SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the return of

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f14/snouts/babydaniel.gif

im a cool low jane with a skip on my feet iirc

shes back again

http://mydamnblog.com/iblog/2010/03/to-hold-you-over/

this is great.

middle eight of "would've been the one" slaying me atm

i was the one, yes i was the one
and yes that was my name inked upon his arm
and if he loved me that much and still did me wrong...

Yeah love that one, her vocals towards the end are just incredible.

Really hoping we get a new album soon, I still play the last one a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXuuYnoRdI YO OMG NEW SINGLE COMING UP

WAIT NO THAT'S NOT RIGHT I MEANT THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB2-sH0LTUQ

produced/written by dude from of montreal and dude from test icicles (poor lex)

omg the return of

dead 2 me

So excited for the new album, Sol-Angel is one of my favourite albums of the last few years.

reminding myself of the solange's endless dreadful collaborators it's genuinely astonishing she managed to make an album that good

erm SUBS ADD GRAMMAR ETC TO THAT SENTENCE

You know that Beyonce would be doing shit like this if she didn't have a proper career to maintain.

http://t.co/N593pEx3

haha, she already worked with Empire of the Sun

and grizzly bear and dirty projectors and twin shadow...

oh who are we talking about, S or B?

I was talking about Bey

and Sleigh Bells allegedly

yeah but the point is that beyoncé caused us trepidation with the sleigh bells rumours but then she gave us 4

Because she has a proper career to sustain.

Beyonce featured on this gem with a bloke from Coronation Street, so Solange wins.

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

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okay that didn't work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy9W_mrY_Vk&feature=plcp

awesome song

after this and "Everything Is Embarrassing" I kind of want Dev Hynes to write all of the pop songs. which is so weird.

This song is amazing!!!!!!!!

OMG I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS ALBUM

yeah fffv I'm having that same weird feeling... the vocals have a bit of an "everything is embarrassing" feel to it

This takes the good things about "Everything Is Embarrassing" and pushes them to 11 on the Made-for-Johnny-Fever scale.

80s pop is the most absolute boring musical choice one can make right now. if this had come out 5 years ago, I'd have loved it. as it stands, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If the core of the track is solid, the production/arrangement is just gravy. There's a sizeable swamp out there of 80s-inspired pop, but a few things still manage to sound good and fresh. This is an example of that, imo.

I just bought the digital single and the b-side is p tight too.

bury the fucking 80s dead.

NEVER EVER

While I'm always in favor of pushing music forward, I have a hell of a nostalgia sweet tooth. When enough time passes, decades turn into genres. If prevailing pop (not POP) trends wish to dabble in the 80s genre at the current time, so be it. Just make the songs good.

Glad someone made this gif so I didn't have to

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mb91lfxyhY1qjipi2o1_500.gif

the corpse of the 80s has DONE BEEN picked over. nice gif tho.

My problem isn't with people making retro-80s music my problem is with people making retro-80s music when retro-80s music is PLAYED THE FUCK OUT.

And all I'm saying is that we're at 80s high tide right now and soon we'll be at low tide. In the meantime, there's still some really great 80s-style music all over the place (and that's been the case pretty much for the last 10-12 years).

I get what you're saying, though. In the 80s, 80s music was new and THE FUTURE. Where's THE FUTURE now? Everyone from Solange to Jessie Ware to Vampire Weekend to whoever else is making a splash this week seems to be inspired by, if not repackaging completely, one or more 80s styles in their new output. A few years ago, it was the 60s (Duffy, Adele, Winehouse) and before that it was something else and some other time.

As much as I hate to give the 90s credit for ANYTHING, it was probably the last time that mainstream music was delivering something that was unlike what came before it (for better or worse).

The music universe is both so giant and so tiny at the same time now. The mainstream both encompasses all the fringes and blocks them out.

Eh, I'm talking out of my ass in the middle of the night, but I guess there's plenty of music out there right now that doesn't sound like anything that came before it, but instead of it being the most popular kind it's one of the most subverted.

my point has nothing to do with what periods of time people have been creative (all periods of time, DUH) or the 80s themselves and only the past 10-12 years you mentioned. Every interesting thing to be done with 80s revivalism had already been done by AT LEAST a couple years ago. The bones of the 80s are dry and there's the entirety of the 90s as fresh meat to pick at if you want to go retro, MOVE ON.

can't get with the sentiment that any aesthetic is dry or played out

but hey i love this, so

xp Why not? Trends shift all the time because existing styles become old hat and something new is needed to keep things fresh.

totally! yes! doesn't mean that there's not value in plumbing a style still

i'm a death metal fan so i'm pretty into the idea that an aesthetic can be refined infinitely

I'll see you at drum & bass night.

is it just me or does the beat on this sound like a pitch-shifted version of the one on matthew dear's "her fantasy"

Matthew Dear is exactly what I thought.