Rolling R&B Thread 2012

fucking gentrified r&b bullshit

*listen's to fantasia's "man of the house" on repeat forever*

*deletes rage-induced extra apostrophe*

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

Sounds like CB mimicking MJ's growl with sampled MJ echoing him.

Dream/Los song on the new Keyshia Cole > both Dream/Los songs on the new Rihanna

I have no problem with AlunaGeorge. Inc seem kinda preposterous.

link the keyshia one?

heard some inc. tracks today and i kind of liked them. they have skeletons of really good tracks imo but the production & singing are so thin... i couldn't imagine anyone who actively listens to 'real' r&b jamming this shit. just makes me want to listen to urban hang suite or w/e.

i think they're better than alunageorge, for whatever that's worth

i kind of liked them

the production & singing are so thin

RAISE YOUR STANDARDS OF ENJOYMENT

essentially what i'm saying is that it all sounds very demo-y. sometimes demos can be good! if it's your whole aesthetic tho then that's a problem but it's not like i can't recognize the makings of a good song and/or still get some enjoyment out of something that i think still could be much better. i don't think those are warring ideas.

in any event i'm really not insulted by inc. whatsoever. in fact as far as indie r&b goes they're actually at least doing something slightly different opposed to all this druggy post-cassie dubstep remix-wave. like i could imagine a live band playing those inc. tracks.

fell in love with the weeknd, started fucking the inc...

man inc's name is so disrespectful to irv gotti, rip

what is going on with this wiz rap

Was gonna rep for Brenmar's remix of AlunaGeorge's "Just a Touch", but just had another listen and decided it's not really worth it.

so far i think this keyshia cole album has more songs i'm feeling on it than in keyshia cole's entire career to date

yeah, this keyshia cole album is superb

in a lot of ways this is what I wanted the Monica album to be

yeah girl went in

has anyone checked out Rochelle Jordan? She's from Toronto and did a Marvins Room cover AGES ago and has two releases under her belt now - R O J O and PRESSURE - both of which are pretty listenable.

I'm not sure how lex will feel about them (some moments are a bit drifty) but it's worth a listen. Start with PRESSURE, maybe? It's the more recent one. R O J O has some nice stuff though, and her single "Here I Go" was also pretty solid.

ooooh - new Keyshia is worth checking for? I love her first album but haven't really loved much since besides a single or two.

i heard pressure, thought it was nice enough in a non-committal way, but idk we have jhené aiko for sub-cassiefanclub action these days

oh wow i hadn't seen this ~dramatic~ keyshia cole video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTmo-36iwDk

Sorry to steer the convo away from Keyshia at a time when she actually deserves the attention, but hot damn, this Alicia Keys/Maxwell debut:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nFyAPzwkXIg

yes!

Oooooooooh. Nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4HODZRrCic

heard this on the radio today and it pleased meh, q parker of 112 with a sort of "falsetto" update

i'm a fan of that song but it's a little lol for your to gravitate to something so los/terius-ish

this ll/joe song is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89F3ATBQXaI

"it feels like new year's, but TWO balls drop"

-_-

ooooh - new Keyshia is worth checking for? I love her first album but haven't really loved much since besides a single or two

yeah I'm surprised that "superb" and a Keyshia Cole album are in the same sentence (I just liked her first). Will check out.

damn, where is that new maxwell record. he sounds great there.

he acted like the album (or at least the single) was coming this year but then he cancelled his summer tour due to vocal hemorrhaging, so i'm hoping he's just waiting until his voice is better to be able to promote/tour for the new record

would far prefer Keyshia Cole singing this collab instead of Alicia Keys

ehhhhhh keys/maxwell is just a more compatible mix of voices

yeah i agree... keyshia + maxwell would sound really weird

A physical match perhaps, but she can't feel an emotion without getting overwrought.

alfred you're pushing your weird anti-keys agenda pretty hard

a duet of keyshia and trey songz yelling at each other would be pretty entertaining -- apparently he was announced at some point as a guest for her new album but obv didn't happen

alfred you're pushing your weird anti-keys agenda pretty hard

I've liked a couple things. Her last bit on this one made me wonder why Maxwell couldn't have let that guitar do the emoting.

ok dude

the Meryl Streep of R&B songstresses

there are actually a couple of songs on the new keyshia where she is...kinda understated! nearly fell off my chair.

keys might seem overwrought because she tends towards the vague and non-specific in her songwriting, but at her best this just means she's astonishingly good at conveying grandly nebulous universals.

i'm a fan of that song but it's a little lol for your to gravitate to something so los/terius-ish

― some dude, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:06 PM (2 hours ago)

kind of lol but mostly duh

q parker song is very good. totally a "bed" rip off it but fuck it

there can never be enough "bed" ripoffs

lol at "alicia keys is overwrought, not like that keyshia cole!"

damn, where is that new maxwell record. he sounds great there.

― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, November 20, 2012 5:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he acted like the album (or at least the single) was coming this year but then he cancelled his summer tour due to vocal hemorrhaging, so i'm hoping he's just waiting until his voice is better to be able to promote/tour for the new record

― some dude, Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:00 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This might actually be my biggest disappointment of the year? I was so eager.

never believe anything an artists says about an album ever

especially r&b artists. just look at brainwasher's list in the first post of this thread every year

wellllllll yeah but there's a difference between the "i made 30 songs already but the label doesn't hear a hit" vs. a guy who goes platinum every time around having voice problems

although lol "Cassie (this will happen)"

"Cassie (this will happen)" was lol at the time

also just noticed:

The opening posts on these threads seem immediately sad to me now. It's like when a mid-tier character in a film or tv show suddenly gets a lot of screen time in preparation for their impending, sudden killing-off.

― Tim F, Wednesday, January 4, 2012 1:39 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:(