Also Prince was kind of a big deal when Erykah was a kid in the early '80s! It would've been pretty hard to avoid him.
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
(OK, maybe in '81 he wasn't quite a superstar yet.)
― jam master (jaymc), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
"I Wanna Be Your Lover" was #1 on the R&B charts and just missed the Billboard top 10 in 1978 and "Let's Work" was a #1 club hit in 1980; he wasn't an ubiquitous superstar but it also wasn't like no one knew who he was, and if Badu's parents were already bumping Rick James, they were almost certainly bumping Prince.
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
that mid-section is kinda like a lot of the jams on WWU. I might feel like listening to them sometimes, but I don't have to listen to them, nawmean?
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
wwu hits way harder imo
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Thursday, 1 April 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
and if Badu's parents were already bumping Rick James, they were almost certainly bumping Prince.
Yeah -- they even toured together in 1980.
signed, a dude whose first 45 was "Let's Go Crazy."
― Andy K, Thursday, 1 April 2010 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't be silly. If she was listening to the albums and not just the singles then, yeah, who wouldn't consider LPs like "Dirty Mind" or "Controversy" to be risque, especially by 1981 standards? I doubt there were lots of pre-teens singing along to "Sexuality?" "Jack U Off" back then. I mean, Prince became PMRC persona non grata long after the peak of his freakiness.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I doubt there were lots of pre-teens singing along to "Sexuality?"
There was at least one in my home growing up. I had no real idea of what the lyrics meant wrt to sex because it just was not on my radar/in my worldview; songs like "Ronnie Talk To Russia" and "Annie Christian" made a lot more sense to me at the time. (I never played "Jack U Off" because I knew it was dirty and I was convinced my parents would stop letting me play the album if I played it within earshot of them.)
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"Annie Christian" still doesn't make sense to me
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't say it actually MADE sense, just that it made MORE sense than "Sexuality"
― STAY ALIVE USING EQUIPMENT (HI DERE), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Prince's rant at the end of that one is kind of on the o_O side anyway
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"love" : me :: "window seat" : everybody else
Saddened to hear everyone is skipping the hardest and best track on the album.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I haven't skipped it -- I listened to it hard. Now I skip it.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Your ears went flaccid.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago) link
The first casualties of living in the new amerykah.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Just because:
The CellSoldierLoveThe HealerMaster TeacherOut My Mind, Just In TimeMy PeopleGone Baby, Don't Be LongThat HumpTwinkle20 Feet TallHoneyAgitationTurn Me Away (Get MuNNY)Jump Up in the Air (Stay There)Window SeatTelephoneMeYou Loving MeFall in Love (Your Funeral)Amerykah PromiseIncenseUmm Hmm
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Meh, switch "Incense" and "Umm Hmm" around.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm, wonder what happened to the highlighted tracks
Here is the track list for "Nu AmErykah":
"American Promise" "The Healer" "Me" "My People" "Speech" "Soldier 7" "The Cell" "Twinkle" "Love Me" "Honey" "Emotions" "Don't Be Long" "YPOM" "Hot Slow Jam" "Jump Up in the Air" "Loretta Brown" "Dirty Dirty" "The Healer Outro"
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
"Loretta Brown" is surely slated for volume three. Probably some of the others too, and (finally) "Annie."
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wait... there is a part 3?
!!!
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Can never keep track of whether the Lowdown Loretta Brown album is going to be part three or is just unrelated.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
she says in new york magazine that maybe pt iii's coming together right now. the next one was going to be the loretta brown soul production one i believe. some playback reviews said that it was mostly in the can but i can't imagine hearing that and assuming that it'll be out real soon.
― egregious apostrophising (schlump), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Not when Ankh was originally "supposed to" be released in July 2008.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I already wrote in the SOTT book about how I used to run around in my Superman Underoos pretending I was on the cover of Dirty Mind when I was six.
― Please Do Not Swagga Jack Me (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to wear old hose as detachable sleeves and pretend I was Ruth Pointer.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Unrelated, from what she said at the listening party.
― Please Do Not Swagga Jack Me (Matos W.K.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Good. Always preferred diptychs to trilogies.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Speaks volumes that the bottom 10-11 songs on this list would still make a damn good album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 1 April 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
backwards "Window Seat" vid http://www.erykahbadu.com/
― british is happening (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost yep, speaks two volumes, in fact
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 April 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"I don't consider myself the Queen of Neo-Soul. I don't even know what neo-soul is. I'll be the Queen of Neo-Funk, though."
<3
― k$h (The Reverend), Friday, 2 April 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.rap-up.com/2010/04/01/mother-claims-child-was-traumatized-by-erykah-badu-video/
― Andy K, Friday, 2 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Flash forward 40 years: Woman, once a child, grateful to be able to tell her grandchildren about seeing Erykah Badu naked
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 2 April 2010 02:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lord knows I would be
― forksclovetofu, Friday, 2 April 2010 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
so last night it was warm out and i was driving around, and i started with 'love' and 'fall in love' and was truly feelin' it. i like the odd phrase length in 'fall in love', it's a nice spin on the sample.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
uh wait are you gay
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Can I just Erykah Badu POX
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:41 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost I thought Ruth Pointer was a really beautiful man.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Friday, 2 April 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/Badu-May-Face-Charges-After-All-89799852.html
― 2 guys 1 jag (J0rdan S.), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
this whole situation has made me realize that badu is a lot more popular than I thought at this point lol
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 2 April 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, bill o'reilly was talking about it the other day
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 2 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
haha seriously - hope nothing happens to her tho :(
― k3vin k., Friday, 2 April 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
He no doubt mentioned her cuz she was a black woman in trouble.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 April 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the weird voting thing to the side of the story.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 April 2010 22:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I think this is the girl who tattled: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000296696623
― booches (Tape Store), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:26 (fourteen years ago) link
/creepy
― booches (Tape Store), Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"it was a publicity stunt, although a well timed one because of the album's release"
well it is a video for the album u idiot
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Saturday, 3 April 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the last quarter i think of this album is my jams
― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know that i've ever heard another piece of music so entirely geared towards evoking pleasure as this album.
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, 6 April 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
oh come on. I wouldn't even say that about any of her albums. 2 many srs moments.
― handle your b I (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link