Rolling R&B Thread 2012

Cool. I'll keep picking at it myself. Hate the idea of writing the whole thing off w/o taking at least a couple of keepers away from it

the song i posted is v good btw >:(

"...Ne-Yo's lineage and template is so MJ/Lionel Richie/Babyface..."

Ha -- I compared this album to Dancing on the Ceiling.

A really long Dancing in the Ceiling.

Album's length also pretty much confirms that it wasn't his idea to release 10-song albums while he was on Def Jam.

this is my initial favourite on the ne-yo album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd1fDjXP-t4

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

^^^is dope imo

i'm digging r.e.d.? it's not yotg but there's a lot to enjoy here.

but i actually don't hate let me love you? so.

Jealous and Stress Reliever are both pretty great. I didn't mind the Wiz track. Still need to get through the back half.

What % of it is "clubby?"

17%

That's still a 70% increase over Libra Scale, which was only 10% clubby, but Al is right, the clubbiness isn't really that intrusive this time out. I think the bigger issue is that length/forgettableness

This new Chrisette Michele track seems like a logical reinvention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMKFEYXATFM&feature=player_embedded

no idea how that's a 'reinvention'

weeknd is gonna move more units first week than miguel

:(

Who Will Be the Token Black Guy on the Billboard 200?

New The-Dream. From... eh... his new album... 1977:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2LeGZXZuG8

sounded pretty good at first but the time he started blathering "not literally speaking but figuratively speaking" i started to tune it out

Terrible song, terrible decision to waste whatever remaining clout he has left to release an album on a reissue of an unloved, sort of hateful mixtape instead of the full length that he insists he has finished

wasn't there even a listening party for the new full length at some point?

There was. The decision to rerelease 1977 is very strange and very bad. I do love 1977 though, so it's not unloved.

none of the release announcements specify whether it's coming out on Def Jam (which he could mayyybe make happen since he's VP of A&R over there now) or if it's just some quickie thing he's selling on iTunes while The Love IV gets delayed another year.

It's definitely an excuse to delay Love IV. And if he redoes it to give it the type of polish his other albums have, I'll be fine with it being re-released.
I just don't see why they couldn't release it WITH Love IV, as a bonus disc or something, instead. Just doesn't make sense.

1977 was such garbage, has jordan come to his senses on that one yet?

No it wasn't. If anything, Jordan underrated it.

Anyway, seeing two Nash/McKinney songs in a row on the new Rihanna album made me very happy.

it's kind of funny how he fell out of favor as a go-to hitmaker with most of the industry but Bey and Rih are just like fuck it he's still cool and keep putting him on blockbuster albums

1977 was such garbage

― chief beef (k3vin k.), Thursday, November 15, 2012 11:44 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1977 is good

at this point there's as much a chance that i would go back and listen to 1977 instead of love king, which -- while good in its own right -- is still mostly a noticeably worse version of love vs money

Ha. Don't let them fool you, Jordan. You don't have to choose between them. They both hold up.
And I'd much rather put on 1977 than HoB right now.

just re-read my review and i think it totally holds up

The rating was too low though.

that i disagree w/

This full Rih/CB/Terius/Los track is a monster btw, in every sense of the word.

yeah it's really good

Monstrous. It makes me want to sing and dance and puke at the same time.

yeah it's really good

are you gonna be playing it lots

also i just wanna ask something i asked on tumblr earlier, what good r&b jams from 2012 are there which are made for dancing to? proper choreography and everything. fast fast tempo. if there's a video of this, even better. so far i have, like, ciara and dawn and tiffany evans and kalenna.

"Birthday Cake" lol

:(

This full Rih/CB/Terius/Los track is a monster btw, in every sense of the word.

― weak willie (longneck), Thursday, 15 November 2012 20:40 (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

cb manages to spoil this by the end, i'm over it

are you gonna be playing it lots

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:47 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

idk maybe *shrugs*

That's your brain speaking. Give in to the zombies.

xpost to r|t|c, lol

nah my brain is as empty as ever, it's my skin crawling at cb trying to do the mj growl and such

that's just the sound he makes when he's thinking "now THIS is the ultimate fuck you!!!"

haha i messed that up the quote was "the ultimate fuck off"

nah my brain is as empty as ever, it's my skin crawling at cb trying to do the mj growl and such

― r|t|c, Thursday, November 15, 2012 9:38 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, according to the wiki page MJ has a writing credit, so that is probably him doing the growl and not CB.