aaliyah

Ergh, the WORST.

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/426614_10152035163905515_828497835_n.jpg

oh lord

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/71175986.html

aaliyah's brother favourited a fan letter criticising drake's involvement in all of this <3

11 years ago today

wait wasn't it just ten years ago today like a few weeks ago????

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZsEEPo_Tw

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFJ2kblbChk

eminem was the one who broke the news of aaliyah's passing to me. well he announced it during his set at the reading festival and asked for a moment of silence, the majority of the crowd didn't co-operate. He wasn't impressed.

I posted this in another thread and nobody cared but

ha no it knocked me out & made me think about sampling & beatjacking a lot - what's really interesting is when it gets to a chord change & goes in a different direction that timbaland's version didn't, & was better for. weird to hear.

this is incredible http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1693774/dmx-drake-aaliyah-collaboration.jhtml?xrs=share_twitter

:-D

DMX sums up my feelings on Drake perfectly:

I don’t like anything about Drake. I don’t like his voice. I don’t like what he talks about. I don’t like his face. I don’t like the way he walks. Let me shut up. Imma stop right there.

omg dmx i hadn't seen that ilu ilu ilu yesssss

and also bless missy and tim for protecting babygirl's legacy:

Last night, Missy Elliott and Timbaland dropped off two, long-teased new singles at New York’s Hot 97. While there, they spoke with Angie Martinez, adding a new chapter to the winding, sad tale of the rumored new Aaliyah album. “I don’t even know if it’s an album,” Timbaland said. “I don’t think that’s in the works. I don’t know, I think it’s blown out of proportion. I haven’t spoken to Drake yet.” Missy says she hasn’t been contacted either, adding, “No call has been made to me… We’re talking about unfinished music. And we don’t know her reasoning for not putting those records out. Maybe she didn’t feel like they were her best work. We just don’t want to tap into that, just spiritually something else you know… very, very touchy. Unless her parents came in and conducted that.” Timbaland also called Drake’s Aaliyah portrait tattoo into question, saying, “To me, the tattoo part, did that man come in here and show y’all? Like lift up his shirt?”

nice that tim is giving drake shade despite the two of them having worked together

is this drake thing the reason everyone aside from the usuals have been making it a point to assert that they love aaliyah lately? like it's reached semi-obnoxious mbv-revival levels

It's worse. It's not like most MBV newcomers/revivalists thought derisively of -- or ignored -- every other guitar-oriented band that was around during/after Loveless.

i haven't noticed this... who are some of the non-usuals who started loving aaliyah 4 weeks ago?

all the quotes from the dude in yeasayer are a pretty good example

i wasn't even thinking famous types just random whoevers tweeting and whatnot but i guess the famous types apply too

right, i think the idea is that that guy is representative of a certain group (altho prob a bit douchier)

haha, I'm kind of trying to tone down my "usual"-ness for ~personal~ reasons. red album desktop wallpaper: gone.

keep in mind tho, that the anniversary of her death was a couple weeks ago, so that might have some to do with the love-in.

Twelve years.

"my one fervent wish, beyond sympathy for all the bereaved, is that there be no horribly maudlin tribute records."

oh god did you have any idea

I just knew.

haha, I'm kind of trying to tone down my "usual"-ness for ~personal~ reasons. red album desktop wallpaper: gone.

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:44 AM Bookmark

haha the ~personal~ reasons were bc I was dating a member of the Haughton family (like a second cousin or something) :-O

!

when he told me his last name after having already told me he was from Detroit I damn near fainted

so I'm near ready to pull the trigger on getting "Ultimate Aaliyah," a comp released in the UK. It seems like it has everything you need, cept "Age Ain't Nuthin' But a number," which I would understand if there was a desire to not emphasize. This copy is $35, 2 discs, and no DVD, which I'm not interested in.

Is this what I should go for if I want her shit in one place? That "I care for you" thing is cheaper, but it doesn't have "we need a resolution" or "rock the boat."

I've never bought a CD produced for the Euro market: are there still issues w/ regional coding?

and in case anyone sez "schmuck, you can d/l any song you want": I want to have a physical representation for songs I hold in such high esteem.

CDs have never been region coded

For $35 you could buy used or maybe even new copies of all three of her studio albums. That would seem the better investment to me. The only thing you'd be missing then is some of the soundtrack contributions, which that compilation does collect nicely, but are easy enough to download at a buck a pop. Feels like at that price point you really could legally own almost her entire discography, not just a selective two disc sampler.

just buy the albums tbh

i don't really rate the first album, is that bad?

she has 3 albums, buy them

what's essential but not on the albums, other than "are you that somebody" ?

"don't know what to tell ya", "come back in one piece", "miss you"

"Try Again", "I Miss U", and "Come Over" obv

"John Blaze"

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1y33w_john-blaze_music

"Girlfriends"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69n8MAPPTq8

Oh yeah, "Come Back in One Piece" totally

"Man Undercover"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkKLXP-MaVY

oh, "Final Warning" obviously obviously obviously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU3zq_6MaPo

i recently bought a used copy of the dr. doolittle soundtrack for 2 bucks for "are you that somebody"

that soundtrack had some jams on it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-vOB_Dez8o

http://theporouscity.com/media/aaliyah_please.png

:(

http://theporouscity.com/media/aaliyah_please.png

ignore that second post, technical difficulties

https://www.instagram.com/p/CB3UqRTnFYu/?igshid=1ob0wezc6ff4r

i miss aaliyah

listening to the self-titled for the first time in many years and it's. . .oh, let's just say a hundred times better than i remembered it. and i remember thinking at the time, "she died after making her best album." untimely death or no, what an amazing album.