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― guapele (The Reverend), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
i do not really have the facts to back this but this song kinda blows imo. it's satisfying that it's occupying that kind of sonic zone he excels in, but i feel like the song isn't even there; he usually - on the dream records - has such distinctive phrasing, part of what makes so many of the insane metaphor couplets so memorable, & this just feels like autopilot. wasn't surm talking about the uselessness of 'roc'-centric jams, recently. also rooting for something because it ~might~ ~possibly~ ~portend~ a return to form just reminds me of being 16 and being really invested in when my favourite shitty band was gonna get good again. also it kinda reminds me of justin bieber, idk. i like the first minute of the weird squishy outro but the song is really lazy to me & the only satisfaction i can get out of it is that it is the-dream & i like the way those records feel.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 9 January 2012 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf dream has written a couple bieber hits, lol
good post tho
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
new song - is it brostep?
http://youtu.be/309kBjoKkac
― the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Saturday, 28 January 2012 10:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I actually kind of dig this
― dayo, Saturday, 28 January 2012 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
excited to hear a new sonic palette
yeah def.
― the emancipation of me-me (tpp), Saturday, 28 January 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really like this
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 January 2012 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm having a hard time with this one, sadly. It just sounds like a YouTube video that's constantly rebuffering.
― Evan R, Saturday, 28 January 2012 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's had demos leak before... wouldn't be surprised if this one was too
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:15 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i quite liked the palette of this & then zoned out slightly, but i'd be psyched if it was a demo
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Saturday, 28 January 2012 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
not feeling it
― ⚓ (gr8080), Sunday, 29 January 2012 06:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
smh
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 29 January 2012 07:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe it's just a rough demo
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 29 January 2012 07:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.complex.com/music/2012/02/interview-the-dream-new-album-pusha-t-the-weeknd-frank-ocean
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
that url has me concerned
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's producing on the Pusha T album. The rest is just asking about his influence on those dudes etc
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
if you get to interview the-dream and your THIRD QUESTION is "i want to know what you think of the the weeknd" you need to get the fuck out of the-dream's office
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's a video for ROC now too
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
from what i've seen he's an pretty bad performer but i'm excited that he's going on tour
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:46 PM (13 minutes ago)
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
god, this interview
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
"wow i have a face to face interview with the-dream, let me ask him about every hot new singer"
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
complex needs to do a street fashion listicle on the most horrendous glasses/shades they've photographed musicians wearing, with the pic at the top of that interview at #1
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Weeknd is kinda like you on drugs—literally.The Weeknd is kinda like you on drugs—literally.The Weeknd is kinda like you on drugs—literally.
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
the ROC video is relatively undorky by his standards
― Number None, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
now granted i would've spent the entire interview secretly gathering material for my 33 1/3 pitch on the-dream's entire 2009 output, but still
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
I will totally pre-order that book.
― Evan R, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man all of us better be cited like crazy in such a book
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
"As Dr. Shipley noted on Saturday, January 21, 2010 at 3:07 PM, the concept of 'falltime' is entirely a creation of Nash's imagination."
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahaha
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's a radio dj here that still throws "nikki" into mix show sets now and again, i think he's just trolling me
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
he must be
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
would buy a book consisting of photos of terius looking un-cool (aka every single one)
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
(23) 'Falltime or Failtime: Persistent Myth-Takes of Seasonality in the Work of Terius Nash' by Dr Al B Shipley (Boston, Ilxelsior Press, 2011).
― Tim F, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
shockingly unpretentious and pretty fun video
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The song just seems like such a non-starter as a single. It's so slight it's barely there, and it runs five and a half minutes. Even in a radio edit, could any station really play this in regular rotation?
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2012 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
no but the last dream single you could say that about was like 6 tries ago
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not sure he has a place on rap/r&b radio right now
and i think that says more about the radio than it does about the-dream
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think his inability to score a solo hit is an inherently bad thing, of course. It just makes me sad with a song like ROC, which seems to try so hard for radio acceptance but just completely whiffs even as it panders
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
hmmm i don't see it that way
i guess it doesn't really sound like pandering to radio to me... it's very hardcore r&b which seems to have a smaller and smaller slice of playlists on r&b sections nowadays. it sounds like something off the electrik red or mariah albums, both of which were failures by their own standards. i'm sure he's aware of this.
i mean if he REALLY wanted to pander he could call up trey songz or take some a song he wrote for bieber and try and sing it himself... i think he seems more or less content using his capital at def jam to keep writing stuff that sounds like dream solo stuff, popular now or not
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess will.i.am and company have just so completely co-opted the word "rock" that I immediately associate it with the lowest common denominator now.
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
[BTW, Terius is doing the U-Stream thing right now, working on a song that sounds great http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radio-killa-tv]
― Evan R, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy hell there's someone in this chat using the name DrakeGuzzler1
― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
♫ deej has a girlfriend, deej has a girlfriend ♫
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Let's be honest tho, ROC kinda sucks
― Number None, Friday, 24 February 2012 05:02 (1 year ago) Permalink