The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

"6000 sistas" = female WAKA

its monomania can be a bit much but i bet it sounds amazing when you're drunk. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY COIN COIN GUAP

most unmemorable song is "feeling good" - i'm sure i remember "the ladder" as being good? it def all goes up a notch at "matte black truck", from there to the end it's pretty flawless

Sure, but Dawn/Dirty Money seem better at swiping ideas from dance music than Kingdom is at swiping ideas from R&B

Not really interested in Kingdom wrt this debate but I think part of the problem with the danceification of R&B is that singers and songwriters haven't really got to grips with how the artists should sing over it*. DDM aren't immune from this, one of the reasons I don't rate Ass On The Floor as highly as most people is because the singers don't really convince over the top - when they aren't singing the "madder than a motherfucker" but they don't really sound like they know what to do over that beat. You get these sort of fairly drippy, open "stirring" melodies that just don't convince up against the rest of the track, awkward halfway houses between ballad and dance banger.

Contrast to how effortless and at home Kalenna sounds over something like Matte Black Truck. Then again this may be all rolled in with post-Umbrella R&B - a lot of this stuff feels very different melodically from anything pre-2007 or therabouts, ballads included.

*This is weird given the entire history of DIVA HOUSE is pretty instructive here. Not saying R&B artists should be aping diva house at this point but it's a pretty good guide as to what kind of performance works and what doesn't.

Matt have you listened to "Black Lipstick" and "Change" yet?

(not that i agree with you about "ass on the floor" but...)

Yes, Black Lipstick is great. Dawn's own stuff is way better in this regard than either Kalenna or DDM.

it's my duty to inform you that there's a napoleon dynamite sample in the kalenna mixtape

The ballad/banger tension is a lot of what's great about "Ass on the Floor"!

And like half the DDM catalog for that matter.

Chamber of Diaries is hit n miss but i like it, kinda hits that Last Train To Paris vibe more effectively for me than Tell Tale Heart. although i'm kind of weary of all the superhero-themed lyrics on both tapes.

R&B mixtapes should come out with special "no-bullshit anonymous guest rappers" versions the way rap mixtapes have "no-DJ" versions

but then you would never learn about bo deal

lol some dude otm

that "Gilfriend" song just sounds like an edit of Aaliyah's "Girlfriend" though, i don't hear Naomi

ahaha oops! that was dumb of me. i obv had no idea that song existed. it's so good! the vocals on the nguzu mix DO sound a hell of a lot like naomi to me, though, and the tracklist credits it to "NA", which i assumed meant N/A before alex pointed out those are naomi's initials. and the souped up beat sounds like kingdom or girl unit. now i'm really dying to know what it is exactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FelGsbxq6tM

I thought it was Kingdom/ER related too ¯\(°_o)/¯

Whoa. I didn't know that existed! New Aaliyah. Wow. Yay.

finally got around to the kalenna mixtape

"poison" rules

Preview of the new single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bdYextQeI

I have the biggest crush on dawn

(sorry for being male gaze-y)

This sounds excellent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vBVJKF_dGU

LOVELOVELOVE HERRRR! "i wanna be in a rainforest!"

also excited to hear the #smfu remix

also producer guy is v. cute

apparently dirty money is "finished" though which is totally heartbreaking

that sucks... not entirely surprising. they put a ton of effort (and presumably) music into making that album happen, wish they would stay committed to it but the fact that 'last train to paris' even exists is some sort of miracle i think, so i can't be mad.

presumably money**

dawn's not signed to bad boy any more and the tone of the last kalenna interview i read ("that part of her life is BEHIND HER and she is MOVING ON") did not imply that the end of dirty money was all that amicable

also producer guy is v. cute

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:48 AM Bookmark

ayo

apparently dirty money is "finished" though which is totally heartbreaking

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, March 23, 2012 3:49 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

quit while you're on top, imo!

judging by the new projects, still on top tho

I didn't know you pronounce richard like ri-shard as in shard of glass

wait what?

http://youtu.be/SMpyMFtmqKM

I really can't handle her dress, it's like sean young in blade runner

i feel like my perception has been altered in a deep way not experienced since i found out nancy whang's name is pronounced "wong", not "wang"

pro tip: even when a chinese person's last name is 'wang' it's still pronounced 'wong'

i wonder if that's actually "true" or just something that she's stylized like a pseudo stage name

I'm not gonna question somebody about the pronunciation of their name

she's from louisiana tho

true

she seems very sweet

this is almost like the time i found out o'so krispie's real name is not o'so krispie.

actually it's nothing like that i just felt like dropping an o'so krispie reference tbh

u'so krispie

this is sooooooooooooo good

"Heaven"!

only 2/3 through, but album of the year?

this is not on uk itunes >:(

it's not on any itunes yet

album version of "save me from u" >>>>>>>>> og versio

n

this last track! the production is incredible throughout and the tunes are a lot better than Tell Tale Heart, which I know some people will jump on me for, but I was never that hot on

so jellie of you right now