So I saw The-Dream at the Fillmore Silver Spring last night, outside Washington DC. He had a drummer and 2 keyboard/synth players (one of whom also played bass). The-Dream alternated between singing live, and singing along or lip-synching with pre-recorded vocal tracks or letting the crowd sing while he asked for more Patrone. The show lasted for just an hour( $33 admission). He did dance and strut energetically. He's in tour mode: was wearing the same Oakland Raiders cap, black sunglasses, black jacket, and Roc-a-Fella Records necklace I read that he wore in NYC at SOBs.He again proclaimed himself "the realest" out there, and grumbled more about the fakes who have imitated him in the last two years. Much of the crowd did not seem enthused with the cover of "Beat that p*ssy up". I didn't like it. It was alternately sad and comical watching him go overboard in his attempt to be a swaggering 2012 era foul-mouthed star, or maybe that was part of his Marvin Gaye for 2012 mad at my ex shtick. I forgot the name of the other mad at his ex song he did. "Walking on the Moon," "Shawty", "Falsetto," "Kill the Lights," "Rockin' that ..." all went over better. He had a woman singer come onstage and do a song and a half(the latter was part of Kanye's "All of the Lights" that I think he assisted in writing).
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 18 March 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
^^ valuable dispatch from somewhere outside the borders of Teriustan
― some dude, Sunday, 18 March 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
as a recovering terius stan i have no real desire to see him live. his twitter makes him seem like a clown
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Sunday, 18 March 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
Just realized how badly Chris Brown's "Strip" bites "Rockin' That Shit."
― Evan R, Monday, 19 March 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-dream-at-fillmore-silver-spring/2012/03/18/gIQAFBtDLS_story.html
The freelancer reviewing him for the Washington Post was now wowed either. She and Caramanica in the NY Times were harsh on Nash's vocals. I'm less concerned with him not having Al Green's range and more with what he was singing, his cliched between song patter, and with his reliance on the backing vocal tracks. He's a great songwriter though.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
gotta say i'm leaning towards becoming a "recovering terius stan" too. not saying he'll be useless from here on in obv, i'm sure there'll be great stuff to come, but the god period, the imperial phase, is over
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 March 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
Away from a stage and his twitter, he might still be able to write and record strong material
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 March 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
that's how it usually works, yeah
― some dude, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
i had an absolute blast at the show tonight
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think we were lucky that we saw him after he had played a few weeks of dates... he obv can't really sing but he was great on stage and the band was good, none of the tracks sounded like ass or were turned into linkin park tracks.
the set was pretty heavy on LH & LVM, i don't think he played any album tracks off LK, tho he did do one of the ones of 1977 that i don't remember. singles got the best responses but like when he dropped into the rap on "fancy" the entire crowd was spitting w/ him, it was kinda nuts.
also he did "i luv your girl" -> loverance which was hilarious and pretty awesome
anyway it wasn't a mindblowing show but it was really fun just to be in a big room full of people that knew all the songs and all the words and it was appropriately goofy and all that
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
also he ended w/ "rockin that shit" which was prob the biggest response then he went off for a sec and came back for "let me see the booty" which was pretty hype. but i love that song.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Kicking myself for not driving down to this show tonight; totally forgot about it :(
― Evan R, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
so weird to think of him closing w/ his biggest hit and then encoring with the flop that the other song was a face-saving recovery from
― internet somebody (some dude), Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
yes, very weird
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
it was an incredible act of defiance
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm always shocked when setlists aren't structured in reverse order of chart performance
― Evan R, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
he came on stage and did a bit of "love vs money" ("when love is a problem" repeated) then went right into "shawty is a 10" which got the crowd going, then he did "fast car" -> 90 seconds or so of "nikki"... then i think he did "kill the lights" and let casha do that cover from 1977. then i think he did "falsetto" (while miming getting head w/ the mic as his dick, obv)
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
he also did "falsetto" in the middle of the set, did the "gangsta luv" and "throw it in the bag" hooks, did "roc your body" (this sounded good) "walkin on the moon" (this sounded surprisingly great), "purple kisses"... was surprised that he didn't do "yamaha" tho
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
also all the house music was songs that he'd written for other artists
then i think he did "falsetto" (while miming getting head w/ the mic as his dick, obv)
― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
having a lot of trouble imagining how this could happen
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
yea 'walking on the moon' was a highlight i recall too
kinda pissed i didnt get a 'let me see the booty' "encore", otherwise hes prob doin the same set everywhere more or less
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think he's been doing the same set
i was with some friends that had been checking the setlists and once he finished w/ "rockin that shit" they were like "that's it, he's done" but then he came out for "let me see the booty" so i guess it was something he was feeling last night or w/e
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
― dayo, Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
he held the mic at his crotch like it was his dick and sorta like... idk slowly humped the air while moving his hand on the mic. it was bizarre, obv.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
o - who was doing the singing, or was it piped in?
― dayo, Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
there was a backing track but he was signing def singing. he let the crowd do a lot tho.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
that's pretty cool imo -- i'm always surprised artists w/ a big catalog of side projects or whatever that don't do something like that when playing live
― internet somebody (some dude), Monday, 26 March 2012 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
Terius Nash @MrTeriusNashShout out to my nigga Carlos "Los" Mckinney who Produce this record with Me!
^encouraging
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WyH9b9W4_Q&feature=
― Evan R, Thursday, 29 March 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
I can't disagree with this YouTube commenter:
she sexy but cant sing.. he fuxn her dats y she on da track.. but she soo fineofficialdollface14 2 hours ago
― Evan R, Thursday, 29 March 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dE3ro.jpg
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
FUCK no
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
-_-
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
lolwut
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
glad homie finally came out of the closet as a garden gnome, we all knew the truth all these years anyway
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
*deletes all my terius albums*
― dayo, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
next album: The Love Aquatic
― Number None, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
yay
― Evan R, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
i appreciate the way he's making it easy for us to get over him
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
maybe it was shocked blonde?
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
Still don't understand; is this a costume, or did he Chris Brown his beard for fashion purposes?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
wake me when it's over
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/dream-dyes-beard-blonde-losing-bet-111854068.html
― some dude, Thursday, 26 April 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
radiokillarecords.comoh man i really like this?
― blossom smulch (schlump), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
same
― just sayin, Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
it's the first dream thing in a while that sounds really interesting or fun. roc was v prefab. he's singing it real nice - that real nice old vocal style breakdown near the break at the end - it's kinda playful, like i can see it as the weird upbeat florida university analogue on a new record.
― blossom smulch (schlump), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
1 year passes...
― deadcandace (diamonddave85), Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
what are you guys listening to on that site
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 9 June 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13713-dope-bitch-ft-pusha-t/
― blossom smulch (schlump), Saturday, 9 June 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link