Katy B - On A Mission (4 April 2011) - hype, anticipation &c

heh it cuts deeper than anxiety of influence i think

if, as it must be accepted, aaliyah is the best girl ever there must be an unspoken dark side to that which this song finally now dares address

'got paid' is fab though overshadowed obv

other two are disposable as in have already disposed of

couldn't think of a single thing to say about the jacques greene one

"fuck off canada" is my usual trusty go-to

gah fux sake katy if you had just done 'get paid' immediately after 'heatwave' was #1 you might have had something, now what do you look like eh

erm also how did i miss this

katy working with the (old) sugababes????!!!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a382332/sugababes-original-lineup-recording-with-katy-b.html

Emeli Sandé has also been linked to the project

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aahhhhh that emoticon

Holy shit "Aaliyah" is ridiculously good.

WHAT WHAT IS THIS WHAT?
Downloading now.

and it's FREE?!?!

wait. the link isn't emailing to me. argh.

nevermind. working now.

it took a couple minutes. I went to the restroom and when I returned there it was. Try that.

Love Aaliyah. Songs about other artists tend to be great, don't they?

It would be fitting if my two favorite songs this year would be "Springsteen" and "Aaliyah."

lol that emoticon

god iggy azealia is awful, the diplo track is pleasant but floats by without much to grab onto, production feels like a demo, like its a sketch rather than a song

the jacques greene track is dope! way better than the diplo track, also a better song too

"Danger" is my second favorite; it woulda worked as a hidden track on On a Mission.

"aaliyah" > "danger" > "got paid" > "light as a feather" for me

yeah, you passed my love to the left hand side
smoked it right down to the roach
so i might as well put it out

fantastic

"Oh my gosh"

a moving dramatisation of lex's ill-starred stint among the factmag stoners

nevertheless rating it over 'get paid' warrants a slapping

Got Paid is pure joy.

nevertheless rating it over 'get paid' warrants a slapping

― r|t|c, Friday, December 7, 2012 9:56 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's why i said "for me" plus i always have a thing for moody creepers like "danger"

bloody moodiness

"got paid" is fantastic tho don't get me wrong

the number of jacques greene productions that i care about remains at 0, tbh

not even "another girl"!? i'm a jacques greene stan tho so ymmv

another one cutesily parading around their little "tee hee i'm just such a ___ guy!" foibles and then hiding behind subjectivity's skirt when challenged. i blame djp

another one cutesily parading around their little "tee hee i'm just such a ___ guy!" foibles and then hiding behind subjectivity's skirt when challenged. i blame djp

― r|t|c, Friday, December 7, 2012 10:08 AM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

guilty as charged

"another girl" is boring and completely redundant given the number of remixes of the cici track and indeed the original

the closest he's come to alright is the track on the first night slugs comp whose title i have forgotten

fuck 'aaliyah' is still SO GOOD

i know this simply because i want to write out the lyrics in their entirety and just go LOOK AT THIS

it always amazes me how we can be so close on so much and yet so far on other things, lex

perhaps i was too hard on geeneus earlier

moreso than a focused spotlight would have done the clubby anonymity ends up adding something sphinxlike and enriching

Aaliyah is the only keeper here really, although Just Got Paid perks up when Wiley comes in.

The Diplo track is a prime example of producer and singer/songwriter not knowing what to do with one another. One of the reasons the album was so great was that everyone concerned seemed to know exactly what they were going for.

Is there supposed to be a lift from The Israelites in Got Paid by the way?

Like Aaliyah has that perfect mix of joy and sadness that characterises all great diva house.

yeah otm about the diplo track. you'd hope they tread more carefully in future, though the gamble taken is always that for every ten duffers there'll be the one breakout hit greater than anything created inhouse. maybe it is time for that risk now, idk

That's clearly a back-of-sofa Diplo beat but at the same time there's a garishness to his stuff that doesn't suit Katy.

Dunno why they're pissing around with Jacques Greene when they have ROYAL-T sitting around in-house anyway.

AHHHHHHHHHH AALIYAH AND GET PAID ARE SO GOOD AHHHHHHH

WILEY !!!

KATY X JESSIE 4EVER

sorta feel like working like ppl with diplo & jacques green is something you do for a free EP, yeah?

whats the line ware sings starting with "i don't believe...", been trying to work it out

sorta feel like working like ppl with diplo & jacques green is something you do for a free EP, yeah?

― J0rdan S., Friday, December 7, 2012 12:42 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly, the diplo and greene tracks are b-sides at best, but i think the greene track is a great b-side. they wouldn't be album tracks, and i'm fine with that

Back on form after the awful jarring vocal over Bax. Aaliyah is great especially..

i lose my shit when wiley comes in, they drop him in at the perfect time