The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

minus having an adorable baby

still think this is aubrey's finest moment

http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/37416/aubrey-oday-and-heart-on-my-sleeve-gallery.jpg

the last danity kane album was really good btw

dawn gave them their name fwiw, after a fictional anime character of her own invention

Aubrey's finest moment is looking like a political hobo?

what else would you pick! that image is hilarious

the DOG with the GLITTER BONNET and dyed pink ears

what else would you pick!

this is a pretty convincing argument

you just imagine the obama campaign staffers (this was from early 2008 iirc) suddenly seeing these pictures and being like "noooooooo"

is that dog actually alive?

yup. it accompanied her to a number of events around this time.

probably came close to dying of embarrassment

tis a crying shame dawn's major in marine biology doesn't influence her music to the same degree her comic book nerdery does

All my people gettin' down on the floor-ah
Stingin' beats like we're Medusozoa

i knew everyone was trying to think of something there but i still expected better

best i could do was a tilapia heart fwiw

whats the name of this album everyone is raving over? I am having serious problems with my Internet literacy or something...

armor on

cool thx

hurry up, we're dreaming

dawn gave them their name fwiw, after a fictional anime character of her own invention

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

<3

really wanna know what anime shows dawn watches

Just as ridiculous as the idea that this is an EP is that the 3+ min songs at the beginning and the end constitute an intro and an outro.

first incidence of this sort of thing i recall is e.badu calling the 12-track, 45-min worldwide underground an "EP" in 2003

I'm guessing there's some bullshit record company reason for it.

I don't think Bombs is a disappointment at all but it's certainly more, I dunno, route one banger than the rest of it. It's a big jolt though and feels totally necessary in the flow of the album (and the album flows really really well).

I think Faith fits well in as well - the thing with the whole record is how patient most of it is, a bit like a DJ mix, and by that point it's like "ah go on, you can have a peak-time banger".

DJ mix comment is otm - which is, of course, another interesting hybrid aspect to the dance/R'n'B genre play going on with the record.

I also like how she's grouped like songs together so there's a real "take you on a journey" aspect.

It is pretty remarkable that Dawn/Dupri 'get' house and what it can do so well (thinking esp. of "Change" and "Heaven")... As well as any house producer could have managed I think.

Rather than just whacking on a kickdrum, they've really thought about how to use house's little percussive flairs to enhance the songs in the same way that (obvious e.g.) Timbaland might have done with a stuttering triplet.

The irony being that Timbo doesn't get that.

I actually thought of 'Beats 4 Da Streets (Intro)' listening to 'Intro (Call to Hearts)'. Always wanted to hear more stuff done in the style of that Aaliyah opener, 90's r&b in full-dance mode, lover's jungle, etc.

i feel like other music is obsolete now

I actually thought of 'Beats 4 Da Streets (Intro)' listening to 'Intro (Call to Hearts)'. Always wanted to hear more stuff done in the style of that Aaliyah opener, 90's r&b in full-dance mode, lover's jungle, etc.

― MikoMcha, Friday, 30 March 2012 11:53 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did you ever hear Janet Jackson's "Empty"?

That's the closest thing I can come up with as a precedent for Intro/Black Lipstick.

"empty" is the best song

otm

Amazingly, nearly 15 years old.

Armor On is afaict self-released so i think it being an EP is less a 'bullshit record company' thing than just wanting to prolong the anticipation for a proper DEBUT ALBUM with mixtapes and other minor releases, because everyone always thinks their first album is going to sell a bazillion copies like 50 Cent and doesn't want to drop an album until they think it can do that

the tone of the piano in SFMU remix just kills me

it's a song sung from the rubble

Cool, Empty is great! I never listened to that record besides the singles.

That album is amazing, breh

^^^

So many oversights. Downloading it now, especially after that track.

Velvet Rope might be my favourite Janet LP and 'Empty' might be her best track. You know, depending on the day of the week and more likely if it's winter.

man, this mixtape

"vibrate" is nuts

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:13 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one year! shit

wish so much she would release a mastered version of that mixtape

every time I see the title "SMFU", I feel like it should stand for *shaking my fucking uterus* or something

i'm kind of having trouble connecting with 'armor on'. of course i love dawn's voice, so i think i'm more impressed with the atmosphere of the thing - that's really the point of most of these joints, right? - than i am taken with the songs themselves. like the background vocals in "heaven" - that's straight outta LTTP (forget which song, drunx). maybe the problem's with me, that i'm holding it up to kind of an impossible standard, but the songs just aren't staying with me for whatever reason. given the quality of posters enjoying this i'm sure the problem is with me - i need to spend more time with this

i wasn't head over heels like most ppl on the first few listens ("faith" aside) but i think the songs really sneak up on you. a lot of the pleasures are pretty subtle.

i almost feel like this album is just waiting to be cut up by some great house DJs, that that's its primary aim even

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!

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know much about algerba

― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:59 AM (1 week ago)

btw http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-golfclap.gif

every time I see the title "SMFU", I feel like it should stand for *shaking my fucking uterus* or something

haha ME TOO, and i'm sure she meant it like that, or rather she meant the acronym as a portmanteau of SMH and FU

k3vin try headphones, the songs are there but not all are immediate, but this was blown open for me the first time i heard it on headphones. rtc otm that the sunny weather did it no favours either which was the one positive of last night's inexplicable rainstorm