thread of miguel

ok this version of "skywalker" is pretty great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwVwpAjB6vY

also this song is still the shit to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iCPAXnguwY

His new look reminds me of the grownup version of a child actor from "The Cosby Show" or something.

i think the dreads are hot & these arrangements really lean into like the whole neo-soul stoner vibe

It's not the dreads so much as the shirt.

I like that "Skywalker" version – more of this, please, not power chords.

"Come Through and Chill" is good and I'm glad he's outgrown his rawk phase, but I'm not really feeling driftless beach bum Miguel at all.

On All I Want Is You and Kaleidoscope Dream (and even the Mischief tape) he was so hungry for the music he was making, he was just fiending for it. Not he seems so indifferent and disengaged. Not into it at all; feels like he's lost his muse and doesn't even care to replace it

i can tell you what his muse is, it's weed

I thought his cat was :(

I guess this confirms "Come Through and Chill" was an album preview.

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

this is ok. why is it coming out at the end of the summer though

That Late Show tv version of "Skywalker" sounds better than the Miguel by numbers version I have heard on late-night programming on a Baltimore r'n'b/rap station. The radio version isn't terrible, just formulaic mostly.

Miguel is living his best life but making his worst music

file under sad but true

He lost me completely

Good for him that his finally getting mainstream feats and recognition but I don’t think it’ll last too long if he doesn’t bring back the awesomeness of his previous albums.

he's probably at his lowest ebb of mainstream recognition right now...

classic moka/j0rdan

ive warmed up to skywalker def

i mean, i guess this probably shouldn't count as it's a cartoon soundtrack duet cut but this makes three bad tracks in a row
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iDxU9eNQ_0

ugh saw Miguel on the new music list and got excited, pretty bad though

i've come all the way around on "sky walker", i think it's a really fun song. the video sells it well too.

this thread's reaction to it was entirely predictable but also completely incorrect

if you say so. still sounds like garbage to me.

let miguel be cool

i mean it is becoming a hit but idk i still don't really like it

(which is more than i expected would happen, i should say)

it's really catchy & i think has a lot of personality actually

this is great yall trippin

― Spottie, Friday, August 25, 2017 3:59 PM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I still love it.

sky walker owns

i've come all the way around on "sky walker", i think it's a really fun song. the video sells it well too.

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 27, 2017 12:39 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i like it a lot now

"told you so" is giving me art dealer chic flashbacks *_*

New album out December 1 titled War & Leisure

“told you so” is fuckin incredible

yeah!

woo!

agreed, this is his first great track in a minute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnhlTS8RgUM

f/w this

sounds like MGMT Electric Feel.

love that song

same. this is good but i like the other one better

this rules. it took a bit but I like Sky Walker now too. Shockandawe is still bad but doesn't seem to be on the album thankfully?

Damn his voice is supple

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/miguel-on-politics-adelanto-new-album-war-and-leisure-w509919

For Miguel, participating in the October 20th press conference and concert (the #SchoolsNotPrisons concert at the Adelanto Stadium baseball field) is part of a personal, slowly evolving engagement with the political moment, inspired by such musical heroes as Prince, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. "They all cared. It's a human thing," says Miguel. "They all pushed the boundaries in their own way. They all challenged us to look at things a different way. I saw that from the artists I love, and I decided I want to do that. To be an artist is to deal with what's happening in your time."

His upcoming fourth album, War & Leisure, is still overwhelmingly upbeat and concerned with the personal and romantic, but it also contains "Now," a questioning socially conscious ballad in the spirit of Lauryn Hill and Sam Cooke. Accompanied by layers of guitar and heavenly, electronic sounds, Miguel sings:

"CEO of the free world now/Build your walls up high and wide ... /Should we teach our children hatred?/Chase the innocent and shoot them down? ... /Is that the look of freedom, now?/Is that the sound of freedom?"
Last November, at age 31, the Grammy-winning soul artist voted in his first presidential election. "Politics, I didn't have a personal interest," Miguel admits. "I didn't really care. What is my one vote? That was my attitude."

He liked President Obama, but didn't feel drawn to the political process until last year's rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primaries. "Watching him made me interested," said Miguel. "It was also our peers, our conversations, and seeing people really get behind him who shared similar values." Even after Sanders lost the nomination, Miguel stayed engaged through the general election.

After voting, he spent election night with his fiancée at an arcade and played air hockey as the TVs slowly revealed the results, state by state. "The shit started rolling in," remembers Miguel, who tried to stay positive until the results were clear. "With the election going in a direction way unexpected, I couldn't take my eyes off it. I couldn't not pay attention now."

Thanks.

For part of the drive, he listens to the latest mixes of War & Leisure, due out December 1st, and finds more to tinker with.

I guess its done, now? That was October 20th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKwAib6LosM

this is the best one yet, so gorgeous

I love the bass.

This could've been on the last album.

yeah this is one of my favorites although i have a lot of them

yoooooooo

"pineapple skies" and "told you so" have gotten me pretty excited for the album... could shape up to be better than wildheart for me :)