"thinking bout you" is also incredible
the nicki cod-reggae one is lots of fun
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 20 May 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.change.org/p/metacritic-discard-rolling-stone-s-review-of-ariana-grande-s-dangerous-woman
― dyl, Saturday, 21 May 2016 06:25 (eight years ago) link
poor whiney
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 21 May 2016 06:42 (eight years ago) link
Yesterday I went to a cool bbq and dj'd with friends and discovered a new band I like and met a promising gf candidate and yet by far the highlight of my day was that change dot org petition about whiney's ariana grande review lmao
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 21 May 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Look @ how many signatures it has 😂ðŸ˜
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 21 May 2016 08:25 (eight years ago) link
lmaoooooo
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 May 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
finally the future has arrived
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 May 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kgv6YAq.png
― just sayin, Saturday, 21 May 2016 09:54 (eight years ago) link
Great album. Would sign.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 21 May 2016 10:35 (eight years ago) link
gosh that key change in "greedy" is demonic
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
macy gray's "nina simone pitches to do a bond theme" turn on this album is unexpected
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:31 (eight years ago) link
This is exactly why we need Sanders, he'll stand up to these corporate fat cat music critics
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 21 May 2016 15:53 (eight years ago) link
this album makes me sooooooo happy & that petition even happier
"utilizing her lower register with superb enunciation"
― uberweiss, Saturday, 21 May 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
"Touch it" is a towering achievement
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 May 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
can't think of a recent pop album with better bonus tracks than this one - maybe 1989?
― art baengels (monotony), Sunday, 22 May 2016 08:35 (eight years ago) link
Superb album
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 May 2016 10:01 (eight years ago) link
yung nicki chim-i-ney delights me
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 22 May 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Haven't been struck by her stuff before but "Into You" and "Touch It" and "Thinking Bout You" are so good!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 22 May 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Starting to think that this is a perfect pop album. Hello summer!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
idk almost all of the recent pop records i've heard have had bonus tracks orders better than what made the official tracklisting; what makes the ariana bonuses remarkable is that i don't really hate any part of the normal record, and then the cluster of tracks at the end elevate the whole thing considerably, especially "bad decisions" and "touch it"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
really psyched to hear a pop record this year that doesn't suffer from overcalculation
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
i believe whiney#teamwhogivesashit
― sarahell, Sunday, 22 May 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
It's a four-paragraph review ffs.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Man, "Thinking Bout You"
― bunny slopes, Sunday, 22 May 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 22 May 2016 12:30 Bookmark
WRIST ICICLE RIDE DICK BICYCLE!!!
― r|t|c, Sunday, 22 May 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
are people really not here 4 the title track
the guitar tones <3 the heady rush of the pre-chorus <3 the "i wanna savour / save it for later / the taste, the flavour / 'cause i'm a taker / 'cause i'm a giver / it's only nature / i live for dangeeeeer" section <3
my other faves are "thinking bout you" (so intimate & light & warm, mdma vibes 2 me, tryna forget that dr. luke blates ghostproduced it), "everyday" (fucking banger - HEEEE GIVIN ME THA GOOD SHIT; the bananas whistling in final chorus is woah), "into you" (obv), "bad decisions" ("piano"-esque bounce to this), "touch it" (colossal & cinematic & other words), "i don't care" (mmmm). & all the other 1s
― uberweiss, Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:06 (eight years ago) link
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, May 22, 2016 12:31 PM (2 hours ago)
the problem with the review was apparent before any of the change.org petitioners actually read it -- its score is "too low" and, more importantly, included on metacritic
― dyl, Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:51 (eight years ago) link
have not heard this album yet but excited to do so!
― dyl, Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
This album was reminding me in a good way of Mya's Moodring, and I think the combined sense of largesse and range but lack of over-calculation is a big part of it.
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 May 2016 22:05 (eight years ago) link
it's super-calculated though, from the styles it encompasses to the guests - it's not a curveball album and it's def tailor-made to today's commercial landscape. it basically has the same aims as the second album, it just executes them so much better (and so much more fitting to her actual voice).
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 23 May 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
well right I'm not saying it's not precisely calibrated, it just doesn't feel like it's trying to be too many things at once, or trying to be one thing so hard that it becomes lifeless
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 23 May 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link
sure yeah i agree w that, but it's nice and rarer than it should be to hear a pop album that has so obviously been through the major label process, the focus grouping and positioning and so on, and actually works because of it
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Monday, 23 May 2016 12:55 (eight years ago) link
holy shit thinking bout you is great, knew better/forever boy as well. thinking bout you is like what i wish the last carly rae album could have done but never quite did for me
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 01:42 (eight years ago) link
yeah i guess when i say "not over-calculated" I mean "not hamfistedly calculated".
Like, back in the early-to-mid 00s there were a lot more R&B albums that just worked because, even if they were assembled by committee, that committee had a decent working understanding of current R&B trends in the first place, so it wasn't all these super-obvious duplo-block-sized "and for our next trick let's get The Weeknd to sound morose, and for our next next trick let's get Zedd or one of those guys" box-ticking exercises you can spot from a mile off.
So apart from Moodring the other album I'm reminded of is Christina Milian's second album.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 02:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah, also britney's in the zone, but what these albums also have in common is that their stylistic range doesn't overwhelm the artist but is in service to their particular strengths - the variety on offer seems to flow from what the singer can do rather than being disparate trends imposed on her. i feel like it's about time and in the zone also benefited from a wider range of sounds and songwriters in the pop mainstream circa 2004 as well - "i can be that woman" and "brave new girl" were highlights of each, perhaps the most eccentric moments, but nothing really to do with trying to get radio play (and indeed neither were ever singles).
they have really cut down on ariana's video budget for this campaign though if a better album is the trade-off i'm not complaining.
super-obvious duplo-block-sized "and for our next trick let's get The Weeknd to sound morose, and for our next next trick let's get Zedd or one of those guys" box-ticking exercises you can spot from a mile off
this read of ariana's last album!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 06:19 (eight years ago) link
(also the pre-release singles off this apart from "into you" are even more baffling in hindsight. you gave the world "let me love you" and "be alright", which are both fine, but not "greedy" or "touch it"?)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 06:20 (eight years ago) link
omg yes totally in the zone
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 07:23 (eight years ago) link
I love this album, but in a way I want to see more from her. She's a great actress, funny, amazing voice, and scandal-free as long as she stays away from donuts, etc. I wouldn't mind seeing her become a more-major cultural force, as opposed to just a maker of great pop albums. She might be too smart to go that route, though.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Into You is flat-out fantastic.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link
still haven't listened to the album but i also have to echo the love for "into you." it oddly reminds me of a specific time in my life, not because of what it sounds like but because of feelings it so vividly depicts and conjures. and yeah, it's a 'bop' too as an added bonus.
― dyl, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
late, but add me to the 'into you' vote pile
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:43 (eight years ago) link
especially the bits where those chimes kick in
― real orgone kid (NickB), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
feel like if ariana was little baby mariah on yours truly vis-Ã -vis early 90s mariah, another obvious comparison here is e=mc2
― the hallouminati (lex pretend), Monday, 30 May 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
"bad decisions," "touch it," and "thinking bout you" are like the three best pop songs i heard this year. all bonus tracks
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link
a meaningless distinction at this point in pop but idk i think all of them should've been singles
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
"touch it" is particularly incredible. that slight distortion on her voice on the big dramatic "it's obviously insane" >>>>>>
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
none of the bonus tracks scream obvious single to me in a way "greedy" does though
lots of generally baffling singles choices in pop this year, see also britney's "clumsy"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
My only issue with Brad's position here is that by omission it implies that "Knew Better / Forever Boy" is ignorable (though obv that is the one bonus track that could never be a single so I get it) whereas I want a billion more examples of chart pop that is structured like Yes circa Close To The Edge.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 11:42 (seven years ago) link
true "greedy" sounds like a kpop song from 2011
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
i didn't like this album that much but my appreciation for "side to side" has grown as it's become more ubiquitous so maybe i should give it another spin
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link