Makes sense. It's the album I always put on when I'm on the bus home from work.
― longneck, Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
great interview, alex
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
thx BB and j0rdan
i was inspired by her complete confusion at the idea she'd ever be too old for the club
― lex pretend, Thursday, 13 February 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah i loved that interview
so yeah this blue eyes song kind of reminds me in parts of sweet female attitude's "flowers" which is about the highest compliment i can pay anything
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Sunday, 9 February 2014 16:31 (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
speaking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J_P4GrRyLE
― prolego, Thursday, 13 February 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
beautiful
― Spottie, Thursday, 13 February 2014 21:24 (ten years ago) link
Nice interview:
http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/13/give-it-time-katy-b-on-the-rebirth-of-house/
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 14 February 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
it's the way the melody on crying for no reason goes back up on "promises i could not KEEP?" and "i felt strong but i am breaking NOW?" that gives the whole thing a sing-songy, reading-the-sheet-music vibe that sort of kills the vibe for me, sadly
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 February 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
a very interior paranoid/euphoric club record
i've only listened to the continuous mix so far, it for sure has the feel of a ~monologue~, which is sure a thing
― j., Friday, 14 February 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
wait, it keeps going for another 20–30 minutes, why
― j., Friday, 14 February 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
why lex i never knew you held the rbma in such high r£gard
― r|t|c, Saturday, 15 February 2014 09:59 (ten years ago) link
Number one in the album chart this week. Think On a Mission only missed out as it was released during Adele's never ending run in 2011. Crying went back into the top five too.
Wonder what they will pick as the next single from this. I'm thinking giving Aaliyah a proper release would give her another massive hit. Emotions would do well but might be seen as a bit too similar to Crying For No Reason.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 16 February 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
Number one in the album chart this week. ― Kitchen Person, Sunday, February 16, 2014
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, February 16, 2014
you mean in the uk, i assume?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 16 February 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
it would be fantastic -- and totally improbable -- for this album to go to no. 1 in the usa.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Sunday, 16 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah sorry should have specified that. Didn't think it's been properly released in the US yet.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 16 February 2014 21:58 (ten years ago) link
does it even have a us release date yet? i was hoping it'd be out at the same time as in the uk etc but now that she has american management i guess they might be trying to make something happen with her over here before they put it out.
― dyl, Sunday, 16 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
For discarding "Hot Like Fire" as a bonus track she should be committed.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 February 2014 23:08 (ten years ago) link
Just thinking how lovely yet improbable it would be if the US release was with a rearranged track listing similar to the continuous mix.
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 16 February 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
OMG, this is the first time in I don't even know how long that I have bought the number 1 album the week that it came out.
How very... odd. But still, yay! I am still v v pleased, well done Katy B.
― "righteous indignation shit" (Branwell Bell), Monday, 17 February 2014 09:40 (ten years ago) link
"Everything" is like, one bell sample away from being produced by Pantha Du Prince
I came here to say something similar to this! I think the instrumental could be a substantial song on it's own.
― jay., Monday, 17 February 2014 12:33 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKIf5C5xshU
― abcfsk, Monday, 17 February 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
that's ace
― prolego, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:32 (ten years ago) link
it is!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Damn, "I Like You" is pummeling me.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
It's the ear grabber. I keep mumbling "I like you a little bit."
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
It was already my mantra, so
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 February 2014 03:21 (ten years ago) link
SFJ talked about Katy as a potential "sade for this generation" which seems really wrong to me
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 05:59 (ten years ago) link
There's a voice on this album that sonically resembles Sade's, but it's not Katy's.
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 06:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, the two vocal hooks that grab me after about 8 listens are "I like you (a little bit...)" and "I like ghetto, you like bougie..."
But you know who I miss on this record? I miss Oliviaaarrrr.
― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 08:44 (ten years ago) link
I miss her too, or at least, I miss the feeling of Katy as always surrounded by friends and just one part of a group. It felt like it was a big part of her appeal.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
She still feels like she's surrounded by a group, but other clubbers seem to have become competitors rather than mates?
― ~Autotelic Fabulousity~ (Branwell Bell), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 08:57 (ten years ago) link
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:59 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark
I mean Jessie Ware already exists so...
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
oboy, maybe i misremembered and he was talking about Jessie; that would make FAR more sensenevermind
― PSY talks The Nut Job (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
it was a disclosure piece so that would make more sense. my bad.
katy b as sade doesn't really make much of any sense but it's sort of interesting if you imagine the future of music as strictly beat based
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
ware as sade doesnt really fly either tbh imo
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
tell her that
― Number None, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
would rather hear katy b/sade comparisons than jessie ware/sade ones because they'd be entertainingly nuts rather than lazily inaccurate. we went over jessie ware/sade at length in her thread, i believe
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:04 (ten years ago) link
and that would be my cue i guess
hmm lemme think
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean i guess sade is kind of a bit of both, albeit on an ineffably higher celestial plane
like essentially ware is v much superficial haught/froidieur veiling a thumping heart, buffeted by the sweeping tides of wildest moomins
katy is more among the gurlz so to speak but shares a little of sade's sphinxlike quality all the same - her reports from the high street nightbus frontlines aren't dear diary stuff, there's a psychic armour there, and even in essaying the most vulnerable times there's a deliberate aspect, a writerly methodology that suggests closure, an emotional deletion process
would bet all my chips without question that ware is the funner night out
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
but either way as i say, mere jesters in the royal court of the king of sorrow tbh
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:50 (ten years ago) link
Hmm. She may not indulge hysteria and keep her poise but I don't hear Sade as sphinx-like.
Annie Lennox is closer to sphinx.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 February 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
eh praps not in a strictly corporeal sense; but sade is become a vessel or conduit for greater enigmas
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
This music board is not like other music boards.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 23:24 (ten years ago) link
...and thank fuck for that, eh.
― Combat Fallacious Approval (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 20 February 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
yawn
― r|t|c, Thursday, 20 February 2014 09:02 (ten years ago) link
fart
― Eric H., Thursday, 20 February 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
challenge lawro
― pandemic, Friday, 21 February 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
Finally gotten around to Katy B, which is great. However, talk of this singer Ny upthread made me seek out that Split Endz vol. 2 mixtape, and it kinda blows my mind as I'm sitting here.
― Mule, Sunday, 23 February 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's a pretty special mixtape. can't believe how little she's lived up to her obvious talent since, either in terms of attention or, to be honest, material, bar a couple of singles here and there
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 February 2014 08:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/katy-bs-real-guide-to-uk-funky/
― Bipolar Sumner (Branwell Bell), Monday, 3 March 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link