Tinashe - Aquarius (out October 7 2014)

it's not if you say it's not, stevie

manifestation, sigh

ya I just read an article on Noisey that was basically like "a mixtape is an album that people release themselves and aren't trying to market like a proper label release"

i wonder if this is the album she wanted to release before her label made her fuck it all up?

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, November 4, 2016 8:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assume this to be all the R&B tracks she recorded during the JOYRIDE sessions, and her and the label settled releasing them as a ~mixtape~ so her proper album can be more of a pop record (where we'll probably find "superlove" and, more importantly, "player," hopefully without chris brown)

:O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-pl6d_rpE

mostly empoweringly drab mood music with the unfortunate jojo quality of making you sympathise with the execs somewhat

hard to think of many capable artistes surviving being this polarized, in fairness

flickers in the last third; 'spacetime' is v cool on that reliable astral b sure tip; 'touch pass' is superb, the perfect elusive tinashe poise

'touch pass' is actually probably p regulation cassie on its own but context gives it ballast

always-underrated amethyst ep now only getting better as artistic statement in retrospect

not underrated by me!!!

low end production, esp in bass drum, seems a little itunes-cruddy on this, but oh well

i like all the ones where she sounds like she is sad and sits in her room

i def like a lot of this but it feels really like a hodge podge of more introspective/odd stuff with attempts to be commercial r&b

this mixtape is very excellent

i love "touch pass" and "ghetto boy" but it felt like i had to sift through a lot of shapelessness to get there

"sympathise with the execs somewhat" otm

so mmmmmmmmmmm this ones a skit mmmmmmm i call it binaural test mmmmmmmmmm basically i mmmmmmmmmm [exec stares at superb cleavage pondering missed lambo repayments]

heyyyy

i apologise for lowering the tone with str8 facts my guy

the thing is that this case makes a pretty clear case for why it was shelved as an album but it's not like the alternative of turning her into 2006-era ciara is working artistically or commercially either so like....

this tape**

i think she prob needs to break up w/ her label and skip to the part where she's the next carly rae jepsen. indie audiences like fka twigs and dev hynes.

if that Far East Movement single is any indication, she has no talent for club bangers either.

have you heard the song "2 on"?

"2 On" does not sound like this Far East Movement track.

I think my biggest problem with this isn't that its all downtempo moody haze ambience but that she does nothing interesting with her voice at all. Like, compared to all the personality on Aquarius' big moments - 2 On, All Hands On Deck, Feels Like Vegas - this is so inconsequential.

Good to hear The-Dream back on his game

I like Superlove but it's such a collection of 2010-11 Terius songwriting tics that it feels like something he could have written in literally minutes.

No interest in the mixtape at all really.

have a cynical suspicion that that only ever got greenlit cos of the running man challenge

Sevyn w/Terius >>> Tinashe w/Terius

this is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the terius that accompanies the "End of R&B in Music" - 2016

Tinashe really needs a forward thinking pop producer - 2 On was peak Mustard, but bringing Terius back just isn't the way to go.
What's becoming painfully obvious is that she only knows how to write two songs: the one where she's waiting for something to happen and the one where she's excited that it's kind of happening or trying to make it happen.

have a cynical suspicion that that only ever got greenlit cos of the running man challenge

― r|t|c, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 3:29 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def

nobody wants to hear songs about things that did happen

yeah that post rly is premier water torture arguing

i just stared at it for a while like whuh... buh...

qualified exception for songs about things that didn't happen

but not from tinashe!!!!

you want a song about stuff that happened? maybe you should check out a little tune called "we didn't start the fire"

If you like super love you'll love tink - wet aquafina

Let me rephrase that. A huge chunk of her songs are either about trying to get off in some way, impatience at not getting there fast enough or flat out frustration when it doesn't happen. It's all there on Aquarius from the great "get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then / we can keep it lit, let's roll" until the album ends with an orgasmic thunderstorm. But as her career's been stalling the sense of inertia and frustration has become all the more pervasive, and on Nightride her "and I know how to get there, don't follow me" lines just sound less convincing, with no release in sight.

Thread is way underrating Nightride imo. It sounds beautiful and really opens up and reveals itself after a few listens.

The Terius "Mr. Yeah" coda tacked onto the end of "Company" is pretty unncessary

https://twitter.com/Tinashe/status/827251204681986048

fundraising for the aclu

<3

don't know if it's just finally seeing the video which really brings it to life but I had grossly underestimated how great "Company" is

I mean, it's fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eB4EGjusrc

i think she prob needs to break up w/ her label and skip to the part where she's the next carly rae jepsen.

She tried taking Jordan's advice but did it wrong :(

This is dire

yes do not listen to this : /

seriously ?

hahahaha wow this is completely nondescript

I feel like this was originally written for Jordin Sparks or something

The secret to appropriating 80s pop is you need to sound like you enjoy 80s pop. She did not get that memo.

The video embed is dead, but I assume this revive was about Flame?

I'm just now listening to it, and I mostly agree with the lukewarm assessment, but that low end is riiiiiich.

I can't remember if I even listened to that^ but the new one is...not bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAh7jTAkCKc

youtube telling me that "up next" is Cassie with the message "Don't Play It Safe" is pretty lol