yaeji

xp- ah ya true that's probably it

Good lyric!

A lot of her lyrics have this thing where she seems to know the words she wants to use but doesn't know that they usually collocate to different things, it makes them a bit confusing but also makes for sometimes very original language. I don't know if this is deliberate or juat a play on her code switching with Korean.

Who knows what you’re talking about

i thought yaej produced her own stuff

― flopson, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 5:35 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is he A&R-ing or managing or something

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, December 27, 2017 5:44 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, from interviews it sounds like she sent him demos and then they would produce/record the real versions together, using his gear etc. To me it definitely shares some sonic DNA with the Shamir record he did.

Here you go: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3121
"The first thing I heard were these tossed-off demos on SoundCloud," Sylvester tells me over the phone from the Godmode studio in Los Angeles. The thing that got him was her voice—raw and untreated, even off-key at times, totally unlike the overproduced vocals you hear on a lot dance music. "There's something almost voyeuristic about it," he says. "And I love her cadences, the way she uses English and Korean lyrics to hide meaning, or obscure it, or create a different meaning. I mean, it was just immediate."

They began collaborating. Sylvester, who's a professional studio musician and engineer, offered his technical know-how to juice up some of the ideas Lee had started in Ableton. When it comes to dance music, the role of an A&R person tends to be limited: they'll tell you which tracks they like, then assemble the individual releases and send them out for mixing and mastering. Sylvester, however, takes a hands-on approach that more closely resembles something you'd see on a big-budget pop record.

"What that means," he says, "is that Kathy often starts with the idea. She'll record something in her room, then shoot the stems over to me. Maybe I'll replace certain parts or rearrange them, or I'll send it back to her and be like, 'I think this could be better.'"

They recorded both of her EPs—Yaeji and EP2—this way. Lee jots down her production ideas along with her lyrics. Then they head to the studio together to reinterpret the whole thing using top-shelf equipment. "Drink I'm Sippin On," the big single from EP2, is actually a beat that Sylvester worked on during a trip to Atlanta, which accounts for its low-slung Southern rap sound. He wrote parts of "Feel It Out" for a song he originally pitched to Beyoncé. When her creative team passed on the instrumental, Lee wrote a whole new arrangement and made it the most memorable track on her first record.

That Boiler Room set is all kinds of incredible. So many different beats and moods but such great flow.

lol I saw her last night and she just stood in the dj booth and quietly rapped (or lip synced) over her tracks, it was still kinda great tho

She just put out this Charli XCX remix, very low-key and didn't impress at first but is really growing on me after a couple of listens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ap0UDrfMg

whats the deal with the line 'i don't fuck with family planning' in raingurl?

― flopson, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 6:48 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whats the deal with the line 'i don't fuck with family planning' in raingurl?

― flopson, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 6:48 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

come on and they said i was a naif

the line that precedes it is 'when the sweaty walls are bangin'

― flopson, Wednesday, December 27, 2017 6:54 PM (ten months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm loving this artist by the way.

One More for the year..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyPOhGIc1RI

No proper yaeji thread?
New song (from imminent mixtape) and tour news today.

― Jeff W, Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:10 AM

There's a thread, you're in it now

Yaeji - WAKING UP DOWN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNNf4I1dc_U

*arrives through wormhole*

Thank you!

new one easily her best. it’s like a 2019 LES version of pop 2

I really didn't get this new one and gave up listening before the end - I was reminded of Pop 2 in its approach but it just made me want to listen to Charli XCX be properly weird instead of these watery static productions. There's a digital sheen about this, but where something like Pop 2 is futuristic and exciting, this felt plainly robotic. Really disappointing after loving other stuff she's done, "Raingurl" especially.

same

damn! idk maybe i need bland in my life to contrast with all the ambient sirens in nyc but i really liked it, and i actually was expecting not to, having soured a bit on her vibe over the past two years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idllz1EuO10

???

like as far as commercial tie-ins go this is deeply deeply confusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yx-m76faTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrfDknXJivw

these singles she did with ohhyuk recently are excellent, especially "year to year", that's probably the best thing she's done yet

new song "For Granted", album coming in April

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfOURyD7ljc

anyone listen? i found it kind of hard to get into

only listened once yesterday kinda passively but i really liked it

there were parts i liked a lot (title track, "passed me by"), i think i just need to adjust my expectations (i was thinking it would be clubbier and was likely in the mood for that sort of thing when i put it on)