im more of a "malamente" stan
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 31 January 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
yeah that's my pick
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:02 (five years ago) link
oh yeah?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
Was this the last one for today?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iPagZaB.jpg
12: Rosalía – “Malamente – 308 points – 10 votesvideo
Rosalía (Post-Flamenco Art-Pop From Spain)
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=26668
Flamenco-pop, flamenco-tinged R&B, even flamenco rap and flamenco-reggaetón, are nothing new — past heroes like Rosario, Bebé, Chambao, Papá Levante and fusion legends Ojos de Brujo all have enjoyed international fame and can be considered Rosalía’s natural predecessors in that aspect. Rosalía gladly and effectively acknowledges that tradition while contributing to it with her empowered R&B-flavored chants, and the Latin urban sensibilities in El Guincho’s productions. “Malamente” establishes an interesting dynamic between the modern synths and pads and the traditional palmas a compás, which work in counter-rhythm to her cante, for a track that offers a glimpse into the percussive complexities of rumba while feeling at home in one of those alt-pop playlists. It’s a new step in flamenco’s legacy. - Leonel Manzanares de la Rosa
Rosalía’s sophomore album was inspired by a 13th century fable entitled The Romance of Flamenca, a classic love triangle story that centers on Count Archimbaut’s jealousy-fueled transformation toward insanity. He eventually imprisons his wife — the eponymous Flamenca — in a tower, allowing her to leave its confines for no more than two reasons: bathing and mass. He was meant to represent the very opposite of courtly behavior to the story’s readers, and yet, this portrait of a powerful man restricting a woman’s life is just as necessary today. There’s consequently no greater statement that could have started El mal querer than its lead single, “Malamente.” The interaction of its flamenco palmas with minimal percussion and synth pulses pits listeners in a space between the traditional and contemporary. Even more, the spacious world that she and El Guincho create is simultaneously anxious and impassioned. Rosalía’s vocalizing glides smoothly along the beat before sharply piercing listeners with jaleo in the form of “illo!” and “tra, tra!” adlibs. In the album’s narrative, “Malamente” prefaces Archimbaut and Flamenca’s wedding, and the track’s subtitle indicates that the song is an omen. What is it foretelling, exactly? Well, it warns of the tumultuous relationship that’s to come from the Count and his wife, but it’s also a declaration that Rosalía is putting forth regarding her music, that it’s going to be charting unfamiliar territory. Critics may, and have, decried “Malamente” as being disingenuous to flamenco’s roots, positing that Rosalía is a mere cultural appropriator. This is despite her time spent at the Catalonia College of Music, a school where only one student per year is admitted to studying flamenco, and whose flamenco teacher commented that Rosalía was their most memorable pupil. She has also been vocal in desiring to collaborate with people outside the world of flamenco and has already met with artists such as Pharrell and Arca. In a sense, Rosalía’s critics try to force her into her own proverbial tower, but it’s clear that she won’t stay there. With “Malamente,” she delivers that very message to whoever will listen, reimagining new stories for Flamenca and flamenco in the process. – Joshua Minsoo Kim
A student at the station at the beginning of the semester was raving about an artist called Rosalia. I had no idea whom he meant so I nodded politely. Then when he did it again a few weeks ago I realized it's Rosalía, and he's Columbian and should know better.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Mo Bamba is very minor Flockaveli, but very minor Flockaveli is preferable to no Flockaveli.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
ffs this is horrible
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Wow, beautiful one-two step!!!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
Didn't hear the Holter album this year (as I have probably said many times, her doomy electronic songs were the ones that hit me and she moved away from those), but oooh the ending of that track is fucking gorgeous.― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:49 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:49 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You may like this album, emily. It's less songwriting-focused than some of the last few, more about exploring diverse sounds and textures. Lots of Vangelis and free jazz inspiration. It's my favourite of last year and I wasn't a fan before.
― jmm, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
xxp It's Colombian, and you should know better.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
Moka outdid himself. I vote to replace the Spain flag with his postcard.
ha, nevermind it continues, 2 points wow.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
can't decide if that was an intentional typo Alfred
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
argh xp
malamente also one of the best pop videos in years
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
didn't vote for any tracks but I'm pretty psyched for Rosalía to win the album poll, mostly to punish imago but still
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
this song is tight, rosalía good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
ay beat me to the colOmbian joke
― budo jeru, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
i for one am loving these back-to-back placements for bands/artists so we can just talk about them one time for longer vs. two times but for less long
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
Moka outdid himself
Moka's a woman, btw.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
Rosalía seems like the kind of thing I'd like, but neither the singles nor the album quite clicked with me. To be fair, I was listening while trying to cram a bunch of other 2018 music last month, so maybe I should spend some more time with it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
was away, but that was a v good fakeout forks, I'm glad I learned about baby shark just in time to get it
among its many other attractive qualities, the Rosalía album is ~30 mins long
― rob, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
XP, never noticed the accent there before alfred -- i guess i've been pronouncing it wrong in my head all along.
― enochroot, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
are we rolling all the way to #1 today? thought we were saving the last 12 or 13 for tomorrow
*prepares for the whole class to get mad at me for reminding the teacher about the quiz today*
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
as I say, the rest of the album was growing on me. But ILM, you've basically handed 12th spot to an ambient intro track
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
I like 'Pienso...' a lot more than 'Malamente', the beat is great and the bridge section from about 2:20 in is lovely. Another album I need to check out.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
sorry, I tend to forget to say "himself or herself" on the internet. Btw Moka, what font is it you're using ?
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
I meant to spend more time with Rosalía before voting, there's definitely something interesting about the mix of flamenco w/ this type of pop, and I like both of these tracks... I just didn't get round to deeper listening. Now is the time, I guess.
What's the proper pronunciation? I've been saying Rose-ahlia, which is probably wrong.
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
ILM, you've basically handed 12th spot to an ambient intro track
I get not liking it, but how on earth is this track "ambient"?
― emil.y, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
yeah that makes no sense
― simmy simmy ya, simmy yam simmy yay (voodoo chili), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
the equivalent of. anyway aaah sorry to play grinch as usual
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:13 (five years ago) link
Rosa-leeah.
xps
― pomenitul, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
ANYWAY
1975x2 ariana x2mitskirobynkacey x2monaea certain bromley-based indiepop group :D fuck y'allsun-el musicianarctic monkeys?lana del rey baby fucking sharksophie (x2?)as matt has just said it, burna boy
that's 11
― imago, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
the Malamente video is great!
xxp I also missed the Julia Holter album this year, not sure why, will have to remedy that
― Dan S, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:14 (five years ago) link
You pronounce the "i" instead of doing the liaison, so that it sounds a bit more like Rosaliya
― Nabozo, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
peggy gou surely to come btw
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
What's the proper pronunciation? I've been saying Rose-ahlia, which is probably wrong.― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― emil.y, Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:12 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I have a sinking feeling it's gonna be one of those things where it's the TH sound but if you do it like that you kinda sound like a dink but if you don't a dink corrects you. Real catch thwenthy thwo
Xp oh ok cool still posting this tho bc imo it's funny
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
Rosa-LEE-a
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
Xp myself - It wasn't even that funny ffs will get it thogether
― suggest boban (Will M.), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
― jaymc, Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:05 PM
so should my Autocorrect
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
wish they would place but highly unlikely: ciara's "level up", mariah's "gtfo"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:18 (five years ago) link
Love both Rosalía traxx and the album (and the album b4 that)
― i stan corrected (morrisp), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't have predicted it would be this high, but I'm surprised that Jessie Ware's "Overtime" hasn't shown up yet.
― jaymc, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
The accent (Rosalía) is where it is for a reason, sometimes languages are simply that easy.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
― imago, Thursday, January 31, 2019 7:04 PM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wth
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okay, doing one more and then we'll do the top ten tomorrow morning... it's gonna have to be kinda early as I have appointments midday, so figure around 8.30 or so till 11 EST.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
It would be amazing if Burna placed this high (with “Ye”?), but sadly my #78-79-80 prediction seems the more realistic one.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
xp
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/b0Crib6.jpg
11: Kacey Musgraves – “High Horse” – 309 points – 9 votes – 1 first place votevideo
Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation
Like Phoenix doing country. - Josh in Chicago
This song is definitely an outlier on the album in the sense that it's doing something experimental in a very specific way. The album in general sounds nothing like this but “High Horse" does give an idea of how fun the production can be here. – J0rdan S.
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25951
“High Horse” is about as disco as Kylie Minogue’s “Dancing” was country; that is to say: conscientiously and carefully, without threatening to intrude too far upon unfamiliar cultural spaces. Instead each settles on a kind of naff AM-radio appeal that as easily positions it alongside “Islands in the Stream” as it does “September” or even “Copacabana.” But where Minogue’s song stirs nostalgia, the faded polyester drift of Musgraves’s more Western sound fits her lyric’s exhausted contempt. The opening line — “I bet you think you’re John Wayne” — is sass worthy of Shania, but Kacey’s disaffection crystallizes in her more arch dismissal: “You’re classic in the wrong way.” The hand claps, popping bass, and very canned strings underline the point. – Jonathan Bradley
It’s everything I’ve ever wanted as a queer person who lives in the south who loves both disco and country! Kacey sounds amazing! I wanna karaoke this and point at random people in the crowd and tell them off for being snobs! I wanna rent a truck and blast this up and down the road! I wanna rent a truck and take this to the White House and blare it there, too! I want every song that comes out this year to make me feel as jazzed about being alive as “High Horse” does, and I won’t settle for anything less! – Alex Clifton
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
ye surely places. it is iconic
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