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

cmon dawg I would have been forced to call out anyone who posted that one.

idk i guess i was brought up to break the custos glass only in case of emergency

nothing new to add but damn this is great

i would go:
aaliyah > danger > got paid >>>> light as a feather

damn, got paid really growing on me

woof if they could ditch the WUB WUB WUB and iggy "light as a feather" would be great

I love that we're supposed to pretend Katy B is working some sort of job where she gets a weekly paycheck.

hasn't that always been the case?

like regular girl next door is totally her persona

i'm sure katy b at some point worked a job where she got a weekly paycheck

also there was that time this girl called aaliyah tried to steal her man.

nicki minaj is so broke she can't pay her rent this month

Where Katy is all "I was at the bar with my friend Olivia tryin my best to catch up" Nicki is "Doin shots with my bitch Olivia. My bitch Olivia. She's really a bitch and she's named OH-LIV-EE-A."

lol

standing at the bar with my son olivia surely

not a metaphor punchline

katy b's in the trap

alternatively it's a little known fact that the original grime progenitors were initlaly brought together by a keen shared interest in us maritime history, and r cowie is actually named after william wiley. (similarly dizzee rascal's very occasional sobriquet captain roscoe [with a crossbow] was inspired by the roscoe bulmer.) contrary to popular opinion however crazy titch was always more of a hornby model railways man.

― r|t|c, Monday, 10 December 2012 18:34 (1 week ago)

famed mine-clearer? who are these ppl

how many mines do u have to clear to get even half as famous as crazy titch

depends on how much aggravated sexual assault is involved in mine-clearing iirc

oh wait never mind that was the other guy

sorry to make u look bad titch

haha I love that BoA video because the choreography is very "I Get It In"-esque. the song doesn't quite seem to demand it tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJYRl04Kqt4

That's what I like- the light, sweet piano hook coupled with the hard dance moves.

wiley always turns me into a grinning doofus when he jumps into "got paid"... what an amazing verse

getting jiggy with katy b is literally my sole goal in life

otm

have power on you

Someone has probably already pointed this out but "Aaliyah" is at least the second time in a Katy B song where there is some issue of someone not letting someone else get by, although in "Aaliyah" you can take it simply as metaphor.

Probably the earlier line makes me take the line in "Aaliyah" in a very physical way.

One thing that seems notable about Katy's songs is that so often they feel very physically situated, like she's really trying to place the listener into the environment using her lyrics. It's like she's stageblocking social situations. So a physical reading of that line seems appropriate to me.

standing at the bar with my friend oliviaaaa

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qnwhd/clips

Listening to On a Mission now. I don't remember if I've ever actually heard the whole album before, but it reinforces my sense that "Broken Record" is the best thing on it. I mean, "Katy on a Mission" isn't too far behind -- it's probably a more interestingly constructed song -- but I really ~feel~ "Broken Record."

"Easy Please Me"!

I've said this before and quickly recanted for fear of getting the gasface, but the verses on Broken Record strongly remind me of the first part of Paranoid Android

Don't do it.

lol

"broken record" is ALL about the last twenty seconds or so. the way she rides that recOoOoOrd melody >>>>>>

katy's extra verse in the live version!!!

was all for "Broken Record" before, glad critical consensus coalesced around it (because that album had like seven fucking singles) but now I'd say "Disappear" is by far best

"witches' brew" is far and away the best single and album standout imo

also i think "louder" is better than 90% of the album

it's weird putting them in order because the quality is very consistent across the album, for the most part - there isn't much separating these at all

witches' brew > lights on > katy on a mission > (louder) > go away > easy please me > power on me > movement > broken record > water > why you always here > something new > disappear > hard to get

nobody linked to this? here, just in case anybody who might be interested missed it:

http://pitchfork.com/features/update/9075-katy-b/

lead single off new album debuting on annie mac in a minute

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/bbc_radio_one

song's called "what love is made of"

KATIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEE

https://soundcloud.com/katyb/what-love-is-made-of-radio/s-6lw2L

OMG SO GOOD.

I find this super-straight but mysterious house sound (e.g. this and "Aaliyah") such a good look for Katy.

Yeah that's great. She's got such a good ear for melody, that vocal line never goes to the obvious places the groove is trying to push it to.

'Aaliyah' had better be on the album.

this song is really good

think "got paid" might be one my favorite songs by her, if not my favorite

WHOA

NICE