The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/8

on uk itunes. bought on sight. with money! on the day of release! can't remember the last time i did this

i'm not sure how i feel about the pronunciation of her surname, "ree-shard" seems a bit hyacinth bucket

and everyone knows the correct status affectation in r&b is the r&b acute

heh, another sade ref in "scripture"

OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

"Automatic" joins "Change" in the now I school every bitch who thinks she can mess with 4X4 house beats dept.

I mean "Faith" of course.

"Scripture"!!!

"Heaven"!!!!!

I need these new songs to appear on youtube so I can stop carpet-bombing my friends with them.

So pleased and weirdly parental-proud of Dawn right now. I adored #A Tell-Tale Heart of course but this really feels like an artist standing up and demanding attention.

so I can start carpet-bombing... Ugh why can't I type anything right tonight.

when "faith" explodes it's a real O_O moment

it is incredibly frustrating that constantly going on about dawn and kalenna has gained zero traction outside ilm

like what more do they have to do for everyone to realise that these two women are making the best music around atm?

i'm not sure how i feel about the pronunciation of her surname, "ree-shard" seems a bit hyacinth bucket

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 4:34 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

she's from louisiana...

woah this is good

Stoked to hear this, is this an actual proper album?

it's a 10 song EP

graaaaah I wish the layout ppl had spent more than 10 min on the 'digital booklet' pdf

it's 40 minutes long...

yeah there's a bizarre thing happening in hip hop/R&B now where mixtapes and major label albums have gotten so long that if anyone makes an Illmatic-length album that would actually fit on vinyl they call it an EP

want to support Dawn and buy this but I just can't pay for MP3s... hope there's a physical copy soon.

wait it's only $6, I guess I can do that... :-\

this is the happiest i've ever been to have an iphone

it is incredibly frustrating that constantly going on about dawn and kalenna has gained zero traction outside ilm

― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:31 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this was basically true for dirty money as well

yeah but LTTP was at least a moderately successful major label record with a hugely famous person at the center of it. the Dawn/Kalenna stuff lives or dies on whether it builds any kind of buzz outside that LTTP cult.

ladies and gentlemen, elektrik red

I think the last two years or so have really revealed a deep critical bias against female R&B acts in general

uh, Rihanna?

not really considering her R&B

i think it's more of a long standing critical bias against R&B that is just being slightly broken down at the moment more by male artists than female artists. but i mean beyonce had the #2 song on pazz & jop a couple months ago so let's not get carried away.

yeah, that's true...I should specify NEW female R&B artists. There's a circle of established ones who get a fair shake

it's a weird time for R&B in general, the critical response means nothing without the context of fluctuations in commercial fortunes. i mean who's the biggest new female success story of the last few years, Keri Hilson? and she's not exactly a household name.

non-megastar female r&b artists, i'd say - it'd be impossible for any critic to ignore someone as big as beyoncé, but i'm not expecting, say, brandy's forthcoming album to get much buzz outside of a small group of critics

i think a lot of critics and editors still don't quite understand how irrelevant "r&b" has become commercially (they see beyoncé and rihanna and extrapolate the wrong things), but their rationale for covering r&b/pop in the first place is because they're commercial phenomenona, and so you end up with them thinking that if a certain r&b artist is a commercial flop then they're not worth covering.

i mean who's the biggest new female success story of the last few years, Keri Hilson?

i'm still not entirely sure how/why this happened, btw. like...she doesn't have a noteworthy voice, she doesn't have a distinct or recognisable aesthetic or persona, she just has occasional enjoyable tunes. maybe that's it - she's so undemanding for fans, requires no real investment.

Keri is undeniably an underachiever but i mean i like her vocal tone a lot, she writes well and she's smoking hot, you could do a lot worse. depending on how 'new' you consider her J-Hud is probably her closest competition and she's more of a typical big voice sensation but even more underachieving as far as her actual recorded output.

R&B radio is maybe getting into that same zone as American Idol the last few years where the audience is so heavily female and so heavily invested in its male heartthrobs that a woman would have to be 2x as talented as Trey Songz to be half as successful as him

which is interesting given how pop radio has been so totally dominated by female vocalists

lol @ lex broadcasting my bitchy description of him on twitter as a compliment

oops wrong thread

my one only reaction to this right now is HOLY SHIT @ "FAITH"

Keri Hilson is in some ways the last vestige of a very different, money-flushed era of R&B. Tim and co spent forever manufacturing her into the perfect mass-market star (succeeding, but just barely).

I don't think labels have the interest in making big new R&B stars right now (look how long K. Michelle has been trying to release an album), and I don't think the media has any interest in covering them (most magazines couldn't even be bothered to review Melanie Fiona's fantastic new album). And for the Nikkiyas, Jade Alstons and even Jhene Aikos of the world, there just really isn't much of a support system.

yeah but i mean...those are Z-listers that wouldn't've even had a shot at any kind of audience without a hit single 10 years ago when R&B was really big business. at least now there's mixtapes and blogs and more of a live circuit where people that will never get a Def Jam release date can foster a following.

I don't know that this is a new phenomenon though. I mean, no media outlets had any interest in reviewing Shareefa's album! Or Algebra's!

i don't know much about algerba

"faith" would hit billboard w/ a major label push right?

All those songs on the Kelly Rowland album that kinda sounded like "Faith" didn't, so I wouldn't get my hopes up

oh i have no hopes

but either way that song is MASSIVE

'faith' feels like three songs mashed into one

There were songs on the Kelly Rowland album that sounded like "Faith"? Cause "Faith" is incredible and that album was boring as fuck, "Motivation" aside.