thread of miguel

which was late nights? marsha ambrosius?

that didn't register for me at ALL. Love me back is still in constant rotation.

thanks for prompting me to play the Ambrosious album again, Andy!

yeah good call with the Jazmine and Marsha albums, dug both. i'm just happy that this time Mig got to dodge the J. Cole bullet that Melanie and Elle caught this year.

Alex, check out the Ambrosius again. Although it faffs around a bit in the middle section and is at times too masochistic for my taste, this is plush, sumptuous R&B of a high order -- probably my favorite one of last year

"Adorn" is great, but I've always thought it needed a B.o.B. verse

and a Calvin Harris remix featuring Nicki Minaj.

"adorn" is looking like it has a chance to be his biggest hit

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, August 27, 2012 2:23 PM (6 hours ago)

is it charting? it doesn't even have a wiki entry

"Adorn" is great, but I've always thought it needed a B.o.B. verse

well here's a sentence i never thought i'd read

#7 R&B, #68 on the Hot 100 (xpost)

There's also the R. Kelly albums.

well yeah but those aren't contemporary R&B

mariah - memoirs?

though that is quite a while ago now

jeremih's first album

memoirs had gucci on the single version of "obsessed" right?

or was that a separate remix

separate remix & not on the album

wait, ship: how are Kels' albums not contemporary R&B? Is it their retro stylings that inoculate them?

he iz old

lol at lex taking Evan's post at face value

he iz old

Oh! *fumbles with trembling hands with Lipitor tablets and something called a "keyboard"*

i was basically borrowing the parlance of the Grammys, who for most of the last decade had a 'contemporary R&B album' award to distinguish the overly modern hip hop-influenced stuff from the more traditional stuff that usually wins the best R&B album award (but the 2 categories were merged back into one this year). Chocolate Factory was nominated in the contemporary category; his last two would have been in the other category, if they were nominated.

like you wouldn't listen to Write Me Back and expect to possibly hear a guest rapper on it (unlike Miguel's stuff), so it's not relevant to the point i was making.

new trey songz album only has like 6 guest rappers

lol

SPOILER ALERT

the new preview is very good

"do you..." especially is absolutely sublime

:D

"do you..." is like "quickie" pt 2... the glowing, coital track that just basks in its own sound. it's even a bit more ethereal tho.

Just heard Adorn in a sports store while walking through the mall. Miguel has arrived!

Man is this release scheme convoluted. Like, I'm a pretty big fan of this guy, and I really can't keep track of which songs are out, which ones are coming soon, which ones are being bundled where, where to download them, when to download them, etc, etc. I am totally lost, and his site isn't really clarifying a lot of these questions.

The ADC EPs were clever, but he should stop fucking around and just put out an album already.

three more songs out 9/11, full thing out 10/2

i hope "do you..." is actually the next single. maybe the best thing he's ever done.

cool to see that Pop & Oak produced "Use Me," really starting to stan for them after the Elle Varner album. "Don't Look Back" is prob my least favorite song he's put out this year, though.

i've never heard so many radio DJs say things like "I love that song! don't you love that song?" before or after playing something as with "Adorn" -- was really awesome to change stations right after it and hear it starting on another station the other day.

Is that EV album good front to back?

imo yeah

Cool, was interested but hadn't heard much, will check it.

heard "Adorn" on Tuesday! It helped that the R&B station played Maze's "Back in Stride" right after.

i think he's gonna hit no. 1 next week. up to no. 2 this week.

gonna start using "the third minute of 'Adorn'" as a euphemism for keys that unlock wonderful hidden treasures

:D

have we all seen this? this performance of "adorn" is AHMAZING

http://pitchfork.com/news/47615-watch-miguel-perform-adorn-at-moma-ps1/

sarge where are these new previews of which you speak?

#secrete promos

ooh -- "Secrete" is a perfect Miguel title

i think i should be shaking my head at that

let my joke adorn you

secrete all over you