thread of miguel

asserting that Miguel did not write the words he sang on "Lotus Flower Bomb" is doing him a favor imo

btw there are a shit-ton of "Adorn" freestyles out right now by rappers you would never want to hear on that song but Ma$e's is the only one i felt compelled to rubberneck at: http://rapradar.com/2012/09/10/new-music-mae-adorn-remix/

yeah they all started piling up at once

i hope the no-rappers policy on the album is extended to no official remixes. actually he can just not collaborate w/ any rappers at all (although i like "summer on smash")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKxShNHY-g

pleasing fwiw

kids in my school's journalism/broadcast program chose "adorn" as the outgoing credits music for the first school announcements video segment of the year. it was a nice moment at the end of the program. (half of the kids in my homeroom were like i love this song! and half were like, who is this?)

also waiting to hear which song had been chosen for the outro was the #1 thing my kids were invested in about the broadcast, so i choose to attach some *significance* to the choice.

god the guitar ringing out suddenly 2/3 into "do you" >>>>>>>>>>>>

good billboard feature: http://www.billboard.com/features/miguel-s-kaleidoscope-dream-inside-the-r-1007955262.story#/features/miguel-s-kaleidoscope-dream-inside-the-r-1007955262.story

also finally get an answer to my question about whether the song was lengthened after the fact: With radio stations already asking for the mixtape cut, Miguel agreed to return to the studio and add a bridge to the track, and soon "Adorn" became a three-minute, 14-second official single

I thought Lex said the exact opposite.

http://www.youtube.com/v/JxKxShNHY-g&fs=1&hl=en

pleasing fwiw

― r|t|c, Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32 AM (2 days ago)

this pleases meh

when is this gonna leak already

oh yeah, maybe lex can clarify what was said? (xpost)

Alicia Keys is apparently on the album version of "Candles in the Sun" :/

lol ugh

i hope just shouting "THERE'S NO SEPERATION, WE'RE ALL ONE!" in a british accent

I can't decide whether I loathe Alicia Keys or Rihanna with greater intensity.

Interesting to note that All I Want Is You only sold roughly 1/40th of its eventual total in its first week out.

iirc he also told me that adorn was always longer and that he put the shorter version on ADC

also that thing about alicia being on "candles in the sun" is incorrect. that was just a screw up in the complex article.

miguel wrote "where's the fun in forever" while he was in jamaica doing work for her album, she ended up not taking the track for her album and she agreed to let him have it. they left some of her vocals on the song, but it's far from a duet or something.

I like that "Do You" has this late 90s post-Timbo jitterbeatz thing going on rhythmically, but with a totally different sonic palette.

btw Billboard article says that "Do You" is the next single and that the Target edition of the album will have bonus tracks (hopefully new-new stuff but i wouldn't mind some more ADC stuff getting included)

I think he said something about "do you..." being the next single back when it was called "drugs"

He did say something to me about doing some bonus tracks because the album isn't crazy long but I have no idea what those are

the longer version was the original but he prefers the shorter version

― lex pretend, Wednesday, August 8, 2012 9:35 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't have the exact quote as i'm not in london with the recording right now, and i didn't put it in the piece, but i pretty much asked him directly and he answered directly. he could've been lying, artists have been known to do that!

or maybe Billboard magazine is getting a little lax with their rigorous research standards ;)

and now he's extending it even longer live :O

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

just incredible

33 songs, mostly old stuff. looks like there are a couple that have been rehabbed ("That I Do", "Pussy Is Mine").

http://words.obsqr.com/post/6620823199/obsqr-presents-miguel-free-and-young-143mb-a

Wow, great performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQyTyDPV3BA

<3

hmmm, I hadn't listened to the lyrics :/

You know, I just realized "Adorn" is probably my favorite song since "Happy House" :O

yeah it's def my favorite song in a very long time

album stream

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/24/161566783/first-listen-miguel-kaleidoscope-dream

i sorta forgot how much of it we've already heard. New ones sound good though

P---- Is Mine

Artist: Miguel
Album: Kaleidoscope Dream

Please be advised, this audio contains profanity.

May go see him (if my schedule works out) Wednesday night at the (reopened and renovated) Howard Theatre

Pizza Is Mine

i sorta forgot how much of it we've already heard.

That was my beef with all the post-ADC "previews" of this album. It was like seeing 2/3 of The Dark Knight Rises in advance, one 7-minute trailer at a time

Look at it this way: it'll be like buying FutureSex/LoveSounds or Rhythm Nation after you've heard the 67 singles.

yeah, to be sure, it doesn't ruin the album or anything. it just waters down the experience of hearing it for the first time

yeah, i've sort of come to peace with the whole thing. even the jessie ware album, it's the same thing. you've just got to step back and not hold it against an album if it arrives and we've already heard half of it.

i guess there is also the choice to not listen to any leaks.

I don't mind since the single/3-5 song EP is my preferred choice of method of consumption these days

I'm haunted by an rtc comment: something like, 'lol at the idea of an album in 2012' or something to that effect

personally i think the best strategy nowadays is to do what jay/ye & frank ocean (and others) have done and that's to let one or two songs go before dropping the whole thing in full as a digital download. you probably get a nice windfall in sales and everyone gets that experience of hearing it for the first time together. buzz builds for a week and then you can drop the physical. but, maybe that takes a special kind of situation.

trying to remember the last time a contemporary R&B album with this high a profile came out w/ no obligatory guest rappers

― some dude, Monday, August 27, 2012 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

might have been preferable to his own rap :/

and he drops a "YOLO" bomb .....

ha, "Where's The Fun In Forever" = where his hanging out w/ FlyLo, Thundercat, etc shows. definitely has that LA "beat scene" feel

might have been preferable to his own rap :/

― The Reverend, Monday, September 24, 2012 1:24 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha, yes

On the other hand there's less "work" to put into listening to an album on which you've heard four tracks.

btw for those who wondered what the original version of "That I Do" sounded like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sZ2qJyIi6A