Electrik Red- How to be a Lady Vol.1 Terius 'n' Tricky make girl-pop magic

i lolled

rihanna mentioning blogs isn't really a problem for me so much as the absolutely horrendous bridge the mention was contained in, and the fucking typey-fingers motion she does in the video as she says it

great song, v encouraging

midi mafia! miss that dude

fave midi mafia production:

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

midi mafia's gotta be more than one guy, right? i always assumed

ok, it's 2 dudes, was thinking it was just one for some reason

For some reason, '9 to 5' sounds really amazing this morning. How did I not appreciate this before?

yeah it's definitely a real solid grower. so lush!

whole album is great but i realized a while back that my 5 favorite tracks are the first 5 tracks. what a run!

i think my favorites are "9 to 5", "devotion", and "go shawty" - but i'm a sucker for "promise" bites

"9 to 5" might be my favorite song from last year period

i really like that it took me so long to really get into "9 to 5" because it basically means this album is still continuing to give for me

yeah same, "devotion" was my instant favorite but it wasn't until like october that "9 to 5" started really hitting me

Naomi's performance on "9 To 5" is amazing. "OHHHHHH! Punch the clock! Put it on me baby we ain't got much time..."

Tick Tock! Want you to love me like the flowers love the sunlight...

And the beat is so....stately? Especially that repeated piano chord.

The way she wraps around those short sharp syllables at the beginning of each line (punch the clock/tick tock/don't stop/I pop).

"Tick Tock. I need you like hearts and lyrics need a beat."

I said it before, but the song "9 to 5" makes me think of most is Prince's "Gotta Broken Heart Again"

The way she wraps around those short sharp syllables at the beginning of each line (punch the clock/tick tock/don't stop/I pop).

totally, and how each is immediately followed by a stream of words that just pours out - "it's 5 o'clock / i'm-comin-home-i'm-runnin-home-to-relieve-the-tension---"

So there's a WFY Remix featuring Ludacris?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/592297075d7efabc/

Leslie threw me on the bed
She tied my hands and feet
Put a blindfold over my eyes
And told her CENSORED not to make a peep
I swear she was super-warmy??
Cause she had some legs of steel
And she was looking like a lightning bolt
With Electrik Red stiletto heels
I tried to tell her I'm about to lose it
Then she proceeded to put on some music
All of a sudden came Binkie, Naomi and Sarah
And then I got electrocuted
Now tell me what I'm posed to do
They fucked me black and blue
Cause..."yall don't fuck us...we fuck you"

probably superwoman

freaky freaky

shit, i actually forgot that this album was this good. actually it sounds way better than i remember

friend lover atm, vocals sounds so colored-in

a couple more old pre-deal tracks have emerged, "Rush Into It" and "Friend Zone"

http://www.zshare.net/audio/7258096130513e3c/
http://www.zshare.net/audio/72580885c5af08fd/

naomi tweeted about http://www.electrikred.freeforums.org/index.php just now, & i think they should just fold their forum into ilm pretty much

This album just keeps on giving, currently enjoying a hungover Sunday afternoon of 9 To 5

Yeah...after almost a year's worth of demurrals, I finally came around last Wednesday.

Last time around, Radio Killa Record signees recorded exclusively with The Dream, but it seems for their follow-up, they’ve logged studio time with R. City, Joi Starr, Danja and more. No word on a solid release date.

Always :( at any artist I like working with those hacks R. City.

Also the finished version of "I'm That Chick" sounds great.

what is a joi starr

loldreamstan but this is probably bad news for me

it was pretty much inevitable, but ya it will take some wild stroke of fate if this does not result in a significantly shittier album

well okay, obv it's not going to be better -- that's pretty much impossible -- but based on their few non-terius/tricky tracks, it still has a decent chance of being one of the best r&b albums of the year -- they have a really defined aesthetic that might be drawing out great tracks in producers/writers, or maybe they just have great taste, or maybe they had more input in the first album than we think or or or or (cuz "i'm that chick" is dope)

still... danja

more than anything you just fear for the balance between sass and vulnerability within each track that made vol 1 come alive. i'm still confident they can manage each separately to a worthwhile degree, but yeah.

it still has a decent chance of being one of the best r&b albums of the year

whoa there with this high, high praise in 2010

more than anything you just fear for the balance between sass and vulnerability within each track that made vol 1 come alive

they managed it on "electrik city" with, like, darkchild, so...

the red panties joint? yeah, the emotional spectrum didn't really scream itself out to me there.

more than anything you just fear for the balance between sass and vulnerability within each track that made vol 1 come alive. i'm still confident they can manage each separately to a worthwhile degree, but yeah.

This is what I was thinking.

I love "Electrik City", and a whole album of tracks like that and "W.F.Y." would be great but it would also come on like a pretty different group (not that i really expect the next album to be just like this - see below).

What I feel like The-Dream did was to really push Naomi to the fore on the majority of tracks. That sass/vulnerability tightrope that Naomi walks so frequently can't really be done by any of the other singers except to the extent that they are in supporting mode.

They do great tracks without Naomi on lead but I feel that those tracks just form the outer points on a constellation with a cluster of Naomi-led tracks in the centre.

Whereas I could imagine a new album not helmed by The-Dream going a bit more bipolar, focusing on "Electrik City" style tracks while pushing the counterpart Naomi tracks into "Never Ever" zones of sweetness. It's the latter more than the former that I'm worried about. I don't know that many other producers/songwriters are um... is there a less poncy word than "nuanced" here?.. enough to get the right balance on any Naomi-led tunes.

A pre-falling-off Polow coulda done it maybe.

^^^sick wid it

I'm not sure I trust Terius and Tricky to give a new album their full attention and effort, given the massive drop-off in their quality control of late. A few more producers is probably a good thing.

yeah but non-washed up producers woulda been nice too

idk last time i got preemptively worked up over production credits was the gucci album and that turned out great, so we'll see

I've always been pretty willing to believe the narrative that ER brought a lot of their own personality/topics/opinions to their album, and would like to see them work w/ different producers and songwriters to verify that. Although as I said upthread, I'd be surprised if Def Jam ever releases another album by them -- really I'm still amazed and thankful that the first one was released.

Rock City really is the fuckin worst though

dont really think of Electrik red as a band that that is abt production?

um it was a huge part of the appeal of the first album to me

your average industry hack has at least a few tracks that justify their existence, but have r. city ever once did anything that didn't suck scrotum?

they were one that one semi-defensible Asher Roth song with Beanie and uh, i think their song on the Rich Boy album was alright? but yeah they are really the bastard stepchildren of the Konvict Muzik stable.

according to wiki, nicole scherzinger's "supervillain" and janet jackson's "rollercoaster"

"supervillain" is a masterpiece so there's hope

I've always been pretty willing to believe the narrative that ER brought a lot of their own personality/topics/opinions to their album,

eh what's the big deal? No snark intended, but these gals are only as good as their material.