, and the having to say something about it, it's good.

re: the thicke single

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Entertainment Weekly has the Hudson "Spotlight" track on their "must list" for this week and say it could be their summer jam. Not sure about the latter idea, but I do like the song and its retro/neo soul 'n' club flavor should help it reach lots of folks.

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Adoring Lloyd's "Your Love" - so gimmicky! So great!

aaaayo keri hilson

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1518071&vid=256719

i actually like this song a lot better now than when i originally heard it

still don't like that song but I'd blapp

I just heard Promise again and its dear god, amazing. Also Keri can do better but I hear her vid is gonna be hype.

you're qualified, let's do what freaks do

Keith Sweat's always got it.

ciara's 'high price' finally leaked proper, and haha i kind of love it! but only if the video costs 4 trillion dollars and is directed by matthew barney. he could call himself cremaster flex?

i imagine this was sorta what kelis was hoping for when she worked with bangladesh, whom tricky stewart has ripped off OUTRAGEOUSLY here - the beat's one thing, but doing like a gotterdammerung treatise on en vogue's masterpiece theatre seems more ooh la la bangladesh's perverse sense of humour.

(danja is another one who occasionally falls into the "good thing bangla's so underrated eh" category, btw.)

lol tim that lloyd song is so you it's verging on self-promotion spam. doesn't look like it's gonna be on the album though :(

or 'how we do it in the a' come to think of it! that's odd.

ahhh my hayden panetierre reggae tune is here!! why did no one memo me!

best ever.

I don't think Bangladesh gets to count as underrated anymore post-"A Milli".

Have we talked about Ray J's "Snakes In The Grass" at all?

I downloaded it because of its mysterious title. Immediately assumed it was a hoax. Checked google and it is in fact the real thing. I am appalled/weirdly fascinated.

At the opposite end of the spectrum: I'm loving "Spotlight" despite probably because it could almost be a Showgirls number.

rtc, when you say "High Price" references Masterpiece Theatre, do you mean that outraged operatic thing Ciara does in the verse? Cos yeah that reminds me of "Those Dogs" (which I love) but didn't "Goodies" already do this trick a bit?

"lol tim that lloyd song is so you it's verging on self-promotion spam."

yeah it's almost embarrassing! My first thought when I listened to it was a vague sense that my intellectual property had been infringed. Which I haven't felt since the (missed opportunity) house-pop version of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere".

Sadly I don't like "Your Love" as much as I first did since I realised it's like a much much lesser version of Teedra's "Last Day" (mind you, if you put on a wide enough lens pretty much everything is a lesser version of "Last Day").

havent heard 'snakes in the grass' (once again, not on album) but me, kim kardashian, and t-pain suspect it's not gonna be as mysterious titled as it looks nahmean

hmm comparing 'your love' to 'last day' is sort of bewildering me though! do you just mean the way it engages pixelcloudz warpdrive in the chorus, or - cos the weird thing is i'd been playing imaginary video director in my head with it all this week, and plumped for a sorta mishmash of silent running and like lloyd-as-ripley waking up from hypersleep stasis in aliens and finding everything gone, all humanity and (obv) the loverrrr he'd been waiting for etc etc you know how i roll and so on - but without ever really seeing any actual end-of-world finality in 'your love' itself, it seeming to me lyrically any old ballad (with "people change like the weather" the classic ambivalloyd glint) and sonically little more than timberlake 'my love' x bobby val 'anonymous'.

re 'goodies', yeah i suppose, a bit. but then the beat necessitated it somewhat, we had no idea of who she was, it wasnt a schizo banshee bloodbath, many reasons to not enjoy that opinion.

incidentally (hah) do you like the song? i dont even know personally, things always be easier to love than like.

boy i know you want it

but what do you got on it

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YOU KNOW MEEEEUH!!!!!

Also, do we like LaLa? She's like a more ghetto (much) older version of Jojo also reminds me of JLO circa 'Love Don't Cost A Thing'
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Also, your thoughts on Asia Crus;
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btw these songs here are all great, big up your cotton socks veronaintheclub

new jazzy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ2lNbed5Is

praise jesus.

this song is absolutely stunning i'm like speechless right now.

"in love with another man" live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IIF9IAQSnU

since i heard it last year this has become like one of my top 50 songs ever she kills it.

i'm getting way too excited for fearless for my own good.

Yes, yes, this stuff is fantastic.

Thanks for keeping us updated, btw.

no problem

(another song 'bust your windows', think this is the second single; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8052WWDadY)

inevitably 'high price' OWNS me, like 40-plays-in-a-row owns me, absolutely immense. money will drive you mad. three choruses! hyped for the triple-cd concept album now. 'goodies' did that high operatic thing for like a bar, it was cici being haughty, high status, in control, here she's so high up it's all a bit dizzying and vertiginous and she's lost her mind a bit.

jazmine sullivan's something special, isn't she? 'need u bad' was real slow burn for me but it got there in the end. that middle 8! sadly all trace of 'lions, tigers & bears' has vanished from youtube and the internet is not providing an mp3, but i loved it when i heard it this morning, that line about how "the most frightening thing is you and me" is brilliant. 'bust your windows' is great too. i like that she's ~not~ obsessed with wanting to be mary j, pace keyshia.

the hayden panettiere song is a bit sub-'stars are blind' but it's ok. the video is ridiculous. this girl is an actor?!

feeling both dear jayne singles, 'fall back' is better than 'rain' though.

new discovery - jimmie reign! 'make you wait' is lovely bedroom r&b, the wisp of cassie haunts it a bit but that's no bad thing. she put out a mixtape a...year back, maybe? with a terrific version of 'my love'.

did we talk about the usher album? so bad :(

haha i almost did a "why haven't we talked about the Usher album here? ::listens:: Oh i see nevermind" revive a few weeks ago

Usher's album is not bad, it's just kind of dull.. but there are a few great songs like "Before I Met You," "Best Thing," "Trading Places," etc... it's just underwhelming compared to, say, 8701. he left a lot of great tracks off of the album like "Echo," which is apparently gonna be on Ciara's new album.

Speaking of CiCi, "High Price" is alright, it's grown on me from when I heard it way back... but it's kind of like a step backwards after The Evolution. Everything I've read about Fantasy Ride sounds great though, i'm excited to hear "Work" and the title track.. I love the concept of the album. "Supernatural" is nice.

really feeling trey songz new single in ya phone and joe - emergency room

ok i just noticed "MY BODY LOOK SOFTER THAN A MCDONALD'S HAMBURGER BUN" in 'high price' and am wondering how this is even a good thing, it is just cici being batshit insane

i really want to like "high price" on account of it being pretty daring and out there for mainstream r&b but the near-opera singing on the voices is fucking loony as shit what the fuck is going on

when she says "MY BODY LOOK SOFTER THAN A MCDONALD'S HAMBURGER BUN" in that high ass voice all i can do is lol

otoh luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuda

on the verses*

am i the only one bothered by the fact that "need u bad" feels six and a half minutes long instead of four? probably

yall got any non-youtube links of those songs? they're all nuked