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.
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:48 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― un chill goon (some dude), Saturday, 10 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
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…
― veronica moser, Friday, 23 January 2015 20:18 (nine years ago) link
late to the party, but what a superb album from start to finish. thx ilx/lex
― Benny B, Sunday, 8 February 2015 09:05 (nine years ago) link
ILex
― Tim F, Sunday, 8 February 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
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 DATES09/15 - Murat Theatre - Indianapolis, IN 09/16 - Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL09/17 - Fabulous Fox Theatre - St. Louis, MO09/18 - Fox Theater - Detroit, MI09/19 - Pier Six Pavilion - Baltimore, MD09/20 - DAR Constitution Hall - Washington, DC09/24 - The Mann Center for Performing Arts - Philadelphia, PA09/25 - Hard Rock Live - Cleveland, OH09/26 - Best Buy Theatre - New York, NY09/27 - House of Blues - Boston, MA09/30 - Carpenter Center - Richmond, VA10/01 - nTelos Wireless Pavilion - Portsmouth, VA10/02 - Chastain Park Amphitheatre - Atlanta, GA10/03 - Palace Theatre - Louisville, KY 10/05 - Schermerhorn Symphony Center - Nashville, TN10/09 - Bayou Music Center - Houston, TX10/10 - Verizon Theatre @ Grand Prairie - Dallas, TX 10/12 - Ogden Theatre - Denver, CO10/14 - Fox Theater - Oakland, CA (K.Michelle performing only)10/15 - Microsoft Theatre - Los Angeles, CA
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
would have been there in a heartbeat :(
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
ha i think i will go to this :D
― dyl, Tuesday, 14 July 2015 21:51 (eight years ago) link
yah, i also think this is worth paying for
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
goddammithttp://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6649233/azealia-banks-k-michelle-tour-canceled
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
nooooooo
― dyl, Friday, 31 July 2015 06:32 (eight years ago) link
Grrrrr
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
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”
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
"not a little bit" is a brilliant single
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link
“I Got Rich People Problems”
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:18 (eight years ago) link
the original title was apparently i ain't white, but i hope you like
how is this woman not universally praised and lauded
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
disappointed she backed down from that title
― some dude, Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:32 (eight years ago) link
I'm not crazy about "Not A Little Bit" -- sounds like okay Keyshia Cole -- but can't wait for the album.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:33 (eight years ago) link
"not a little bit" is melodically very satisfying to me, and the key change is terrific
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 February 2016 13:34 (eight years ago) link
This would've been about 1000% better.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 6 February 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 6 February 2016 19:57 (eight years ago) link
omg the original title!
i'm so glad she has the freedom to release without necessarily needing a big single blanketing radio beforehand
― dyl, Saturday, 6 February 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
album now coming out March 25, i like "Ain't You" more than the other single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Kjct8aieA
― some dude, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
oh fuck yes
"I don't wanna be here"
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 12 February 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link
I am beyond frustrated at the postponement of this but at least it will make for a good episode of My Life
― boxedjoy, Friday, 12 February 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
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?
― ulysses, Thursday, 10 March 2016 20:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 25 March 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 25 March 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah "Mindful" is a banger.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 March 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
"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
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 26 March 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
80s teen romanceYes, 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.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 26 March 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
extremely cheap video is up for "not a little bit"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P8XCX57vEc
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:01 (eight years ago) link
oh oh oh oh ohhhh OH
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:01 (eight years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 March 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
This is a notch below Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? imo. The song titles give the game away: a few generic cuts.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 March 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
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.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 10:51 (eight years ago) link
Those three are my favorites after "Make My Bed" and the extra track "Memphis."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:31 (eight years ago) link
*Make The Bed
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
Album is good. Getting serious Kci and jojo 'girl' vibes from 'all i got'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sto-6DphD-4
― Better Pau Gasol (Spottie), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 22:00 (eight years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 31 March 2016 13:52 (eight years ago) link
i really like this album. T-Pain went the fuck in on the first two tracks.
― some dude, Thursday, 31 March 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know he had it in him anymore.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 March 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
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
― "Robots are sexy as shit" - Big Sean (some dude), Friday, 1 April 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
the derulo track is so derulo-wave
i love it so much
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
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
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:20 (eight years ago) link
he's expendable right, i barely even noticed him on it, i'm just talking about the sound alfred
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
Agreed.
I also thought of "Do What U Want."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 April 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
their duet on Derulo's album would've been more at home on this album, and vice versa, but i suspect that's the point -- she gave him a song that helps him sound like a credible R&B singer, and he gave her something Top 40-friendly.
― "Robots are sexy as shit" - Big Sean (some dude), Friday, 1 April 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Apr 02 DTLR Camp Creek - In Store East Point, GA
Oh shit, that's like a mile from my house. I should go, right?
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 2 April 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link