K. Michelle

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

Agreed.

I also thought of "Do What U Want."

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.

Apr 02 DTLR Camp Creek - In Store East Point, GA

Oh shit, that's like a mile from my house. I should go, right?

Did you go?

You had to buy a copy of the cd on release day and get a wristband, so no.

this is so good

you're welcome!

What an album. Both "All I Got" and "If It ain't love" hit seemingly cliche targets but the performance is so good they stand out as album highlights.

new album!

ugh a Chris Brown feature

i like kim k

the Chris Brown thing bewilders me, people like K Michelle have enough star power and talent that they shouldn't need his support and it just looks so brazenly desperate.

I haven't heard the album yet but I LOVE "Kim K" more than any of the other singles she's released this cycle. It's hilarious that all the chatter around it is "omg shots fired at the Karadashians" when the song is literally about how the media won't take her seriously for being the wrong type of black

my use of "wrong" there means wrong in the eyes of the class structures of society, not wrong as an intrinsic value judgement

I've got thoughts on that too: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/kimberly-the-people-i-used-to-know/

I appreciate any shade thrown at Migos and Future, but give a raised eyebrow at working with Chris Brown. Breaking even here, I guess.

<3 the dirty Vince Guaraldi Trio of "Fuck Your Man"

this album is phenomenal

rounds rounds rouuuuundsss

think i may need to try this again it did nothing for me on first listen. last two albums are personal classics for sure. looks like the chris brown song has been removed from spotify...

"Rounds" is one of the best tracks. I agree that it's her most blah.

i don’t! it’s got distinct chapters

It drags in the last third. I wanted an album's worth of "God, Love, Sex and Drugs" and "Alert."

The last third is where it picks up for me - the arrangements and sentiments are a little trite but she sings the hell out of them. The first half feels a bit of a mess to me, there's some great ideas and lyrics and her performance is flawless as ever but the melodies feel underwritten and she spends more time showing her voice than letting the hooks build.

This is still a good album from a great artist but I wasn't as blown away as I have been by her before.

This is still a good album from a great artist but I wasn't as blown away as I have been by her before.

^^^This

think she's got a new album coming out soon

there's a single getting played on the radio right now but unfortunately it's probably my least favorite thing i've ever heard from her

That would be “The Rain”, right? I like the previous one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE7mvhuc5R0
K. Michelle ft. Kash Doll & City Girls • Supahood

supahood is fucking great

oh yeah "supahood" is much better than "the rain"

I was blasting "God I Get It" on Tuesday.

i’m watching her on the soul train awards. album is called “all monsters are human.” she performed the new single in front of jam & lewis, who let her sample can you stand the rai

also she said she’s going to fight to knock down country’s boundaries

damn

she’s playing new york tomorrow

damn i hope her forays into country work out. "god i get it" for one is amazing

new album ALL MONSTERS ARE HUMAN out today:
https://smarturl.it/MonstersAreHuman

yes! Listening now.

queuing