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― lex pretend, Thursday, 10 May 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Thursday, 10 May 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― Drooone, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:29 (sixteen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:52 (sixteen years ago) link
This might be the year's most beautiful track. It's got these gorgeous 'aahs,' this ebbing and flowing guitar and a reassuring, heartbreaking vocal. Listening to "Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" = a truly cathartic experience -Tape Store
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:58 (sixteen years ago) link
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the best track is the ballad "Irreplacable" - by far. I think it must be the most emotionally affecting thing she's done, the chorus is amazing: You must not know bout me You must not know bout me I could have another you in a minute Matter fact he'll be here in a minute You must not know bout me You must not know bout me I could have another you by tomorrow So don't you ever for a moment Get to thinking you're irreplacable Okay so that probably doesn't convey it's brilliance. But the way she performs it, it's total stiff upper lip, lump in yr throat heroic fronting - Beyonce riding off into the sunset, a tear still drying on her cheek. -Tim Finney i love "to the left, to the left... everything you own in the box to the left" so much as well - the way you think it's a dance before the hit comes, or how it's like beyonce forcing herself on her hampered march forward. (...without the er other right leg she was standing on aka the boyfriend! altho haha that would be walking around in a circle, forget i said anything) it's at once vulnerable as it is resolute, basically, and it kills. -rtccc
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 11 May 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
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― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Cassie's voice might be thin, but it's also hard to get out of your head. I've never been to a dance club, but I always picture Cassie being that girl who makes eye contact with you from across the dancefloor. You know? The one who comes over in the middle of "No Diggity" and whispers sweet, seductive phrases in your ear? She's just so addictive and irresistible. And along with this mostly simplistic beat, she's hypnotic. Because the song is so shy, whenever it wants to climax--whenever Cassie wants to take it to the hotel room, if you will--it's ridiculously effective. And you're left wanting more. -Tape Store
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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― The Reverend, Friday, 11 May 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 May 2007 13:59 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
― groovemaaan, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 May 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
― groovemaaan, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link
15. Beyonce Irreplaceable
― milo z, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 11 May 2007 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"Kick Push" has just come out over here - achieving the astonishing feat of making me temporarily enthusiastic about the notion of a "golden age" hip hop revival. At least while it's playing, anyway. -Tim Finney Call me nostalgic for Native Tongues-style funkiness, but I bought "Kick Push" from iTunes after only very, very randomly catching the video (once) on TV. A lot of so-called backpacker business forgets to engage the "fun" button, but this doesn't. -Tantrum The Cat
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Silent Shout sounds impressive right away, but it doesn't sound really good until after you get to know it. -Matthew C Perpetua
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
LDN is the happiest song about pimps and crack whores and old ladies being mugged ever. -StanM
― musically, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
its the most dramatic track, the most immediate, the most punchy drum wise (meatier) its everything a single ought to be... all the breaths as percussion almost R'n'B allusions, the subtle palm muted rock instrumentation running along with the synth arpeggio... the lyric is a load of nothing, true but it still works brilliantly as some kind of re-imagined 80s pop that actually sounds nothing like anything made in the 80s... a simulacrum that's actually completely contemporaneous... -gekoppel
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― groovemaaan, Friday, 11 May 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i just saw the promiscuous boy video and nelly furtado amazingly looks SEXY in it! i really like the song, neither timbaland nor nelly seem like promiscuous ppl at all, theyre both kind of nerdy and i like them. i have no idea why theyre pretending to be promiscous! is it to downplay the intensity of their attraction?! it is a song worth talking about you dull/bitter clowns - fuck you and your jaded vaudeville act! ... i shd add that i really like how promiscuous girl keeps the slightly mystical 'world music' rocks & hills vibe of that annoying worthy album that nelly did last time, just enough that it sez 'THIS IS NELLY' but leaves out 'and check out how wholesome i am', and then those synths in the chorus are so melancholy, its so much more of a love song than a promiscuity song. -karri miback
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― groovemaaan, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
― tremendoid, Friday, 11 May 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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