Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

Posted yet? nabisco's review.

i think the point about diddy looking past indie rock for artiness is a great one

Yeah: Diddy summoning the arty instincts in well-heeled, familiar guests (Grace Jones is used for her touchstone qualities though).

putting this on now and O_O at 'yeah you would' beat

this is like that usher rubber balloon beat done good

Okay, you cats sparked my curiosity on this. (And, no, not a late jumper on Diddy or whatever, I did also buy and enjoy (although nowhere near as much as some of you guys) Press Play too). Was it worth the extra bucks I paid for the deluxe version?

u_u @ "hashtag rap"

Both mistake grandeur for art, as if the thing that makes a "masterpiece" is the fancy frame, or the marble pedestal, or the velvet curtains, and not the work itself. Both imagine songs will get better if you just keep adding cool stuff to them, and that "ambition" is about scale, not meaning.

havent listened to the diddy-dirty money (lol) yet but feeling this as a MBDTF critique

On track ten now, "Angels", and I'm really not feeling this that much. I guess I'm approaching it weird, due to the comparisons to the Kanye - guess I was hoping for something a little less "safe"? I don't know, too much R&B padding too?

deluxe edition is necessary imo

am i the only one who does an indie rock double take when he says "i thirst more"

I'm not one of those "OMG MBDTF is the best album of the year" folks, just to be clear, but I'm kind of wishing I hadn't approached this through the lens of "this does a better job of some of the things Kanye tried to do". I think I might have been more pleasantly surprised. At this point, I am just looking for "weirdness" where it doesn't need to be. Liking the song with Trey Songz right now though.

jon its more like a svelt R&B version of the same kind of ambition, rather than a pink floyd its a sade

sonically i don't think it's weird or out-there so much as packed with ideas and hooks (and y'know emotion too). lyrically it's pretty o_0

but then i don't think MBDTF is particularly weird either - it's just that it hews to kanye's aesthetic whereas this one, at least in its strongest stretch, is v clearly hewing to a club aesthetic

nabisco's review is, dare i say it, unfailingly OTM.

lol, did you guys notice in the comments where nabs says "Kanye's album is way, way better"?

lol

playin it safe

obama style compromise imo

so i bought the deluxe edition and it claims to have three bonus tracks (i know itunes edition came with extra one, maybe this is just a typo?). only 18 songs listed. maybe an unlisted bonus? will report back.

my deluxe is coming on friday...

my soul HOOOOWEELLLLS at the moon

kanye smedley

hey people who have been all like "lol why should i pay attention to p diddy" no way out was a classic (fuiud) way back in 97 so

no way bro

I'll go so far as to say "pretty good" but it's no five-star classic.

:-/

its a classic

its a classic

it's good. definitely no five-star classic but maybe four.

like a hard four, or a four and a half

better than "pretty good," ffs

its not a classic

i fuck with The Saga Continues too, mad underrated album

oh wait i didnt realize what was being talked about ive never heard that album

3.5 to 4 stars sounds like pretty good to excellent for me. I won't quibble.

im not sure if its only since i read the nabisco review that i feel this way but i do wish he would just chill out and like let the beat ride, or let a song develop slowly more often

It's enough for me right now that the new album is really good; I don't wanna upload Forever to find out whether he's pulling some Quincy Jones Back on the Block shit.

haven't heard the saga continues tbh

hey people who have been all like "lol why should i pay attention to p diddy" no way out was a classic (fuiud) way back in 97 so

i liked it. last Diddy-related thing i really dug iirc, unless his monstrous Jimmy Page collab counts.

still can't believe led zeppelin ripped off the godzilla song :o

they don't call 'em dinosaurs for nothing y'know.

The track order on the iTunes deluxe edition I purchased is radically different from both the leak and Wikipedia. I like it better too: "Loving You No More" works better in the center of the record than as a finale, "Yesterday" doesn't rob the album of all its momentum so early on, etc.

Also the extra tracks on the deluxe edition actually allow the record more space to breathe, weirdly. The second half feels less packed with big dislocated statements.

I'm kinda u_u at the synth part that comes during diddy's verse during hello good morning

Led Zeppelin ripping something off? First time for everything I suppose. 8|

i know, right?

i h8 that u <3 me has been heavy in rotation

the opening piano bit reminds me of the way that kanye's 'champion' starts hah

yo this starts out so fuckin good, know that's been said 10000x but really

oh my shit, i want to punch timberlake in the fucking face for that verse

― dr. harbl's zing-along blog (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, December 9, 2010 12:50 AM (1 week ago)