Excellent. I mean, these staggered EP releases have been nice, but a full album makes things a lot easier for year-end ranking purposes.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
IF the album is worth ranking above Art Dealer Chic. we'll see.
― some dude, Monday, 27 August 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
Well, yeah. But isn't a good chunk of ADC gonna be on this?
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 27 August 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
three songs -- i think it's gonna be as good or better. ADC does have some throwaways.
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 27 August 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
Fuckin broads.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 27 August 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, if he keeps making album covers like this, i will have to keep making Avatar: The Last Airbender jokes.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 27 August 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I don't really know how Internet memes work, but I am picturing Flying Miguel photobombing all sorts of news and sports images, dunking on Kobe or Billy Corgan or whatever
― Evan R, Monday, 27 August 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
^^
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 27 August 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
“It’s definitely a progressive album,” the 25-year-old told Mina SayWhat. “I would describe it as being progressive in the sense that I’m taking a lot of my more alternative influences and incorporating them.”
Kaleidoscope Dream Tracklisting
1. “Adorn”2. “Don’t Look Back”3. “Use Me”4. “Do You…”5. “Kaleidoscope Dream”6. “The Thrill”7. “How Many Drinks?”8. “Where’s the Fun in Forever?”9. “Arch & Point”10. “Pussy Is Mine”11. “Candle in the Sun”
http://www.rap-up.com/2012/08/15/tracklisting-miguel-kaleidoscope-dream/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 August 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
"adorn" is looking like it has a chance to be his biggest hit
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
heard it on the radio this morning, vibed out
― jack chick-fil-A (dayo), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, Pussy is Mine is on this? Cool. He played that live at the Joe's Pub show and it felt like older material from somewhere but I didn't entirely recognize it.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 27 August 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, Pussy is Mine? Cool.
― some dude, Monday, 27 August 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
6. “The Thrill”7. “How Many Drinks?”8. “Where’s the Fun in Forever?”
also known as The Ballin' Trilogy
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
trying to remember the last time a contemporary R&B album with this high a profile came out w/ no obligatory guest rappers― some dude, Monday, August 27, 2012 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Monday, August 27, 2012 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Profiles weren't as high, but Love Me Back and Late Nights & Early Mornings come to mind.
― Andy K, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
which was late nights? marsha ambrosius?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
that didn't register for me at ALL. Love me back is still in constant rotation.
thanks for prompting me to play the Ambrosious album again, Andy!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah good call with the Jazmine and Marsha albums, dug both. i'm just happy that this time Mig got to dodge the J. Cole bullet that Melanie and Elle caught this year.
― some dude, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
Alex, check out the Ambrosius again. Although it faffs around a bit in the middle section and is at times too masochistic for my taste, this is plush, sumptuous R&B of a high order -- probably my favorite one of last year
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Adorn" is great, but I've always thought it needed a B.o.B. verse
― Evan R, Monday, 27 August 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
and a Calvin Harris remix featuring Nicki Minaj.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 August 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, August 27, 2012 2:23 PM (6 hours ago)
is it charting? it doesn't even have a wiki entry
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
well here's a sentence i never thought i'd read
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
#7 R&B, #68 on the Hot 100 (xpost)
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
There's also the R. Kelly albums.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
well yeah but those aren't contemporary R&B
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
mariah - memoirs?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
though that is quite a while ago now
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
jeremih's first album
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
memoirs had gucci on the single version of "obsessed" right?
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
or was that a separate remix
separate remix & not on the album
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
wait, ship: how are Kels' albums not contemporary R&B? Is it their retro stylings that inoculate them?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
he iz old
― There's gotta be an opposition party or something in Russia, right? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:20 (eleven years ago) link
lol at lex taking Evan's post at face value
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Oh! *fumbles with trembling hands with Lipitor tablets and something called a "keyboard"*
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
i was basically borrowing the parlance of the Grammys, who for most of the last decade had a 'contemporary R&B album' award to distinguish the overly modern hip hop-influenced stuff from the more traditional stuff that usually wins the best R&B album award (but the 2 categories were merged back into one this year). Chocolate Factory was nominated in the contemporary category; his last two would have been in the other category, if they were nominated.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
like you wouldn't listen to Write Me Back and expect to possibly hear a guest rapper on it (unlike Miguel's stuff), so it's not relevant to the point i was making.
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
new trey songz album only has like 6 guest rappers
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
SPOILER ALERT
the new preview is very good
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:22 (eleven years ago) link
"do you..." especially is absolutely sublime
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― k3vin k., Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
"do you..." is like "quickie" pt 2... the glowing, coital track that just basks in its own sound. it's even a bit more ethereal tho.
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just heard Adorn in a sports store while walking through the mall. Miguel has arrived!
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Thursday, 6 September 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Man is this release scheme convoluted. Like, I'm a pretty big fan of this guy, and I really can't keep track of which songs are out, which ones are coming soon, which ones are being bundled where, where to download them, when to download them, etc, etc. I am totally lost, and his site isn't really clarifying a lot of these questions.
The ADC EPs were clever, but he should stop fucking around and just put out an album already.
― Evan R, Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
three more songs out 9/11, full thing out 10/2
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
i hope "do you..." is actually the next single. maybe the best thing he's ever done.
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
cool to see that Pop & Oak produced "Use Me," really starting to stan for them after the Elle Varner album. "Don't Look Back" is prob my least favorite song he's put out this year, though.
― IN REAL LIFE (some dude), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link