Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

i like "Ass On The Floor" but i have a hard time seeing it as one of the album's best tracks, maybe mainly because it's got one of Swizz's more awkward and rushed-sounding hooks

― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:18 AM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is crazytown

i love "ass on the floor" but it's definitely not "OMG HIGHLIGHT" for me - it has some of the best moments on the album (the electrik red-esque verses pivoting around the word "motherfucker", the insane post-diddy breakdown) but could definitely do without swizz's vocals on it.

totally feel dan re: chris brown's presence - ditto on the keri hilson album - luckily for me i'm not giving money to either project (though i've already given both positive publicity, i guess), and in both cases the brown track is by far the worst and so skippable that i need never actually think about it. but yeah it's the principle of the thing, bringing him back into the fold.

swizz hook on 'ass on teh floor' is awesome i dont get the criticism feels arbitrary

this is shipley.

i don't get the anti-chris brown activism

Some people do not like encouraging unrepentant woman beaters; there's not really all that much to get.

rap music is full of unrepentant criminals... i'd buy a chris brown album or an ike turner album, even a burzum album if i liked the music...

And I wouldn't.

Hooray, we both win! Isn't modern society great?

being logical is even greater

How is individually deciding not to knowingly contribute money that may directly or indirectly provide some sort of support to a figure who you do not feel deserves it? Dan chooses not to, you do, nobody is criticizing you for it, get over it

really, the fact that Brown is a bleating earsore 90% of the time just makes my decision that much easier

ok i stop trolling

"ass on the floor" is OMG level to me (i like the swizz corus), but there's a few better songs

the first time you get the backing vocals "and you know just what to do" and one of the dirty money girls singing the same line with a different melody over the top is just like, guhhhhh, heroin hit right there.

― Tim F, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:13 AM (10 hours ago)

yes, this absolutely

i love that second vocal track on the chorus ("and weeeee will neeeever lose....") - perfectly captures that hand-in-hand, disoriented, drunken weaving through the crowd right when you're stepping onto the dancefloor

― k3vin k., Monday, December 20, 2010 5:24 PM (2 weeks ago)

"Your Love" not getting enough love itt

― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:12 AM (8 hours ago)

lol dude this is the worst song on the album, come on

I'm really annoyed that he put Chris Brown on this. I would like to pick it up, but I absolutely refuse to on the grounds that I don't want any of my time or money knowingly going to a project that involves that douche.

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 11:31 AM (4 hours ago)

haha i love both CB tracks, despite my best intentions. his verse on "i know" really gets to me for some reason

this sort of reminds me of the old terius jackoff seshes where we all loved the albums but had these great/inane arguments about what the best parts of them were. love it

nah i love "your love" - the dirty money girls are great on that. weak link is "yesterday" by faaaar and not just cuz it's c.brown

xps

yeah "yesterday" kind of disrupts the flow of the album, though it isn't a bad song in and of itself

top 3 is prob "hate you now," "i hate that I luv you" and "looking 4 love"

and I wasn't really feeling "angels" when it first dropped way back but in the context of the album it is a killer. especially coming after "shades," when those minimal synths creep in... great moment

they also changed the angels beat up

yeah, those synths weren't on the single version, right?

yeah the original was just like a straight up version of the 'where im from' instrumental

as far as production goes i think danja came hardest on this

i bought this album

chris has been reprehensible obv but as someone who was a huge fan of a lot of his singles pre-incident, i think pretty much everything he's put out since then has been straight crap objectively -- "yesterday" & "i know" are great tho so it breaks down my defenses a bit

The only tracks of his I unequivocally liked were "Run It" and "No Air", so it's been pretty easy to write him off TBH. (I thought I liked "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" but listening to it on Youtube right now is the worst musical experience I've had in 2011, trebly annoying motherfucker get out of my headphones)

i loved 'kiss kiss' but that was almost all tpain

the original "Angels" just had "Where I'm From" beat + Biggie vox, the remix always had new synths + Ross

my favs are "ass on the floor" (duh), "looking for love" (single please) & "shades" -- the first and the last have my fav lines on the album too & both are about hearts -- "trying to find my way back to your heart, you motherfucker" & "i'll pour gasoline on my heart just to light your cigarette"

i have the rmx slotted in this album in my itunes

swizz hook on 'ass on teh floor' is awesome i dont get the criticism feels arbitrary

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:12 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is shipley.

― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:19 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"oh that guy that cares about rhythms and cadences and choruses that flow with a nice internal logic -- how silly and arbitrary!"

i mean obviously even the Swizz choruses that are good have a kind of sloppy stupid fun to them, but i think "Ass On The Floor" and some of his other recent hooks ("So Appalled," "Gucci Time," "Start It Up") are kind of annoying and just don't add anything to the song

"Your Love" not getting enough love itt

― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:12 AM (8 hours ago)

lol dude this is the worst song on the album, come on

― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 4:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"AAAAA-AAAAAHHHH WHATCHA GONNA DO" is for me one of the big euphoric moments of the album

I dunno, I think *VROOM VROOM* is pretty integral to "Start It Up"'s awesomeness, just saying

the secret to "Angels" is it sounds like "Desert Rose", which is a dope thing to sound like imo

his hook on 'ass' is a huge part of why that song is awesome

the divide there i guess is the idea that "Start It Up" has any awesomeness (xpost)

yes. xp

It was tough for me to ignore Chris's music at first because I really liked Exclusive, but it was easy to develop an aversion to his music by drinking rubbing alcohol and letting my roommate punch me in the stomach repeatedly while I played his discs back to back

i just think he sounds rushed and out of breath going "whenyouintheclubgetyourassonthefloor" -- like he might've made it sound dope if it was more at a "Bring Em Out" tempo or something but as is it just doesn't sound hot to me

I disagree with that so much that words fail me.

I mean, rushed yes, because he is saying 10 words practically all at once rapid-fire style and as such is going to sound "rushed", but where the hell are you getting "out of breath" from?

the rushedness just reads as excited and hence exciting to me. enthusiasm, infectious.

the snl performance of "ass on the floor" was hilarious because swizz is used (rather tastefully!) on the song as a backing presence as opposed to a more uhhh oppressive presence like on some other recent songs, but he mugged so shamelessly for the camera like he had never been on tv before, which maybe he hasn't idk

the thing that i think is great about "ass on the floor" is that -- either intentionally or not -- it's sort of a meta take on a dance floor song -- like you have swizz beats saying "when you in the club get your ass on the floor" in a way that almost sounds like a dj is just dropping his vocals over another song -- likewise you have the "pon de floor" sample as if a dj is mixing songs

i dunno out of breath i guess not the right words. but it doesn't have the relaxed flow that i feel a great Swizz Beatz refrain like, say, "Swing Ya Rag," has.

i think j0rdan is otm that it almost sounds like a DJ blending vocals from a different song over the beat, which is exactly what i dislike about it.

& i like that it's a song about how love & dancing & relationships interact on the dancefloor -- i feel like it's a much more classicist & old school take on dance music as opposed to a lot of the max & luke stuff that's all over the radio

i think j0rdan is otm that it almost sounds like a DJ blending vocals from a different song over the beat, which is exactly what i dislike about it.

― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 4:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

opposite day

because i have to love the chorus of that song? because everyone has to?

i mean i'm trying not to Gier it up like "this song is a bad song because it is not melodic," i'm trying to explain myself

is it time to poll this one?

sure. whoever does it should make sure they include all the bonus tracks and stuff from the deluxe version though