~thought you kneeeeeeew better~
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 08:22 (nine years ago) link
yesss
― dyl, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
This leaked in low quality. I anticipate it being divisive.
― Greer, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
Anaconda I mean.
― Greer, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:44 (nine years ago) link
Haven't heard it. Does it sample Sir Mixalot?
― MarkoP, Friday, 1 August 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
indeed it does
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 August 2014 14:51 (nine years ago) link
it didn't sound very good tbh but the quality was insanely poor
I think it sounds ridiculous and I love that it couldn't be any further away from Pills N Potions.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 1 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.audiomack.com/song/youheardthatnew/anaconda
― Greer, Saturday, 2 August 2014 02:06 (nine years ago) link
This song is incredibly fun.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 2 August 2014 03:12 (nine years ago) link
Found myself some wifi in remote rural transylvania just to listen to this. Yes nicki!!!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 2 August 2014 09:59 (nine years ago) link
This kind of goes completely off the rails once she disappears. Like whyyyy would it have the exact same breakdown except done 12x more clunkily? Really fun until then, mind you.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 2 August 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
yep. fun for the most part though. i so much prefer fun smartass badass nicki than bubblegum singing nicki
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 August 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
like dun d-d-dun-dun d-d-dun dun
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Monday, 4 August 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
+ vg otm
― The Reverend, Saturday, August 2, 2014 3:49 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah this is my final judgment too. so so fun (and idk how it's doing commercially but it sounds like exactly the kind of thing she should be going for to score a ~hit as well) and then it goes on pointlessly for at least a minute more than it should
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2014 11:25 (nine years ago) link
i think the final minute is the only good part. the rest of the song is really clunky, it's like watching a car with an engine that keeps sputtering out
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:15 (nine years ago) link
it's funny to think that Polow Da Don and Da Internz and another producer all worked together to assemble this, the track sounds like something literally anybody could've thought of and executed. whole thing is so boringly on the nose.
― some dude, Thursday, 7 August 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link
completely agreed w/ j0rdan. i like it more than i did initially and it is 'fun' but i think it could have been executed much better.
― dyl, Thursday, 7 August 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
some dude on the mark; the only thing this does to me is make me feel old."FUCK THEM SKINNY ASS BITCHES" screaming seems like tumblr essay bait. The Lil' Wayne style laughing sounds hella fake and joyless.nagl all round
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 August 2014 06:03 (nine years ago) link
The Lil' Wayne style laughing sounds hella fake and joyless.
ok yeah, this is the single worst thing abt it
― Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding (contenderizer), Friday, 8 August 2014 06:20 (nine years ago) link
nicki's verses >>>> beat >>>>>>>> hook >>>>>>>> "oh my god look at her butt" >>>>>>>> bizarro screaming about skinny bitches >>>>>>> nicki cackling >>>>>>>> song not stopping when it needs to. the first two of those are very very good, the next two are eye-rolly but tolerable, the last three are problems. nicki's cackling usually kinda works but it does seem rote here. it doesn't help that she's trumped herself twice within a week of its release (and that a bunch of her tracks this year have been so next-level).
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 August 2014 07:35 (nine years ago) link
I do feel like she's gonna go the Wayne route and devolve into a bunch of annoying verbal & rhyming tics
Sometimes she reminds me of Chino XL when she gets technical
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 12:06 (nine years ago) link
her rapping-ass rapping has been as strong as it's ever been this year though, notwithstanding the annoyances (minor or major) that will always be around the corner (usually on her most prominent songs) in her career
and yeah occasionally the tics can be overdone but in general i think she balances them well (across her body of work rather than within any given song), many of them are still effective and they're definitely not cause for overall concern
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 August 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
I guess she's not a total drug addict like Wayne so there's not that factor
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 August 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
at this point nicki 2014 (inc the final days of 2013) kinda goes
1. lookin' ass2. boss ass bitch (remix)3. my n*gga (remix)4. flawless (remix)5. yasss bish!!6. no flex zone (remix)7. low8. anaconda9. chi-raq10. she came to give it to you11. touchin, lovin12. danny glover (remix)13. pills n potions
― lex pretend, Friday, 8 August 2014 13:12 (nine years ago) link
"Boss Ass Bitch" and "Danny Glover" are hot verses but most of the other stuff has just seemed to me like a lot of attitude, no real memorable moments or great lines
― some dude, Friday, 8 August 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
i did the math the other day and literally an entire third of "Pills N Potions" is the "I STILL LOVE I STILL LOVE I STILL LUH UH UH" part, which is just inexcusable.
666. Bang Bang
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Friday, 8 August 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
"FUCK THEM SKINNY ASS BITCHES" screaming seems like tumblr essay bait.
lol i have a feeling someone is going to write a thinkpiece about this line and the similar one from the meghan trainor song if it hasn't happened already
― dyl, Friday, 8 August 2014 15:12 (nine years ago) link
the fake laughing in "Anaconda" is so fucking annoying
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
nah it's almost the best part
― dyl, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
talk about damning w/faint praise
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
it's the most Female Weezy thing she's ever done
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/all-your-bass-are-belong-to-us
(robin james is good tho)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
"boss ass bitch" remix is one of the craziest rap songs of the year and she spits on "lookin ass" and "chiraq" but i'm mostly with shiplo on this one
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
idk why but she cant release a good song to save her life rn
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
the trollingest thing i really believe that i've resisted trotting out in public over the last few months is that Iggy's album is really well produced and people would fall over themselves with praise if a Nicki album ever had those beats.
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 03:56 (nine years ago) link
I don't think anyone's issue with Azalea is the beats.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:07 (nine years ago) link
I could believe that. Still not ever going to listen to an Iggy Azalia album tho.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
sure, sure. i'm just saying, sonically it's almost precisely the rap/pop intersection i feel like people want out of a Nicki LP that she never seems to hit upon. obviously Nicki a big precursor to her sound too, but just interesting given how rudderless Nicki's taste in beats/songs has become.
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:11 (nine years ago) link
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, August 19, 2014 9:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk I hate the "Fancy" beat, although yes the hook is worse (not her tho)
― nova, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:13 (nine years ago) link
Disagree on both counts - beat could pass as dj mustard and Charli is easily the best thing about the song.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:26 (nine years ago) link
idk it's too girly for me, nohomophobic
― nova, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
i have mixed feelings about the "Fancy" beat, meant more the other tracks on the album (although not so much the other single with Rita Ora, that's pretty bland)
― some dude, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:32 (nine years ago) link
I do expect there to be a buzzaonthebeatho drop everytime I hear it although when you think about it there are differences
― nova, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 04:34 (nine years ago) link
My chief beef with Azalea-as-artist has always been her terrible rapping, not bad beats. The fact that she has good beats being wasted only makes it worse. Black Widow being a prime example of this. Her bars on that are baffingly shit, like "how were you not asked to re-record this" levels of shit. Anyway, Anaconda video is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs&feature=youtu.be
― Greer, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 05:43 (nine years ago) link
drake huh
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
i really h8 this song
― FKATlovestofu better (Spottie), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 06:35 (nine years ago) link
lol @ breaking the banana in half, lol @ leaving drake with his head in his hands
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 20 August 2014 06:43 (nine years ago) link