Danity Kane, anyone?

*chokes on own vomit*

Their new single is SO HOT OMG:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Y-FLyKD0zPk

(new season of MTB starts on Monday)

This reminds me of a instance back in the late 80's. My friend Rob and I walked into Bleeker Bob's on West 3rd Street and they were playing this insane caterwaul that was literally driving customers out of the store. Rob went to the counter to ask what it was. And we spent the next few days laughing about it. A little while later, since we'd gotten such a laugh out of it, we figured we should pick it up, but Rob wasn't sure if he'd gotten the name right. We went back to Bleeker Bob's and I picked up the single in question, Now We Are Six by the Happy Flowers. I showed it to the dude behind the counter (a dead ringer for Ringo Starr...I think he may actually still work there) and asked him if this was what I thought it was.

"Well, it's kinda not music!" he said

That's pretty much how I feel about Danity Kane, only without the humor.

wow yknow, in the time it took to write that tedious anecdote you couldve killed yourself like 4 times already

Classy!

so hot indeed! thanks for the tip Brainwash: i've managed to miss it coz they've leaked so many mediocre "buzz" tracks in the interim between albums that i stopped paying attention after some time. r&b peeps should be more selective with their leaks!

Brainwasher, i mean

Brainwashed more like, amirite

So, I totally was good friends in high school with Shannon Bex, one of the two blondes. We were in Jazz Choir together and rode many miles in many different vehicles together. Very nice, intelligent, and down to earth gal. Our 10 year reunion is in a few months and I'm looking forward to asking some P. Diddy questions.

Like what?

"Was he mad that Led Zeppelin covered that one song from Godzilla?"

Oh, and I love how Diddy is all 'you better be great at dancing and performing before you hit the studio' on Making the Band 3, and it turns out that Cassie is absolutely terrible at both.
-- Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:17 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Oh, how times have changed.

not really, she's still terrible at both.

I would be so so so so so tempted to ask "Are you embarrassed that the name of your group is Danity Kane? What does that even mean?" if I had been friends with any of those girls.

According to their MySpace,

"Danity Kane takes its name from a female anime superhero conceived by Dawn, whose skills as an illustrator caught Diddy's eye."

But I'll be sure to ask her "are you embarrassed that the name of your group is Danity Kane?" because that's a very relevant question.

I cannot stop listening to "Damaged".

It is incredible.

^^^^

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E8KQSZ63L._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510ewVx%2BVRL._SS500_.jpg

Don't sleep. "Bad Girl" >>>> all of Blackout.

No.

wow yknow, in the time it took to listen to this shrill bland and grim index of all that is witless in modernity i couldve killed myself like 75984379587598570987 times already

seriously i always knew big danity king asiatic nobodys equal were terrible but jeez

:(

Dream was way better!

you guys are such haters, eugh.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Otown2.jpg/200px-Otown2.jpg

hahaha

"liquid dreams" is actually a good song

um, no

actually it is.

A GIRL WITH A BODY LIKE JENNIFERRRRRRR

and their second single "all or nothing" is pretty good as far as sappy boy-band ballads from the late 90s/early 00s go.

yeah no 'liquid dreams' was heavy

morpharotic dream from a magazine!!

nb. no one here is saying it wasnt also totally gross

This album is so slept on by you ILX Pop people... "Striptease" is so next level.

much better than PCD's new album.

Bought this at the weekend and "Striptease" was the one that really jumped out at me but it's all excellent.

Brainwashed more like, amirite

― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, January 26, 2008

"exterierierierierior"

"mirrorirrorirrorirrorirror"

quelle coincidence, been jamming this for the past week. secret weapon = the amazing vocal arrangements, all those harmonies shooting off at unexpected tangents. most girl groups around now, you can't really tell that there are 5 or however many singers in the group, but DK make the most of their numbers here.

'pretty boy' is currently my favourite - that "OW!" after the middle 8 before the chorus floods back in is one of the pop moments of the year for serious - but really the first 3/4 or so is unfuckwithable. '2 of you' = this is the kind of easy, silly fun that xenomania try so hard (and fail) to make these days.

also impressed by how danja's proving himself to be a surprisingly flexible producer - he's able to tailor himself to his performers far better than i'd assumed he would be last year.

:(

lol

RIP chick who got kicked out of a fake group so they could make a tv show more interesting

heaven needed u

RIP chick who got kicked out of a fake group so they could make a tv show more interesting

for realz! that show is god damn dull even by MTV reality show standards.

I repeat: lol

diddy just got tired of hitting it.

im betting they are spinning this off so she can have her own show about her STRUGGLES TO GO SOLO and so they can have a BECOME THE NEW MEMBER show

send that shit to VH1 " I love the blonde former Danity Kane chick" bring back Mr. Boston and Twelve Pack to fight over who gets to sniff here soiled panties.

the album continues to be slept on :(

As is most great 2008 music on ILM and LJ Poptimists; you should know that by now, Lex. If I weren't so busy with other things I'd do DK on my blog.

http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/2008/10/07/spl54091_003-thumb-420x847.jpg

In many ways, this is the group that keeps on giving.

:( :(

well at least we'll be getting a Dawn solo album I guess.

this season of making the band is so fucking depressing.

u know what i am listening to more and more Danity Kane lately

I've never heard this band, but their name strikes me as something Pootie Tang would say.

"Damaged" is good. Everything else I've heard by them makes me want to die.

i love Damaged! and Showstopper is so beautiful

"Beautiful" doesn't come to mind when I think of "Showstopper".

I am generally more thinking "stilted", "unfun", "my god this goes on for about 800 years", "so basically there is no God, as a benevolent Father wouldn't allow this to hurt so much", etc

I've only heard 'Damaged', while driving a rental car, but I loved the shit out of it.

o and i like "Bad Girl" ! i sense that i might have to purchase an album by these girls ...

dan otm re showstopper

people who call songs like that beautiful or w/e really make me wonder if they have ears that work completely differently from mine on some fundamental molecular level

i feel like it is such a stunning composition, definitely one of my favorite moments of the last number of years

we in the caaaaaar
we ride slow
we doin things that the girls don't dooooooooo
the boys stare, we smile back
all my girls in the rainbow cadillacs, YEAH!

people who call songs like that beautiful or w/e really make me wonder if they have ears that work completely differently from mine on some fundamental molecular level

― some dude, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this very well might be true, my friend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23k4Vq-VG8

Did I never post this? I meant to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gk55yr5oQw

Like ugh the harmonies the beauty i just can't

We're not getting the album :'(
Shannon & Aubrey on the split

I'm not suprised after the fight earlier on in the week.
We got even less from them than MKS :( I say bring on Blackheart!

lol

During a recent group meeting, a business conversation took a turn for the worst when my group member punched me in the back of my head while I was speaking to another associate.

Better bands than you have bad better fight ON STAGE and stayed together, missy.

ffs

thank god no one would be willing to get into a fight with mutya for mks to fall apart in a similar way

heaven needed a girl group

D ® U S K I @drewscotty · 48m
Was really counting on @Danitykane to make it so I could collect my "Goldenheart" check. Dammit.

Team Dawn no matter what. I bet she deserved that punch.

messssss. sadder about the dawn/druski falling out though.

roll on blackheart! love "lemonade" but never liked the idea of a DK reunion putting dawn's solo career on hold

(if the MKS reunion only gave us "lay down in swimming pools" and the DK reunion only gave us "lemonade" that's still better than many acts give us in entire careers)

Very sloppy end to this project - the comeback only having 3 members meant it always felt a little off to begin with.

This may sound naive but Dawn has always come across in interviews &c as a very rational and intelligent person, so I feel puzzled and also saddened by the news that she's made some enemies. Feel like we mightn't be getting the full story here.

There was an MKS tweet about them being in the studio last week. Then again, things have been coming soon for about a year. Feel like they should either go petulant à la Azealia Banks or just quit now rather than leave fans hanging and thirsty forever.

i think dawn is probably just a control freak who likes to micromanage everything. tbf she is almost entirely the creative force of the group. the other two could have been meeting to bash out music ideas together for whatever reason (this seems to be story that is out there) and clearly dawn took things the wrong way.

the best policy i've learnt from experience w/ girl groups, especially reformed ones, is just to never get too invested. if good music comes out that's great, but things almost invariably end up going tits up. it's too miserable a situation to stan for dk or mks knowing their albums were both finished but will probably never be released.

it's weird seeing anyone stan for DK, unlike MKS i never felt they had a really distinct or necessary sound or unfinished business (and unlike solo dawn). and i loved welcome to the dollhouse! the quality of "lemonade" was a real surprise.

anyway one thing i've learned this week: d. woods, the DK member who wasn't even invited to the reunion, is...the younger sister of SHANELL!!!!!

so this album is coming out on 28 oct anyway

unfortch the latest single isn't up to much at all

https://soundcloud.com/official-danity-kane/danity-kane-rhythm-of-love

this single, however!

https://soundcloud.com/official-danity-kane/all-in-a-days-work

The live version of Rhythm of Love had more oomph.

Some great stuff on this album, especially Roultte, Secret Lover, and Tell Me.

it's pretty great

heavy on the irony with all the boss bitch anthems given how it ended but weirdly that doesn't actually lessen their impact

"all in a day's work" is such a jam

it's also really nicely varied and - again the irony - sounds a lot more confident than it had any right to. half expected it all to be desperate trend-chasing but that's not the case

this album never did get its due

"lemonade" through to the heavily ironic "2 sides" is fire, in quite an odd way sometimes ("we rage at the party like maniacs" is an image that keeps being on my mind). it soooort of loses its way in the second half, which doesn't always sound finished ("roulette" is the biggest waste bc it sounds like there are the seeds of something potentially special, in a "style" kinda 80s teen romance way, and the jodeci reference is excellent, but overall the song feels a bit...bogged down), and then "bye baby" is a sort of unjustified victory lap that still works

but aside from that there are some pretty interesting choices overall - "tell me" segueing into "2 sides" really works

aubrey and shannon are a duo now and the single they released is improbably good: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6649118/dumblonde-dreamsicle-video-premiere-danity-kane

song is incredible

well i'm really enjoying the album rn

the textures in this song!

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

that IS improbably good.

holy smokes, just catching up on Dumblonde, both those songs are killerrr

The textures in this album!

brad otm this album is way better than it should be. how did an amazing garage-house track like "you got me" find its way on to here, it sounds like it fell off the dj q album

have totally fallen for the Dumblonde album, was feeling challopsy and thinking about coming here to post that i like it more than Blackheart. but then and i listened to Blackheart again and ... no.

I like the dumblonde album more for sure. Might just be more up my alley but it's amazing

I mean I really like it. A lot. Sooo much more than I would've expected.

And I *want* to like it more. For a lot of reasons.

But the Dumblonde record is a really great pop record, whereas Dawn's from fucking space.

That's no knock on the former.

I really like the Dumblonde album and i love the production choices on it but as if there is anything on it that floors me like Swim Free or Choices does

the dumblonde album is really good and "you got me" is particularly excellent, in a more fallow year i'd have repped it harder. better than blackheart is o_0 tho

Dumblonde record is a really great pop record, whereas Dawn's from fucking space.

Dawn's is definitely more ambitious I guess but it's so arch

I admire blackheart but actually enjoy dumblonde idk

Feels like a lame poptimist choice on my part i suppose

new board discrip?

dumblonde doesn't work better in strict pop terms; blackheart is catchier, hookier, better songcraft etc (not to mention force of character which dawn has in spades). vocal production and arrangements are pretty much the star of the dumblonde album, regardless of whether they're in a more familiar pop palette. these two albums are going for v different things but i guess comparing dumblonde to years & years or CRJ (prob the two best straight-pop albums of 2015 imo) reveals why it's not top-tier, whereas comparing dawn to the kelela or twigs eps reveals her superiority

[sighs deeply, removes earrings, rolls up sleeves]

side with deej before his spine went

blackheart doesnt interest me. sonically corny and conceptually ponderous in a way that no longer washes, because now self-conscious and playing to a slavish and trite gallery - album duly fufils its own prophecy as the saddest of epilogues to her previous art - mask on, presenting doll richard for your consideration, or was that consolidation

"And even though I lost the best of me it was worth it
I took it to the deep
Cause there's no depth in these streams
I took it to the deep
Cause my heart doesn't swim in shallow creeks"

that deep so filled with victimhood and self-abnegation, empty baleful cryogenic cousin to "fucking space". what's in those shallow creeks though?- tender green life. and in that black night, why only "freckles in the sky". this brilliant, jouissant reply is dumblonde's - pop in all its awkward teeming poetic meaninglessness, gloriously confounding plurality and messy multivalence. humanalien shards of jagged beauty embedded in clubfunk ditz - why settle for scandos and major lazer when here's the white girls wearing headdresses and fringe boots tropical 2?

"We lay forever, walking over waters deeper than the sea
But never get wet, wet, wet, wet"

three minutes in and over chorales there's lightning thunder and hail, kings and queens, rulers of the light, immortalit-ay (heh) , a dream of love infinite. which album were we talking about again? and so they continue. shooting stars ignite, fire in the sky, "follow the madness with abandon / living legends, you and me". and the finale!!... to me so much of dumblonde seems to be in explicit post-punch-up dialogue with dawn, sympathetic but almost at times wickedly pantomimic - a gauntleted hand ('yellow canary') on her shoulder ('dreamsicle'):

Late last night I had a dream / I fell asleep in the shadow of success
I confess / And I forgot what freedom means [...] So tonight we dream / We won't wake up / The dream is never done, no"

the comparative arguments against db above are truly the worst and most bovine trumped-up rockism possible imo - gloomily burdensome pseudopersonal narrative, signposted subversion (male gaze flipped on a tediously problematic standard, clutch thee fuckin pearls), abstraction and difficult sounds (or just idm toybox melodies whatever), "ambition" - all privileged over the kaleidoscope of the world with just a tart dismissal as pop, de facto unworthy. for shame you suckers - had the artist names of these records been swapped over you all know damn well none of this would ever have been said

alternate perspective: when I listened to dawn's album i was utterly floored and found myself coming back to it dozens of times. When I listened to the dumblonde album it was very good and deserved further exploration but i didn't capsize.

the dumblonde record is good and fun

I admire blackheart but actually enjoy dumblonde idk

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, December 5, 2015 3:23 AM (5 hours ago)

this is a perfectly reasonable place to be ... not sure if i'm *quite* here but i'm not far off

think we can all agree on: "wow, aubrey/shannon. did not expect this."

side with deej before his spine went

― r|t|c, Saturday, December 5, 2015 8:01 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol dont worry i was just being lazy :D

alternate perspective: when I listened to dawn's album i was utterly floored and found myself coming back to it dozens of times. When I listened to the dumblonde album it was very good and deserved further exploration but i didn't capsize.

― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 5, 2015 10:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if a critical judgement happens in a forest, does it make a sound?

the video for 'tender green life' is SO bad but then i found out Aubrey O'Day actually directed it & now it's classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqgE_nUjwI

like the members of danity kane DIY'd their own branding and only the music is incredible but that enthusiasm completely justifies the odd first timer vibes of the presentation

it reminds me of that time ms paint versions of classic rap albums were going arounds & it was always fascinating to see which details the artist decided to focus on & which were covered in a sloppy drag of an ms paint brush

Apparently they did this whole thing pretty DIY style:

Conversely, Bex and O'Day poured themselves into Dumblonde, not only writing and recording, but, as Bex says, "staying up 'til three in the morning" Photoshopping artwork or perfecting a video edit. (Bex designed the group's logo.)

from http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/dumblonde-rises-from-the-ashes-of-danity-kane/Content?oid=17086829

xp lol yeah it's fun picking out what track might be the "leader" (there isnt one really) and beholding how it subtly alters the weird world of the rest - something about 'tender green life' (including the vid!) brings this kinda like, idk, late alt-90s attitude to consumption of modernity, like it was some offbeat chick group with a dusty cd filed next to beck and money mark somewhere in ur parents attic

alternate perspective: when I listened to dawn's album i was utterly floored and found myself coming back to it dozens of times. When I listened to the dumblonde album it was very good and deserved further exploration but i didn't capsize.

― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:53 Bookmark

maybe best stick to the spotify parasite life if this is "perspective" is all u got to love that which floors

joke is ima bet that i'll still remain the person who said the most ever about the dawn record even in rejecting it

should anyone advance past sounds weird/yaas (they havent yet, anywhere) i'm hungry to listen

Xp lol ya like "waiting on you" is my subjective favorite but in isolation it just sounds like (an admittedly strong) Prince via Daft Punk pastiche any number of artists have aimed for previously, in album context it becomes a partic brilliant facet of the overall jewel

good choice tho. very sick licks

that last minute of 'take away' too, i died and went to j-pop heaven

Sweeping strings are whoa

maybe best stick to the spotify parasite life if this is "perspective" is all u got to love that which floors

but please, tell me more about what washes in the glorious kaleidoscope of the world of pop, which i never listen to, yuck pop, what's that ew yuck, however did i get in the danity kane thread in the first place i wonder.

rtc there is plenty of excellent justification of the dawn richard record in the dawn richard thread

boy do i like the dumblonde record though. gets better every time i hear it. things that initially scanned as underwritten to me are now completely charming

yeah, i look forward to spending more time with it myself. It sounds good on first contact!

I love that I can vote for this album all over again and it feels brand new: https://soundcloud.com/dumblondeofficial/heir-remix

jammed the living hell out of this all summer. pure delight

also impure dee-lite i guess

i saw one person on twitter claim that heir are the sons of the brothers johnson btw lol??? was unable to verify anywhere

comparing the og to tropical 2 before this was born is how you know i'm the shooter

db = alice in wonderland, bbk = the tempest

[10 seconds in] ahhh holy shit

that post was 10 minutes ago so your brain should have exploded right about.... now

if you're referring to "tender green life/that's the way love goes" then

http://i.giphy.com/wqcxtSuUfS0pO.gif

lol ya

i'm glad that recent events led me to finding out that dumblonde album no. 2 is in its final stages

also going over the lyrics of aubrey's 2013 album is sort of sickening now

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-alnm0UE9Y

scared to ask but... what recent events?

donald trump jr alleged to have been in an affair with aubrey o'day lol

yesss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKEaM8YvGbg

love it

US tour happening

DAWN and dumblonde are doing their thing here in Boston on a sunday!!

on THIS sunday i mean.

also this interview. i hate industry motherfuckers ESPECIALLY iovine who i’m sure was aching to replace one of the ddm
women with his side piece la scherz

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a24477124/danity-kane-reunion/

O’Day: When I was doing Celebrity Apprentice, I was doing all these old fashioned looks. I have this amazing hairstylist and he would do all of these classic looks on me in the boardroom and I remember maybe the fourth or fifth episode, two producers came over to me and said, "Aubrey, you're the youngest one we've had here. You're running circles around everyone. Nobody thought you'd do this well, but Trump thinks you're ugly."

What?
O’Day: "He's wanting to get rid of you. He wants to keep the dumb Miss Universe around because she's really pretty and she's hot and he thinks that we'll do better. She gets more ratings." They said, "You are beautiful though and we know that but you’ve got to stop doing like..."

And I'm like, Dude, these looks I'm pulling are classic. All these other bitches are showing up in Forever21 looking budget and I'm over here working with the best people, looking polished. They were like, "I know, but our audience is the NASCAR audience. They don't understand your looks. We're trying to help you. Part your hair down the middle, wear it straight, and wear a tight dress that pushes up your tits."

Richard: That's what they're told, and it's insane because you get it from every gambit. Jimmy Iovine told Kalenna [editor’s note: Kalenna Harper was a member of Dirty Money with Richard; the duo performed with Diddy as Diddy-Dirty Money] and I are to our face, he looked at Puff and said, "Why don't you have two light skinned girls?" In front of a boardroom of fifty people.

Bex: They treat you like you're just something, not someone.

Part your hair down the middle, wear it straight, and wear a tight dress that pushes up your tits.

You know, completely unlike Trump's daughter, to whom who is not at all sexually attracted.

god he’s so gross

lots of hauntingly real lines in that interview

i admire them all and hope the best for them

new dumblonde album:

https://open.spotify.com/album/7JfSdOk8M3ppggTOKmdzDh?si=8kjb5YQRSKmV5mosso5Bbw

some nice little nuggets here
white hot lies probs the standout but maybe thats because i heard it last year