Azealia Banks

it seems weird to me to tell people that they "can't be obnoxious" as if music criticism is teaching kindergarten

Interpol is slow and obnoxious, DL

of course the label is the reason she hasn't released an album. she's released well over an album's worth of songs and has been chomping at the bit to have an LP out. whether people would've liked it is another matter but there's no question that the major label was just being a major label and not giving a release date to the majority of their artists who don't have a hit single on their hands so they can release the albums that do already have hits.

perversely beginning to root for her now that everyone feels safe to slag her off in a way they'd never dare do to an artist at the crest of the hype wave

― lex pretend, Friday, July 11, 2014 5:49 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf i was a h8r from day 1 as the record itt clearly states and would like credit for this fact

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, July 11, 2014 6:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lex's post is a super weird thing to say on a messageboard that is basically devoted to shitting on currently popular artists

d-40's post is just vmic lol

Up to now she seems to be content to make money on public appearance fees and fashion shoots rather than recording and distributing music

she doesn't seem remotely content to do this, this is sort of the point? she's been yelling about how her label refuses to release her music for years now.

proof is in the pudding imo; lack of leaked singles or odd mixtapes or anything of substance makes me a little leery about where this music is. will happily retract if there's a spontaneous album in the next two months but i dunno.

maybe it becomes harder to make songs once you publicly alienate every producer you've worked with

it seems weird to me to tell people that they "can't be obnoxious"

You don't read too good do you?

Schadenfreude is an inalienable right.

http://pitchfork.com/news/56052-azealia-banks-shares-new-single-heavy-metal-and-reflective/

I kind of don't hate this, even though it sounds like she just rolled out of bed to record her vocal.

oy!! "HEAVY METAL AND REFLECTIVE" LEAKED! It's okay because y'all need that new new anyway! Go find it

on her own soundcloud, wonder if she'll ever get to the bottom of who leaked this

"Wallace" is rumoured to be a banger but I'll believe it when I hear it.

For now...I guess she's making more interesting music than Angel Haze these days?

uhhh sounds unfinished but it's not horrible?

I'm chalking this up to Stopped Clock Syndrome but this is the first thing I've ever heard from her that I've really liked

not bad, but more of a track one intro

I'm the first to laugh at Azealia but this is the first track of hers I've liked in ~years~ https://soundcloud.com/azealiabanksweb/azealia-banks-chasing-time

first track you've liked since 2112

Yeah, that's pretty fire imo.

yeah, this is great; i will happily eat crow if she can put out a solid basement jaxxin' album

I will eat crow if she puts out an album.

her not putting out an album for so long seemed to be more about her label shelving her than an inability to record songs, w/o the label i'd imagine she'll put an album out pretty quickly now

"yung rapunxel" was pretty good as was "count contessa", the first single from her second album (lol) http://pitchfork.com/news/52301-listen-azealia-banks-count-contessa/

tbh i kinda think the new joint is whatever and is benefitting from being separated from the stink of her label mess

yeah I don't think this is much better than "Yung Rapunxel," as both were solid

Chasing Time was written to appease record label execs who complained there was no radio-friendly hits on the album, so she told the crowd at her gig the other night. i liked that one best from the new tracks she played. it was the quietest i've ever seen Manchester Academy in 20something years. whoever booked her for a 2,500 capacity venue up here wants their head examining, couldn't have been more than 400 kids in there.

haven't heard new one but "heavy metal and reflective" was actually not bad at all

this is the first track of hers I've liked in ~years~

This is the exact same copy Slate is using in a post about this song, and when I saw it I was like, she hasn't been around for that long, has she? YEARS.

Also, I learned about an Azealia Banks song from a tweet by Slate. #2014

Well, the 1991 EP (the last thing she put out that was not trash IMO, other than the new song) came out more than two years ago

i really liked "esta noche" from that otherwise mediocre mixtape

this would be good if the chorus were much better

I still don't get people who liked 1991 but not Fantasea.

^that.

i didn't even like most of 1991 tbh lol

fair enough

haven't heard new one but "heavy metal and reflective" was actually not bad at all

― lex pretend, Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:02 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

"heavy metal and reflective" had pretty dope lyrics but didn't work as a whole for me

also not a bad track though

Who could possibly hate 1991 the track?

She makes a bunch of decent-to-great instrumentals worse all over that EP

having said that, "Chasing Time" is the second song of hers that I've liked, which I am finding distressing

IS she really that hateable as an artist?

She isn't if you keep away from Twitter.

she's not likeable on twitter but the only reason that "she's so awful as a person" has taken off as a media narrative is bc she didn't play the industry game

tbf the only person i know who actively hates her is dan

not as good as "heavy metal and reflective" (which was slow-burning fire imo), i think the singing (and whatever hook) sort of halts the momentum she builds up in the verses

So her album is on iTunes now!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broke-with-expensive-taste/id935819478

at least she's getting on with it

this year's beyoncé

will happily retract if there's a spontaneous album in the next two months but i dunno.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, July 12, 2014

i can't listen to it tonight (if it was actual beyoncé i'd've cancelled everything obv) but i'm totally looking forward to it, "heavy metal and reflective" has low-key become one of my singles of the year

If this was even last year, this thread would be blowing up right now

well she was PROMOTING the album a year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpcy2RQ8-Xk

this is gonna be fucking horrible and i will prob be listening along with many others if it actually surfaces

oh walk that back its there! chrome effed up loading the page the first time

yikes! talk about missing your moment.