6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

"like four"

It just sounds like kind of a failed brag to me. "I'm super influential. There are, like, four people who sound like me."

Diss silliness aside, though, this concert looks insanely fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATBaqqj4Ya0

Gonna have to check this tour out, especially if he's playing "Right Side of My Brain."

0_o that girl onstage during "purple kisses" looks about 14

k somehow got weirder

I know... first time I've seen an audience volunteer look absolutely disgusted to be a part of one of those on-stage seduction routines.

fuck if he's singing "purple kisses" i'm gonna be at that show

That could be you up there, J0rdan!

i'll prob be the only person who knows all the words to that song

#lovecult

i'll prob be the only person who knows all the words to that song

― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 3:30 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol rme. the girl onstage knew the words!

pretty sure the audience at a Dream show is going to have a sizeable contingent of obsessive nerds

pretty sure i can sing love/hate front 2 back. just sayin

xp show i was at was legit 75% women, with a sizeable contingent of dudes just chillin in the back who maybe had been dragged their by their girl & actively trying to look disinterested

Man. Haven't spun L/H in too long. Time to bust out Purple Kisses and/or Luv Songs.

i'll prob be the only person who knows all the words to that song

― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:30 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#lovecult

― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:32 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

understanding this made years of trawling through the-dream's twitter account & scanning terrible don draper jpg strewn messageboards for hulkshare links totally worth it, ty

if you get to interview the-dream and your THIRD QUESTION is "i want to know what you think of the the weeknd" you need to get the fuck out of the-dream's office

― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:52 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i would take this classic post further and say that anyone who heard The-Dream's comment about other new R&B acts sounding like him and immediately thought of The-Weeknd needs to gtfo, his influence is all over actual radio acts

Tesfaye/Weekend thought it was about him

Weeknd

yes, he's one of the people that needs to gtfo

no one posted this yet?!

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-dream-previews-seductive-new-album-20120314#ixzz1p89dicEk

"Foreplay": A nostalgic mid-tempo number with electric guitars and thumping percussion that begs for comparisons to The-Dream's freaky-R&B forebear, R. Kelly.

"Equestrian": Ginuwine's "Pony" gets a redux with pounding drums. "I love the way you ride/Equestrian," The-Dream croons, his falsetto blending effortlessly over the beat. He even toys with his lower register, a welcome distraction from the song's hackneyed "Giddy up" outro. During this listening session, The-Dream closed his eyes and began winding and shimmying by himself to the track.

"Loving You": In which The-Dream loves so hard, it becomes downright aggressive. Vocals, synths, guitars and yearning lyrics undulate together to the brink of insanity, and yet it never sounds cacophonous. "I can't take all the credit, the cocaine had a lot to do with it," The-Dream mused afterward, presumably joking.

"Slow It Down": "I know they ain't gonna play this on Top 40 radio," The-Dream dares on this strip club-ready song about rolling, grinding and myriad other forms of gyration.

"Divine," featuring Mary J. Blige: Booming theatrics lead off one of the album's most introspective cuts. "As the seats recline/This is divine," The-Dream murmurs, contemplating success. Blige provides only ancillary vocal coos over lush violins, creating an airy effect.

"Paid," featuring Gucci Mane: Kickstarted with a sample from the gangster flick New Jack City (Nino Brown's famous quote: "The fruit of our hard work/Am I my brother's keeper?"), "Paid" is a requisite hip-hop banger about balling with just $100 in your pocket. Gucci Mane delivers a formidable verse: "If I could/I'd give a hug to the money," he croaks. "I think I was doing that while I was doing crack," The-Dream laughed while playing the track.

"Katrina": A masculine counterpart to Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable," this chest-pounding, unfinished song encourages men to move on from bad relationships. "This is strictly for my niggas," The-Dream croons – though, to be fair, the women present found the song to be irresistible.

"Talk That Shit": Cue the subliminal shots! "Talk That Shit" is a veiled jab at new-generation R&B weirdos who have been heavily influenced by The-Dream's style. "Y'all niggas so disrespectful remixing my own shit," he blasts before jumping into a medley of his hits, from "Fancy" to "Shawty Is a 10." Although The-Dream wouldn't reveal any specific names, chatter during the session implied that "Bed" singer J. Holiday and The Weeknd were possible targets.

"Y'all": "If this ain't the realest thing I ever wrote," sings The-Dream on this markedly sensitive, vulnerable number, where he spills his guts about his oft-beleaguered reputation as an artist, father and man. The self-anointed "Superman" admits that, yes, even he has flaws – "Sometimes even my cape needs dry cleaning" – before making peace with himself, concluding, "Crucify me if you want, but I won't stop loving y'all."

thank you lou!

album sounds sufficiently hilarious!

i had almost forgotten this was happening! when is it due?

"presumably joking"

Although The-Dream wouldn't reveal any specific names, chatter during the session implied that "Bed" singer J. Holiday and The Weeknd were possible targets.

What about "Baby" singer Justin Bieber or "Just Like Me" singer Jamie Foxx?

remember when the-dream was beefing with chris brown before it was cool

When he embarrassed him at the Freaky Forebears Waterpark dunk tank.

I'm shocked the album exists in something resembling a finished state this far out from its scheduled release. Usually when I review R&B albums, I get the sense they were hastily finalized about two weeks before they hit shelves, if that.

really? i haven't gotten that impression w/ most major label albums, a lot of them seem to be sitting on the shelf for a minute and then get a few of-the-minute rappers thrown on at the last minute

is the writer sure that the lyric "sometimes even my cape needs dry cleaning" is a Superman reference?

a superman that hoe reference

wow i can deal with mary j and gucci for sure. no drake? big sean? etc? please let this be true

During this listening session, The-Dream closed his eyes and began winding and shimmying by himself to the track.

This is amazing

his weird self-imploding ripple dance is still playing in my head when i close my eyes, since i saw him do it to fast car on that tour video a couple of days back.

I'm shocked the album exists in something resembling a finished state this far out from its scheduled release. Usually when I review R&B albums, I get the sense they were hastily finalized about two weeks before they hit shelves, if that.

― Evan R, Thursday, 15 March 2012 20:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm!, it is encouraging, particularly because the view we got into his process when he made his free record made it sound super flexible. i mean i guess it isn't finished but at least there are big chunks done that he's ready to go play out with.

also the weeknd said this guy looks like the hamburglar, feel like this should be posted itt

April 17, apparently.

He looks like the hamburglar every day

"I'm going to work with Shakira at some point over the next couple of months," says The-Dream, "and she was always on my wish list, because she's another one of those females, a great female artist." As for his dream of working with Chris Martin of Coldplay? "That's just a Jay-Z phone call away," he says.

http://www.billboard.com/column/sxsw/video-the-dream-talks-love-iv-shakira-at-1006490752.story#/column/sxsw/video-the-dream-talks-love-iv-shakira-at-1006490752.story

i haven't been able to shake the impression of The-Dream as Jazze Pha's mini-me since the "Shawty Is A 10" video

dude didn't even have any real radio hits even as a writer for a year or two there, but "Love On Top" and "Birthday Cake" changed that, maybe he can stop his commercial tailspin after all

yeah, he's lucky that something off that beyonce album finally hit

So I saw The-Dream at the Fillmore Silver Spring last night, outside Washington DC. He had a drummer and 2 keyboard/synth players (one of whom also played bass). The-Dream alternated between singing live, and singing along or lip-synching with pre-recorded vocal tracks or letting the crowd sing while he asked for more Patrone. The show lasted for just an hour( $33 admission). He did dance and strut energetically. He's in tour mode: was wearing the same Oakland Raiders cap, black sunglasses, black jacket, and Roc-a-Fella Records necklace I read that he wore in NYC at SOBs.
He again proclaimed himself "the realest" out there, and grumbled more about the fakes who have imitated him in the last two years. Much of the crowd did not seem enthused with the cover of "Beat that p*ssy up". I didn't like it. It was alternately sad and comical watching him go overboard in his attempt to be a swaggering 2012 era foul-mouthed star, or maybe that was part of his Marvin Gaye for 2012 mad at my ex shtick. I forgot the name of the other mad at his ex song he did. "Walking on the Moon," "Shawty", "Falsetto," "Kill the Lights," "Rockin' that ..." all went over better. He had a woman singer come onstage and do a song and a half(the latter was part of Kanye's "All of the Lights" that I think he assisted in writing).

^^ valuable dispatch from somewhere outside the borders of Teriustan

as a recovering terius stan i have no real desire to see him live. his twitter makes him seem like a clown

Just realized how badly Chris Brown's "Strip" bites "Rockin' That Shit."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-dream-at-fillmore-silver-spring/2012/03/18/gIQAFBtDLS_story.html

The freelancer reviewing him for the Washington Post was now wowed either. She and Caramanica in the NY Times were harsh on Nash's vocals. I'm less concerned with him not having Al Green's range and more with what he was singing, his cliched between song patter, and with his reliance on the backing vocal tracks. He's a great songwriter though.

gotta say i'm leaning towards becoming a "recovering terius stan" too. not saying he'll be useless from here on in obv, i'm sure there'll be great stuff to come, but the god period, the imperial phase, is over

Away from a stage and his twitter, he might still be able to write and record strong material

that's how it usually works, yeah

i had an absolute blast at the show tonight

i think we were lucky that we saw him after he had played a few weeks of dates... he obv can't really sing but he was great on stage and the band was good, none of the tracks sounded like ass or were turned into linkin park tracks.

the set was pretty heavy on LH & LVM, i don't think he played any album tracks off LK, tho he did do one of the ones of 1977 that i don't remember. singles got the best responses but like when he dropped into the rap on "fancy" the entire crowd was spitting w/ him, it was kinda nuts.

also he did "i luv your girl" -> loverance which was hilarious and pretty awesome

anyway it wasn't a mindblowing show but it was really fun just to be in a big room full of people that knew all the songs and all the words and it was appropriately goofy and all that