'broads' is cute enough, what's the big problem
haven't heard his very earliest stuff but at least on all i want is you there was a clear pharrell/nerd vibe going and 'broads' is just some more of that writ a little too large. can't pretend it's not there though
i'd even argue you can make a case for still being able to hear trace elements of it in the new good widescreen stuff too really, but then i guess your imagination would need to stretch to what a decent latter-era nerd song would sound like
in any case it's true what rev says about miguel's elision of "any air of tribute or homage" whoever he may happen to sound like - a very nice trick to have
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
agree with this.
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
don't really hear the pharrell/nerd thing at all tho
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
Broads is pretty catchy and all. I just don't see myself listening to it again
― Number None, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
the thick bassline + the harmonies on the "shoo-di-doo da-di-da da-di-da-dah" chorus >>>>>>
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:09 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark
was also thinking he has this really great way with harmonies that beautifully tie kinda meandering or seemingly disparate or just idk unresolved songs together - 'gravity', 'adorn' and 'sure thing' only truly become sure things once it happens
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
think i already said this last year but from 2:25 on 'girls like you' is nerd chapter & verse no question at least - and that's no huge leap from 'broads' really. the more intuitive stuff from then on i'm not gonna harp on about tho cos it's not like i really want to think of him in pharrellian terms that much either - just saying it's a strand in the dna is all
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, his way with harmony is n/l
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
i'll get back to you about "girls like you"
there is TOTALLY a pharrell vibe and i never thought i'd say that about an R&B singer i wasn't trying to insult
― some dude, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
no thoughts on this yet but glad r|t|c is back missed ur posts bro http://i.imgur.com/gDeUg.gif
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago) link
yeah web boo
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
er, wb
lol
http://i.imgur.com/Rlj7m.gif
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
"yeah web boo" cracking me up so much
http://mediamrs.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/lil-boosie-webbie.jpg
― some dude, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
"...all" is the standout track imo
― dayo, Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
relistened to "Girls Like You" and i still dgi. Miguel as a singer sounds effortless, whereas Pharrell, even at his best, sounds labored, and his backing tracks are very loose, whereas the Neptures were always about hyperprecision. Even their more ramshackle moments sound pointedly so, like they made absolutely sure that bongo was just exactly that much offbeat.
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
you're overthinking it
― some dude, Thursday, 29 March 2012 02:21 (twelve years ago) link
I just don't hear it at all!
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
not even on a superficial level
you're listening hard to the singing and the production style when we're referring more broadly to the overall vibe. the 'beautiful girls, intelligent girls, i hate ya' part definitely could've come out of a nerd song.
― some dude, Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
ok ok, i gotcha now
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
saying "gravity" is the best thing off these tapes is clinically insane
"gravity" is the best thing off these tapes. it's all about the overlapping shoo-be-doos and ba-ba-bas at the end. i also prefer vol 2 to vol 1, "...all" is stunning.
just don't get what you all see in "adorn", i can never remember a single thing about it after it ends.
gravity > ...all > arch & point >>>>>>>>> adorn > that i do > broads
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
i can never remember a single thing about it after it ends.
Funny, this is how I feel about Gravity.
Adorn > ...ALL > Arch N Point >>>>>>>>> Gravity > That I Do > Broads
(erhm... so there!)
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 29 March 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
But I like everything on these tapes, really. They're great on the whole!
oh man every time i listen to volume 1 i'm like "i love 'that i do' so much"
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
It speaks to the quality of these EPs that there's no consensus whatsoever on which tracks are the best.
― Evan R, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
And as much as I'm enjoying receiving these songs in drops, I can't wait to glue them together into a nine-song album.
― Evan R, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
"Broads" is horrible. Only dud thus far.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
this is how I feel about all the songs I love best, like you can't remember a thing except that you really like it so you play the song again.. I remember having this same feeling about 'umbrella'
― dayo, Thursday, 29 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
"adorn"'s main charm is its warm, woozy atmosphere and miguel's meandering falsetto; more than a song built almost entirely around hooks like "umbrella" i can understand how it'd be "forgettable" after a first listen, even if that's not necessarily a point against it
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Thursday, 29 March 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
have described "adorn" to other people as "sexual healing pt. 2"
don't know how accurate that is but there's something in the ease of the delivery, in the airiness of the backing track
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:53 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
i think that's true of every ep song except 'adorn' - yeah it seems like it's got the rarefied atmosphere but that monster 808 bass over the shuffling vox sample drives that frailness on and on, the awesome pure monolith of choral harmony proves his devotion with complete certainty. and the absolute confidence in just the sheer brevity of it! very different to, very similar to, on a par with, and about as forgettable as 'promise' imho. the dude fucking nailed it
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
by which i mean not remotely forgettable obv
(seriously my ipod headphones were broken for like a week after it came out and i literally CRAVED to hear it all day til i got back home)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to "Adorn" about 30 times in a row when it dropped and I never do that.
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I just listened to it like 5 right now
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/39375791
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
'adorn' is full of hooks btw
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago) link
'gravity' is my least fav track I think. not a fan of 'dirty basslines' in general
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
did not like 'all i want is you' that much either
also his new scruffy facial hair look is ... nagl
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
nagl haaawt
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
ha I prefer futuristic space streamlined miguel
― dayo, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
― dayo, Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:32 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah sure but they're kind of purposefully obscured, that was my point
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
great, revelatory rtc post as usual
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
the sure thing look was v weird and not flattering imo
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Friday, 30 March 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
and hilarious
― some dude, Friday, 30 March 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
true
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Friday, 30 March 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
he did look very smashable like this tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3QLI3XYtk
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Friday, 30 March 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
dirty basslines are the best thing in music
"adorn" is one of those things you crave or you don't i guess, i've made myself listen to it a ton to try to get what you all hear it but i'm not feeling any craving :(
― lex pretend, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:25 (twelve years ago) link
one trusts u are not listening to it thru lappy speakers?
― r|t|c, Friday, 30 March 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link