6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

mayyyyyyyybe

I mean, yeah, in his prime he could have probably pulled off a concept album about it

we've got miguel now

urgh please no either/or bullshit

ha was that directed at me? maybe i should take out my displeasure at no one posting in my miguel poll by polling these two.....

nah tho

hey man that poll got 30+ votes, quit yer bellyachin

not sure what i feel about "tender tendencies." I feel like the Weekend (to bring him into this) does what "Tender Tendencies" tries to by showing instead of telling. erius tells us he's self-centered; Tesfaye actually acts self-centered. He doesn't have to tell us this.

feather-soft pillows of a track tho, gorgeous stuff

Sort of intrigued by the thought of a Sophie's Choice between The-Dream and Miguel. I'd probably be Team Terius, but it would be a tough one

or maybe we can listen to multiple R&B singers! or maybe not

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/11/ocean-weekend-miguel-best.php

hahaha

That article brings me so much irrational joy. Like, I had to re-read the whole thing again, just because you posted it

As I was saying, the 1977 remaster sounds MAGNIFICENT

pity about the songwriting

Songwriting is great, man. I really don't understand why y'all think it isn't.

what did you think of love king

Loved it.

I mean, I know all of the 1977 songs by heart. They're great: perfect, bitter-but-uplifting breakup songs. And Form of Flattery is such a great diss.

longneck I don't know if I can trust your opinion about anything anymore

tsk tsk tsk

ha yeah you fell right into mytrap

"slow it down" dropping today, apparently

this song sucks

the production on his songs has really fallen off, "roc your body" excepted

tricky is busy on this sub-weeknd b.s. :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7xvIJNDq4

Does not suck. Is great. Love it.

it's just sad how much terius has fallen off at this point :(

always used to love how he could somehow produce genius even when being really obviously lazy/tossed-off but there are just no ideas left

the well does indeed appear to be dry

then again i do love "nobody's business" (purely as a song dammit, not for CB)

my lurker username is looking shitty these days

nah this is fantastic. total return to form after all that post-love king bullshit imo

i dont think it's awful, but it sounds to me like someone trying to ape dreams style more than anything else, which is incredibly :[

i think his downward turn in consistency has been pretty gradual and not actually that huge, though just enough to matter obviously, but i don't even know how this song is half as good as "Dope Chick"

I love them both.

"dope chick" has the dopiest chorus, i could never get into that song

it's not top shelf or anything, but it grew on me

i feel like every time this guy drops a song, a random set of people are like "a return to form!"

i mean i thought that about "roc your body" so no hate, it's just a weird phenomenon

I'll give support to J0rdan's point: This new track is great; his best since "Body Work/Fuck My Brains Out." Didn't think he had something so bottomlessly hooky in him anymore. Return to form.

i really liked "fuck my brains out" too

That's the shit he does better than anybody else... just barrage you with hook after hook after hook after twist after hook. It's an incredible thing, so I can forgive him for losing his knack for it. Nobody could sustain that writing style for more than three or four years

"fuck my brains out" is the only solo terius song i've really loved post-love king

baffled at any love for this - even "roc" was sort-of-ok in a basic way but this is just sad

i honestly always thought his solo stuff was just one decent-sized fraction of his best work. these days would much rather hear something he's written for Beyonce or Rihanna or whoever, feel like his outside writing has suffered less lately.

yeah his stuff on 4 doesn't back up my impression that he's fallen off post-love king (but then looking at the list of writers lord knows how much he had to do with those songs)

xp That's definitely true, but his solo records gave him room to just let a song ride in a way the songs he writes for bigger stars never could. His best solo stuff was always so unhurried, so you could just sit there and luxuriate in how hooky and gorgeous it all was. I miss that vibe.

it's funny that he starts this new song off by saying "i know they're not gonna play this on top 40 radio" despite that quote from a year or so ago where he was like "i can write a solo smash whenever i want to, that's not what i'm going for right now. i'm gonna do that when i'm 50."

I miss good terius so much

chillin w/ my ella / there's nothin u can tella

This is a bit of a trifle but I'm enjoying it, more than I expected to from reading the most recent posts at least. Fabolous verse is woeful though.

I stand by my theory that Terius has always had pretty much zero quality control, but he barely needed it up to 2010 or thereabouts because his overall quality was so high.

the fab verse definitely sucks but the nu-dream alternative would've been an electric guitar solo so i can deal with it

no one will be talking about this song a month from now

Listened once, that's probably enough.

no one will be talking about this song a month from now

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, February 15, 2013 5:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No. They'll be singing it instead, looking at butts.