i love Damaged! and Showstopper is so beautiful
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"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
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I've only heard 'Damaged', while driving a rental car, but I loved the shit out of it.
― Is it far? Is it far? Is it far? (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
o and i like "Bad Girl" ! i sense that i might have to purchase an album by these girls ...
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
dan otm re showstopper
― some dude, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:15 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 19 May 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
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 slowwe doin things that the girls don't dooooooooothe boys stare, we smile backall my girls in the rainbow cadillacs, YEAH!
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
― some dude, Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this very well might be true, my friend!
― i fake it so real, i am beyonce (surm), Wednesday, 19 May 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K23k4Vq-VG8
― ILX is not a non-profit — we are just not profitable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
Did I never post this? I meant to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gk55yr5oQw
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 09:22 (eleven years ago) link
Like ugh the harmonies the beauty i just can't
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
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!
― jay., Friday, 8 August 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
lol
― dyl, Friday, 8 August 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Welcome to my spooooooky carnival! Hope I don't... blow your mind! (Phil D.), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
ffs
― prolego, Friday, 8 August 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
thank god no one would be willing to get into a fight with mutya for mks to fall apart in a similar way
― prolego, Friday, 8 August 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
heaven needed a girl group
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
D ® U S K I @drewscotty · 48mWas really counting on @Danitykane to make it so I could collect my "Goldenheart" check. Dammit.
― prolego, Friday, 8 August 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
Team Dawn no matter what. I bet she deserved that punch.
― longneck, Friday, 8 August 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
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)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 9 August 2014 06:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 9 August 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Saturday, 9 August 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― prolego, Saturday, 9 August 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
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!!!!!
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 August 2014 11:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 October 2014 10:42 (nine years ago) link
this single, however!
https://soundcloud.com/official-danity-kane/all-in-a-days-work
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
The live version of Rhythm of Love had more oomph.
― Greer, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:04 (nine years ago) link
Some great stuff on this album, especially Roultte, Secret Lover, and Tell Me.
― Greer, Monday, 27 October 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 October 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
"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
― lex pretend, Monday, 27 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 31 July 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
song is incredible
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
well i'm really enjoying the album rn
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 25 September 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
the textures in this song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqgE_nUjwI
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
that IS improbably good.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 19:54 (eight years ago) link
holy smokes, just catching up on Dumblonde, both those songs are killerrr
― alpine static, Monday, 28 September 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
The textures in this album!
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 10:08 (eight years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
I like the dumblonde album more for sure. Might just be more up my alley but it's amazing
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 3 December 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Saturday, 5 December 2015 07:24 (eight years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 5 December 2015 07:42 (eight years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Saturday, 5 December 2015 08:40 (eight years ago) link
Dumblonde record is a really great pop record, whereas Dawn's from fucking space.
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 December 2015 09:21 (eight years ago) link
Dawn's is definitely more ambitious I guess but it's so arch
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 December 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
I admire blackheart but actually enjoy dumblonde idk
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 December 2015 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Feels like a lame poptimist choice on my part i suppose
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 December 2015 11:24 (eight years ago) link
new board discrip?
― The Reverend, Saturday, 5 December 2015 11:52 (eight years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Saturday, 5 December 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link