Tinashe - Aquarius (out October 7 2014)

eh as long as she's not sampling their classics in her songs and trying too hard to capitalize on the public goodwill for them (cough Tink cough) i'm fine with Tinashe taking inspiration from that era, her music sounds pretty of the moment to me.

she created a new moment 4 sure. love hearing Missy's name all over the place again tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRC3D1xmo-c

omg i don't think i realized how much legit magnetism and star quality she has

her Kimmel performance last year was crazy too. seems like most new pop/R&B stars think they can only get good as singing OR dancing onstage, it's refreshing to see someone kill at both.

shit i need to watch. i am so glad i finally stopped listening to this album though. like it is definitely forever a standby in my collection now, and i will revisit it soon but. i need a step back.

will nicki + tinashe + rae srem + meek mill + dej loaf be the best show i will ever see y/n?

close call

will nicki + tinashe + rae srem + meek mill + dej loaf be the best show i will ever see y/n?

I'd travel to see this but I'm afraid it'd be one of those shows where all the openers play a combined 35 minutes, if that

so pissed off that nicki's US dates get THAT line-up while we got...trey songz

Swap Trigga for Nicki and the U.S. bill is pretty much my dream lineup tbh

nicki was actually incredible, so much tighter and with a much greater command over her show than her last tour

trey songz exists at a permanent 3/5 level

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

oh shit

trey songz exists at a permanent 3/5 level

― lex pretend,

you'll piss off j0rdan!

eh i dunno if j0rdan would even say that trey has a 4 star album

thinking of dropping out of life to become one of those people who just replies QUEEN!!!! to a celebrity's IG from now on

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLqUmhHWsAAkDLW.jpg

!

welp I was supposed to see Tinashe last night opening for Nicki but we fucking missed her bcz my friends who I invited at the last minute ran late and then INSISTED we go to a bar first once we got to the venue

and then got inside the venue and INSISTED we wait half an hour in line to get wristbands to drink more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWSsQ9Godk

friendship over

you like being alone

I would literally kill these people

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CL2kA0zVAAEfMrR.jpg

sigh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63a2mco-qp4

single "Party Favors" out next week

It's obvious she really wants to break through on charts and airplay judging by the interviews saying this album will be less experimental, max martin collab etc. Although that clip doesn't really suggest that. I'm happy with her output this year anyway w the GOAT mixtape, so an album of bangers or whatever else wouldn't be too bad.

still so pissed that my friends fucked up my plans to see her open for Nicki BUT she will inevitably tour for this and I will def go see it even if it means going to another city

https://soundcloud.com/tinashenow/tinashe-party-favors-ft-young-thug

*dies* *goes to heaven*
- oh hi tinashe
*swoons & dies again*

Seriously. This is perfect.

I can't quite place the MIDI riff and it's driving me nuts. Is it from an old video game?

boards of canada on the beat ho

idk how i feel about this, pleased not captivated without knowing what i would have rly wanted

guess as she manifestly has all the strings to her bow you expect perfect execution, so hitting any target squarely whether it's max martin or the twigsy vibez here maybe isn't enough for someone with the rare potential to cut diagonally

communicating her essential unifying trademark on whatever it is she does is the elusive next step, the janet auteur thing i guess, and this seems (kinda perversely) a bit less idiosyncratic and so perhaps a tiny step back from the amethyst ep in that regard

This is alright. I lost interest after a couple minutes, and I heard it twice.

this is kind of depressing as hell

i can't hear this w/o thinking it's abt crystal meth

this is kind of depressing as hell

The execution or the subject matter?

I've had this on repeat since it dropped, lol. I have no idea where all this resistance is coming from.

both, really

yeah. i really like this song but there's a depressive pull to it

'2 on' updated for xans n sprite n concomitant feels isnt really such a shocker business wise

personally aesthetically, sure this song is dull in comparison

prolly there's a couple chopped lines of thinkpiece white on the glass table about how wastedness sits on her as opposed to the predatory boys (illangelo on the credits fyi), is the "loss" of control as egotistic, does the favour presentation seem as manipulative, or is it servile, or equal, or equal for the sake of being equal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-htwnPdp18

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

YES

love

killer

and bless them for making the Chris Brown-free version available

oh thank god i didn't realize there was a version sans feature

listened to the version with chris fuckface and was like "goddamn i guess i just gotta suffer through this like that one pusha t song with a CB book"

otherwise, pretty incredible pop song

Crazy how natural and elegant this song is compared to the clumsy brickhouse EDM songs that R&B singers were putting out four years ago