Terius "The-Dream" Nash Solo Albums + Major Writing/Production Credits (Electrik Red, Mariah Carey, Ciara)

Still love "Ribbon," too. Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qsyS7wi2D4

yeah "ribbon" was my pick too. evan r totally otm

Not on Def Jam anymore: http://www.missinfo.tv/index.php/the-dream-announces-departure-from-def-jam/

Good for him.

one thing I didn't realize until just now is that August Alsina is signed to Def Jam via Radio Killa Records -- i wonder if The-Dream is just leaving Def Jam as an artist or if his imprint is no more too, which would be odd since he finally has an artist that's blowing up

all-tricky-&-dream nicole scherzinger record out next week:

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

So many mixed emotions. The Terius/Tricky LPs are some of my favorite music ever, but Nicole Scherzinger is super bland, and unless Nash and Stewart have somehow expanded their bag of tricks it's hard to get too excited about this. Also there are still some heinous (absolutely heinous) assault allegations hanging over The-Dream's head, leaving me disinclined to welcome any new material from the guy.

nicole scherzinger is not remotely bland

lol knew that'd be a lex batsignal

idk scherzinger's non-blandness has been covered by many posters so many times on ilx by now

"your love" is still one of the singles of the year, though i wasn't so into "run" (but those big ballads often leave you cold until you're in the right ~circumstance)

i for one am eagerly anticipating the album

out tomorrow apparently

Weirdly though I've always felt that Nicole's definite anti-blandness tends to blaze out of PCD material more than on her solo stuff, usually.

But I am up for this album - obv the worst part of Terius' material these past few years has been, well, Terius.

bar those two early solo singles that never did anything, nicole's solo material has mostly just been inferior to her PCDs material

flicked thru this. quite weird. let's dial the first-impressions-ometer to.... hmm yes... unforgiving! so even taking the possibility of contractual obligation/tax scams into account still smacks of a surprisingly shoddy demo collection (had actually kinda hoped for all the milian elope cyborg superbitch bits retooled...)

the workable nascent direction suggested by 'your love' and 'electric blue' (clever terius, no one will ever suspect) is quickly left by the wayside, after that 'heartbreaker' stood out as a good fit.... 'god of war' should have been exactly the cliche dawn richard stomper ur heart desires but instead they somehow pull defeat from the jaws of victory with some inane "ur so annoying" lines

the um, eye-catching title track is i guess supposed to be a startlingly honest ★★★★☆ 'pretty hurts' type fake boo-hoo but coming at the end of this just seems like a thwarted album selfreview sigh

*sheds tear*

damn rtc in the cut that's a scary sight

rtc's review was what i was fearing but i'm happily surprised i like it a lot more than that, though the title track is a car crash and exactly as described. it's engagingly light and airy, i'm into la scherz duetting with a slowed-down, pitched-down version of herself

oh lol i did wonder who that was. innntersting

light and airy isn't incorrect i guess but without much to say or sell (even herself as star) i didnt see what there was to engage with other than perhaps the v curious anticlimactic insipidity in itself - for a putative new record deal and renounced media commitments comeback it's less self-effacing than self-abnegating. and really if nicole stans do exist (and i subscribe to the theory she isnt bland but cmon) is any of this what they might want to hear? even lewis hamilton won't shed a single extra follicle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN5IniOFCr0

still far and away the best look for her here imo

presumably randomly drawn out of a plastic bag of terius toni braxton demos but still

yeah i liked that one a lot

it certainly doesn't play to the strengths i imagined nicole had but idk i'm not getting the "this could be anyone" vibe that would completely kill it, and neither is it the kind of hodgepodge compromise so many other albums have been this year. i don't know if it's enough to stan for, it's only been one listen

yeah no it won't be stan v hate either way. i agree doesn't quite seem anonymous as such but nor am i entirely sure if that's not just solely because it doesn't bear (or bother to bear) the rictus of the despo modern age

Man, this song... <3

https://www.audiomack.com/song/3lxi/black-magic-1

love the chorus. sounds slightly demo-ish to me? like I feel like it could be easily improved a little

just discovered this recently, 2011 Terius/Tricky collab with a Warped Tour band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cB7_Wonxso

"Madness" was pretty raw tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEY0p0IWfnM

if yr still hating on (individual songs from) latter day the-dream youve gone too far imo

randomly my gf has really gotten into the dream lately and i've realized that these days i think lvm is superior to l/h. i used to not care about the "cohesiveness" or whatever but now from a safe distance the latter is just a much smoother, more pleasant listen

uh thats contradictory, i'm talking about lvm

Baby
I hope you save a little pizza for me

I don’t really “read” “music criticism” any more, but what is terius’s stature among those in the know these days? prompted by plying HTBAL on repeat for the past week or so… are the kids even aware of this era or do they just know him as the beyonce guy?

Man do these rap producers like share tips on how to be a monster?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/06/04/the-dream-channii-monroe-lawsuit/