also there are some good lyrics in here interspersed among all the gun as dick/sex as war metaphors
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 December 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
I wish he would sing about hugs more often :(
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 11 December 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
i think 'dud' was harsh; like this is obviously good music, i think my expectations of miguel are just high cuz i know what he's capable of and there didn't seem to be anything in that zone
― flopson, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
I actually want him to go further down the Latino R&B route
otmx1000
― flopson, Monday, 11 December 2017 01:37 (six years ago) link
I think if his had been his first album after Kaleidoscope Dream this might scan as a major disappointment, but this is about the same step down from Wildheart as Wildheart was from KD.
Big picture the guy has released four consecutive good to exceptional albums and is probably the most consistent R&B albums artist of the 2010s. Small picture this is p clearly his worst album.
― Evan R, Monday, 11 December 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
the most consistent R&B albums artist of the 2010s
I'd say K Michelle is
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 December 2017 02:08 (six years ago) link
i would say dawn but R&B is open to interp
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 11 December 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
evan otm
― k3vin k., Monday, 11 December 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
i'd say jeremih
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 11 December 2017 11:41 (six years ago) link
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― boxedjoy, Monday, 11 December 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
point taken about 2010 being a bad time for r&b albums ever coming out but
"an album w/o marquee guests and a clear slam-dunk single"
"'All I Want Is You' is the debut single by American R&B recording artist Miguel released as the lead single from his debut album All I Want Is You (2010). The song features rapper J. Cole and was produced by Salaam Remi."
Cole was coming off a guest spot on Blueprint 3 and an XXL Freshman namecheck, among other signs that he was a "priority artist"
― maura, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
Cole hadn't had anything resembling a hit at that point, nor had he released an album. He was just an industry bench player; definitely not a draw with a halo effect.
― Evan R, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:39 (six years ago) link
Looking back at the chart history it looks like "All I Want Is You" was performing respectably on the charts around the time the album came out, so I may be relying on faulty memory, but there was something chintzy and rushed about the album's release. It didn't feel at all like the rollout of a star.
Just kind of seemed like in an era of aggressive A&R tinkering and shoehorned Wayne and Ross features the album slipped under the label's radar in some ultimately fortuitous ways.
― Evan R, Monday, 11 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
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itt insane posts
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 11 December 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
i'm guessing you're going with keef
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:15 (six years ago) link
K Michelle, Fantasia, two albums worth of Kehlani -- I'm cool with any of them.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:17 (six years ago) link
rihanna not doing too bad from that time period either
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
yikes, low bar with some of these picks
miguel/beyonce solid contenders
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
which picks?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
yours mostly lol
i dunno, i really like some of the music K michelle and fantasia have put out but i have a hard time seeing anyone making an enthusiastic case for them as artists of the decade. maybe i'm too out of step with the R&b consensus these days though
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
who said anything about artists of the decade? I said they were the most consistent R&B artists of the decade in that they've made consistently excellent albums.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
ah yes my fault, fair enough
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
at any rate these women ain't getting airplay beyond adult R&B and maybe late night play on regular R&B stations so they deserve any patronage.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, December 11, 2017
all good!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:17 (six years ago) link
A profile, in which the sexual assault allegation is raised.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
I believe her; given the circumstances, though, I find it hard to imagine this gaining much traction (unless of course there are more incidents to be unearthed)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 December 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
given what circumstancesalso read all his quotes in that article as Russell Brand's character from Sarah Marshall it's too perfect
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 13 December 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
i love Miguel but does every single song have to be about how he is about to have sex, i mean i'm glad he's having sex, but
― alpine static, Thursday, 21 December 2017 12:01 (six years ago) link
we're listening to the spotify eoy tracks playlist and a Miguel song came up and it was literally just Sexual Healing
― Cardi Acs (imago), Thursday, 21 December 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
WAR & LEISURE is out on vinyl on record store day
― maura, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
man this album flopped :(
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
"skywalker" was his biggest hit since "adorn"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
it's a great album
― Nourry, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
yeah I hear "Skywalker" on 99 Jamz (thanks, Travis Scott), but #29 in 2018 pop feels like #35 pop in 1981.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 March 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
DC go-go bands are all doing renditions of “Skywalker.”
I like his duet with Lafourcade on that song from Coco too.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 6 March 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
i hear skywalker in public and that hasn't been the case for a miguel single since adorn
― maura, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
yeah skywalker is in daily rotation on my iheart radio-owned terrestrial rap station
― NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 00:42 (six years ago) link
#29 in 2018 pop feels like #35 pop in 1981
what does this mean?
― alpine static, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 07:23 (six years ago) link
only that uptempo R&B making the Billboard top 15 was as odd in 1981 as it is in 2018.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 11:21 (six years ago) link
sky walker isn't really what i want from miguel
pineapple skies and come through and chill are great though. the latter reminds me of voodoo-era d'angelo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
every time i thought about miguel performing at the oscars i wished he was singing 'caramelo duro.' that is a jam and i hope it gets released as a summer single
― maura, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
OTM. Album's best chorus too.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
lmfao he has just released his own "it ain't me"
― dyl, Friday, 16 March 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
saw miguel on monday night and 'caramelo duro' ended his main set, which gives me hope for its summer jam status. also he dropped one of the songs from the just can't get enough polls into 'do you' and it was sublime
he also released a spanish version of 'sky walker'
https://open.spotify.com/album/10mIDi29wQw0dbRH83seWe
― maura, Friday, 23 March 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
REGALAME UN POCO DE AZUUUUUCAR
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 23 March 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
this is nice, although chorus lyrics are lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55KzJek4dw
― Roz, Sunday, 10 June 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
"come thru and chill" is so good, i consider it miguel canon. they actually play it on the radio too
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 June 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
I heard it on the radio today! I had no idea it was that popular.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
He wandered onto and off the BET Awards stage last night to do short contributions to Meek Mill's new "Stay Woke" song. His voice was great
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 June 2018 12:47 (six years ago) link
feature on the goldlink song is not bad
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