dawn putting out a christmas EP seems so right
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
i've been trying not to be all hinty-hinty or whatever about the album so i'm just going to leave this here:
the r&b hounds of love.
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
i found a random acapella they uploaded to youtube of one of the best songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDHLQtq1pLM
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 18:15 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjt-irRCZEs
― r|t|c, Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
one of my favourite mean girls scenes :)
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:35 (eleven years ago) link
new ep is out and the first track is pretty gorgeous
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
why is she releasing another excellent EP if not to fuck with our year-end lists?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
i cooled on armor on a lot but "and the bells" is sort of a condensed version of why i fell in love with it. just this endless build.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
also this is probably a terrible way of describing it but "miles" is sort of d'n'b clams casino and it's amazing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
jesus fucking christ @ "wynter"
okay i guess all of the tracks are great, thanks again dawn
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
is "wynter" a diss track
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 December 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
seems more of a character-based thing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
ha, I found it interesting that she would title a track "Wynter" too
― these bitches is my sons and i make dad jokes (The Reverend), Monday, 3 December 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
well 'heaux' seems to be like her #2 most faovrite word
― 乒乓, Monday, 3 December 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
this is amazing
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
ep is fantastic
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
loving all this nupostdubsteprnbsoundz
stop trolling
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
lol what?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
"nupostdubsteprnb" kmt
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
u mad about this instance of REVERSE-GENTRIFICATION RNB??
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
u gonna deny that there is some wubwubwubing on this remix that ms. richard herself included on her new ep??
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
lol you mean "December Sky (EDM Remix)"?
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
yes - if something else is going on here please tell me!
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
I thought Lex would get madder about the Clams Casino comparison
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
does lex even hate edm more than anyone else? he had that cataracs album on his year end list
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
my objection was your characterisation of it as a new genre, over-emphasis on a particular sound that everyone in pop is using and implication that r&b's worth lies in its "nu"ness
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
i was just lolling that it's called 'EDM Remix'
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm actually totally fine with EDM (apart from the fucking meaningless term "EDM", fucking hell americans you're so basic when it comes to dance music). "starships" and "pound the alarm" are two of my favourite singles of the year. i'd far rather have "EDM" than wishy-washy gentrified r&b
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
it was just a meaningless string of buzzwords placed in series, thought you could tell I was being playful by not spacing between 'em but w/e ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
implication that r&b's worth lies in its "nu"ness
Haha wau people will see this implication in anything these days.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
it was just a meaningless string of buzzwords placed in series
yes this was what was annoying!!!
― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
i h8 buzzwords
except for "kmt"
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
well you can relax I was using them 'ironically' or maybe even 'sarcastically'
I thought 'postdubstep' would have been what gave it away, tbh
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
buzzwords and dreadful prose: a necessary evil?
― a Christmas .gif for you from (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Stoked for the witch house revival.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
scared for the witch house revival
― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nR89DCOML._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU02_.jpg
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
'The Dreams in the Witch House' would be a decent Dawn Richard album title, is it too late to sub out 'GoldenHeart'?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
I could have sworn someone's SN was 'The-Dream in the Witch House' a few years back, but can't find it.
Anyway this is amazing - is it being marketed as an actual Christmas EP?
― etc, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
was really looking fwd to it but i'm off the bus for this ep tbh, can't be doing with her without the structure
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine but after a year of "EP in name only" it's funny to get an EP that's really an EP
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't decided whether I think this is amazing or agree with rtc, so probably some of each.
Sonically there's something very late 90s female pop-electronica about this - Ray of Light in particular.
There's definitely now a clear trajectory whereby each release is getting progressively less rooted in mainstream R&B tactics (although the unclear status of this EP - i.e. is it considered a kind of one-off side project or not - makes this perhaps a not so reliable conclusion to leap to).
I'm interested in whether this is something Dawn has thought about in strategic commercial terms as well as simply in terms of following her muse: it's possible that it really does make more sense to go in this direction and carve out a respected niche than to compete in a playing field where these days many more entrants fail than succeed.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this doesn't seem to be connected to GoldenHeart like "'86" (or "Pretty Wicked Things" i guess?) so i don't think it's anything more than throwing out some music to the fans. whatever hopes i had for her as a commercial force are pretty much gone now and even if this is getting a little further from my pedestrian mersh tastes already i'm still on board.
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
btw "'86" definitely gets mercy in the "sick of shit named after years from the 20th century" rant from earlier today
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
i know this'll sound like a dickish thing to say but i had wondered how healthy it would prove for an artist's rare interactions with the outside world to only be with very interested, very committed parties
then again dawn is hardly the first case study of this
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno, i have to wonder if being in the industry and a semi-public figure without attracting great fame nor great scorn is actually a bubble of stanbase positive reinforcement or if someone in her situation faces much more rejection and criticism in their daily life than a boldface name
― these markers love soda (some dude), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
think rejection would only take on a silent form, which leads to the same withdrawal anyway
signed, a long-term ilm poster
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 22:07 (45 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah even for being the most "structured" cut i found the drumnbass number far too close to the bone personally
plus being called 'miles' it should have been a 'children' homage WHAT WERE U THINKING DAWN
basically i can't help thinking that if i were hypothetically scornful of the whole dawn mystique this ep would be exactly my satirisation
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link