we've got miguel now
― liljon /bia/ bia (k3vin k.), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
urgh please no either/or bullshit
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
ha was that directed at me? maybe i should take out my displeasure at no one posting in my miguel poll by polling these two.....
nah tho
― liljon /bia/ bia (k3vin k.), Monday, 26 November 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
hey man that poll got 30+ votes, quit yer bellyachin
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
not sure what i feel about "tender tendencies." I feel like the Weekend (to bring him into this) does what "Tender Tendencies" tries to by showing instead of telling. erius tells us he's self-centered; Tesfaye actually acts self-centered. He doesn't have to tell us this.
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
feather-soft pillows of a track tho, gorgeous stuff
― childish bambino (rennavate), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sort of intrigued by the thought of a Sophie's Choice between The-Dream and Miguel. I'd probably be Team Terius, but it would be a tough one
― Evan R, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe we can listen to multiple R&B singers! or maybe not
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/11/ocean-weekend-miguel-best.php
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Monday, 26 November 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha
― Evan R, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
That article brings me so much irrational joy. Like, I had to re-read the whole thing again, just because you posted it
― Evan R, Monday, 26 November 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
As I was saying, the 1977 remaster sounds MAGNIFICENT
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
pity about the songwriting
― Number None, Friday, 14 December 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
Songwriting is great, man. I really don't understand why y'all think it isn't.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
what did you think of love king
― k3vin k., Friday, 14 December 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
Loved it.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, I know all of the 1977 songs by heart. They're great: perfect, bitter-but-uplifting breakup songs. And Form of Flattery is such a great diss.
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
longneck I don't know if I can trust your opinion about anything anymore
― 乒乓, Friday, 14 December 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
tsk tsk tsk
― dyslectic Christ Brown (longneck), Friday, 14 December 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
ha yeah you fell right into mytrap
― k3vin k., Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
"slow it down" dropping today, apparently
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 14 February 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
this song sucks
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 15 February 2013 00:53 (eleven years ago) link
the production on his songs has really fallen off, "roc your body" excepted
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 February 2013 01:55 (eleven years ago) link
tricky is busy on this sub-weeknd b.s. :-/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7xvIJNDq4
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 15 February 2013 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
Does not suck. Is great. Love it.
― longneck, Friday, 15 February 2013 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
it's just sad how much terius has fallen off at this point :(
always used to love how he could somehow produce genius even when being really obviously lazy/tossed-off but there are just no ideas left
― lex pretend, Friday, 15 February 2013 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
the well does indeed appear to be dry
then again i do love "nobody's business" (purely as a song dammit, not for CB)
my lurker username is looking shitty these days
― livethedream, Friday, 15 February 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
nah this is fantastic. total return to form after all that post-love king bullshit imo
― Jacques_Lamure, Friday, 15 February 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
i dont think it's awful, but it sounds to me like someone trying to ape dreams style more than anything else, which is incredibly :[
― johnny crunch, Friday, 15 February 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
i think his downward turn in consistency has been pretty gradual and not actually that huge, though just enough to matter obviously, but i don't even know how this song is half as good as "Dope Chick"
― weed, tumblr whites and wein (some dude), Friday, 15 February 2013 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
I love them both.
― longneck, Friday, 15 February 2013 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
"dope chick" has the dopiest chorus, i could never get into that song
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
it's not top shelf or anything, but it grew on me
― weed, tumblr whites and wein (some dude), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like every time this guy drops a song, a random set of people are like "a return to form!"
i mean i thought that about "roc your body" so no hate, it's just a weird phenomenon
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
I'll give support to J0rdan's point: This new track is great; his best since "Body Work/Fuck My Brains Out." Didn't think he had something so bottomlessly hooky in him anymore. Return to form.
― Evan R, Friday, 15 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked "fuck my brains out" too
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
That's the shit he does better than anybody else... just barrage you with hook after hook after hook after twist after hook. It's an incredible thing, so I can forgive him for losing his knack for it. Nobody could sustain that writing style for more than three or four years
― Evan R, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
"fuck my brains out" is the only solo terius song i've really loved post-love king
baffled at any love for this - even "roc" was sort-of-ok in a basic way but this is just sad
― lex pretend, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
i honestly always thought his solo stuff was just one decent-sized fraction of his best work. these days would much rather hear something he's written for Beyonce or Rihanna or whoever, feel like his outside writing has suffered less lately.
― weed, tumblr whites and wein (some dude), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
yeah his stuff on 4 doesn't back up my impression that he's fallen off post-love king (but then looking at the list of writers lord knows how much he had to do with those songs)
― lex pretend, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:08 (eleven years ago) link
xp That's definitely true, but his solo records gave him room to just let a song ride in a way the songs he writes for bigger stars never could. His best solo stuff was always so unhurried, so you could just sit there and luxuriate in how hooky and gorgeous it all was. I miss that vibe.
― Evan R, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny that he starts this new song off by saying "i know they're not gonna play this on top 40 radio" despite that quote from a year or so ago where he was like "i can write a solo smash whenever i want to, that's not what i'm going for right now. i'm gonna do that when i'm 50."
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
I miss good terius so much
― 乒乓, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
chillin w/ my ella / there's nothin u can tella
― 乒乓, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
This is a bit of a trifle but I'm enjoying it, more than I expected to from reading the most recent posts at least. Fabolous verse is woeful though.
I stand by my theory that Terius has always had pretty much zero quality control, but he barely needed it up to 2010 or thereabouts because his overall quality was so high.
― Matt DC, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
the fab verse definitely sucks but the nu-dream alternative would've been an electric guitar solo so i can deal with it
― Jacques_Lamure, Friday, 15 February 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
no one will be talking about this song a month from now
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 15 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
Listened once, that's probably enough.
― skeet-skeet-gate (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 15 February 2013 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, February 15, 2013 5:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No. They'll be singing it instead, looking at butts.
― longneck, Friday, 15 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
a generic 3rd rate version of one of his actually-good songs probably WILL be the one that blows up & makes me hate the-dream
still dont think it'll be this one, though
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, 15 February 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
I quite like the sound of Fab's verse, if not the content
― Number None, Friday, 15 February 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link