he's pretty uncompelling all told
― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
every time Trey drops an album or mixtape i think "maybe this'll be the one i actually listen to" and then i don't.
ha otm
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Monday, 18 June 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
These #TweetTuesdays tracks are making me pretty excited for a new Tweet album. The new one is super soft.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
new kellz is quintessential "tasteful mid-tempos for the moms, with a couple of oddities to leaven it" but it's v enjoyable anyway
― star-spangled david banner (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
that was the last album too, the question is is it better/worse than that
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
― Evan R, Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
officially obsessed over here
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
not as great on one listen, the last one seemed kinda more opulent and lavish than this
xp
― star-spangled david banner (lex pretend), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
what is the new tweet track called?
Have we discussed this yet?
https://twitter.com/_MAXWELL_/status/205133542668251137
Lead single from blackSUMMER'Snight forthcoming soon! Which means the album can't be far behind. So excited about this.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
oh thank god, three years was way too long a wait
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
It's ironic that #SUMMERS almost certainly won't be released until fall, earliest
― Evan R, Tuesday, 19 June 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also, Lex, the new Tweet song is called "C 4eva". Acoustic is a good look for her, even if I think I like "Trouble" more
we fuckin w/ this new jeremih single?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOwEddREowI
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 05:18 (eleven years ago) link
production is interesting
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
oh it's the same beat as that goapele song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRn2DAggPEE
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 June 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
of course! was just scratching my head for a few minutes trying to place that. i really love that goapele song so can't really get into this.
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
Can't get into the new Jeremih song---his pseudo-rapping on it is just dreadful---but that ultra-Teriusy "Late Nights" track from a few months ago that never made any waves still pushes all the right buttons for me. Hoping his mixtape drops soon so I can enjoy it in the summer.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5uo2eZmF01rxlzpfo1_500.jpg
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 18:34 (eleven years ago) link
wtf kinda tumblr bullshit is that
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
just think its funny that gross rockist rap nerdery has infiltrated R&B discourse thanks to frank ocean and the weeknd. congrats
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol yeah cos r&b fans never ever made assertions like that prior to the scapegoats de nos jours showing up
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this isn't really that different to people comparing say Jill Scott and Destiny's Child a decade plus ago is it?
Except that there's now no hard distinction sonically (i.e the old battle lines were drawn on an organic/soulful vs electronic/beat-heavy axis as much as lyrics/persona).
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
theres very much a diff i'm saying this is outsider rockism as opposed to old ppl rockism
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
this also strikes me as a p notable change too!
yeah I was just thinking I suppose the difference is that the current distinctions are drawn as between individuals' relationship with (roughly) the same culture/aesthetic rather than as between two competing (and stylistically/arguably generationally distinct) aesthetics.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
It's kind of like a fusing-together of the old authentic vs plastic division and the old innovators vs campfollowers division - the treatment of e.g. Frank Ocean is neither as another (say) Musiq Soulchild nor as another (say) Timbaland but a kind of combination of the two.
In some ways this kind of approach is harder to argue with (though that doesn't mean it's correct) because the protest "why shouldn't I want in-effect contemporary popular R&B with modern production and 'smarter' lyrics / subject matter?" seems more reasonable than "contemporary popular R&B is the very devil."
And you can attack the implied definition of 'smarter' as myopic and occasionally eye-rolly but outright objecting to stuff in that mould is difficult to justify objectively.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
this tweet stuff is ridic good
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
sayin
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Thursday, 21 June 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit @ "c 4eva" this is beautiful
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
"trouble" too
what other tweet tuesdays tracks are there?
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 22 June 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/dubose-music-group
^ they're here
― just sayin, Friday, 22 June 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Lead single from blackSUMMER'Snight forthcoming soon!
yessss
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
xp cheers
new brooke valentine official single - liking this on one listen, surprisingly lite and airy
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Friday, 22 June 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzB5Cn0tGEU
um this new wynter gordon is kind of WOW
http://soundcloud.com/andygensler/01-stimela-by-wynter-gordon
looks like she's doing a dawn richard with her imminent EPs... http://www.billboard.com/news/wynter-gordon-goes-d-i-y-for-new-eps-exclusive-1007383752.story#/news/wynter-gordon-goes-d-i-y-for-new-eps-exclusive-1007383752.story
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Sunday, 24 June 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
:-O Not what i was expecting at all...
― Tim F, Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:19 (eleven years ago) link
Maxwell tour canceled due to 'vocal hemorrhaging' :(
― some dude, Sunday, 24 June 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
Tweet, Mama's Gun-esque
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTbgTADYhl4
These have all been so good
― Evan R, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
Have we had opinions about the new R Kelly album yet? I haven't heard past the two singles and I'm curious what the verdict is.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
wasn't a huge fan of Love Letter but it worked for what it was, and this feels like diminishing returns. love the MJ riffing on "You Are My World" though.
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
Only listened to it twice, but it seems pretty solid. With the 70s vibe its more of a sequel to Happy People than Love Letter, really. Given how terrible Kels' recent contemporary shit has been, I'm fine with him riding the retro lane a bit longer
― Evan R, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i say this a lot, but i'd rather see black panties right now
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think this was posted elsewhere, but our first taste of black panties (ha) was really dire. "Its On" (sic) makes me long for that Mark Morrison song we were all laughing at last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr1VVtIABjM&feature=player_embedded#!
― Evan R, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to post about how amazing the Wynter Gordon song was before I got distracted by Miguel.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Matos quite likes the Kells.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
wait a minute, how has "love letter" not being amazing been rewritten into the narrative without me realizing?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
the song or the album? song was v good, album was fine, but "amazing" is an absurd word touse
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
an absurd word to use, not the absurd word "touse"
― goonrise zingdom (some dude), Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
who you calling abtouse
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
i meant the album, tho obviously that applies to the song too. alubm runs out of steam toward the end for me but there are a ton of gems too, things like "#1 hit" and "lost in your love" are better than he's done in years
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 June 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link