thread of miguel

what? he only made my favorite song of the past several years? I thought I was pretty clearly on record as being a huge booster of the Art Dealer Chic EPs and loving the singles from the first album.

do you video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BW2gKnVz8

i do have mild anxiety that he'll end up w/ The-Dream's career arc (three big singles off the first album, even bigger single off the lead single and then radio turns its back) but i have a feeling this'll do well with follow-up singles.

― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Tuesday, October 2, 2012 9:43 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is an interesting parallel but for whatever reason it feels like miguel has more momentum right now?

intense excitement at watching new video dampened slightly by ad below the video through which I find out chris brown has a single out called 'don't judge me'

or maybe i'm projecting but i guess i always sort of felt like we were on this wild ride with terius, like it was so hilarious & crazy that he turned into a radio star that i wasn't even really surprised when it dried up. terius felt to me like an autuer who happened to trickle up in a weird flash, but miguel feels like a career radio artist who just happens to be sneaking really good, cool shit into his songs.

he looked pretty awkward kissing that girl against the wall

hey everybody, aren't you excited about the OFFICIAL remix of "Adorn" featuring Wiz Khalifa? no? wait, where are you going?

i think that's just a freestyle that they tacked onto the album since it already existed

haha i posted that itt the other day

a LOT of 'official remixes' these days start out as some big star doing a freestyle and then the orig. artist's label goes and decides to put their cosign on it

lol @ the headphones scene for that moment in the song, kind of perfect

he looked pretty awkward kissing that girl against the wall

For whatever it's worth, the internet tells me that's his real life girlfriend Nazanin Mandi.

lol @ the headphones scene for that moment in the song, kind of perfect

― lex pretend, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 5:07 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^^^

damn his girl is beautiful, lucky dog

Yep. His hair is getting legendary too.

y'all missed this shit? http://necolebitchie.com/2012/08/10/miguel-does-sexy-shoot-with-girlfriend-nazanin/

http://imdatingablackguy.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/azaqjv9ciaapdie-large.jpg?w=1000&h=

his hair is too

http://i.imgur.com/K75lK.jpg

if you look closely there's visible pussy in that photo (xpost)

had an amazing moment vibesing to adorn on the underground yesterday when i walked past a near-exact miguel doppelganger, this lil tiny stylish mexi-asiatic lookin dude rocking an impressive quiff wearing a leather jacket. sort of wanted to pick him up and throw him in the air in celebration

then a moment of terror thinking i can't believe i used to have an even bigger quiff than that wait how many of those guys do i ever see in life was that him????

had an amazing moment vibesing to adorn on the underground yesterday when i walked past a near-exact miguel doppelganger, this lil tiny stylish mexi-asiatic lookin dude rocking an impressive quiff wearing a leather jacket. sort of wanted to pick him up

mm, maybe for a garden gnome

is 'do you' the official next single then? sounded like a smash to me but i wondered if they'd edit out druuuugs and more importantly how exactly. anyone heard it in the wild?

It'll be fascinating watching "Do You" climb the R&B chart

i think it's always been planned as the follow up to "adorn" and i guess they're going through with that

i wondered if they'd edit out druuuugs and more importantly how exactly.

single version on spotify goes "do you like looooove"

it reasons that's why they changed the name from "drugs" to "do you..."

OK, so it's a quite a weird track that way, right? I really like it a lot, but find myself thinking in pretty open-ended ways about the sentiment, and the way it's phrased.

well it's a pun, it starts out with "do you like drugs" like a question and then at the end adds "i'm gonna do you like drugs tonight"

so does he say "i'm gonna do you like love tonight"? need to listen to that single edit

if you look closely there's visible pussy in that photo (xpost)

― jaz a make wardance (some dude), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:25 PM

ha, this took me a minute

pussy is yours

http://soundcloud.com/sammybananas/miguel-adorn-sammy-bananas-1

yeah that's very good

best new music

Sweet, now I can talk about it!

i think it's a pretty nice accomplishment, actually

yeah its cool.

i sort of said this before but it's nice to see him rewarded for his reverse-crossover attempt while still being able to grow his core fanbase. a pretty rare feat.

Indeed.

Good review.

What a remix!

like the review, don't like the ELEVEN frank ocean headlines underneath the review

If the Gibbs tape is an 8.2, this is a 9.4 though.

what review?

p4k?

yes

weird quote from that: 'a wonderfully considered album from an artist who was starting to seem a lot like a forgotten gem in the wake of mishandled promotion.'

wasn't Sure Thing a huge huge hit r&b chart hit? do they just mean 'indie people weren't listening until now' ?

his first album could be considered a commercial triumph or totally under the radar depending on what lens you're viewing it through, but yeah that way of phrasing it was pretty false.

yeah that's what i mean, the lens of 'what people in brooklyn/portland are listening to' is pretty reductive

well it could also be viewed as unsuccessful through the lens of "doesn't sell as much/cross over to pop radio as much as Usher or Chris Brown"

The demographics at his Howard Theatre show in DC seemed like 99% African-American (and mostly women) which is reflective of that prior inability to crossover to pop or indie