SHANELL _ NOBODY'S BITCH _ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

no actually come back here i wanna hear this, you seriously don't like 'just for the night'?? why on earth not?

shhh I'll explain when I finish with "Last Time."

fwiw as this goes on, I think it's a stronger effort than Frank Ocean

she was doing really well on "None Tonight" (love the tape stop effect) until the chorus.

alfred u have to leave sorry ;_;

love "Last Time"

earring to nose ring attachment of the... decade

― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 17, 2012 3:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def 1st response HOF btw

OK. Re "Just For the Night," which I just heard again:

The Herbie Hancock-esque programming/scratching in the intro = fabulous. I didn't hear enough tension between her wan chorus and the rest of the song though, esp when the bridge teased me into thinking a banger was coming.

i see, so it fails on the terms you arbitrarily invented for it

I'm not aware of other terms.

an unhappy story told from two sides of lonely lies and love by proxy, appropriately set in a churning trudging strobing clubland that is a deliberately false impression of a good time and which approximates but never achieves fleeting release just the same way as its inhabitants do. alternatively its routine placidity as sad weary happiness that's just enough

but either way your exultant chorus, banger, tension would be in aid of what in the song?

I've got the brains, you've got the looks.

would you like to give me a proper answer now or would dorothy perkins like to keep pretending she's dorothy parker?

All those things in aid of a song I'm not hearing but you do.

you don't hear... the lyrics?

i mean if you have an alternative reading that you feel the performance or production inadequately dramatises i'd love to hear it

perhaps not if it's going to take 40 posts painstakingly extracting it from you though

The lyrics are sharp! I love the doctor bits. I was trying not to rely on lyrics though.

I mean, I hear what you're saying about exultant-verses/flat-chorus, willing herself to have a good time. I'm just not transported, although I'll listen to it again.

I did hear a bit of Dawn Richards' cyber-erotic devastation in "Last Time" but she's bawdier, and that's a plus.

dawn hasnt really crossed my mind at all with this, i guess when prompted i can see where the mentions come from on the face of it but shanell's viscerality completely takes dawn out the picture for me

kalenna though would certainly be viable

thread of the century, album is top 5 just for it

the possibilities become endless

well this is great

this is great for sure. need to have time to really dedicate to listening to it, though. so my proper thoughts will come in a day and a half.

This album can't possibly live up to this thread

This album can't possibly live up to this thread

that's what i thought!

and it didn't! though they complement each other nicely

what is good about this thread, or do you enjoy reading people trying to be "funny" with lamentable results

my fault for putting aoty in there :/

that'll teach me to be enthusiastic

c'mon rtc, it's not as if you haven't cut down many the enthusiast in your time.

i prune for a brighter tomorrow not salt the earth out of boorish spite

Lol but also otm

Skimmed a bit of the album on soundcloud; this does have a certain appeal. Will investigate further tonight

i prune for a brighter tomorrow not salt the earth out of boorish spite

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_06/2005/0387131/l_118571_0387131_cf9c6137.jpg

have we discussed the female empowerment angle yet?

what is good about this thread, or do you enjoy reading people trying to be "funny" with lamentable results

Instead of critiquing this album, anybody who is not a fan should just post an animated gif of a woman angrily swinging an axe any time it is mentioned.

rtc telling alfred to leave the thread inspired real lols, lex

The cover got me in, reminds me of possibly 10 things that I'm probably recollecting wrongly.

And yeah the tone can be aggressive seeming but then more quiet and the wistful piano touches in so mopey too. From a listen there are more mooods once you go further in.

The 'speaks...' stuff in it is great. Gives the record a shape.

this thread is hilarious and raises the question: is the message board format doomed to always eventually become an ouroboros

i liked something
-one person

we already 'did' liking something
-other person

idk what the best track from this would be to introduce people to shanell? "fuck me daddy" is obv stunning but might be a bit too extra...think it might be between "on the one" and "360" with "turn up on him" as sleeper choice

ya i would say "on the one" or the one w/ busta

On the One. Like a summation of a few moods and emotional registers in one place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVJQ0ctWzw

omg lol

amazing

pretty good album imo

"touch" me daddy and just for tonight have videos. the first one...the scissor legs scene. the little dog. the BANANAS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9FezaSWDk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXbqRQTU5I

also, her terrifying nails in both

obviously i am still MASSIVELY ON this mixtape, in terms of songs i'm especially on "360" and the way it basically sounds like an r&b jerk song then the beat goes into nola bounce

http://soundcloud.com/cloopmusic/shanell-catch-me-at-the-light

^^INCREDIBLE new song

http://soundcloud.com/cloopmusic/shanell-dedicated

^^sweet new song

http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/22370/shanell-midnight-mimosas.html

^^new mixtape that i can't listen to yet (honestly i work in an office for like 5 days per year and it DOES MY HEAD IN not being able to LIVE like a NORMAL PERSON) but it's called midnight mimosas which, you know, she got me right there

happy for her but being reminded of this nadir of a thread darkens my bloodclaat mood tbh

it's neither you nor me nor her who should be embarrassed about it

The new mixtape is solid straight through and legit stunning in places. "Show Me," "Boy Stop Playin'," "Dedicated" and "So Good" are early highlights for me