I think it gets sent to a special committee. It's tried out in various focus groups. And then they just pull one out of a hat and go with it.
― Catherine Ryan (and so this is catherine), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
This track is good - very good; stunning, in fact - but it doesn't move me as much as "Oh." Neither does Ciara's "Get Up" for that matter, though that's a good track too. My problem with each is that when the vocals coalesce into melody it's what I call "standard '00s r&b melody" (which I can't explain any better than that) (and "Get Up" does go into interesting pastorale moods, it's a fascinating song in a lot of ways, just doesn't make my heart disintegrate); and I'm just not a fan of "standard '00s r&b melody." I'll have to give more thought as to why. I think "Me & U" needs even more chill, and the tune even less melody.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― moriarty (moriarty), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 6 August 2006 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Sunday, 6 August 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 6 August 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 6 August 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 6 August 2006 15:49 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Tim Finney (tfinne...), Yesterday.
It's a chilly year, Tim!
-- Catherine Ryan (cjrya...), Yesterday.
Worth repeating
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 August 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.discobelle.net/2006/07/14/you-and-me-cassie/
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 6 August 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 6 August 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
link: http://www.myspace.com/cassiemyspacemusic
― jaime (jaime), Saturday, 19 August 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsIaRm2vqKg
― sonore (sonore), Saturday, 19 August 2006 01:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 19 August 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 19 August 2006 03:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 19 August 2006 03:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 19 August 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 19 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 20 August 2006 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
the song is fucking hot.
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 20 August 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
its more like prince on irrestible bitch or something.
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 20 August 2006 08:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― The future of Rodney got a -- (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 20 August 2006 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:44 (seventeen years ago) link
i love how she uses exactly the same vocal strategy on 'long way 2 go' as on 'me & u' to completely different effect
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:16 (seventeen years ago) link
has anyone seen her TRL performance? its pretty bad, although she is actually quite endearing in it. she has a great smile and that strange combination of innocence/adolescent clunkiness/sweetness. she was trying to dance all sexily in the performance, but whether its because the moves just werent too good or that she isnt the best dancer, it just ended up looking funny.
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 09:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link
(it is also v good, if a little more inviting than i was expecting)
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 4 September 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link
* I love Ciara but Cassie's part-Filipina-ness is almost a trump card* she hails from the Long Day's Journey Into Night town* the erotic subtext (supertext just about) vs. detached delivery = cool evocation of post-industrial nightlife meat-market malaise? = half-hearted surrender to/embrace of the meat-market model of urban social interaction OR mere happy-accident tension betw unpolished vox & run-of-the-mill r&b motifs?* the bittersweet emaciation of Me & U's falling clave blips is almost snap* Long Way 2 Go has a sorta baroque video-game aesthetic that I can get behind in a big way* Ryan Leslie's original ideal/masterplan for Cassie: "multi-ethnic, non-genre specific voice" vs. the actual reality of "non-ethnic, multi-genre specific voice"??
HMMMM
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Are you referring to my last post? It was just a silly response to the "But she can't even sing!" nonsense. (Plus, it's probably the truth as well.) I could've also posted "I might like Shellac if Steve Albini could belt like Paul Rodgers."
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Post-Rodney (But no one called it that at the time) (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link