Danity Kane, anyone?

During a recent group meeting, a business conversation took a turn for the worst when my group member punched me in the back of my head while I was speaking to another associate.

Better bands than you have bad better fight ON STAGE and stayed together, missy.

ffs

thank god no one would be willing to get into a fight with mutya for mks to fall apart in a similar way

heaven needed a girl group

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Was really counting on @Danitykane to make it so I could collect my "Goldenheart" check. Dammit.

Team Dawn no matter what. I bet she deserved that punch.

messssss. sadder about the dawn/druski falling out though.

roll on blackheart! love "lemonade" but never liked the idea of a DK reunion putting dawn's solo career on hold

(if the MKS reunion only gave us "lay down in swimming pools" and the DK reunion only gave us "lemonade" that's still better than many acts give us in entire careers)

Very sloppy end to this project - the comeback only having 3 members meant it always felt a little off to begin with.

This may sound naive but Dawn has always come across in interviews &c as a very rational and intelligent person, so I feel puzzled and also saddened by the news that she's made some enemies. Feel like we mightn't be getting the full story here.

There was an MKS tweet about them being in the studio last week. Then again, things have been coming soon for about a year. Feel like they should either go petulant à la Azealia Banks or just quit now rather than leave fans hanging and thirsty forever.

i think dawn is probably just a control freak who likes to micromanage everything. tbf she is almost entirely the creative force of the group. the other two could have been meeting to bash out music ideas together for whatever reason (this seems to be story that is out there) and clearly dawn took things the wrong way.

the best policy i've learnt from experience w/ girl groups, especially reformed ones, is just to never get too invested. if good music comes out that's great, but things almost invariably end up going tits up. it's too miserable a situation to stan for dk or mks knowing their albums were both finished but will probably never be released.

it's weird seeing anyone stan for DK, unlike MKS i never felt they had a really distinct or necessary sound or unfinished business (and unlike solo dawn). and i loved welcome to the dollhouse! the quality of "lemonade" was a real surprise.

anyway one thing i've learned this week: d. woods, the DK member who wasn't even invited to the reunion, is...the younger sister of SHANELL!!!!!

so this album is coming out on 28 oct anyway

unfortch the latest single isn't up to much at all

https://soundcloud.com/official-danity-kane/danity-kane-rhythm-of-love

this single, however!

https://soundcloud.com/official-danity-kane/all-in-a-days-work

The live version of Rhythm of Love had more oomph.

Some great stuff on this album, especially Roultte, Secret Lover, and Tell Me.

it's pretty great

heavy on the irony with all the boss bitch anthems given how it ended but weirdly that doesn't actually lessen their impact

"all in a day's work" is such a jam

it's also really nicely varied and - again the irony - sounds a lot more confident than it had any right to. half expected it all to be desperate trend-chasing but that's not the case

this album never did get its due

"lemonade" through to the heavily ironic "2 sides" is fire, in quite an odd way sometimes ("we rage at the party like maniacs" is an image that keeps being on my mind). it soooort of loses its way in the second half, which doesn't always sound finished ("roulette" is the biggest waste bc it sounds like there are the seeds of something potentially special, in a "style" kinda 80s teen romance way, and the jodeci reference is excellent, but overall the song feels a bit...bogged down), and then "bye baby" is a sort of unjustified victory lap that still works

but aside from that there are some pretty interesting choices overall - "tell me" segueing into "2 sides" really works

aubrey and shannon are a duo now and the single they released is improbably good: http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6649118/dumblonde-dreamsicle-video-premiere-danity-kane

song is incredible

well i'm really enjoying the album rn

the textures in this song!

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

that IS improbably good.

holy smokes, just catching up on Dumblonde, both those songs are killerrr

The textures in this album!

brad otm this album is way better than it should be. how did an amazing garage-house track like "you got me" find its way on to here, it sounds like it fell off the dj q album

have totally fallen for the Dumblonde album, was feeling challopsy and thinking about coming here to post that i like it more than Blackheart. but then and i listened to Blackheart again and ... no.

I like the dumblonde album more for sure. Might just be more up my alley but it's amazing

I mean I really like it. A lot. Sooo much more than I would've expected.

And I *want* to like it more. For a lot of reasons.

But the Dumblonde record is a really great pop record, whereas Dawn's from fucking space.

That's no knock on the former.

I really like the Dumblonde album and i love the production choices on it but as if there is anything on it that floors me like Swim Free or Choices does

the dumblonde album is really good and "you got me" is particularly excellent, in a more fallow year i'd have repped it harder. better than blackheart is o_0 tho

Dumblonde record is a really great pop record, whereas Dawn's from fucking space.

Dawn's is definitely more ambitious I guess but it's so arch

I admire blackheart but actually enjoy dumblonde idk

Feels like a lame poptimist choice on my part i suppose

new board discrip?

dumblonde doesn't work better in strict pop terms; blackheart is catchier, hookier, better songcraft etc (not to mention force of character which dawn has in spades). vocal production and arrangements are pretty much the star of the dumblonde album, regardless of whether they're in a more familiar pop palette. these two albums are going for v different things but i guess comparing dumblonde to years & years or CRJ (prob the two best straight-pop albums of 2015 imo) reveals why it's not top-tier, whereas comparing dawn to the kelela or twigs eps reveals her superiority

[sighs deeply, removes earrings, rolls up sleeves]

side with deej before his spine went

blackheart doesnt interest me. sonically corny and conceptually ponderous in a way that no longer washes, because now self-conscious and playing to a slavish and trite gallery - album duly fufils its own prophecy as the saddest of epilogues to her previous art - mask on, presenting doll richard for your consideration, or was that consolidation

"And even though I lost the best of me it was worth it
I took it to the deep
Cause there's no depth in these streams
I took it to the deep
Cause my heart doesn't swim in shallow creeks"

that deep so filled with victimhood and self-abnegation, empty baleful cryogenic cousin to "fucking space". what's in those shallow creeks though?- tender green life. and in that black night, why only "freckles in the sky". this brilliant, jouissant reply is dumblonde's - pop in all its awkward teeming poetic meaninglessness, gloriously confounding plurality and messy multivalence. humanalien shards of jagged beauty embedded in clubfunk ditz - why settle for scandos and major lazer when here's the white girls wearing headdresses and fringe boots tropical 2?

"We lay forever, walking over waters deeper than the sea
But never get wet, wet, wet, wet"

three minutes in and over chorales there's lightning thunder and hail, kings and queens, rulers of the light, immortalit-ay (heh) , a dream of love infinite. which album were we talking about again? and so they continue. shooting stars ignite, fire in the sky, "follow the madness with abandon / living legends, you and me". and the finale!!... to me so much of dumblonde seems to be in explicit post-punch-up dialogue with dawn, sympathetic but almost at times wickedly pantomimic - a gauntleted hand ('yellow canary') on her shoulder ('dreamsicle'):

Late last night I had a dream / I fell asleep in the shadow of success
I confess / And I forgot what freedom means [...] So tonight we dream / We won't wake up / The dream is never done, no"

the comparative arguments against db above are truly the worst and most bovine trumped-up rockism possible imo - gloomily burdensome pseudopersonal narrative, signposted subversion (male gaze flipped on a tediously problematic standard, clutch thee fuckin pearls), abstraction and difficult sounds (or just idm toybox melodies whatever), "ambition" - all privileged over the kaleidoscope of the world with just a tart dismissal as pop, de facto unworthy. for shame you suckers - had the artist names of these records been swapped over you all know damn well none of this would ever have been said

alternate perspective: when I listened to dawn's album i was utterly floored and found myself coming back to it dozens of times. When I listened to the dumblonde album it was very good and deserved further exploration but i didn't capsize.

the dumblonde record is good and fun

I admire blackheart but actually enjoy dumblonde idk

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, December 5, 2015 3:23 AM (5 hours ago)

this is a perfectly reasonable place to be ... not sure if i'm *quite* here but i'm not far off

think we can all agree on: "wow, aubrey/shannon. did not expect this."

side with deej before his spine went

― r|t|c, Saturday, December 5, 2015 8:01 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol dont worry i was just being lazy :D

alternate perspective: when I listened to dawn's album i was utterly floored and found myself coming back to it dozens of times. When I listened to the dumblonde album it was very good and deserved further exploration but i didn't capsize.

― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, December 5, 2015 10:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if a critical judgement happens in a forest, does it make a sound?

the video for 'tender green life' is SO bad but then i found out Aubrey O'Day actually directed it & now it's classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqgE_nUjwI

like the members of danity kane DIY'd their own branding and only the music is incredible but that enthusiasm completely justifies the odd first timer vibes of the presentation

it reminds me of that time ms paint versions of classic rap albums were going arounds & it was always fascinating to see which details the artist decided to focus on & which were covered in a sloppy drag of an ms paint brush