Electrik Red- How to be a Lady Vol.1 Terius 'n' Tricky make girl-pop magic

b) i've had 'friend lover' and 'drink in my cup' knocking around my hard drive for ages but only now in the context of the album do i realise how next-level they are

me 2

nothin's gonna topple so good for me, which has sounded just as good since the first time I heard it

'friend lover' is the kind of thing that if done wrong, ever so subtly wrong, it could be discounted, but it's just not

it's so 80s but doesn't feel like a pastiche at all

otm

jordan i think you said something once about l*dy g*ga's 'just dance' capturing that feeling of being totally fucked up in a club and not knowing/caring where or what or who - 'drink in my cup' does that for me

i mean we have all seen the video, right? seriously don't think this'll be beaten this year http://videos.onsmash.com/v/bIH3Lab4eCSGssNM

'friend lover' is so candy sweet that it almost makes you forget it's about having a no-strings fuck-buddy

jordan i think you said something once about l*dy g*ga's 'just dance' capturing that feeling of being totally fucked up in a club and not knowing/caring where or what or who

just to clarify, i said that i appreciated that a pop star was saying these things so explicitly, but yeah i get you

xp otm

i never heard "Friend Lover" or "Drink" before today, both sound like odd single picks to me.

always thought Jordan was a little hyperbolic with his futurespacecat description of the production on LvM, but it's totally appropriate here.

hold on

i dont remember ever lauding the prod on lvm anymore than i would any dream song, in fact if anything i think i said that the production on some of the songs was pretty standard, just that trick & dream were able to infuse enough of their quirks to push them over the top (regarding specifically "home 2 ur mama" and "lvm"/"lvm2"), altho i would say "fancy" and "right side of my brain" are futurespacecat def

but yeah the production on these songs is just in another galaxy

i think my fav thing about "devotion" is that it sounds like she's being cradled by the song - it's such a soft and sensual and thus comforting beat and it perfectly matches the sentiment

this proves my thesis for me at least that the girl equivalent of any album is better (if this could be said to be the girl-LvM)

u so fulla shit JS: NE-YO v THE DREAM

LOL!

jordan i think you said something once about l*dy g*ga's 'just dance' capturing that feeling of being totally fucked up in a club and not knowing/caring where or what or who - 'drink in my cup' does that for me

i mean we have all seen the video, right? seriously don't think this'll be beaten this year http://videos.onsmash.com/v/bIH3Lab4eCSGssNM

― lex pretend, Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:31 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

right on

like i totally feel that this is what goes on in my head on a friday night

i love how the production throughout is like full of detail but not OVERly complex

alright point taken al, but that was obv on the night it leaked so i was punch drunk

it's like they took the first thing off they saw in the mirror

xp

muah :)

so "kill bill" is like the iffy song? but i kind of like it

"Kill Bill" is way too Brooke Valentine. (I should probably go back and listen to her album again before I start using her as a punchline, but whatever.)

p is for power" swells to this point, where it's so simple but so not

love that

wow, you guys weren't kidding about this album being hard to find in stores. I was in a store today (an independent one that sells a lot of R&B and currently has Chrisette Michele at the top of its best sellers list, even), and couldn't find a single copy. glad I already got it only this week -- only $6.99 on Amazon's mp3 store!

yeah man i didnt see this anywhere >:(

it's at streetside

really? ok

This sounds so amazing walking through the city in the sunshine. I think my favourite bit is the run through Friend Lover -> P Is For Power -> We Fuck You, it's like "yeah you think we can't get any more riotous but watch us go HERE".

If this album isn't getting a massive push even in the US there's no hope for us. Unless this becomes one of those occasional freakish rnb records that does better in the UK than the US.

nah there's def no hope for us

it's insane that they wrote this whole album in their spare time for fun

once it sets in how amazing the songs are you realize how many places all of them go. "we fuck you" alone has like 15 incredible parts

you'd think it would be over at the I GET THAT ON I GET THAT ON part and there's a whole 90 seconds of insanity left

"drink in my cup" really reminds me of "high price" (the singing esp) - i wonder which came first in terius' brain

"shawty" is the slow burner imo

boy you know im lovin what you doo-ooo-woooh
put your lovin in my gun i wanna shoo-oooo-ooot
you're not the kinda guy that i wanna loo-ooo-ooose

go shawty go shawty go shawty go
go shawty go shawty go shawty go
mo shawty mo shawty mo shawty mo
dip, boom, explode

I thought it was "tick, boom, explode".

Great song.

yeah that would make more sense

Actually what this reminds me most of all is Blackout, something about the barrage of noises from all sides. But it's Blackout if Blackout suddenly sobered up and got its shit together and was all "right then, from now on you're going to do what *I* say."

Wanted to say something like that before but I thought I'd get in trouble

hahaha

if there's one thing it has in common w/ blackout it's that both have a driving vision

It's weird, i absolutely adored 'we fuck you' when i listened to it on its own before the whole record leaked, but in the context of the album it's just the eighth track in a run of amazing songs? By the time I get to it I'm sort of thinking "that fuzzy yacht-rock guitar-line sounding thing in muah, that was pretty amazing, maybe i should listen to it again".

(the beginning of 'bed rest' makes me think of girls aloud - none of the rest, though. 'kill bill' is totally brooke v but i love her so w/evs)

Devotion always makes me wanna listen to LVMpt2

the most hilarious part on the album is the end of the bridge of drink in my cup where it goes "i park that like turn... skrr!/ get up off that, look back chirp-chirp" with terius making ridiculous high pitched bird noises trying to imitate a truck beign put into reverse

if someone has made it this far down the thread and has yet to hear the album you can stream the whole thing on last.fm

http://www.last.fm/music/Electrik+Red/How+To+Be+A+Lady%3A+Volume+1

OK, I'm breaking my "no posting at work, ever" rule to say

OMG OMG OMG THIS ALBUM I LOVE IT SO MUCH

IF MY BODY'S A CLUB YOU'RE MY DISCO BALL!!!!

Ha hem. Sorry for that interruption. Yeah, it's *that* good.

i hope this album makes it into ilm's end of year top 10 - would be the smallest of victories no doubt but we can try our best