Katy B - On A Mission (4 April 2011) - hype, anticipation &c

her vocal version of "bax" got quietly released this week with katy, bafflingly, as an uncredited vocalist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk3I-jhYC9s

it's still good though

LOVE her vocal of Bax.

yeah uncredited is p harsh, just not really happening for her though is it

gobsmacked this has only just properly come out, the promo was out and about at least six weeks ago and it's been and gone from the radio now

yeah this track is fantastic

NEW EP NEW EP NEW EP

http://www.katybofficial.com/gb/splash/

THIS IS REALLY AMAZING

the first song is a geeneus-produced duet with jessie ware called "aaliyah" that's kind of like a UK funky take on "jolene" or "the boy is mine"

!!!

there is some amazingly happy bass parping away on the second song, which sounds like katy and wiley recorded it mid-carnival. first time i've felt warm in WEEKS

third song is produced by diplo (well, probably "produced" by "diplo" as per) and features iggy azalea (???) but is still alright if not as good as the first two. iggy seems to think she's featuring on a britney or ke$ha song, katy drifts along benignly, "diplo" "contributes" a pleasing breakdown

Loving 'Got Paid'

Little percussion touches on that are v. cute

never mind all that

'aaliyah' is incredible, what a fantastic concept

damn shame geeneus couldnt put his back into it a bit but still, amazing

can't download it here but here's a dailymotion link to 'aaliyah'
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvofyq_katy-b-x-geeneus-x-jessie-ware-aaliyah_music#.UMH0p1F_7To

this is like the first true appreciation of aaliyah maybe ever, not the glancing one that says what a lovely talented girl such a shame but one that approaches her sheer singular unearthliness, worshipful awed and fearful like towards a kind of god spirit forever seductive forever unattainable

there no stopping him
as the beat rolls on
i watch from afar
and watch you sing along

the mixture of eternal admiration, helpless defeat and verging on heretical resentment here is so next level

when jessie comes in and you expect a "boy is mine" kinda situation but actually she, separately, is in the exact same position as katy

aaliyah, please
this is green envy
why must you taunt me, girl

the acres of space that they have to contemplate the situation

holy christ

some kind of Harold Bloom-ian killing-your-literary-parents shit going on

i'm not sure if i knew what to expect from ware tbh! that contrast between her holy beseeching mournful prayer and katy/geenus' determined secular lightness is what makes the song, the way it's obviously written in their own disinct voices and how that variety is then in itself representative of all womanhood

i think it might be ware's best ever vocal

that sequencer in "Light as a Feather" will get tiresome quickly

heh it cuts deeper than anxiety of influence i think

if, as it must be accepted, aaliyah is the best girl ever there must be an unspoken dark side to that which this song finally now dares address

'got paid' is fab though overshadowed obv

other two are disposable as in have already disposed of

couldn't think of a single thing to say about the jacques greene one

"fuck off canada" is my usual trusty go-to

gah fux sake katy if you had just done 'get paid' immediately after 'heatwave' was #1 you might have had something, now what do you look like eh

erm also how did i miss this

katy working with the (old) sugababes????!!!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a382332/sugababes-original-lineup-recording-with-katy-b.html

Emeli Sandé has also been linked to the project

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aahhhhh that emoticon

Holy shit "Aaliyah" is ridiculously good.

WHAT WHAT IS THIS WHAT?
Downloading now.

and it's FREE?!?!

wait. the link isn't emailing to me. argh.

nevermind. working now.

it took a couple minutes. I went to the restroom and when I returned there it was. Try that.

Love Aaliyah. Songs about other artists tend to be great, don't they?

It would be fitting if my two favorite songs this year would be "Springsteen" and "Aaliyah."

lol that emoticon

god iggy azealia is awful, the diplo track is pleasant but floats by without much to grab onto, production feels like a demo, like its a sketch rather than a song

the jacques greene track is dope! way better than the diplo track, also a better song too

"Danger" is my second favorite; it woulda worked as a hidden track on On a Mission.

"aaliyah" > "danger" > "got paid" > "light as a feather" for me

yeah, you passed my love to the left hand side
smoked it right down to the roach
so i might as well put it out

fantastic

"Oh my gosh"

a moving dramatisation of lex's ill-starred stint among the factmag stoners

nevertheless rating it over 'get paid' warrants a slapping

Got Paid is pure joy.