shea taylor worked on "james joint" which is cool even if the song is only 72 seconds long. i've always wondered why he fell off the map after working on the best songs on 4 and channel orange.
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:12 (eight years ago) link
"James Joint" sounds like KING o__O
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:17 (eight years ago) link
SPEAKING OF KING THERE ALBUM IS ON NPR RIGHT NOW
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
THEY'RE*
SORRY I GOT EXCITED FOR A SECOND.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
THEIR. FUCK.
AAAAAAAAA
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
drake is the worst btw
― maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
So did Tidal purposely put it up and then pull it?
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:45 (eight years ago) link
who even knows anymore
― maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:48 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2QrWzsfghA
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
i mean.. that's 2016
― maura, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:51 (eight years ago) link
useless drake disses rate ticking
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 04:55 (eight years ago) link
its a free tidal download now apparently, which prob entails some tidal trial or something, which...gtfo tidal youre not real
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah, seems like this perhaps tidal biggest opportunity. i subscribed just to get the album, might unsubscribe asap. first half is good. but not as good as the first 4 track promised.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:20 (eight years ago) link
feeling Same Ol's Mistakes
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 28 January 2016 05:22 (eight years ago) link
ANTI is a very good album at the very least
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 28 January 2016 07:19 (eight years ago) link
the fuck is "higher", her voice made me flinch so hard on that
she suits winehouseisms more than i expected on "love on the brain"
"kiss it better" and "yeah i said it" stood out but this seems as mildly unsatisfying a hotchpotch (with a few highlights) as any post-rated r rihanna album, dunno why it took so long to make
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah i love being all like "yah this is cute i guess zzz w/e" with riri album trax knowing like four hundred songwriters died in roc nation concentration camps making each one
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:57 (eight years ago) link
i switched this off and quit after 'woo' last night, maybe never to return tbqh
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2016 08:58 (eight years ago) link
god imagine the whole rihanna team sat there as 'woo' played off "other producer travis scott beat tape vol 66" or w/e over some luxe full room system
DUN, DUN, DUN - "well guys i think we have a winner" - DUN
― r|t|c, Thursday, 28 January 2016 09:03 (eight years ago) link
even the title of "woo" manages to convey a weary lack of enthusiasm
i bet it was all cobbled together in the last two weeks anyway
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2016 09:07 (eight years ago) link
why the hell is she giving this away for free though?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2016 13:39 (eight years ago) link
otm. it feels flimsy and rushed and has some jams. it is a rihanna record
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:02 (eight years ago) link
The hit-to-miss ratio seems higher to me than other Rihanna albums imo, so I'll probably still be listening to this after y'all have moved on. :)
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:07 (eight years ago) link
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lol this one has writing credits from the-dream, travis scott AND the weeknd
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:42 (eight years ago) link
I would not be surprised if somewhere close to zero of those tracks made the actual record
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link
like, seriously, does anything about this album, its non-release, its eventual "release," its eventual unrelease, etc. come off meticulously planned and executed per plan?
(I kind of like it a lot!)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
it's funny that the album had these pretenses of being a very serious artistic statement (the stuff about kanye exec producing, revealing the album cover in an art gallery) but it's about as slapdash as her previous records
sort of makes me question her taste level in the end i guess
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:58 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
take that back, looks like kenan williams won the lottery
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
there's a melodic phrase in "never ending" that reminds me of dido's "thank you" which pulls me out of the song every time
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
couple of these tracks bite tinashe's style haaaaaaard, particularly "needed me" and "yeah, i said it"
― metro slothrop want some more (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:27 (eight years ago) link
Honestly this album feels like the result of Rihanna just saying "fuck it, let's just put out what we have" and the end result is actually still pretty great. It's messy but it works.
― Greer, Thursday, 28 January 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
this and that miley album seem to be starting a trend of sorts
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
katherine otm wrt camps
autotune/melodyne fingerprints all over this suggest they sometimes might have had only one vocal take to work with, giving the record the feeling of like, a diary of individual unplanned moments of spontaneous emotional engagement on the part of the performer
in the end, for me, the record being frequently unguarded and personal to the point of sometimes feeling voyeuristic makes for a pretty satisfying response to the last few years of castoffs like "chandelier" and "we can't stop" becoming omnipresent billboard hits. the riri hitmaking machine became so efficient that it essentially became sentient and started operating without her, so she turns around and makes a record based around messier human qualities that can't be faked or convincingly imitated by others
― james brooks, Thursday, 28 January 2016 22:53 (eight years ago) link
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I kinda feel like it's more "ok, please just record this thing, just one take please"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:01 (eight years ago) link
anyway here is my #take: it's instructive to compare "birthday cake" with "james joint" -- one is a barely 1:15 "song" that was blatantly unfinished and turned into a horrific tabloid monstrosity involving chris brown. one is a barely 1:15 song that's very pretty and feels sincere
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
rihanna's vocals have sounded one-take for years. she's often turned that hoarse scratchiness in her voice into a positive (BBHMM is a prime example) but very often it just sounds blarey and at times unlistenable (seriously "higher", WHO TOLD HER THAT WAS OKAY - rtc did you ever get beyond "woo"? you have to at least hear "higher")
though the one-take thing is evident even more in her (lack of) phrasing
a second listen has already changed my mind about winehouse being a good look for her
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link
feel like putting "woo" in the rolling worst songs thread
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 January 2016 23:53 (eight years ago) link
it is so bad
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
"love on the brain" was the standout to me after one listen.
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:07 (eight years ago) link
her vocals are so good on "higher"
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah idk
― art baengels (monotony), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:08 (eight years ago) link
i love the tame impala cover and i'm dreaming about rihanna going through the entire tame impala catalog
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
i...assumed that was sarcasm :/
xp
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
also "kiss it better" is ingenious; i need a loop of it playing when my body is shot into space when i die
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:11 (eight years ago) link
I actually like "higher," her voice suits the last-callness of it
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:14 (eight years ago) link
people really seem to either love or hate "Higher" everywhere
― apple bottom steen, HOOS with the fur (some dude), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:18 (eight years ago) link
"higher" is one of the only songs of hers i've ever connected to emotionally and a major reason for that is that i think there's a real rawness and authenticity to her vocals
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
"higher" would've made a helluva closer but alas
it works because she's essentially screaming into the void with no response which enhances the sense of isolation and melodrama, to have that dusty violin remain present when it was there the whole time, twirling in the air and keeping her company
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
i get it but it sucks to listen to
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Friday, 29 January 2016 00:24 (eight years ago) link
there are plenty of rihanna ballads where she's trying to sing "correctly" but obv doesn't have the vocal talent to pull it off. if you can ride with those songs i don't really get how you draw the line at a song where she's clearly singing raggedly as a way of heightening the effect of a song that's about being emotionally spent.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 29 January 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link