The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

you are "eh"

Playing "Automatic" twice a day for weeks has that effect.

I spent a good amount of time playing the shit out of "Bombs Away" and "Automatic" and then "Faith" and "Change" sneaked up on me and are now my favorite things on the EP

anyway she said on twitter that "goliath" and "war-faire" are interludes

"Bombs" and "Automatic" are very much my least favorite songs on Armor On. I don't hate them, but they seem so leaden compared to the rest of the album.

^^^^^ totally agree. Hope the album stays away from that whole clappy/sireny sound.

nah the album, and r&b in general, needs to have those massive high-energy shouty bangers right now

i initially thought "bombs" compared badly to "superman" but i grew to love it just as much. and if "automatic" is sliiiightly clunky in execution it makes up for it in narrative

nothing wrong with low energy stuff if it's done well

how the hell are "Bombs Away" and "Automatic" low energy

i was responding to lex's comment that R&B needs bangers or whatever. He has an antipathy to a lot of the mopier stuff that's around now but Dawn's take on it is obviously a cut above. I don't think she does the shouty material as well

i don't have an antipathy to the slow stuff at all - feels like about a decade ago the critical line was that only r&b bangers were any good and the ballads were just unnecessary gloop on r&b albums, and i had to kick against that a bit - but when i say r&b needs bangers it is because there are SO FEW AROUND RIGHT NOW. jeremih? slow stuff. miguel? slow stuff? and those are the GOOD artists. anyone doing club joints tends to go down the electro road these days which is not the same thing. ciara's "sweat" should not stand out as much as it does in 2012. and, i think dawn does bangers superbly, as evidenced by oh her entire career to date from danity kane through dirty money through "superman", "runway", "bombs" etc

Tbh, shouty R&B singers aren't really my thing. When I hear K. Michelle or Elle Varner or whoever, I'm just kind of like ehhhh, next. Keyshia Cole is my sworn enemy.

oh well Keyshia Cole is the end of the world, anyone with ears knows this

elle varner doesn't shout though? and it's not that kind of shoutiness i'm talking about. i'm not even really talking about shoutiness. i'm talking about r&b that would get played in my old street dance class.

Totally get where Lex is coming from re: the need for bangers, and I agree on principal, I just don't think Dawn's are very good. Also that "I'm going mutant on these niggas / cowabunga!" line is pretty much just a rejected Drake line.

Drake's biggest problem isn't that he says stupid things, it's that his voice is one of the most unpleasant sounds known to man

ditto xp

otm

cf nicki's success when she says equally stupid shit but it sounds amazing

I think Drake is actually marginally improving as a rapper, while Nicki is regressing into a louder, schtickier version of what Drake used to be, but that's another conversation

Damn -- I only now read ship's VV piece from a few months ago. Good job, ship!

aww thanks!

Cosign the need for those three bangers but at the same time I wish the same level of thought had gone into the production on those bangers as on everything else. The beats feel a lot more off-the-shelf than the rest of the album.

http://www.factmag.com/2012/09/18/dawn-richard-talks-goldenheart-diddy-dirty-money-and-her-no-boundaries-progression-of-rb/

"I’m a huge fan of Phil Collins and I’ll say, how do you incorporate that padding or that tone, and that’s what we come up with.”

a 'tonight tonight tonight' cover springs easily to mind

^^^ would smash

http://i.imgur.com/fWn1V.gif

i was pretty pleased she said phil collins there

Dawn Richard / NEON ‏@DawnRichard
#GoldenHeartfacts .... Riot is a sleeper song that wasn't listed in the track listing that will be on the album. *for you dance heads*

Dawn Richard / NEON ‏@DawnRichard
“@drewscotty: Heartillery will be on "Blackheart" Album #HEARTS. We made the song a lot darker to fit that theme.”album 2 already bein done!

so excited

that interview was fantastic lex. think I'm going to pre-order this album, which is something I haven't done in years

'86

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/exclusive-song-premiere-and-interview-86-dawn-richard/#_

sounds pretty great

v nice

Damn

Great interview lex!

thanks!

"86" is quite gorgeous

great interview

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/exclusive-song-premiere-and-interview-86-dawn-richard#_

Goldenheart is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025.

86 is lovely. Kind of love how explicit her love for Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel are. And that between he and Wynter Gordon's Stimela that R&B is where their influence is most strongly felt in 2012.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Renewal_%28tribute_album%29

D ® U S K I ‏@drewscotty
I am not ashamed to admit Britney's "In The Zone" and "Blackout" albums are still dope AF!

^^^^^this dude

Damn, lex, that's a terrific interview. The best part is you can tell she was unaccustomed to being confronted by a reporter who knows and loves her music to such an extent.

Yeah loved that interview and "86" is lovely.

The best part is you can tell she was unaccustomed to being confronted by a reporter who knows and loves her music to such an extent.

Yup. What I was thinking.

http://altavozdistroco.com/2012/10/15/multi-platinum-recording-artist-inks-exclusive-distribution-deal-with-altavoz/

she's signed a physical distribution deal and the album's now being released in january

i think this was a real last-min thing cuz the music is ready to go - i've been sent the promo and tbh i haven't discussed it anywhere because i don't quite feel like i've got my head around it yet - it's pretty massive

Massive, what do you mean? More info please!

the physical promo CD is 3 feet in diameter

lol

it was actually used as a prop shield in the music video for wild 'n' young

ahhh i was so excited to hear this tomorrow

bummer, i had this all pencilled in for aoty and everything

now three months of the lex hinty hinty game :/

http://youknowigotsoul.com/?p=27490