this album is really good yeah, was gonna revive this thread last night as found myself digging it out again. even the really bare "songs" are really great.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 7 August 2010 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I was disappointed they didn't give "Break Up to Make Up" a singles push. That one sounded like a hit to me.
It wasn't high art, but that self-titled Jeremih album was really an oddity: A major-label R&B album written and produced entirely by a singer and his producer. That was really refreshing. Judging by the Ludacris feature on the first single from his next album, though, I'm guessing the new one will be more of the typical by-committee R&B album.
― Evan R, Thursday, August 5, 2010 2:03 PM (2 days ago)
oh no doubt, it's just a really solid play front to back, and jeremih is very clearly talented. lots of standouts and i agree "break up to make up" should have been huge; it's grown to be my favorite
― terry squad (k3vin k.), Saturday, 7 August 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"break up to make up" is a crab n' b classic
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Sunday, 8 August 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
dig this -- drumma boy i believe?
http://hulkshare.com/ez0jrfg1bvky
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 August 2010 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
so who has heard the new one?
'waiter (the 5 senses)' is pretty incredible
― i feed these skreets (tpp), Monday, 4 October 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoying "i like" in small doses
― high speed p-diddy-esque shrimping vessel (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
new...album? wait holup
― k3vin k., Monday, 4 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
didn't even know it was out... kinda remarkable how little i check for us music these days really
just pressed play
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 October 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
shit i had no idea he had an album out!! where is the buzz
Kicking it in april 2009
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 October 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
kellman's just lukewarm :(
― k3vin k., Monday, 4 October 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
he's been harsh there imo but i need to think about it some more
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
one play through and not much is sticking but then again first one took a few listens. shultz brought it on a few tracks tho
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 5 October 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Damn, I have been avoiding this thread for so long, but I had figured that jeremih birthday sex was some indie band.
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing relaly jumped out at me on first listen - no 'make up to break up' or 'birthday sex'. feels more like a long, really well produced EP than an album. kind of reminds me of lloyd's like me the young goldie in terms of just being a solid collection of songs where the production really suits the singer and vice versa.
wanted to turn it off when the 50 track came on though
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― i feed these skreets (tpp), Monday, October 4, 2010 5:03 PM (3 weeks ago)
!!!
― someone invite me to 77 (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 30 October 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SN97m0M4s
― someone invite me to 77 (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 30 October 2010 22:16 (thirteen years ago) link
like whoa
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 October 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the fact that terius inspires such great knock-offs kind of cements his awesomeness imo
― someone invite me to 77 (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 30 October 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The second half of that is O_O.
Terius should totally steal that trick from Jeremih.
― Tim F, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"Sex Intelligent (Ambient Mix)"
― Tim F, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
wow what just happened? "waiter" was just kinda decent for me but "the 5 senses" is stunningly beautiful
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 31 October 2010 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i have to listen to this again
― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Sunday, 31 October 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
alright loving this now, what was i listening to the first time i heard "take off" "waiter" and "love don't change"?
actually i remember digging the "take off" beat
― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
schulz man...the outro to "i like"
luda gtfo
― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
"broken down" is like, hey ceelo this is how you do retro with some panache without being so damn obvious about it
― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Sunday, 31 October 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Album is GREAT. I agree with "like me" similarities in that he's going with what suits him the best throughout, gorgeous melodies, no stupid tricks that ruin the flow.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
god 'my sunshine' is just the most devastating song. you'd think his youthfulness would work against him on a song of such import, but actually it's what makes it: you just wouldn't want to ever wish this level of heartbreak on someone so young.
― whiney trollins vs. hipsters (dayo), Sunday, 7 November 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
nicely put, love that song
the new album is very good btw! R&b cru sleeping on this one
― wakafledia (k3vin k.), Sunday, 7 November 2010 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
^mte
― abcfsk, Sunday, 7 November 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta really listen to this a bit and get into it; initial impression is that it's spectacular
― a pun based on a popular ilx meme (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 November 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a really nice album -- trey & ne-yo take Ls imo
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"dawn on me" should be a hit, damn
i lol'd at "let's take 9 shots/ just call it 50"
i guess that would be "down on money" - more classic tagging
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
"take off" sounds like jesse mccartney to me, in a good way
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"holding on" is really the only one i'm not fucking w/ cuz it's mad tedder
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 09:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i love how he affects a real deep almost dancehall voice on "down on me"
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
"down on me" -> "waiter/5 senses" is a pretty much perfect stretch of r&b
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 15, 2010 3:58 AM (3 hours ago)
yeah this is my favorite
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Monday, 15 November 2010 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"wanna get up" d-_-b
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
ship have you checked this yet?
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i was wondering that too
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
wasnt on october rundown
new album deserves new threadJeremih - All About You (the second album)
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
eh i dunno, there are like 5 people who post to this one
― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/cairo/114/critic.gif
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 18 November 2010 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
more or less see this album as sorta like the awkward self-conscious teenage growing pained older brother to the exuberant little bubbleworld of the first. (by that i'm not saying the earlier record wasn't derivative, just that it was derivative in its own way; it's the difference between 'birthday sex' and 'sleepers', the stronger suggestion of jeremih speaking through other ppl's voices and seeing the stuff he does through other ppl's eyes.)
like i mentioned on the rolling thread though i'm not really into being overly critical of this album cos even on its least successful cuts i still think there's always something earcatching to enjoy, either on the production or vocal side, and yeah basically i remain fully supportive of these talented & (especially so in a barren r&b year like this) unusual dudes.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
by the by a couple of cuts on this (mainly the two after '5 senses', but in small doses elsewhere too) totally make me think jeremih should probably have a career on stage or in glee or something.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
agree the new thread is unnecessary btw, if it wasn't already clear.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 18 November 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this compares pretty badly to the first album, actually - seems a lot of the arrangements are stripped further back, which makes jeremih's reedy voice stick out a lot more - it gets kinda one-note over the course of an album. and there aren't any standouts on the same level as "birthday sex"/"imma star"/"raindrops".
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Thursday, 18 November 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link