i've really come to kinda hate "i like it"... would much rather hear "be careful"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
sub in 'taste' for 'i like it' make this a fair fight
― ||||||||, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fully on board with this now.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
def otw
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
Here in the UK Boo'd Up has done nothing and it is astonishing to me. I keep putting it on at parties and it's a head turner - I've twice seen people who've never heard it start singing along during the first chorus - I don't understand why it hasn't transferred to this side of the ocean?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
Isn't she from London? I just assumed she's a hero there.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Ikonika edit btw: https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
There was an article in the guardian about her being huge in the USA and unknown in the UK - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/02/ella-mai-bood-up-r-and-b-charts-number-1The comments below the line are some of the worst guardian music comments of all time, and that's like being the worst strain of bubonic plague, but might be instructive about why she isn't big here, if you have a particularly high tolerance for pricks on the internet.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
pseudoracism isn't it :(
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:34 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark
dope
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
diana gordon’s “wolverine” a strong contender for late summer langurous vibes jam
― ||||||||, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
shame that OTW wasn't as a big of a hit as the other two, it's the one i've been playing the most lately
― ufo, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
the other two were very immediate but OTW has really grown on me
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 20 August 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
i feel like "otw" had a bit more potential than it ended up realizing but i didn't hear it on the radio until months after it had already come out. (see also its late video release)
― dyl, Monday, 20 August 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
“Wolverine” is excellent!
― Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
The rest of the Diana Gordon EP is a bit of a mixed bag but "Too Young" is like Fearless songwriting with Reputation production values.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 00:50 (five years ago) link
Heard boo’d up in the mall
What a song
― Ross, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link
def not "I Like It"― billstevejim, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:27 AM (two months ago) Bookmark
I have come around to this one. Good summer song. But also yes re: reminders of Burger King commercials in the '90s.
Ultimately I stand beside my "Boo'd Up" vote.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
ella mai record out today. deserves its own thread
― ||||||||, Friday, 12 October 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
boo'd up really grew on me. I absolutely love it
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Friday, 12 October 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
platonic ideal of a pop song
― rip van wanko, Saturday, 13 October 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link
ba-dum, boo'd up
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 13 October 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
I like Boo’d Up. It’s weird though. She’s had a fair amount of similarish sounding cuts that generated little buzz. Like somebody at the label suddenly went, ok that’s enough bubble, next mustard track with some bounce and a hard snare will be the hit, you can now come out as British and not Floetry notsureiftheyrefakingit British.
― tsrobodo, Saturday, 13 October 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
Listening to "OTW" for the first time as the result of this thread, and, gosh, that is a sumptuous 4 minutes of music. The beat is, like, holographic, the way that old Jam & Lewis productions used to sound compared to their contemporaries. Like you know how they had an improbably long career where they just kept successfully updating their sound to the times for several decades? This is what I imagine they'd be up to if that streak were still going.A travesty that this never made it to top40 radio, especially when Khalid is such a hot property right now (apparently) off the back of comparatively beige material like "Eastside" and "Love Lies". Maybe the guests/producers on those were just higher priorities for the labels to get over than 6lack and Nineteen85, idk
― You're all losing so many points on your progress bars (Champiness), Saturday, 13 October 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
it is truly an incredible production
i heard it on the radio for the 3rd time, like, ever this past week -- sounded incredible there and still a bit astonished it never completely took off. i guess his team was more focused on pushing the song with normani or something.
― dyl, Sunday, 14 October 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
boo'd up was actually cut by several difft artists but never released before ella mai picked it up--some people apparently seemed confident it was a hit. it does sound strangely out of time though, like something that could have been equally huge eight years ago
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 15 October 2018 04:59 (five years ago) link
since it doesn't appear to have been discussed anywhere else i am going to say very belatedly that the entire diana gordon ep is pretty strong!
― dyl, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah, big shout out to Kool Aid.
― triggercut, Tuesday, 13 November 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
whats the 2019 version of this poll?
― flopson, Sunday, 30 June 2019 00:04 (four years ago) link
talk • con altura • the london ?
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
maybe sub "go loko" in for one of those idk
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:26 (four years ago) link
I don’t like go loko or the London really ...
Go loko I’m pretty sure ripped off ambjaay’s uno and he’s a better rapper
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Swap “Aute Culture” for “Con Altura”! Much much much better track.
― Consider the coconut (morrisp), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
there's no big r&b jam of this summer so far, is there? at least on the level of boo'd up.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
"talk" was the closest i could come up with but it definitely tries to straddle styles a little w/ that production
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
that song is so bland that the official music video already looks like a target commercial
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
i think the production on "go loko" is arrestingly intricate considering that its concept is completely unsubtle, nearly gimmicky
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
well yeah i'm not saying any of these songs are as good as the ones from last year's poll
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
“Talk” does have a pretty arresting melody. Good a&r
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
i like "talk"... it's funny to me that critics were at separate points head over heels for both khalid & disclosure and now they have a huge good pop hit together and nobody really seems to care
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
I like thishttps://youtu.be/ltYUH6fEYdE
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Maybe not for this thread
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
It’ll have to be Old Town Road vs Panini vs Rodeo, sorry deej.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
"fingías" is nice
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
hahaha old town road is def otm
― k3vin k., Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Have you guys heard “yeh” by duke deuce
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link