Rolling R&B Thread 2012

Like the Fiona track quite a bit. Would it be too controversial to note that I get a real Weeknd/"Marvin's Room" vibe off of this one?

nah it's definitely there, it's kinda like "marvin's room" x "try sleeping with a broken heart". i mean, jojo already showed us that the problem with the drake aesthetic isn't necessarily the nothingy atmospheres or mood or whatever, those only become inadequate when the artist/song is also inadequate - the problem is all HIM

putting someone like melanie fiona on top and letting her sing the HELL out of a strong song is obv a good move

i listened to it walking home drunk at 4am last night btw! it was a moment

yeah when "4 AM" first came out i thought it was probably from the Noah Shebib Submarine Sound Factory and kinda resisted it because of that and because it's SO different from what i liked hearing Fiona do on "Gone And Never Coming Back" and "Fool For You," but it grew on me anyway.

The new Melanie Fiona single is even more stunning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwF4R9i0q4

Elle Varner released a mixtape, btw. I've just skimmed through out but it sounds cool so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXWFr68bMs

Really feeling this, I was hoping the Dawn single would be more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1i_2vvbprM

And the new Teairra Mari single is a banger, though rooting for her to actually have a hit single again and release an album is a lost cause of Cassie-esque proportions at this point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJtdHHOjw4

really like that elle varner track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21wO14g9714
R.I.P. RichGirl :(

Yikes; the pacing on that song is excruciating. It just runs in place for three minutes that feel like eight.

Two great ones right here. This Yuna track is the best Pharrell production I've heard it way too long:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fITyU9KM3CU

And this Jahah is an awesome surprise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWp0ineOf0

It's like Glenn Lewis, if Glenn Lewis loved huge breakbeats.

whoa, this jahah is sweet.

so what do we call that beat in the elle varner song - breakbeat? sounds like idm to me

i fuck w/ this new slim song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvdUH7buBM

this mixtape has a bunch of really good stuff on it, but the mastering is fucking awful

http://www.datpiff.com/Slim-of-112-Cruisin-Da-City-Vol-1-mixtape.308742.html

Always a welcome voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4I1-aVZj1s

^ from kalenna's new mixtape

digging the elle varner mix tape, it's like a purer + better version of the janelle monae album

this mixtape has a bunch of really good stuff on it, but the mastering is fucking awful

http://www.datpiff.com/Slim-of-112-Cruisin-Da-City-Vol-1-mixtape.308742.html

― J0rdan S., Monday, January 30, 2012 12:33 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pedantry alert but when a mixtape sounds like shit it's usually that it wasn't mastered all rather than mastered poorly

bachelored

idgi, was the first ginuwine album mastered badly or something?

^phd in dad jokes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxjn7R_TU0o&feature=g-logo&context=G2fe938fFOAAAAAAABAA

total sadlol at "Art Dealer Chic Vol. 1" (is that what he's saying in the backgroun?) but OH FUCKING SHIT THIS IS GOOD

*on repeat*

yeah this is great

oh shhh

think miguel is reaching own thread status tbh

ah man this is great

Excellent. Short and sweet. Concept for video is kind lame, cool hair though.

Let my loove adooorn you

sounds kinda 80s, no?

Some of the intermittent synths have some 80s to them.

"art dealer chic vol 1" is totally *smh... head flies off of neck and out of window* tho

whoa this is good

what a pleasantly surprising turn, didn't think he had this in him for some reason

I've listened to this 20+ times already.

yeah this is amazing

what a pleasantly surprising turn, didn't think he had this in him for some reason

― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:00 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um aren't we talking about the guy who no matter how you slice it has made between 1 and 4 of the best R&B singles of the last 18 months?

someone plz immediately bump w/ an HQ mp3

def prefer this to 'sure thing'

wearing this song out

ART DEALER CHIC VOL. 1

what a pleasantly surprising turn, didn't think he had this in him for some reason

― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:00 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um aren't we talking about the guy who no matter how you slice it has made between 1 and 4 of the best R&B singles of the last 18 months?

― some dude, Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh for sure but it's just such a stylistic shift, didn't mean that as a diss. this is exactly what i wanted and i didn't even know it

art dealer chic apparently = wearing suspenders over a sweater

smhiguel

dunno why but something about this song reminds me of aaron neville, it's a good one though

ART DEALER CHIC VOL. 1

― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:07 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is actually a great title, fuiud

Well fuck me in that case.

This kind of reminds me of "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart".

I WAS JUST THINKING THAT

It makes sense as this is something that would be played at an art dealer's apartment. I like the song. My attitude towards Miguel has changed (even though he embarrases himself a lot). He should've been lumped in with Frank and Weeknd with the whole "new r&b guy" trend. I guess he isn't drugged up or skeezy enough.

22. Mary J. Blige - “Don’t Mind” (Geffen)

This album didn't get much love, but it had some great singles on it

15. José James - It’s All Over Your Body” [Blue Note]

YEAH, love this, probably top 5 for me. I've watched this live version like 30 times this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGtHvy_3W4Q

XXP I like that Avant joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0nRtZbz0QI

lol @ xgau devoting precious words of his capsule to 'candle in the sun'

i feel like we need brainwasher to start the 2013 thread just so we can have that optimistic list of artists at the top

in the meantime the entire jojo mixtape is still giving; this is a slow burner, but her songwriting and vocal nuances are so on point in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eet9zVqkGdM

OK, one last drop from me before Brainwasher reminds us that the K. Michelle album is coming out for real in 2013.

I've been lukewarm on AlunaGeorge, but their new track "Diver" is fantastic. No YouTube embed yet, but Stereogum has it here: http://stereogum.com/1228872/alunageorge-diver/mp3s/

This Austin Brown mixtape is like a weird mix of young Marvin and New Edition, filtered through the Elephant 6 collective. Shit is all over the place, but he has sort of a Bruno Mars star quality, so I feel like he could be a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bIhVmGvbc

And because we all like her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFfyFmj0Y5Y

I used to know how to embed YouTube videos. I don't know what changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZ17WyV9Qs

Love that. Hate the video.

I'm not sure if we have much of a choice as to whether Michael Jacksons nephew becomes 'a thing'.

oh look, the new KING song dropped and I made a thread for them

oops wrong thread lol