thread of miguel

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literally lolling

yeah so bad.

trying to remember the last time a contemporary R&B album with this high a profile came out w/ no obligatory guest rappers

Miguel Monae!

lmao

Forgive me for asking probably easy-to-find info, but is there a release date yet?

complex said that the song he wrote for alicia keys in jamaica (and that her backing vocals are on) is "candles in the sun" but i don't think that's right -- for one, when i talked to him he told me that it was "where's the fun in forever" & also having heard at least one version of "candles," i don't think her vocals are on that

jer: he's releasing a three-song preview on 9/11, full thing is out 10/2

happy to find out miguel also has thunder thighs

Excellent. I mean, these staggered EP releases have been nice, but a full album makes things a lot easier for year-end ranking purposes.

IF the album is worth ranking above Art Dealer Chic. we'll see.

Well, yeah. But isn't a good chunk of ADC gonna be on this?

three songs -- i think it's gonna be as good or better. ADC does have some throwaways.

Fuckin broads.

seriously, if he keeps making album covers like this, i will have to keep making Avatar: The Last Airbender jokes.

yeah, I don't really know how Internet memes work, but I am picturing Flying Miguel photobombing all sorts of news and sports images, dunking on Kobe or Billy Corgan or whatever

^^

“It’s definitely a progressive album,” the 25-year-old told Mina SayWhat. “I would describe it as being progressive in the sense that I’m taking a lot of my more alternative influences and incorporating them.”

Kaleidoscope Dream Tracklisting

1. “Adorn”
2. “Don’t Look Back”
3. “Use Me”
4. “Do You…”
5. “Kaleidoscope Dream”
6. “The Thrill”
7. “How Many Drinks?”
8. “Where’s the Fun in Forever?”
9. “Arch & Point”
10. “Pussy Is Mine”
11. “Candle in the Sun”

http://www.rap-up.com/2012/08/15/tracklisting-miguel-kaleidoscope-dream/

"adorn" is looking like it has a chance to be his biggest hit

heard it on the radio this morning, vibed out

Oh, Pussy is Mine is on this? Cool. He played that live at the Joe's Pub show and it felt like older material from somewhere but I didn't entirely recognize it.

Oh, Pussy is Mine? Cool.

6. “The Thrill”
7. “How Many Drinks?”
8. “Where’s the Fun in Forever?”

also known as The Ballin' Trilogy

trying to remember the last time a contemporary R&B album with this high a profile came out w/ no obligatory guest rappers

― some dude, Monday, August 27, 2012 12:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Profiles weren't as high, but Love Me Back and Late Nights & Early Mornings come to mind.

which was late nights? marsha ambrosius?

that didn't register for me at ALL. Love me back is still in constant rotation.

thanks for prompting me to play the Ambrosious album again, Andy!

yeah good call with the Jazmine and Marsha albums, dug both. i'm just happy that this time Mig got to dodge the J. Cole bullet that Melanie and Elle caught this year.

Alex, check out the Ambrosius again. Although it faffs around a bit in the middle section and is at times too masochistic for my taste, this is plush, sumptuous R&B of a high order -- probably my favorite one of last year

"Adorn" is great, but I've always thought it needed a B.o.B. verse

and a Calvin Harris remix featuring Nicki Minaj.

"adorn" is looking like it has a chance to be his biggest hit

― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, August 27, 2012 2:23 PM (6 hours ago)

is it charting? it doesn't even have a wiki entry

"Adorn" is great, but I've always thought it needed a B.o.B. verse

well here's a sentence i never thought i'd read

#7 R&B, #68 on the Hot 100 (xpost)

There's also the R. Kelly albums.

well yeah but those aren't contemporary R&B

mariah - memoirs?

though that is quite a while ago now

jeremih's first album

memoirs had gucci on the single version of "obsessed" right?

or was that a separate remix

separate remix & not on the album

wait, ship: how are Kels' albums not contemporary R&B? Is it their retro stylings that inoculate them?

he iz old

lol at lex taking Evan's post at face value

he iz old

Oh! *fumbles with trembling hands with Lipitor tablets and something called a "keyboard"*

i was basically borrowing the parlance of the Grammys, who for most of the last decade had a 'contemporary R&B album' award to distinguish the overly modern hip hop-influenced stuff from the more traditional stuff that usually wins the best R&B album award (but the 2 categories were merged back into one this year). Chocolate Factory was nominated in the contemporary category; his last two would have been in the other category, if they were nominated.

like you wouldn't listen to Write Me Back and expect to possibly hear a guest rapper on it (unlike Miguel's stuff), so it's not relevant to the point i was making.

new trey songz album only has like 6 guest rappers