The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

I agree the drums are the weakest but the tune is one of the best.

I love the drums on the first part of faith

btw I'm just so happy this is actually an official release on itunes, I feared that this would remain in an unproduced label hell like tell-tale heart

I think I'd like "Faith" more if it was a stand alone. Doesn't really work for me in the context of the album.

Apparently it's #1 in itunes' r&b chart, as an independent release.

it is interesting that she seems to have a pretty good sized following. i guess that's more from danity kane than dirty money though?

Probably both?

well yeah sure but i bet a majority are holdovers from the former than followed her to the latter

was she the most famous danity kane member?

arguably Aubrey is the most famous DK member

hard to say, i mean she prob is now but there wasn't really a breakout star in the group at the time, although Aubrey O'Day was kind of a hot mess tabloid fav for a while and is now on Celebrity Apprentice (xpost)

IIRC at the time Aubrey and Aundrea were de facto "the famous ones" due to being on both casting seasons of Danity Kane's "Making The Band", plus I think Aubrey did Playboy...?

this is def the most inspiring thing from any danity kane member this week, narrowly edging out aubrey's impassioned defense of her creativity in last week's boardroom

there was an episode of 'celebrity apprentice' a few weeks back where the teams had to sell some car, and when aubrey got on she told this story about how her mom and sister were badly injured in a car crash and if they had been driving the buick whatever whatever with its airbag system and safety ratings, they would've been fine. she started crying, then they cut to an off camera interview where she revealed that the whole story was fake and that she was there to win.

lol j0rdan nobly taking the "watches the worst tv imaginable" torch right outta my hands

ha

lol since i don't have cable i usually find myself flipping around the major networks on some nights and multiple times i've stopped on some random cbs or abc show and after three minutes been like "smh this must be what it's like to be al shipley"

you bastard

minus having an adorable baby

still think this is aubrey's finest moment

http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/37416/aubrey-oday-and-heart-on-my-sleeve-gallery.jpg

the last danity kane album was really good btw

dawn gave them their name fwiw, after a fictional anime character of her own invention

Aubrey's finest moment is looking like a political hobo?

what else would you pick! that image is hilarious

the DOG with the GLITTER BONNET and dyed pink ears

what else would you pick!

this is a pretty convincing argument

you just imagine the obama campaign staffers (this was from early 2008 iirc) suddenly seeing these pictures and being like "noooooooo"

is that dog actually alive?

yup. it accompanied her to a number of events around this time.

probably came close to dying of embarrassment

tis a crying shame dawn's major in marine biology doesn't influence her music to the same degree her comic book nerdery does

All my people gettin' down on the floor-ah
Stingin' beats like we're Medusozoa

i knew everyone was trying to think of something there but i still expected better

best i could do was a tilapia heart fwiw

whats the name of this album everyone is raving over? I am having serious problems with my Internet literacy or something...

armor on

cool thx

hurry up, we're dreaming

dawn gave them their name fwiw, after a fictional anime character of her own invention

― lex pretend, Thursday, March 29, 2012 2:48 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

<3

really wanna know what anime shows dawn watches

Just as ridiculous as the idea that this is an EP is that the 3+ min songs at the beginning and the end constitute an intro and an outro.

first incidence of this sort of thing i recall is e.badu calling the 12-track, 45-min worldwide underground an "EP" in 2003

I'm guessing there's some bullshit record company reason for it.

I don't think Bombs is a disappointment at all but it's certainly more, I dunno, route one banger than the rest of it. It's a big jolt though and feels totally necessary in the flow of the album (and the album flows really really well).

I think Faith fits well in as well - the thing with the whole record is how patient most of it is, a bit like a DJ mix, and by that point it's like "ah go on, you can have a peak-time banger".

DJ mix comment is otm - which is, of course, another interesting hybrid aspect to the dance/R'n'B genre play going on with the record.

I also like how she's grouped like songs together so there's a real "take you on a journey" aspect.

It is pretty remarkable that Dawn/Dupri 'get' house and what it can do so well (thinking esp. of "Change" and "Heaven")... As well as any house producer could have managed I think.

Rather than just whacking on a kickdrum, they've really thought about how to use house's little percussive flairs to enhance the songs in the same way that (obvious e.g.) Timbaland might have done with a stuttering triplet.

The irony being that Timbo doesn't get that.

I actually thought of 'Beats 4 Da Streets (Intro)' listening to 'Intro (Call to Hearts)'. Always wanted to hear more stuff done in the style of that Aaliyah opener, 90's r&b in full-dance mode, lover's jungle, etc.

i feel like other music is obsolete now

I actually thought of 'Beats 4 Da Streets (Intro)' listening to 'Intro (Call to Hearts)'. Always wanted to hear more stuff done in the style of that Aaliyah opener, 90's r&b in full-dance mode, lover's jungle, etc.

― MikoMcha, Friday, 30 March 2012 11:53 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Did you ever hear Janet Jackson's "Empty"?

That's the closest thing I can come up with as a precedent for Intro/Black Lipstick.

"empty" is the best song

otm