personally i feel like my expectations were so high for this after LVM & the electrik red album that it just felt kinda unexciting to me but it was sort of a nice way to wrap up the year for terius... it's really grown on me over the past few years
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
OTM. It was part of that all-too-short window where Terius could do no wrong in my book, and I'm happy to be reminded of that time, even if this isn't nearly his best.
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
It was also from a time The-Dream could spearhead like three or four of these big projects a year, and actually get them released. I'm nostalgic for that, too, obviously.
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
not on the poll but I really love the h.a.t.e.u remix w/gucci
might vote 'more than just friends' but this is a strong album and I could go a couple different ways really
― original bgm, Thursday, 19 January 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
LAYIN' IN MY BED BUMPIN JODECI
― memoirs of an obtuse angle (tpp), Thursday, January 19, 2012 1:52 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― surm, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago) link
but i voted candy bling, it's just too addicting. was rly tough tho, the impossible is like another world.
glad to hear ppl say they realized how good & singular this album is.
― surm, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
RIBBON
― flopson, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
more than just friends is ... i don't even know what to say about it
my sister bought this for me for christmas in 2009!
― flopson, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
xpost I think the zooming chord in the second and fourth bars of the "Ribbon" chorus does the same thing to me.
― dead-trius (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
i like "betcha gon know" but ever since ship condemned it otmly as "the-dream karaoke" or whatever i really haven't gotten over that
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
"obsessed" is great! it's the reason the rest of the album was a total letdown for me.
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think a lot of these songs still sound new and distinctive
betcha gon know chalked up to the dream karaoke does not make sense to me. the lyrics pinned up against the drama of the music clicks incredibly well, and the songwriting in the chorus is astounding. imma la la la la la laugh, right in yer face boy.
tho obsessed is great, this album is largely about songs that *sink* in - like ciara's ride did for me - and it seems like ship and i tend to disagree about songs like that
― surm, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
i tend to disagree with a lot of people around here about terius vomit like "ride"
― some dude, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
i went straight for "candy bling". love how it totally flips the mood of what it uses from the-dream's "i luv your girl".
if you ask me, no discussion of this album is complete without a mention of "skydiving":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICbjVXsCLw
pissed it never got a proper release (as far as i know) even though i get why it wasn't on the album.
― handy ban (lou), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
this album was really big for me and I never stopped listening to it. agree with surm that it's about songs that sink in, and it's hard to pick one track. I guess I'll go with betcha gon know since it is so vivid and takes you straight into the mood of the album
― Dan S, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
'more than just friends' by a hair over 'ribbon'. amazing amazing album though, maybe her best.
― prolego, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
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― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
i'd never heard this song that "candy bling" interpolates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-33P6EFgEc
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
rreealllly into both that & skydiving above, ty jord & lou
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q-33P6EFgEc&fs=1&hl=en
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:25 PM (2 hours ago)
lol, posts very much in character
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
oh, just remembered something else related to this album that i love.the "up out my face" remix with nicki minaj fell kinda flat, but kingdom's remix of the remix really whips it into shape! only place to hear it is at the end of this mix, though: http://kkingdomm.com/music/2011/08/fadetomind-mix-for-oki-ni/
― handy ban (lou), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
you know that song?
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
the results are a near travesty btw, i regret even making this poll
3 jokers up in here -_-
IWTKWLI is a nice closer though
"H.A.T.E. U" without a single vote is terrible
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
3 jokers up in here
4, actually. angels cry?!
― handy ban (lou), Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
"h.a.t.e.u." is cool... the remix is better tho, makes the OG feel a bit leaden (not that "my boo" won't do that to just about any song)
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol did not even see that
easily the worst song
xp
― uberweiss, Thursday, 26 January 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
really gross moment on the obsessed remix:
gucci: HUNGH, HUNGH, HUNGHmariah (simultaneous, autotuned): uh uh uh uhh uhh u-u-uh- uhh uhh
― flopson, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
the gucci remix is so brilliant
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
o god i forgot how much i love the remix
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
r&b singers in 2009 should've let gucci do a lot more harmonizing on their singles IMO
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:45 PM (40 minutes ago)
yeah actually, not dissing you or anything
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
i've never even heard of that dude
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:57 PM (28 minutes ago)
"hate u" is like this weightless feather wtf! that's the entire appeal!
i played that song like 10x a day for a month when this album was new
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
i guess you mean you mean in terms of tempo
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
of course k3v knows that song, he wasn't raised by wolves. liking "candy bling" and not knowing "back in the day" is the definition of fuckshit.
― some dude, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost that song was a staple of r&b radio back in the mid 90s. I heard it all the time when I was just getting into hip/hop and r&b for the first time in middle school.
that and Domino's "Sweet Potato Pie". ahhh...memories
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
back on my fuckshit
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Back In the Day" is so classic it's untrue, but if we're talking Domino it's gotta be "Getto Jam" for me.
― Number None, Thursday, 26 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
"h.a.t.e.u." remix interpolating "my boo" was so perfect
smh at the jokers around here
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 26 January 2012 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
hate u chorus vocals were unreal
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
too bad it's a wrap got no votes, she wrote it with barry white!!!!
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
remember when obsessed came on the radio for the 1st time
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
i was ohhh sooo acquiescent
― prolego, Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
^^ :)
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
top youtube comment for MTJF
I haven't stopped listening to this. It's so classic in that Mariah kinda way, no one can bring out anything like this, this is just not in anybody else's league. Her whispers and whistles in the right places, killer notes, bad ass bass (hehe that rhymes), the nasty/freaky innuendoes lol she kills me. Love herrr.
― surm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― original bgm, Thursday, 26 January 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
and now i love you like sunsets, bubble baths on the jetlove you like kool aid, louis millionaire shadeslove you like sugar daddies, love you like a pimp caddylove you like a holiday, duncan hines, yellow cake
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
love you like it's 5 am and I'm off worklove you like louboutin heels and a miniskirtlove you like an asscher cut pink and white engagement ringlove you like laying in my bed bumping jodeci
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
<3
that is some real love
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
song is unreal
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
Again: why was this so slept on? And when I say that I mean by the public at large, not ilxors who didn't rate it
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:34 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't vote in this but "Ribbon" would have been my pic
Some of the results were very O_o
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
Oh shit I DID vote! Lol 2012
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
I def voted "ribbon" too, and would again. Sorry about it.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
think it was slept on bc mariah/her team have piss-poor decision making skills when it comes to promo. like ... angel's cry was a single. nuf said. same was true for the previous album, not even promo for the finest cuts.
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:10 (eleven years ago) link
on both albums (memoirs & E=MC2) the lead single was v smart (Touch My Body, Obsessed), but apart from that somebody needed to speak up in those meetings and pitch ideas that actually made sense
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
surm otm. it was more annoying for e=mc2 because that was an album absolutely packed with potential hits, like almost designed to be a hit machine, and they still fucked it up - like can you even believe "bye bye" was a single? and "i stay in love"? while "i'm that chick", "migrate", "o.o.c.", "cruise control" and "side effects" were not?
memoirs was different, it's not like there were any obvious singles beyond "obsessed" on it, esp in the chart climate of 2009, though again mariah's team did it no favours - but it's v much an album for the fans and i doubt mariah's priority was hitting number one. i love it to death though, "the impossible" is just all-time
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
like can you even believe "bye bye" was a single? and "i stay in love"? while "i'm that chick", "migrate", "o.o.c.", "cruise control" and "side effects" were not?
no
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
"migrate" would have been so massive
such a perfect pre-drinking tune
― prolego, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
In my world, "Candy Bling" would've been #1 for six weeks.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
^^^
and migrate otm
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
i just listened to candy bling and it was a little bit like a religious experience
― surm, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:45 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark
had this same thought
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
It's like he's your doppelgänger.
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
apart from the obvious joke votes for the cover, i'd say these results are fine and expected. maybe "ribbon" won a bit too heavily but i don't begrudge that amazing song anything
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
OTM
― Zero Dark 33⅓: The Final Insult (Eric H.), Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
i can't believe candy bling happened
― surm, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
she shoulda just put the remixes on the album (Nicki, Gucci)
― surm, Sunday, 3 May 2015 12:18 (nine years ago) link
the first moments of “hate u” are so…angelic. the entire song is this incredibly poignant breakup song, seesawing in tone from this nostalgic tenderness to borderline rageful clarity…in retrospect a terius pinnacle
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:08 (eight months ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:30 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao RIP ships…
many posts itt are enraging!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:15 (eight months ago) link
my gf and I saw beyonce a couple of weeks ago and we played this album on the ride home…honestly this album seems underrated now
― k3vin k., Saturday, 12 August 2023 01:16 (eight months ago) link