6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

from what i've seen he's an pretty bad performer but i'm excited that he's going on tour

that url has me concerned

― pre-tennis ball head-era chris brown (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:46 PM (13 minutes ago)

god, this interview

"wow i have a face to face interview with the-dream, let me ask him about every hot new singer"

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

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.

the ROC video is relatively undorky by his standards

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

I will totally pre-order that book.

oh man all of us better be cited like crazy in such a book

"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."

lol

lol

hahaha

there's a radio dj here that still throws "nikki" into mix show sets now and again, i think he's just trolling me

he must be

would buy a book consisting of photos of terius looking un-cool (aka every single one)

(23) 'Falltime or Failtime: Persistent Myth-Takes of Seasonality in the Work of Terius Nash' by Dr Al B Shipley (Boston, Ilxelsior Press, 2011).

shockingly unpretentious and pretty fun video

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?

no but the last dream single you could say that about was like 6 tries ago

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

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

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

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.

[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]

holy hell there's someone in this chat using the name DrakeGuzzler1

♫ deej has a girlfriend, deej has a girlfriend ♫

Let's be honest tho, ROC kinda sucks

i've grown to totally love it

the bridge is one of my favorite things that he's done in a long while

ROC's grown on me, but I haven't listened to it next to any other Terius stuff so maybe that's why? I love the interpolation of Da Dip.

i completely forgot that "roc" existed

i no longer own it thx to hard drive death and i don't feel compelled to redownload it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvSFjXkpgs0

also

hulkshare for that new dream, seems to be at a different pitch than that youtube

http://hulkshare.com/3xgzpy6ybvgp

Pitchfork Official SXSW Showcase:

Doors at 7:00 p.m.

8:00 p.m. Fiona Apple
9:15 p.m. Charli XCX
10:00 p.m. Purity Ring
10:45 p.m. Grimes
11:45 p.m. Nicolas Jaar
12:45 a.m. The-Dream

what the fuck is fiona apple doing at the bottom of that bill >:(

also full tour sched is out
lol that i had seen "the dream" listed as playing in new haven like a wk ago but i didnt think it was really the-dream !

I cannot really imagine wanting to go and see him live, I imagine he'd be kinda terrible?

that does seem 2 be what ppl say...idk i might still go just out of curiousity

are you gonna go see him?

well either i will or wont, those are the options as i see them

excellent

he was okay when i saw him live - not mind-blowing or anything but not embarrassing. i guess as a support act (to keri hilson lol) there's not much room to fuck up, you just get up there and sing your songs and get off again

i mean, the fact that he was singing great songs helped, obv

Roc is just alright on first listen - need to buy it when it comes out to get a better handle in it

Kinda wanna stay away from SXSW but I might try to see this

Yeah, he's by no means terrible live. I think I saw him between Bobby Valentino, Keri Hilson and Keyshia Cole, and if nothing else he was better than Bobby Valentino.

My most vivid memory from the show is the crowd sitting down during "Love vs. Money."

"Kill The Lights" is really bad; the production is just anemic :( This is the great single he's naming his tour after?