K. Michelle

Wasn't really into her first album apart from the single but this new one is fantastic. The production is really incredible especially on Miss You, Goodbye which is my favourite so far.

this album just continues to kill me

Same here.

out of curiosity, looked up how this was doing on billboard charts & was kinda surprised to see only one song on only one singles/songs chart (hot r&b songs - "love 'em all" is #13). bc i can totally see some of these having radio longevity. suppose that speaks to how screwed up the radio formatting of r&b music is, as has been discussed w/ much greater eloquence elsewhere. the album itself is the #2 r&b album, which is cool.

in any event, goddamn this is still a powerhouse. "judge me," "how do you know," "maybe i should call" and "drake would love me" are my faves.

"Love Em All" is only in the 30s on the airplay chart, too. slowly gaining steam, though, and Rebellious Soul's 2nd single didn't hit radio until many months after the album's release, so I don't think they're releasing anything else just yet.

if his mama couldn't do it, what makes you think you can train that boy to be a man…it's too late…

devastating…

late to the party, but what a superb album from start to finish. thx ilx/lex

ILex

K. Michelle and Azealia Banks have announced they will be embarking on a very special 20-date tour across North America this fall. The co-headlining tour presented by CENTRIC and BET commences in Indianapolis on 09/15 and will make stops in Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, New York amongst many others, and wraps in Los Angeles on 10/15. Both artists will be performing tracks from their current albums – K. Michelle’s "Anybody Wanna Buy A Heartand" and Azealia Banks’ "Broke With Expensive Taste" – as well as fan favorites from previous releases. For a full list of tour dates, see below. Please check with your local venue for specific on-sale date and time.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
09/15 - Murat Theatre - Indianapolis, IN
09/16 - Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL
09/17 - Fabulous Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO
09/18 - Fox Theater - Detroit, MI
09/19 - Pier Six Pavilion - Baltimore, MD
09/20 - DAR Constitution Hall - Washington, DC
09/24 - The Mann Center for Performing Arts - Philadelphia, PA
09/25 - Hard Rock Live - Cleveland, OH
09/26 - Best Buy Theatre - New York, NY
09/27 - House of Blues - Boston, MA
09/30 - Carpenter Center - Richmond, VA
10/01 - nTelos Wireless Pavilion - Portsmouth, VA
10/02 - Chastain Park Amphitheatre - Atlanta, GA
10/03 - Palace Theatre - Louisville, KY
10/05 - Schermerhorn Symphony Center - Nashville, TN
10/09 - Bayou Music Center - Houston, TX
10/10 - Verizon Theatre @ Grand Prairie - Dallas, TX
10/12 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO
10/14 - Fox Theater - Oakland, CA (K.Michelle performing only)
10/15 - Microsoft Theatre - Los Angeles, CA

would have been there in a heartbeat :(

ha i think i will go to this :D

yah, i also think this is worth paying for

goddammit
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6649233/azealia-banks-k-michelle-tour-canceled

nooooooo

Grrrrr

NEW ALBUM NEXT WEEK!!

it's called more issues than vogue!

the album cover looks like this

http://i2.wp.com/www.xclusivejams.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/6010f7ff0562e60d9f34d792fb3afbcd.jpg?w=474

“Sleep Like A Baby”
“I Got Rich People Problems”
“Time”
“All I Got”
“These Men”
“Nightstand”
“Make The Bed”
“If It Ain’t Love”
“Not A Little Bit”
“Aint You”
“Got Em Like… Damn”
“Mindful”

"not a little bit" is a brilliant single

“I Got Rich People Problems”

the original title was apparently i ain't white, but i hope you like

how is this woman not universally praised and lauded

disappointed she backed down from that title

I'm not crazy about "Not A Little Bit" -- sounds like okay Keyshia Cole -- but can't wait for the album.

"not a little bit" is melodically very satisfying to me, and the key change is terrific

the original title was apparently i ain't white, but i hope you like

This would've been about 1000% better.

This is great news, watching her battle to have her artistic integrity not compromised on her reality show is making me excited for what she's got up her sleeve on this one.

Every single person I introduce to her music becomes an instant fan, and not just in a casual way either.

omg the original title!

i'm so glad she has the freedom to release without necessarily needing a big single blanketing radio beforehand

album now coming out March 25, i like "Ain't You" more than the other single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Kjct8aieA

oh fuck yes

"I don't wanna be here"

I am beyond frustrated at the postponement of this but at least it will make for a good episode of My Life

http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6540385

Should i pay $85 for me and my girl to see this show y/n?

this album is wonderful. "mindful", what a vmic opener.

i love how her classicist leanings give us all these ornate arrangements and rub up against her never-appropriate lyrics

Yeah this album is great. Nightstand and Sleep Like a Baby are my favourites after my first play. Such lush production all the way through.

yeah "Mindful" is a banger.

"if it ain't love" is so immense

"make the bed" pretty much demonstrating she can do 80s teen romance synths as well as anyone else, i prefer it to anything on the CRJ album

80s teen romance
Yes, the way the album veers between this and (for want of a better word) adult soul balladry is wrong-footing in a really great way.

extremely cheap video is up for "not a little bit"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P8XCX57vEc

oh oh oh oh ohhhh OH

On first listen I am not finding as many great cuts as 2014's Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart?, but I will listen to it again and again and see

This is a notch below Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? imo. The song titles give the game away: a few generic cuts.

i don't know, i'm finding it a lot tighter than AWBAH - there's something more confident, more varied, more conducive to repeated listens so far. "not a little bit" and "if it ain't love" are some of the strongest radio melodies she's ever written. "mindful" is a strange choice of intro - it's a hoot but she doesn't follow through with anything else remotely like it so perhaps should've just been a bonus or interlude.

Those three are my favorites after "Make My Bed" and the extra track "Memphis."

*Make The Bed

Album is good. Getting serious Kci and jojo 'girl' vibes from 'all i got'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sto-6DphD-4

She's busy working the album:

Mar 31 FYE Philadelphia IN STORE Philadelphia, PA RSVP
Apr 01 The Mall At Prince George's (In Store) Hyattsville, MD RSVP
Apr 02 DTLR Camp Creek - In Store East Point, GA

i really like this album. T-Pain went the fuck in on the first two tracks.

I didn't know he had it in him anymore.

his last mixtape was good but he's really overdue to do more stuff like this in a writer/producer capacity with less novelty autotune

the derulo track is so derulo-wave

i love it so much

i know it's reductive to describe that set of sounds as "derulo-wave" but it's like exactly what i imagined when i saw "feat. jason derulo" in the tracklisting

I like the track but he's expendable. Like, her part's imaginative and vivid enough without needing to hear from the guy responsible for the bed making -- and that the guy's Jason Derulo.

he's expendable right, i barely even noticed him on it, i'm just talking about the sound alfred