Snoop has sung little bits of plenty of previous singles (especially recent ones like "Let's Get Blown" and "Ups & Downs").
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
why is everyone freaking out about the autotune on this...in this context it seems like more like it's trying to be a throwback to roger troutman type stuff which makes sense (to me at least)
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what I thought too - I mean the video is straight up Bootsy+Zapp and pretty much nothing else
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
(don't get me wrong I love that shit so more of it = a-okay with me)
No kidding. Autotune is a sound. A lot of people have misused it. Mostly Akon and Cher. It doesn't inherently make it shitty. It has a cool effect in this song. I also love the delayed digital flutes. And how line after line he clarifies the double entendre. "A sexual eruption... an orgasm"
― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Snoop is at his best when he's over the top like this...
He needs to be walking around in furs with like mad rings and chains and shit liek Slick Rick...
And musically over the top too, imagine Snoop on some really lush pimped out Kanye West beats specially made for him?
Also, maybe he should even go back to Snoop Doggy Dogg? Understated is not a good look for Snoop...
― Colin_C., Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah this is so effortlessly well played out of nowhere just like it should. And these flutters
― blunt, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:16 (sixteen years ago) link
too much fast zooming in and out. otherwise, awesome.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's now inaccessible on youtube. Friend needs to have sent it to you? Private video?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lw7v_snoop-dogg-sensual-seduction-exclu_music
^ use this instead
-- M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:53 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
-- Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:59 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
i dunno, this is the clever achievement of the vid i'd argue - when i heard this before i was certain of it as a sly little t-pain bite, not just because "autotune is present o noes" but because its blissed-out emphases are to me EXACTLY as t-pain would have done them himself; it is a t-pain song in all but name. (quite literally, cos the lyric "sensual seduction" is one part t-pain could never have gotten away with, the mature grown man lover lover shit. snoop = very wise in the way he plays with his slightly kitschy public perception.)
i've liked it more and more everytime i've heard it. it is nicely streamlined, housey even.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't even imagine Snoop coming up with this idea himself.
I picture this song as something someone presented to him and he's like "yeah, I can cash in on this..."
― Colin_C., Wednesday, 28 November 2007 22:54 (sixteen years ago) link
u kidding?? snoop has had a serious late 70s/early 80s electro-funk fetish for his entire career. id be more surprised if he didnt come up with it himself!!
― max, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
that being said, i think r|t|c's right; the song w/out the video fits in pretty easily w/ t-pain's oeuvre. the video is all snoop tho.
― max, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
a long-running ilm theme is seeing rappers as cash-in-minded cynics who don't actually listen to or enjoy music
― deej, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
max and deej otm
west coast rappers have cheesy synth funk deep in their bones, all their ancestral egyptian lovers and world class wrecking crus and all that.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
the dudes worship zapp!!
― deej, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah, its not something I see as most rappers, just something I see Snoop doing in this situation.
Like max and rtc said, this is a T-Pain bite.
And Snoop hasn't been that creative or groundbreaking in his career, and he's been known to do songs like Beautiful with Pharell that are flavor of the moment and go against his whole misogynist steez.
At the same time, he has been mad funk late 70s, but like I said the song itself is more T-Pain.
― Colin_C., Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
um argh i should emphasise that yeah u guys are right too, i didn't mean the t-pain point as it being an entirely cynical thing, just that it's a clever combination of both - he's seen what's in vogue (maybe even delib waited til it's slightly out of vogue, who knows!) and then worked out how to make it work for him too, with the video at the frontline of that
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
well, maybe you should watch the video where he says you are wrong and that he was actually involved in everything from picking the beat to advising the costumer how folks should be dressed
― deej, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
xp
― deej, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
ps Colin FYI "M@tt He1ges0n" is actually snoop's manager so i think hed know
― max, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone who thinks snoop didn't come up with this has clearly never watched doggy fizzle televizzle.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Ugh at the video: retro 70s kitsch has been mainstream for so long it's almost veering into uncool territory.
Ugh x10 at the horrible Cher auto-tune vocals. the music was so nice at the beginning... i would have loved more rapping.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Cher did not invent the vocoder.
And this is more 80s than 70s.
And it is really awesome.
― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
actually heh i shoulda watched that behind the scenes vid before i ran my mouth off too, explains everything
shawty redd huh? looking at his wiki, hadn't realised he was always so worthwhile
did anything become of this track btw? i kinda fronted on the prince sample to begin with but everyone kills it with the good vibes realness! "really i don't give a fuck / but then again i do", so true
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
max otm
colin, this kind of talk is not getting you any closer to that walk-on in starsky and hutch 2, sayin'
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
yeah, i shouldn't have ran my yap if the behind the scenes vid says otherwise...
still, video is prolly better than the song...
― Colin_C., Wednesday, 28 November 2007 23:40 (sixteen years ago) link
a long-running ilm white critical theme is seeing rappers as cash-in-minded cynics who don't actually listen to or enjoy music
I think this is true of a broader swathe of critical culture than ilm, and it's really grotesque
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
cant wait for the new autotune-heavy mountain goats record
― max, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i luved his stuff on both jeezy albums
― max, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
for Christmas this year I've asked Santa to stop people from mentioning my band every goddamn time I post
― J0hn D., Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
is auto-tune a vocoder? not being sarcastic, just wondering. i never got any of the traditional vocoder sounds out of auto-tune when i played with it.
― rockapads, Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:39 (sixteen years ago) link
LOLz are to be found in the thread for Snoop Dogg's new video
― gr8080, Thursday, 29 November 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
-- r|t|c, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:13 PM (Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:13 PM) Bookmark Link
BBQ
― The Reverend, Thursday, 29 November 2007 04:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Top Five moments in the video:
5. The "PLAY" button that plays at the beginning, like it's a VHS video.
4. The fact Snoop Dogg makes no discernible attempt to feign actual keyboard playing when he's holding it.
3. The close-up of his mouth when he says "She's gone get hers before mine"
2. The spaceship riding
1. The sly licking of his thumb before the camera cuts away at one point.
― Cunga, Thursday, 29 November 2007 08:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/shawtyredd
― deej, Thursday, 29 November 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^Listen to "Driftin," the song Snoop said inspired this
more power to snoop then cos 'sensual seduction' sure is a gigantic imaginative leap from that
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
woah this is pretty good altho i am so sick of that vocal effect
― blueski, Thursday, 29 November 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
music reminds me of kelly polar and 16b
― blueski, Thursday, 29 November 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
A++++++
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:10 (sixteen years ago) link
for Christmas this year I've asked Santa to stop people from mentioning xxxxx every goddamn time I post
you could become a derided sell-out, know-nothing rapper like that dude dropping the guest verse at the end of the new Aesop Rock video
― energy flash gordon, Friday, 30 November 2007 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
-- r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2007 15:46 (Yesterday) Link
vocals sink it but beat is :D
― deej, Friday, 30 November 2007 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd like to see this on a big TV. I love the washed-out and lo-fi look. Star filters, cheezy wipes, video grain ... when most folks try to incorporate those old school techniques, they end up making a mess ... but this video nails it. They even put "PLAY" in the corner at the beginning with the shaky VHS-tape-starting-up look. Dope.
― Romeo Jones, Friday, 30 November 2007 04:36 (sixteen years ago) link
-- deej, Wednesday, November 28, 2007
well, YEAH - most rappers are getting paid for just TALKING over STOLEN MUSIC
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 30 November 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
this song is sooo lush
― m bison, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link
obvious, but riding spaceship =
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008RV1A.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
awesome
― m bison, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:28 (sixteen years ago) link
that video was hilarious...man though people gotta quit doing that lame digital pitchshifter thing to their voice. it sounds stupid and tired now. altho I know it was being used to cover up the fact well, that he can't sing
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:30 (sixteen years ago) link
and judging by having read the other half of the thread, I'm going to get jumped on for it
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
THEY AREN'T RIDING A SPACESHIP THEY'RE RIDING A SPACEBED WHEN DID PARLIAMENT DO THAT HUH?
― The Reverend, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:35 (sixteen years ago) link
CROSSPOST
― The Reverend, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:36 (sixteen years ago) link
there is pretty clearly both a spacebed and spaceship, these are not mutually exclusive space vehicles.
― m bison, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
certainly there is a bed ON the spaceship
― max, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
where's Alf
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the DJ scratching that precedes Snoop's rap.
― dreamsonvhs, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I had forgotten to listen to this until right now. It is totally great and maybe on some last-minute Ten shit.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
What the steendriver said.
― Oilyrags, Monday, 24 December 2007 02:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The fact that Snoop sounds like T-Pain is kind of beside the point. Because what truly rules about the song is the sexy/mellow atmosphere/mood of it. Not all T-Pain songs have this quality. "I Like the Bartender" does though. Another Snoop song that has this quality is "Let's Get Blown". The video for that one is less stylish but it perfectly captures the vibe of the song.
― dreamsonvhs, Monday, 24 December 2007 06:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Bartender" is the closest T-Pain has come to something like this.
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 December 2007 07:06 (sixteen years ago) link
So is this the most influential r&b/rap song of 08? Will we be sick of "Sensual Seduction" clones by fall?
― The Reverend, Sunday, 24 February 2008 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, wow.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhnlz-A4PI
― clotpoll, Friday, 14 March 2008 18:17 (sixteen years ago) link
This new record documents him becoming the new Price, failed genre experiments and all.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 14 March 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i think this album deserves its own thread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 March 2008 18:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/3/18/audio-hot-chip-sensual-seduction-snoop-dogg-cover
― jaxon, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 01:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I have just discovered this song and enjoy it very much.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link