SOLANGE KNOWLES, omg the return of

maura <3

maura <3

― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she is pretty hot tho

k3vinsight

looks like som3on3 has not discussed the female empowerment angle

haha

wait who's hot

you flopped, I copped the blue drop

titty plop in my drop top

^^ the same ol pimp

snippets -> http://www.rap-up.com/2012/11/08/new-music-solange-true-ep-snippets/

http://itsblackcurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/solange.jpeg

thanks for the insightful comment about summer

their summer is our winter!

I keep finding this stuff while not searching for Solange Knowles, really. Solange says TSA inspected her hair at airport:

https://twitter.com/solangeknowles/status/268800994152947712

I AM THANKFUL FOR NEW SOLNAGE TRACKS

http://soundcloud.com/terrible-records/04-lovers-in-the-parking-lot

... I really like the other one!

it's so hot.

yeah it's kinda meant to be suggestive of this bleary, droning, numbed torpid mumblecore inarticulacy indicating longing and heartache beyond words or whatever. simple is real cos of ~how hard it is to feel things~, to be decisive and put a fine point on it is too painful if not even by implication dishonest. the whole thing's of a piece, you got the washed out instagrammed visuals, the 80s comfort blanket for the emotional foetal position... blah blah the familiar prepack set of lies agreed upon

it's all v boring

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:11 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is best music writing '12 imo

http://i.imgur.com/rDTQS.gif

Going in!

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Some of these music blogs could actually benefit from hiring people who REALLY understand the culture of hip hop to write about hip hop.

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a "grade" or a "score" to any R&B artist.

oh no

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a "grade" or a "score" to any R&B artist.

ha i agree with this obv

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
So you can stop acting like it just popped off last year for R&B. Like it just got interesting and experimental.

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
So you can stop praising every rapper who raps over a trap beat, but can't form literate sentences & then you market it as some hip shit.

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
And that wasn't a rant. It was an observation and a request.

solange going hammer

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
Like you really should know about deep Brandy album cuts before you are giving a "grade" or a "score" to any R&B artist.

she knows she's setting fire to her whole support base here right

Dom ‏@ichlugebullets
How the hell does Solange have 1.3m Twitter followers and zero hit singles? How the fuck does that even work?

khloe kardashian has 7 mil followers

j0rdan c/ping a dom tweet that isn't even try-hard "funny" but is just straight-up dumb is kind of embarrassing

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles 22 Dec
Thank you to Stereogum, Guardian, Spin, Pitchfork, & all the other joints for choosing "Losing You" & TRUE on your "Best of the Year" list.

so, are my test icicles promos worth flogging now ?

[f*cking dreadful band ... but clearly he's done well for himself .... at last .. ]

the original tumblr page that posted this has an XKCD link in their "about me."

never forget

what the fuck, wrong thread

so is solange dissing j0rdan? i say yes

yeah it's kinda meant to be suggestive of this bleary, droning, numbed torpid mumblecore inarticulacy indicating longing and heartache beyond words or whatever. simple is real cos of ~how hard it is to feel things~, to be decisive and put a fine point on it is too painful if not even by implication dishonest. the whole thing's of a piece, you got the washed out instagrammed visuals, the 80s comfort blanket for the emotional foetal position... blah blah the familiar prepack set of lies agreed upon

it's all v boring

― r|t|c, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:11 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is best music writing '12 imo

― D-40, Friday, 30 November 2012 04:03 (1 month ago) Permalink

lol even as i feel myself within the scope of this post's crosshairs its hard not to laugh along with it. it still seems somehow genealogically linked to the same epistemological crisis that birth ilx, the nuance of a reconfigured of dialectics of "popular opinion" that kindof makes it difficult to locate a position of minoritarianism. a swirl of signifiers, all those sedimentary layers of cultural resonance. the nasty tentacles of indie-centric cultural hegemony or at least the self-righteous husks of its artistic alibis and valorisations. i think the guy does better stuff, the sky ferreira thing loops around your head for a solid weekend. its lazy in a way i don't mind. actually enjoyably lazy in the same way the rtc post is "yeah yeah, you know the signifier," there's a sense of casual fluency, the barest gesture needed to register intent. i guess that's what's sortof frustrating about the solange one though, i think as a singer she's capable of some sort of actual emotional projection, vocal expressive representation, while the song is a much less ambitious thing. i guess for another listener this could be the meaty tension of it, the gap between blind signification and embodied vulnerability (sky is such a dream-girl cyborg that it has this entirely different sci-fi melancholia) but the song isn't really catchy enough for me to want to listen to it enough times to start adding that kindof interpretive layer to listening. its also like lol music journalism in another sense. or like describing things.

xp i don't think j0rdan has ridden hard for indie-r&b as a thing?

there's a half dozen "think pieces" published since November more Solange-worthy.

or is that solangious

@solangeknowles
There are SO many gifted writers who truly understand. Who didn't get hip to R&B & Hip-Hop via the crossover artist of their childhood.

i don't even understand this. like if your first interest in R&B was hearing Janet or Mariah or Whitney as a kid THAT makes your take on R&B invalid? what's the OG route?

xp i don't think j0rdan has ridden hard for indie-r&b as a thing?

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 2:28 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm talking about

solange knowles ‏@solangeknowles
So you can stop praising every rapper who raps over a trap beat, but can't form literate sentences & then you market it as some hip shit.

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 5, 2013 11:17 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely enraging tbh

lol

of course her comments abt R&B critics wouldn't have anything to do w/ other artists getting in the way of her special alt R&B shine now would it

she thought being alt would separate her from the pack & now everybody does it o wellllll

I don't think that's the takeaway at all.

there are many takeaways. her criticism (of R&B at least) isn't far from what ppl have said around here for ages. but the purity test of R&B crit is silly as fuck

SergDun ‏@SergDun
Really? You guys are trying to ride for deep brandy cuts? Get up on my level of toad the wet sprocket back catalog too

kingmost ‏@kingmost
@SergDun WHis is this at? Hollerboard?

that says it all imo

anyone who mocks the idea of people riding for deep brandy cuts is basically scum