― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link
i really love the follow-up single too, 'long way 2 go' - "i know you wanna meet me/cos your girlfriend wanna be me"
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
each summer for the past few years, there's been one sparse, simple, understated, almost nothingy r&b single amidst the massive summer bangers - 'never leave you', 'move ya body', 'pon de replay'. obviously 'me & u' is a lot darker (she sounds almost scared in it, like she's spent so much time planning this bedroom liaison with military precision - clipped vocals, everything rigorously in place - and now she doesn't quite know what to do)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 08:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Er... Bass? And just when I've been remarking on it as yet another example of an excellent pop/r'n'b record that works despite the absence of bass! ;) It's suggestively empty, airy, and delicately balanced - with an incredible openness, like the r'n'b equivalent of a Zen rock garden. But all with no integrating bass, with the exception of the booming kick drum. Are there different versions / mixes about? Or am I just being obtuse in not acknowledging that synth-cello line in the chorus as 'bass'?
(The clip is most excellent, by the way. Just her dancing about in front of a mirror. Simplicity, perfection. With Cassie gratuitously dousing herself in a bottle of water somewhere towards the end ;) )
― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:09 (seventeen years ago) link
The links with 'Move Your Body', 'Never Leave You' are OTM. I wonder what other songs belong in this chain/constellation?
BTW - she is frost-y, not frost-ing! Who wants cake, anyway? ;) Give me icing any day.
― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
cassie's total ice. the only vocal comparison which really fits is teairra mari, but teairra's icy cos she's angry, and she's definitely not blank or disinterested.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:21 (seventeen years ago) link
The album's very short -- 35 mins, a la all those Carter Administration Def Jam albums, and no trace of Diddy -- and very top-heavy.
― Luis Skank Bloc Polonia (Andy_K), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm hoping to be given the CD single to review when it finally comes out here.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I think this is maybe the most severe psuedo-crunk R&B track - "Oh" is its only challenger, and I think this sounds even emptier than that, though "Oh" does have some raw blemished grunt in its favour.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luis Skank Bloc Polonia (Andy_K), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mallory L . O'Donnell (That Bitch Camille), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 3 August 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link
(No idea if I'm doing the html right.)
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
>For those who don't have a good copy
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 3 August 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 3 August 2006 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Luis Skank Bloc Polonia (Andy_K), Friday, 4 August 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― moriarty (moriarty), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Friday, 4 August 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― It's Rodney, assume the position! (R. J. Greene), Friday, 4 August 2006 04:25 (seventeen years ago) link
how do professional musicians keep up the pace?
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Friday, 4 August 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Cassie-Cassie-(Retail)-2006-H3X
01. Me & U 3:1202. Long Way 2 Go 3:4003. About Time 3:3304. Kiss Me 4:0705. Call U Out 3:3206. Just One Nite 4:0607. Hope You're Behaving (Interlude) 0:3608. Not With You 3:1709. Ditto 3:3410. What Do U Want 3:1311. Miss Your Touch 2:33
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 4 August 2006 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 4 August 2006 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/18/Amerie02.jpg/230px-Amerie02.jpg
― Luis Skank Bloc Polonia (Andy_K), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 4 August 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― clotpoll (Clotpoll), Friday, 4 August 2006 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 August 2006 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Saturday, 5 August 2006 11:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 August 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
(I've been listening to Luomo, also, while we're on the topic of icy pleasure.)
― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Saturday, 5 August 2006 11:38 (seventeen years ago) link
(sorry everyone else, this is wandering off topic)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 August 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
I also may never understand how an artist or songwriter goes about deciding whether a song will be a "You" track or a "U" track. I really wish people would stop doing the latter.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 5 August 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link
at the same time, not achieving mainstream success doesn't mean you are not a first-rate musician. her cult following has happened bc she did in fact fill a niche. to this day i can't think of anyone else i could put on when i am in the mood for that vibe. she has a very particular voice, and the precision of it, along with cleanliness of her production is what makes her anything but disparate and unfocused.
― surm, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
xxp
feel pleased never to have spent time cultivating any semblance of an opinion on jhene
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
'ditto' will always be cassie's signature tune in my eyes i think
"is it you?" is one i've been thinking of recently, an avenue that was closed off too swiftly
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Friday, 12 April 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
*summer charm* will definitely be blowin up my crib this summer
― surm, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
Pusha T definitely just blatantly lifted 2 recent MC references in an otherwise OK song (take care of me baby is spooky enough to sound like cassie)
― surm, Friday, 12 April 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
eww Do My Dance <--> Bad Bitches is some keri hilson gone bad shit, v uninspiring
― surm, Friday, 12 April 2013 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ the cassie review in pfork today, he wont be getting his membership in the club revoked
― just sayin, Friday, 19 April 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
What’s clear now is that Cassie’s no longer just competing in the R&B game anymore.
― r|t|c, Friday, 19 April 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
What’s clear now is that Cassie’s just no longer competing in the R&B game anymore.
Fixed
― Tim F, Friday, 19 April 2013 12:55 (eleven years ago) link
mixtape is pretty eh
― J0rdan S., Monday, 22 April 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Me & U is currently perched in the top 25 on iTunes U.S. ...it's also the most downloaded R&B track in the UK right now?!
― all the way down, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
it's featured on the itunes front page in both countries. in the us it's listed on both the 'hot tracks' and '69¢ songs' sections, both of which are known to give sizeable boosts to both new and old songs.
presumably this is all part of bad boy's promo for its apple music-exclusive movie which has taken up all the banners on the front page. three other bad boy tracks are on the 'hot tracks' front page along w/ "me & u", and if you check you'll notice all of those are also high on the itunes charts now.
― dyl, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
thanks! I was quite shocked. still quite impressive, I wonder why they picked that of all the possible older Bad Boy tracks?! (and justice for Official Girl and Must Be Love!) but I mean clearly it worked and it's not like I'm denying it's a certified classic by now, I watched that Bad Boy doc and Cassie herself is only in it for a couple seconds though... a pretty good (mostly Diddy-centered) documentary by the way.
― all the way down, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
That...is so weird. On multiple levels, not the least of which being that it popped up on my iPod twice this week after not hearing it in years. It's a jam.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Oh hey never mind, I was thinking of the JoJo song because I'm an idiot (I think K-Ci and JoJo almost certainly figured into my confusion).
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
So weird...I was compiling songs for an assembly this week where kids who get certain awards parade around the gym to music and high-fives. I needed about 25 songs, half current stuff the kids like, half songs that the staff--okay, I--like. I included "Me & U" as sort of a bridge; sounds current but isn't. When I went onto the iTunes chart for other ideas, there it was. I felt psychic but was baffled. Is it sampled on something current?
― clemenza, Thursday, 29 June 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
Jesus christ, I totally was thinking of Cassie after all. Delete me from thred, pls.
― Duane Quarterdump (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 June 2017 03:04 (six years ago) link
posted this in r&b too, but icymi there:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5cEwQsdQjSF9ZbZ6ctpuST
― maura, Friday, 4 August 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
Pretty smooth, I dig it although the rap was unneeded. Hopefully she actually drops another project this time around.
― all the way down, Saturday, 5 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
new non-g-eazy track is exactly what I wanted the Jessie Ware album to be
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 21 December 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
(it isn't out officially yet but it's leaked https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/cassie-returns-on-the-kaytranada-laced-dont-play-it-safe-new-song.1976724.html
Absolutely love it! Just release the album, Casandra.
― all the way down, Monday, 25 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFr11MdK5wk
― maura, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
I had totally forgotten about her (and her great album) but Spotify showed me she has just released a single and I found out she's actually released many over the last couple of years (like a EP worth of material).After a first listen they all sound pretty good.Whatever happened to her ? How come she still hasn't released a second album... 13 years after her debut ??She's not yet in Gunsn'Roses / MBV territory but for a rnb/popstar that's a crazy long time !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 19 July 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
Huh ? Why is this thread NSFW ??
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 19 July 2019 10:42 (four years ago) link
She's got a song called 'Don't Play It Safe'.
(I have no idea.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 July 2019 10:48 (four years ago) link
Going back to her album + "Official Girl" reminds me how great she was.She should have been a huge star.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 19 July 2019 11:00 (four years ago) link
'Skydiver' is like the most amazing song ever.
― Nourry, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
errr what's that song ?? It's not even in her discography on wikipedia !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 19 July 2019 13:45 (four years ago) link
It's one of the many songs that showed up on the internet around 10 years ago, maybe?
It's here the youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLIbtbd32jI
― Nourry, Friday, 19 July 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Whatever happened to her ? How come she still hasn't released a second album... 13 years after her debut ??
This thread pretty much tells the story tbf - i.e. too many good tracks leaked; too many less good tracks selected as trailers for a potential new LP; found domestic bliss; soon to be a mother, I believe; music now just a hobby?
I just listened to the last 3 released cuts on Spotify. I see they are linked by similar cover art, so this may indeed become an EP or something more soon. All 3 songs are OK, but no better than the weakest of the late 2000's leaks. The latest, "Speaking Of" is probably the pick of the bunch.
― Jeff W, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
back by way of South African house:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHNmOQUJNBMBlack Coffee ft. Cassie • Time
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 5 February 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
that is really lovely as usual
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 5 February 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
cassie...don't hear that name round these parts much these days...
― k3vin k., Saturday, 6 February 2021 00:07 (three years ago) link