yes i'm aware. and? plenty of #1 albums by r&b artists have zero songs being spun by mainstream urban radio. i was commenting on how unusual it seemed against the rest of that particular format's playlist.
― dyl, Friday, 14 October 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
dyl otm
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 October 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
its attracting a lot of "in the conversation" attention which radio employees pay more attention to than sales weirdly
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 15 October 2016 09:57 (seven years ago) link
Cranes In The Sky reached #74 on billboard this week, which is obv not really that high and i have no idea how american radio works but i would presume that might mean it get some rotations on a few stations
― art baengels (monotony), Saturday, 15 October 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
this album is beautiful imo
― just sayin, Monday, 7 November 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
Really great album
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link
I listened to it again today for the first time in a few weeks. It sounded so good. Cranes In The Sky is a song of the year contender for me.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 03:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Df_6rUzfk
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
my local radio station which had been playing "cranes" for months has now started playing it with a rap verse at the beginning :\
(not sure who provided the verse but it's not one of the ones i'm finding on google, it feels really really out of place)
― dyl, Friday, 10 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7wSlrwKJQ
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
this is very old
― maura, Friday, 15 September 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
"If Solange Knowles isn't sampling Boards of Canada or getting Jay-Z and Beyoncé into Grizzly Bear, she's jamming out to Dirty Projectors."most 2009 sentences of all timehaven't listened to this in a long while tho', holds up
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 September 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
dre/badu/bumpy's lament sample is eternal
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's old but classic!
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 15 September 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
wow she's doing a show with the Sun Ra Arkestra
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:10 (six years ago) link
Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen supporting Solange : Orion's Rise @OrpheumBoston Thu Sept 28 @ 7:30pm @solangeknowles pic.twitter.com/YggDLNhFc3— Sun Ra Arkestra (@SunRaUniverse) September 28, 2017
More than one show with Sun Ra Arkestra. Am seeing her in Washington DC with them October 1st.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 September 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
i'm going to that
― maura, Thursday, 28 September 2017 19:52 (six years ago) link
EARL opening
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 29 September 2017 06:06 (six years ago) link
Enjoyed the Kennedy Center show with Sun Ra's Arkestra opening. The Arkestra had 14 people onstage, and Solange topped that with around 23 (16 horn players). Impressive singing and hiphop and modern dance moves. "Mad", "FUBU" and "Cranes" were highlights. Earlier that night on another Kennedy Center stage I saw Tuareg guitarist Mdou Moctar and his band play their desert blues. An inspiring night of music.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
is she doing the berkeley show with sun ra arkestra???? I hope so
― akm, Monday, 2 October 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
Don't know. The look of the stage and the lighting and the choreography is also impressive.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
Did she have the red sun on stage? The scenography at Roskilde was amazing, and I'm now thinking of that + 16 horn players. Not sure I would have been able to handle that.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 3 October 2017 13:05 (six years ago) link
1 big round orb in the center and pyramids on the outer edges of the stage (light-colored but the whole stage was bathed in red light throughout the whole show)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
Oh, we didn't have pyramids either :( Stil, probably the best show I've seen all year.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:41 (six years ago) link
caught the final show last night in Berkeley, was incredible. Bonus ILXOR sighting when Jason D. walked in front of my car while I we were going home. TBF this happens at least every other month in this town and I never honk at him.
― akm, Monday, 23 October 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
also, earl sweatshirt was a no show for both shows apparently. not sure what happened there.
― akm, Monday, 23 October 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
OH HAI
― jaxon, Monday, 23 October 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
saw this vague sentence online: Due to unforeseen circumstances, Earl Sweatshirt will not be performing this weekend.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 October 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
So a few days ago Solange premiered a new film/art piece that she directed, available to watch here (full disclosure I work there): https://hammer.ucla.edu/solange/
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 16 April 2018 12:20 (six years ago) link
Don’t you wait is a stunner
― Slippage (Ross), Sunday, 10 June 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
bumping a seat at the table. what a record
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:48 (five years ago) link
also cranes in the sky is one of the most otm songs about depression ever
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
My son and I saw her perform at a festival in Houston last year, she was amazing! Didn't go in to it with any particular expectations, hadn't really listened to the album, but I was completely blown away. Every element was absolutely perfect, the stage set up, the band, their outfits, the choreography, every thing just right.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Oh dang I just listened to A Seat At The Table yesterday for the first time prob since it came out. I love it so much.
― the masseduction of lauryn hill (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/solanges-new-album-coming-this-fall/
!!!
― ufo, Monday, 15 October 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
:D
― dyl, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link
nice
― Ross, Monday, 15 October 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/t-magazine/solange-interview.html
Great article all the way through. But re: new album hype:
Her instructors are wide-ranging and eclectic: Joni Mitchell, in whom Solange found lessons in balancing a career as a musician with the demands of visual creation (Mitchell’s first, never abandoned love was painting); Missy Elliott, whose music videos are genre-defying and imagistically striking. Solange is drawing sonic inspiration from the ’90s singer Aaliyah, the experimental 20th-century musician and composer Sun Ra, the ’60s psychedelic soul band Rotary Connection and Stevie Wonder’s 1979 album “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.”
Couldn't tick my "I'm excited for this" boxes much more (unless she added in Arthur Russell to the mix)...
― Soundslike, Monday, 15 October 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
Omg the return of
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
That NYT headline and subhead are fucking awful, wtf
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
I like Solange and have come around on the last album, but this is letting PR flacks influence copy.
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 October 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
I mean, as far as features go that are basically hype for an artist/upcoming work, I thought it had some interesting elements or at least a perspective to take it above standard PR copy/puff piece. The photography seemed a bit questionable to me, and I didn't even look at the headline...
― Soundslike, Monday, 15 October 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
i didn't find much interesting in this story but solange has been really overcovered as of late
as for the headline/framing of it... t magazine kind of exists to flatter celebrities and artists. i mean, this is for their "greats" issue or something so yeah...
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 October 2018 21:44 (five years ago) link
really tired of the word "polymath" tho
― J0rdan S., Monday, 15 October 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
new album (?) "when i get home" appears to be coming very soon
― monotony, Thursday, 28 February 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
Oh yes tomorrow
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 28 February 2019 23:51 (five years ago) link
so hype
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 1 March 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
yo
― just sayin, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:13 (five years ago) link
my god the synths on this
― J. Sam, Friday, 1 March 2019 05:40 (five years ago) link