Song ID'd: Desloc Piccalo ft. Adiah - Drumz

thx

thnx boo this is p good

big ups

I have listened to this song roughly 30 thousand 100 million times this weekend.

KEEP IT JUMPIN LIKE A JUNKINOO

Loving this. Even though she's the guest singer she's the definite highlight in here. Curious to see what she'd do with a richer sound palette backing her.

:D

Massive catch on Jordan's part.

yeah this is great though I could do without the guy. thanks J0rdan!

cheers, & thank u dj entice

wow, so great. a million times better than the youtube (which was pretty impressive to begin with). sharpness of the beats is crucial. ty, jordan!

goddamn this song is good

did anyone make the lumidee comparison in the thread yet?

song of the year

I was thinking lumidee, went with nina sky instead, but yeah

I invoked Lumidee on my blog.

ty J0rdan

It's been over a month since we've mentioned how perfect this is for summer, and now it is hot and summer and this is perfect.

this is setting me on fire

this is the best song

it's actually normal in radio rotation a bit here, always makes my day

I have envies.

This thread title should get changed,

yeah, i'll put in a request

I kind of love the og title just as a curiosity-stoking curio, but it's a pain in the ass to search for.

pitbull went on about how much he loved desloc piccalo when i interviewed him

(he hadn't hard "drumz" though)

(it really is the best song)

title is so good, please don't remove any of the current version

guess what j0rdan i love this

marcus nasty should play this

this hook is :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP <33

trying to do important stuff but just dancing around my flat by myself to this

wish there was an edit w/o desloc tbh

though I do like other songs i've heard from him

i would like the instrumental to this very much

Naw, Desloc isn't the best thing about this obv, but his parts a v. fun.

first post now ruined ;_;

This is another case of me thinking that the song's lesser parts (Desloc obv) are a big part of its charm.

Yes!

I'm not sure I'd like this as much without "You can Stop! Drop! And rollllll... But you can't put this fire out!"

yes, i wrote on my blog that there's an amateurish charm to the song that i think really works in its favor -- the concept is sorta imperfect, it doesn't seem like they thought the ending out real well, in general it comes off as a bit stitched together. amateurism rubbing up against professional pop isn't usually my thing, but i dig that undercurrent here.

It works because he's going more for Elephant Man than Ace Hood.

well, that goes without saying

Yes. I think (pseudo?) Caribbean amateurishness is a pretty different kettle of fish to other forms of amateurishness in pop and tends to map onto the amateurish/professional divide very differently.

In part because in dancehall (etc) "made in two minutes" and populist success do not seem as inversely proportional as they tend to seem in mainstream western pop.

i don't think they seem inversely proportional in western pop, look at terius (in the good way) and jr rotem (in the bad way)

i like the desloc bits but do wish there was more adiah, just having her on the hook isn't enough

Neither JR Rotem and Terius are exactly amateurish though! Like everything on the first The-Dream album was pretty poliahed, it's only now he's built himself that he thinks "fuck it" and puts out half-hearted crap like "Panties to the Side".

Also the guy who produced LeToya's "All Eyes On Me" is not amateurish! I think there's a difference between the embracing 2010/2011's "deliberately sound like a frankenstein's monster of dance and pop hits" aesthetic and being amateurish per se. Derulo tunes don't actually sound made in 2 minutes. Agreed that they're mostly pretty awful but that's a different metric.

Rotem's most actually-amateurish sounding productions are for Sean Kingston, go figure.

"polished" obv.

terius boasts about making songs in half an hour though, and a lot of the time you can tell (and it doesn't correlate to how good they are - "single ladies" sounds a lot more tossed-off than "panties to the side" for example, but is obviously better)

i refuse to believe jr rotem takes any longer on most of hits than it takes him to copy and paste the horrible obvious sample on top

*his hits

Yes but "Single Ladies" is also obviously a more polished performance in just about every conceivable manner than "Drumz". A lot of this also comes down to a mix of production and performance too - Beyonce is a professional. Derulo can't really sing but he's trying. And the use of big samples actually reduces the sense of amateurism in my opinion because you can hear the money and power and will going into making the result a hit.

I guess the phrase "amateurish" is too broad and vague for the vibe I'm trying to describe. Like I'm sure you'd put Ke$ha (in a bad way) or "Give Me Everything" (in a good way) in that category too and that's not at all the vibe I mean.

If I was looking for an example of real amateurishness (in the sense that I mean) in US pop comparable to "Drumz" I'd probably point to stuff like Baby Bash's "Suga Suga".

O O AYOOOO

this thing has been #1 jam all summer, Adiah kinda makes it feel like dusk and the heat's broken so now you can rejoice and DANCE.

BOO KAK BOO KAKKAK

Yes. I think (pseudo?) Caribbean amateurishness is a pretty different kettle of fish to other forms of amateurishness in pop and tends to map onto the amateurish/professional divide very differently.

You get the same thing with a lot of contemporary African pop (which is obviously heavily influenced by dancehall as well as US hip-hop), and some strands of funky as well. You can get away with a lot if you have charm and energy - the effect of having banged something out in the middle of a party even if most of the time that hasn't happened. You don't get that with most amateurish-sounding rock music, and especially not with someone like Terius who is very polished at his best and doesn't have the charm to compensate for his more tossed off moments, there's rarely a sense of spontenaiety there.

Also no way is Desloc the lesser partner here - you need the roughness and the energy to balance Adiah's smoothness.

Matt gets me. Definitely true of african pop and a lot of funky.