thread of miguel

had an amazing moment vibesing to adorn on the underground yesterday when i walked past a near-exact miguel doppelganger, this lil tiny stylish mexi-asiatic lookin dude rocking an impressive quiff wearing a leather jacket. sort of wanted to pick him up and throw him in the air in celebration

then a moment of terror thinking i can't believe i used to have an even bigger quiff than that wait how many of those guys do i ever see in life was that him????

had an amazing moment vibesing to adorn on the underground yesterday when i walked past a near-exact miguel doppelganger, this lil tiny stylish mexi-asiatic lookin dude rocking an impressive quiff wearing a leather jacket. sort of wanted to pick him up

mm, maybe for a garden gnome

is 'do you' the official next single then? sounded like a smash to me but i wondered if they'd edit out druuuugs and more importantly how exactly. anyone heard it in the wild?

It'll be fascinating watching "Do You" climb the R&B chart

i think it's always been planned as the follow up to "adorn" and i guess they're going through with that

i wondered if they'd edit out druuuugs and more importantly how exactly.

single version on spotify goes "do you like looooove"

it reasons that's why they changed the name from "drugs" to "do you..."

OK, so it's a quite a weird track that way, right? I really like it a lot, but find myself thinking in pretty open-ended ways about the sentiment, and the way it's phrased.

well it's a pun, it starts out with "do you like drugs" like a question and then at the end adds "i'm gonna do you like drugs tonight"

so does he say "i'm gonna do you like love tonight"? need to listen to that single edit

if you look closely there's visible pussy in that photo (xpost)

― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:25 PM

ha, this took me a minute

pussy is yours

http://soundcloud.com/sammybananas/miguel-adorn-sammy-bananas-1

yeah that's very good

best new music

Sweet, now I can talk about it!

i think it's a pretty nice accomplishment, actually

yeah its cool.

i sort of said this before but it's nice to see him rewarded for his reverse-crossover attempt while still being able to grow his core fanbase. a pretty rare feat.

Indeed.

Good review.

What a remix!

like the review, don't like the ELEVEN frank ocean headlines underneath the review

If the Gibbs tape is an 8.2, this is a 9.4 though.

what review?

p4k?

yes

weird quote from that: 'a wonderfully considered album from an artist who was starting to seem a lot like a forgotten gem in the wake of mishandled promotion.'

wasn't Sure Thing a huge huge hit r&b chart hit? do they just mean 'indie people weren't listening until now' ?

his first album could be considered a commercial triumph or totally under the radar depending on what lens you're viewing it through, but yeah that way of phrasing it was pretty false.

yeah that's what i mean, the lens of 'what people in brooklyn/portland are listening to' is pretty reductive

well it could also be viewed as unsuccessful through the lens of "doesn't sell as much/cross over to pop radio as much as Usher or Chris Brown"

The demographics at his Howard Theatre show in DC seemed like 99% African-American (and mostly women) which is reflective of that prior inability to crossover to pop or indie

are they not a pop audience?

is this really the 2nd time this week on this board that i have to explain "pop as genre vs. pop as in 'popular'"

Except that isn't what he was saying.

i introduced the 'pop crossover' subject to the conversation, curmudgeon continued it understanding what i meant, and jamie responded to it seemingly not understanding what i meant.

Right. I think Jamie and Mat may have misunderstood me. I did not think I had to break down for anyone here the difference between industry marketing terms for genre and for radio formats, or to explain that yes r'n'b songs can be considered pop in the US when they reach the Billboard chart that is labeled "pop songs' or "hot 100". If Jamie and you want to complain to Billboard that they have an "r'n'b/rap" category (yes I think they put those 2 gneres together) separate from a "pop songs" one, and that ilx has a rolling R'n'b thread that is separate from a rolling pop songs thread.

Perhaps I should have also referred back to Some Dude's Village voice piece from awhile back regarding the declining number of r'n'b songs crossing over onto the pop radio hits format

miguel is kind of a perfect case study for that kind of thing too -- "sure thing" was billboard's #1 r&b chart song of last year, but #92 on the year-end hot 100

use me
wanna give you control
with the lights on
if I could just let go
forgive me
it's the very first time
that I'm nervous
can I trust you?
trust me
while I take this off
with the lights on
cuz it turns me on
if you're nervous
just let me show you
how to touch me
I can teach you

^^^^^^^^the realness from opposite ends in this chorus, the way he elides both. incredible

like a lesser song would have made that a duet but miguel makes them the same thing

i moved down south pretty much exactly a year ago and 'sure thing' has been on the radio consistently the entire time

Lex otm

yes

this record is great, finally got around to it.

The first five or six songs so is such an astonishing run of greatness.

letterman tonight iirc

am i the only one who likes the title track? didn't see a lot of love for it.

i know a frank ocean comparison is probably boring/facile, but god listening to this highlights how restrained and lacking in variety that record was.

The title track was the first I'm warmed to when I heard the full sequence.

yeah same, replayed it 3/4 times.

i'm still trying to figure out the comparison he makes in that song to piano keys