because this dude has outgrown the R&B thread
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Sunday, 4 March 2012 07:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
new ep is fantastic. 'adorn' and 'gravity' are immediately brilliant but 'that i do' has also really grown on me. i only really remember loving 'sure thing' and 'all i want is you' from the album last year but this has made me wanna relisten.
― bass, Sunday, 4 March 2012 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've come to the opinion that "Quickie" is the best single from the debut
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Sunday, 4 March 2012 12:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i love the new EP, this after "all i want is you" and "sure thing" were basically my favorite r&b songs of the past 2 years. he's making a case for replacing jeremih as my facvorite male r&b singer
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
how big is this dude now I have no sense of scale for pop music anymore
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
genuinely like what I've heard of his
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Adorn" is the best song I've heard this year. Thanks Rev!
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 March 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:46 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark
"sure thing" was the #1 song on u.s. urban radio last year and his song w/ wale brings his total of big r&b hits to 4, but he hasn't crossed over to pop audiences at all, even to the moderate extent of trey songz or whoever
― some dude, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
so sad that adorn is only 2:19 long
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess he's in that weird robin thicke zone of 'non-black r&b singer whose fanbase is predominantly black'
― some dude, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Miguel Jontel Pimentel was born in Los Angeles.[1][2] He is one of two sons born to a Mexican father and an African American mother.[2]
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh word, i thought he was just full on hoos is mexican
― some dude, Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, March 4, 2012 10:21 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is prob the best part about it!
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
like it ends and I'm all "what a good song that was"
what a good post that was
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I grew up w/ indian parents who only listened to indian music but since I grew up in new orleans they also listened to a lot of aaron neville and only nevilee (????) and I think there is something nevilleish abt this that I really appreciate
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
didn't mean to spell him wrong the second time
"that i do" is incredible
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 March 2012 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
"gravity" is my favourite on the EP i think
"adorn" hasn't clicked with me yet, i think with these reedy-voiced guys like miguel and jeremih, i find myself either falling head over heels with songs where some alchemy makes them sound perfect ("sure thing", "birthday sex", "imma star") or i'm left a bit cold.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
the production doesn't grab you?
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't think anything on the EP touches "adorn" but that's the single of the year so far, so no biggie
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's nice? it might sneak up on me in time.
it's not the single of the year, it's not even the r&b single of the year lol
― lex pretend, Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
*shrug*
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
yah "adorn" is my favorite song this year too i think. out of the 20 i've heard at least
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:24 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark
haven't heard it yet but aren't there only like 2 other songs on the EP? 'best of three' is kind of...anyway "Adorn" is nice but i have absolutely no idea how it's in any way different from or better than anything off the first album.
― some dude, Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not saying that it is! just that it's the best song i've heard this year
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
"gravity" is really good too
al you don't see how "adorn" is stylistically different than like, "sure thing"?
― bron paul (k3vin k.), Monday, 5 March 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
you just gotta vibe to adorn, dude
― flagp∞st (dayo), Monday, 5 March 2012 00:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
i vibe to it, but i also vibe to his whole album.
at this point he's only got a fairly small number of songs out that are all good to great and none too similar to each other. so "adorn" is unique but of a piece of that body of work just as "sure thing" is. its brevity is the only thing i see as any kind of departure.
― some dude, Monday, 5 March 2012 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need to check out this ep. Thanks
― curmudgeon, Monday, 5 March 2012 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
So I found this 2005 12-inch in a dollar bin a year and a half ago, and I bought it on the off chance it was the same Miguel. Turns out it was. The song is very much a product of its time.
― Evan R, Monday, 5 March 2012 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
just went on Spotify to see if they had the new EP, they don't, but they do have a single he apparently released in 2011 called "Strawberry Amazing," which i had never heard anything about before, pretty good, very lo-fi Prince
something i noticed on the Art Dealer Chic liner notes -- Miguel self-produced the whole thing (except for one co-production from Fisticuffs, who did "Quickie" and "Girls Like You"). afaik Miguel didn't really do any of the production on the first album, so it looks like he's really stepping up and getting more involved in that side of things.
― some dude, Monday, 5 March 2012 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Strawberry Amazing" was on his 2008's Mischief, too, and he co-produced that entire mixtape with Fisticuffs. That mixtape was super lo-fi; it sounds like he recorded it with a Casio and a boombox, but you can definitely hear a lot of echoes of the new EP in it.
― Evan R, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't really feel like the Jive album sanded off the edges of that aesthetic much at all, give or take a few of the more established producers' contributions
― some dude, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I agree. When I first heard the Jive album, I was actually surprised by how low-budget it sounded at times, especially the Fisticuffs productions. Because it came out so quietly at the time (this was before "Sure Thing" had any legs) I was wondering if Jive had cut corners and were just trying to bury the album. It definitely took a few listens for some of the more muffled production to make sense.
― Evan R, Monday, 5 March 2012 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I kind of think of that hazy, reverbed vibe as the album's distinguishing characteristic. Gives it a very warm, intimate feel. Although a lot of that is down to Miguel himself, too.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
like Strawberry Amazing but always hear a little Lenny Kravitz :/
― bnw, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark
'adorn' is great but the single of the year so far is obv 'climax'
― flagp∞st (dayo), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Climax" hasn't really hit me yet. I'm an "Adorn" partisan.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
wanna say "dayo otm", but i guess i got something to listen to when i get home
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 00:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
My ex is friends w his little brother lol. Apparently he sings too tho not professionally afaik
I like miguel. Sure thing was never my thing but he has a great voice and feels like a genuine original
― D-40, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think EZsnappin nailed it on tumblr where he said "Adorn" sounds like early-80s Marvin. The greater trick though, is that he achieves that vibe without any air of tribute or homage.
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
ban dayo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
"adorn" is so killing me atm
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 05:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
i agree with dayo that "climax" is better than "adorn"
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 10:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Adorn" makes me think of Prince fwiw
― D-40, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 11:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
it makes me think of Prince less than 80% of his material but he definitely wrote it in part because he couldn't write another song called "Adore"
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
nbd, just a cross between marvin gaye & prince
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
vol 2, tomorrow
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
my neighbors always know when I come home because I bump adorn 4 times
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 00:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh how he thrills me
― dyl, Saturday, 18 May 2013 07:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
https://vine.co/v/b9q1DJrUFMa
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 01:56 (5 days ago) Permalink
ohhhh my god
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 02:05 (5 days ago) Permalink
wish I'd been that table
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:07 (5 days ago) Permalink
or the side of that woman's head
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:10 (5 days ago) Permalink
i didn't even see the second lady https://vine.co/v/b9q1Wp7a1vh
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:12 (5 days ago) Permalink
he like shawn michaels the shit out of that poor girl, wtf miggy
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:23 (5 days ago) Permalink
That girl probably saved his acl tbf
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:29 (5 days ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:33 (5 days ago) Permalink
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:35 (5 days ago) Permalink
http://instagram.com/p/ZhDnh-BYty/
alright im dead
― 乒乓, Monday, 20 May 2013 02:37 (5 days ago) Permalink
yeah hulk much more tom i couldn't remember whose move that was
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:58 (5 days ago) Permalink
henceforth known as girl face kicker
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:23 (5 days ago) Permalink
aaaaaaah
― dyl, Monday, 20 May 2013 03:40 (5 days ago) Permalink
ahhhhhhhhhhhh
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 May 2013 03:45 (5 days ago) Permalink
!!!!!
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 May 2013 03:47 (5 days ago) Permalink
hooooleeeeee shit
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 05:09 (5 days ago) Permalink
― Moka, Monday, 20 May 2013 06:31 (5 days ago) Permalink
Oh man
― ILE Wet Treeship Night (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 20 May 2013 06:53 (5 days ago) Permalink
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 07:53 (5 days ago) Permalink
wtf are these people alive?
― flopson, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:30 (5 days ago) Permalink
http://billboard.tumblr.com/post/50877885976/got-caught-up-in-the-moment-thank-goodness
― monotony, Monday, 20 May 2013 13:38 (5 days ago) Permalink
What he doesn't mention is that the other woman died.
― The Reverend, Monday, 20 May 2013 18:58 (5 days ago) Permalink
Source?
― ILE Wet Treeship Night (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 20 May 2013 23:53 (5 days ago) Permalink
Yes, she died at the Source Awards
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 May 2013 23:57 (5 days ago) Permalink
no, that was the Billboard awards
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 01:27 (4 days ago) Permalink
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 01:32 (4 days ago) Permalink
if you look at it in freeze-frame you can tell he literally decapitated her head from her body. i'm surprised she isn't suing him.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 01:38 (4 days ago) Permalink
well she's dead
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 01:46 (4 days ago) Permalink
personally i had no use for her but RIP
― yeeznuts (some dude), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:02 (4 days ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:35 (4 days ago) Permalink
XD
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:42 (4 days ago) Permalink
still can't believe this
― MIGUEL 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 03:42 (4 days ago) Permalink
I've searched for at least an hour for some sort of confirmation about the second woman dying, and haven't found anything. Were you just joking about that Rev or were you for real? Where did you read that?
― ILE Wet Treeship Night (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 05:56 (4 days ago) Permalink
it's a joke
― klaus dingeldore's rhinelander monkey keeper father (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:13 (4 days ago) Permalink
RIP
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:34 (4 days ago) Permalink
the joke's as dead as the second woman now :(
― MIGUEL 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:36 (4 days ago) Permalink
Lol. I mean, not that this is exactly out of character for me, but it's been a really really long day...
― ILE Wet Treeship Night (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:46 (4 days ago) Permalink
i don't really get the joke?
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:52 (4 days ago) Permalink
i don't really get whether any of the posts since the accident are meant to be funny actually
none of them actually are funny obv
Oh idk, pretty shocking and horrible overall but everyone seems to be ok and handling it well so now we can get a kick out of it
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 06:56 (4 days ago) Permalink
*moves bookmark*
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:04 (4 days ago) Permalink
i never thought a woman getting killed would be so funny
― goole, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 13:29 (4 days ago) Permalink
the "accident"
― flopson, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 20:21 (4 days ago) Permalink
clearly an attempted ritual beheading plotted by Miguel's illuminati puppetmasters at RCA
― wk, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:49 (4 days ago) Permalink
new art dealer chics are gonna be july -> aug -> sept
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 May 2013 21:55 (4 days ago) Permalink
whoaaaa
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:00 (4 days ago) Permalink
!!!!
― MIGUEL 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE (The Reverend), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 22:22 (4 days ago) Permalink