LOLz are to be found in Snoop Dogg's new video

Whoa. Great video.

o wau

ques from the nu britney

this is like if andre 3000 were AMAZING FUCK WTF OMG SNOOP DOGG FINALLY REDEEMED HIMSELF FTLOVE UV GODD

hahah this is fucking awesome.

HIS MOUSTACHE IS ALMOST AS WHISPY AS MINE

oh. he starts rapping. :C

ftl..

man this is the best thing ever.

heh jordan sargent ftl

^

song's pretty great too.

Apparently it's actually called "Sexual Eruption". So far this sounds awesome even if I'm fucking tired of the damn autotune everywhere.

-- The Reverend, Friday, November 23, 2007 11:11 AM (Friday, November 23, 2007 11:11 AM) Bookmark Link

Damn good. Back to "Rhythm & Gangsta", I guess.

-- The Reverend, Friday, November 23, 2007 11:16 AM (Friday, November 23, 2007 11:16 AM) Bookmark Link

I like how he comes on rapping at the end like he's doing his own guest verse.

-- The Reverend, Friday, November 23, 2007 11:20 AM (Friday, November 23, 2007 11:20 AM) Bookmark Link

Awfuck, I undersold this, actually. This is my fucking ten.

I like how he comes on rapping at the end like he's doing his own guest verse.

-- The Reverend, Friday, November 23, 2007 11:20 AM (Friday, November 23, 2007 11:20 AM) Bookmark Link

this is otm.

never ban autotune.

The vid's funny, but he's made it before.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XlH86ozV4QA

(What happened to her? Such a great voice.)

Yeah, I actually think this is the best autotune-pop song of the year, unless we're going to count "I'm a Flirt".

hm i've never seen that. yeah i mean he did shit 15x more o_O than this on his tv show, but this is still great.

All musicians want to be comedians...except for Marissa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b0km9_-3lM

^^^behind the scenes

doggy fizzle

The video actually makes me like the song a lot more.

Bootsy

nice song. he's kind of better at this than andre actually. snoops voice and style was always so soft-spoken and smooth and his delivery (his best delivery at least) was very sing-songy so this seems more natural to me, not gimmicky like a rapper trying to sing...he's not trying to punch out of his weight class or do more than he can...sort of like slick rick when he used to break into song. snoop's always been the most rick influenced guy out there in my mind, so i guess it makes sense.

yeah matt otm

uh i would take andre's singing over snoop + auto tune any day

yeah there's no denyin Snoop's clearest antecedent was always Slick Rick

Snoop has sung little bits of plenty of previous singles (especially recent ones like "Let's Get Blown" and "Ups & Downs").

why is everyone freaking out about the autotune on this...in this context it seems like more like it's trying to be a throwback to roger troutman type stuff which makes sense (to me at least)

that's what I thought too - I mean the video is straight up Bootsy+Zapp and pretty much nothing else

(don't get me wrong I love that shit so more of it = a-okay with me)

No kidding. Autotune is a sound. A lot of people have misused it. Mostly Akon and Cher. It doesn't inherently make it shitty. It has a cool effect in this song. I also love the delayed digital flutes. And how line after line he clarifies the double entendre. "A sexual eruption... an orgasm"

I think Snoop is at his best when he's over the top like this...

He needs to be walking around in furs with like mad rings and chains and shit liek Slick Rick...

And musically over the top too, imagine Snoop on some really lush pimped out Kanye West beats specially made for him?

Also, maybe he should even go back to Snoop Doggy Dogg? Understated is not a good look for Snoop...

Ah this is so effortlessly well played out of nowhere just like it should. And these flutters

too much fast zooming in and out. otherwise, awesome.

It's now inaccessible on youtube. Friend needs to have sent it to you? Private video?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lw7v_snoop-dogg-sensual-seduction-exclu_music

^ use this instead

why is everyone freaking out about the autotune on this...in this context it seems like more like it's trying to be a throwback to roger troutman type stuff which makes sense (to me at least)

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:53 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

that's what I thought too - I mean the video is straight up Bootsy+Zapp and pretty much nothing else

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:59 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i dunno, this is the clever achievement of the vid i'd argue - when i heard this before i was certain of it as a sly little t-pain bite, not just because "autotune is present o noes" but because its blissed-out emphases are to me EXACTLY as t-pain would have done them himself; it is a t-pain song in all but name. (quite literally, cos the lyric "sensual seduction" is one part t-pain could never have gotten away with, the mature grown man lover lover shit. snoop = very wise in the way he plays with his slightly kitschy public perception.)

i've liked it more and more everytime i've heard it. it is nicely streamlined, housey even.

I don't even imagine Snoop coming up with this idea himself.

I picture this song as something someone presented to him and he's like "yeah, I can cash in on this..."

u kidding?? snoop has had a serious late 70s/early 80s electro-funk fetish for his entire career. id be more surprised if he didnt come up with it himself!!

that being said, i think r|t|c's right; the song w/out the video fits in pretty easily w/ t-pain's oeuvre. the video is all snoop tho.

a long-running ilm theme is seeing rappers as cash-in-minded cynics who don't actually listen to or enjoy music

max and deej otm

west coast rappers have cheesy synth funk deep in their bones, all their ancestral egyptian lovers and world class wrecking crus and all that.

the dudes worship zapp!!

Nah, its not something I see as most rappers, just something I see Snoop doing in this situation.

Like max and rtc said, this is a T-Pain bite.

And Snoop hasn't been that creative or groundbreaking in his career, and he's been known to do songs like Beautiful with Pharell that are flavor of the moment and go against his whole misogynist steez.

At the same time, he has been mad funk late 70s, but like I said the song itself is more T-Pain.

um argh i should emphasise that yeah u guys are right too, i didn't mean the t-pain point as it being an entirely cynical thing, just that it's a clever combination of both - he's seen what's in vogue (maybe even delib waited til it's slightly out of vogue, who knows!) and then worked out how to make it work for him too, with the video at the frontline of that

well, maybe you should watch the video where he says you are wrong and that he was actually involved in everything from picking the beat to advising the costumer how folks should be dressed

xp

ps Colin FYI "M@tt He1ges0n" is actually snoop's manager so i think hed know

anyone who thinks snoop didn't come up with this has clearly never watched doggy fizzle televizzle.

Ugh at the video: retro 70s kitsch has been mainstream for so long it's almost veering into uncool territory.

Ugh x10 at the horrible Cher auto-tune vocals. the music was so nice at the beginning... i would have loved more rapping.

Cher did not invent the vocoder.

And this is more 80s than 70s.

And it is really awesome.

actually heh i shoulda watched that behind the scenes vid before i ran my mouth off too, explains everything

shawty redd huh? looking at his wiki, hadn't realised he was always so worthwhile

did anything become of this track btw? i kinda fronted on the prince sample to begin with but everyone kills it with the good vibes realness! "really i don't give a fuck / but then again i do", so true

max otm

colin, this kind of talk is not getting you any closer to that walk-on in starsky and hutch 2, sayin'

lol

yeah, i shouldn't have ran my yap if the behind the scenes vid says otherwise...

still, video is prolly better than the song...

a long-running ilm white critical theme is seeing rappers as cash-in-minded cynics who don't actually listen to or enjoy music

I think this is true of a broader swathe of critical culture than ilm, and it's really grotesque

cant wait for the new autotune-heavy mountain goats record

shawty redd huh? looking at his wiki, hadn't realised he was always so worthwhile

i luved his stuff on both jeezy albums

for Christmas this year I've asked Santa to stop people from mentioning my band every goddamn time I post

Cher did not invent the vocoder.

is auto-tune a vocoder? not being sarcastic, just wondering. i never got any of the traditional vocoder sounds out of auto-tune when i played with it.

LOLz are to be found in the thread for Snoop Dogg's new video

um argh i should emphasise that yeah u guys are right too, i didn't mean the t-pain point as it being an entirely cynical thing, just that it's a clever combination of both - he's seen what's in vogue (maybe even delib waited til it's slightly out of vogue, who knows!) and then worked out how to make it work for him too, with the video at the frontline of that

-- r|t|c, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:13 PM (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:13 PM) Bookmark Link

BBQ

Top Five moments in the video:

5. The "PLAY" button that plays at the beginning, like it's a VHS video.

4. The fact Snoop Dogg makes no discernible attempt to feign actual keyboard playing when he's holding it.

3. The close-up of his mouth when he says "She's gone get hers before mine"

2. The spaceship riding

1. The sly licking of his thumb before the camera cuts away at one point.

http://www.myspace.com/shawtyredd

^^^Listen to "Driftin," the song Snoop said inspired this

more power to snoop then cos 'sensual seduction' sure is a gigantic imaginative leap from that

woah
this is pretty good
altho i am so sick of that vocal effect

music reminds me of kelly polar and 16b

A++++++

for Christmas this year I've asked Santa to stop people from mentioning xxxxx every goddamn time I post

you could become a derided sell-out, know-nothing rapper like that dude dropping the guest verse at the end of the new Aesop Rock video

more power to snoop then cos 'sensual seduction' sure is a gigantic imaginative leap from that

-- r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2007 15:46 (Yesterday) Link

vocals sink it but beat is :D

I'd like to see this on a big TV. I love the washed-out and lo-fi look. Star filters, cheezy wipes, video grain ... when most folks try to incorporate those old school techniques, they end up making a mess ... but this video nails it. They even put "PLAY" in the corner at the beginning with the shaky VHS-tape-starting-up look. Dope.

a long-running ilm theme is seeing rappers as cash-in-minded cynics who don't actually listen to or enjoy music

-- deej, Wednesday, November 28, 2007

well, YEAH - most rappers are getting paid for just TALKING over STOLEN MUSIC

this song is sooo lush

obvious, but riding spaceship =

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RV1A.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

awesome

that video was hilarious...man though people gotta quit doing that lame digital pitchshifter thing to their voice. it sounds stupid and tired now. altho I know it was being used to cover up the fact well, that he can't sing

and judging by having read the other half of the thread, I'm going to get jumped on for it

THEY AREN'T RIDING A SPACESHIP THEY'RE RIDING A SPACEBED WHEN DID PARLIAMENT DO THAT HUH?

CROSSPOST

there is pretty clearly both a spacebed and spaceship, these are not mutually exclusive space vehicles.

certainly there is a bed ON the spaceship

where's Alf

I like the DJ scratching that precedes Snoop's rap.

I had forgotten to listen to this until right now. It is totally great and maybe on some last-minute Ten shit.

What the steendriver said.

The fact that Snoop sounds like T-Pain is kind of beside the point. Because what truly rules about the song is the sexy/mellow atmosphere/mood of it. Not all T-Pain songs have this quality. "I Like the Bartender" does though. Another Snoop song that has this quality is "Let's Get Blown". The video for that one is less stylish but it perfectly captures the vibe of the song.

Yeah, "Bartender" is the closest T-Pain has come to something like this.

So is this the most influential r&b/rap song of 08? Will we be sick of "Sensual Seduction" clones by fall?

Uh, wow.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhnlz-A4PI

This new record documents him becoming the new Price, failed genre experiments and all.

i think this album deserves its own thread

http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/3/18/audio-hot-chip-sensual-seduction-snoop-dogg-cover

I have just discovered this song and enjoy it very much.