Rolling R&B Thread 2012

LOL

lol jeremih's music has always been about vibes, it seems odd to try and slander him for that

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, November 21, 2012 12:34 PM (1 minute ago)

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i'm glad after j0rdan has spent years shaking his head at me for privileging strange, nebulous concepts like "vocals" and "drums" he's figured out what really matters in music

y'all are weirdos

I don't really have strong opinions about Jeremih. I liked both his albums alright and like this mixtape alright. Like lex, I have irl friends who are obsessed with this tape and I can't share their excitement. "Fuck U All The Time" is my jam tho.

that's interesting, it wouldn't have occurred to me that there were roving bands of jeremih mixtape enthusiasts out there

anyway, "Demonstrate" is def my favorite non-Miguel, non-Dawn, non-Frank r&b song of the year. other stuff I love:

Adiah, "No One"
Ty$, "My Cabana"
Wynter Gordan, "Stimela"
Usher, "Climax"
Meshell Ndegeocello, "Four Women"
Tweet, "Day Dreaming"
Nina Sky, "Never Kissed You"
Keke Palmer, "Dip 2 Nite"

xp i mean, these are my r&b/dance nerd crew we're talking about (oddly enough, one of them is a high school buddy of deej's)

yeah but i didn't even know the nerds were rocking with jeremih like that

i mean it's 'gold' on datpiff so obviously someone is listening to it

yeah i've felt it caught on in the circle that rev is describing... brenmar played "feel the bass" last weekend

also i keep hearing tracks/remixes of tracks from it out

congrats u guys are R&B hipsters

reporting, bruv

countdown to mention of a world of...

feel like "hipsters" and "r&b hipsters" are coming perilously close to being one and the same anyway

you just think that because you're not out chea on these imaginary R&B skreets

ding ding ding xp

def saw a chick in chicago w/ a bag that had a list of musicians on it & it was like

Fleetwood Mac
Led Zeppelin
Velvet Underground
Sonic Youth
Aaliyah
Neil Young
Joni Mitchell

I think it's a bit off to conflate the niche who are into a Jeremih mixtape and the wide swath of people who love Aaliyah.

aaliyah def is a 'hip musical crush' to have nowadays

nowadays, and also the last 5,000 days before that

among the kind of ppl deej is talking about, I mean

of course there's going to be some lol college kids who wake up one day and go "wow aaliyah was dope" because they weren't really hip to "are you that somebody" when they were 5

thats a lot of ppl tho, is what im saying, you oldie

Oh wow, it hadn't even occurred to me there's this whole cohort that have only experienced Aaliyah in retrospect, which actually explains a lot over the past few years.

if someone never really goes out of style as a respectable artist to rep for than it's pretty meaningless to point out imo. "Rakim is so hot this year!" xp

than=then

all I'm saying is it seems college kids are getting a copy of one in a million along w their copy of unknown pleasures nowadays which maybe wasnt as true 5 yrs ago

perhaps, yeah

The cult of tragic death probably plays a role too, hadn't thought of that either :( (and in a way it wouldn't for eg MJB, another canonical voice of that generation)

yeah, def. plus the fact that getting a career cut short for whatever reasons before one can fall off often does wonders for a legacy.

Also this Keke Palmer mixtape is excellent. Love Me Love Me Not is what I'm about

sounding like dawn cos you think lex is automatic

Can we please drop the "hipster" accusations? They tend to obscure things. I think everyone I know who are into R&B are also heavily into the Jeremih tape.

sb for anyone who tries to break up a rolling r&b 2012 catfight imo

am trying and failing to find any reason not to put kalenna 'poison' at #2 on my no-dawn list, lol at this entire sham

TEARS IN MY DRANK, TEARS, TEARS IN MY DRANK YEAH

we have far too few of them really

xp

this keyshia album is pleasant in her usual forgettable way

i actually decided it was cool to call ppl 'hipsters' again for 2013

#trendwatch

feeling it tbh

lol deej

Aight. Let's all call each other hipsters and get it over with then.

Good morning, guys. Who did what to whom?

"Poison" really is just the most amazing song

in my fantasy world it would be the centerpiece of Last Train 2 Paris 2: Dick Big As The Eiffel Tower

I have to listen to Chamber of Diaries again before I decide where it'll end up for me in my albums list. The highs are so high but the lows are pretty low.

lollll ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8PJJ9lNoVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtKyP-xe1C0

i'm guessing nobody besides lex took heed of my lyrica anderson endorsement so