6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

Again, i don't think either of these will be on the album so i'm not really worried about the kind of throw-away nature of them.

yeah there is a single he's gonna play on monday. so who knows what these two are; they are freebies.

naturally i have already steeled myself for them turning out to be lk session offcuts

I don't really have any problem with more of the same.

MrTeriusNash Terius Nash
i may never beat LH or LVM... back then i was the only one Doing me now........

...I don't masturbate nearly as much?

(well there's an ILX Out Of Context post for ya)

fuck it, this shit is dope

really is - i've been jamming to it all day. love the final coda. hear a lot of the grinding, machinelike beatwork of the "love vs money"s in body work.

the vocals on the verses of "body work" are pretty unusual by his standards & yeah i dig all the grinding & whirring of the beat

Yeah. I've now listened to Body Work and Fuck My Brains Out 18 and 36 times respectively, so I guess I dig this.

im worried about that Tweet - is he admitting self-defeat?

numbers don't lie

http://twitter.com/#!/MrTeriusNash/status/79815825313374208

MADMAN

lol

The Atlantic with a very timely expose on "R&B's Best-Kept Songwriting Secret"

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/r-bs-best-kept-songwriting-secret/240294/

slate circa 2009 wants their swag back

He's firm in his own desires but ultimately respectful towards the women in his life

uh

Yeah that line stuck out for me too

I guess it's an obvious dichotomy to draw but the whole "he's written some of the most successful pop hits of his time, but his solo career hasn't reached the same heights!" is a really boring hook for a story not to mention that it totally glossed over any nuance

also it's been the-dream angle for at least 2 years now

plus it's...not actually that uncommon that songwriter dudes don't become stars in their own right? it's not like babyface became a household name outside of r&b fans either. sticks out more because that's changed a lot in recent years i guess (and yeah dreamer's solo material being of such quality)

Dream isn't as successful as Beyonce? Would ya look at that!

He's firm in his own desires but ultimately respectful towards the women in his life

Such a classic example of a writer projecting his own ideals onto a subject to justify liking that subject. It's like every piece praising some independent rapper b/c he doesn't talk about "bitches and hos," even if that rapper still talks about women in kind of queasy terms.

not a good piece

it's not like babyface became a household name outside of r&b fans either.

actually he did!

Yeah, Babyface was huge for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RRVD1ihAEA

Cue lex asking who Eric Clapton is

Babyface was so massive that I have to remind myself of the fact. Apart from the hundreds of hits he wrote for every R&B star of the era (including the entirety of the Waiting to Exhale soundtrack), he had "Whip Appeal," "It's No Crime," "When Can I See You," among others, on his own.

Don't forget "Take a Bow"!

i basically have nothing to say about these 2 new songs other than i like the pre-hook part of "fuck my brains out", reminds me of "i could never take the place of your man" a little. and the part where dream tries to make like engine noises with his mouth, it shouldn't work as well as it does

so yeah "fuck my brains out" is the realness, kinda whatever on "body work" even though it seems like it should push all my terius buttons - luckily "FMBO" doesn't need "body work" to work

the hook on "fuck my brains out" is so great, so peak-era prince

MEH
MEH
MEH
yeah
MEH
MEH
MEH
yeah

On his twitter feed listing the songs that he wasn't constrained in writing them, he includes Umbrella, Single Ladies and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6odPs7Jq5w

that's actually a jam. #terrystan

everyone has a finger
but they can't point me to the light

totally head over heels for "FMBO" now - i'm all about the vocal-less first minute, makes me all http://th771.photobucket.com/albums/xx356/EdieRose/Gif%20me/th_Markbeingspunky.gif

"body work" is probably his worst vocal performance ever

uh, in spite of myself, i kind of love that celine dion song...

body work is so much more of a jam than fuck my brainz out

i only listened to this twice tbh

it's more Ready For The World than Prince imo

― da croupier, Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:51 PM (3 weeks ago)

wow yeah play "oh sheila" and then "yamaha" immediately after. mind blown

http://img.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/fp_5373443_trb_thedreammist__opt1__oPt.jpg

MrTeriusNash Terius Nash
The Internet LP is entitled '1977' and will be released under my real name Terius Nash not The-Dream. Shooting Videos for 1977 all this week
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does not have a date but it will be released 4th quarter but i will give a 10 song Internet LP while you guys wait!!!! LOVE YOU.
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MrTeriusNash Terius Nash
for atleast one More Season! Also a free 10 song Internet album will be released by Aug 31st. LP 4 because of the Contract negotiations.....
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MrTeriusNash Terius Nash
LP4 is Underway I THE-DREAM have decided to go forward with "Diary Of A Madman" LP it almost didnt happen. So ill be in my DefJam uniform...

BTW NO ONE AT DEFJAM IS HAPPY ABOUT A FREE ALBUM LOL.... they are trying to stop it!

i wish instead of releasing records this guy's studio was just like a radio station you could tune into. he totally sits there putting records together super-fast or goofing around jamming on sam cooke songs, it would be nice to hear more than ever comes out.

*crosses fingers*

Please let this happen.

Posted this in the wrong thread. Whoops.

Anyway, Love Slave (http://www.hiphoprnbworld.net/?p=8089) is the first single from 1977, the free album. It's aight, fairly standard Terius love ballad, but there's some nice texture going on underneath. Hopefully it grows on me as much as the double single does.

i really like this

it's a nice look for him to go back to this -- sounds like something off his first album

His voice sounds like that of a man during the verses -- deeper with no trace of brattiness.

yeah, i picked that up too