boo’d up • i like it • OTW

You couldn’t listen to the one song you haven’t heard before voting?

heard it now, still go with boo'd up

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow didn’t expect such a huge gap. i guess most ilxors voted w/o hearing otw but i still expected i like it to do better. same poll on twitter was basically a 3-way tie

a song i like didn't do as well as i thought it would so therefore most people didn't listen to it

Lol people were literally posting in this thread that they didn’t listen to it

travesty

good poll (except exclusion of taste)

I listened to it but it’s no boo’d up.

a song i like didn't do as well as i thought it would so therefore most people didn't listen to it

― dyl, Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:08 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was just teasing ross, not mad at the results at all ‘boo’d up’ rules

haha cheers buddy :)

vid for otw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9diL0xTN4

'taste' is just a hot beat

― flopson, Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:26 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

me not icy that's unlikely

why you claim that you rich? that's a false claim

you ain't got no style see you on my instagram

OTW > boo’d up >>>>> I like it

i've really come to kinda hate "i like it"... would much rather hear "be careful"

sub in 'taste' for 'i like it' make this a fair fight

― ||||||||, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fully on board with this now.

def otw

Here in the UK Boo'd Up has done nothing and it is astonishing to me. I keep putting it on at parties and it's a head turner - I've twice seen people who've never heard it start singing along during the first chorus - I don't understand why it hasn't transferred to this side of the ocean?

Isn't she from London? I just assumed she's a hero there.

Ikonika edit btw:
https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit

There was an article in the guardian about her being huge in the USA and unknown in the UK - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/02/ella-mai-bood-up-r-and-b-charts-number-1

The comments below the line are some of the worst guardian music comments of all time, and that's like being the worst strain of bubonic plague, but might be instructive about why she isn't big here, if you have a particularly high tolerance for pricks on the internet.

pseudoracism isn't it :(

Ikonika edit btw:
https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:34 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark

dope

diana gordon’s “wolverine” a strong contender for late summer langurous vibes jam

shame that OTW wasn't as a big of a hit as the other two, it's the one i've been playing the most lately

the other two were very immediate but OTW has really grown on me

i feel like "otw" had a bit more potential than it ended up realizing but i didn't hear it on the radio until months after it had already come out. (see also its late video release)

“Wolverine” is excellent!

The rest of the Diana Gordon EP is a bit of a mixed bag but "Too Young" is like Fearless songwriting with Reputation production values.

Heard boo’d up in the mall

What a song

def not "I Like It"
― billstevejim, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:27 AM (two months ago) Bookmark

I have come around to this one. Good summer song. But also yes re: reminders of Burger King commercials in the '90s.

Ultimately I stand beside my "Boo'd Up" vote.

ella mai record out today. deserves its own thread

boo'd up really grew on me. I absolutely love it

platonic ideal of a pop song

ba-dum, boo'd up

I like Boo’d Up.
It’s weird though.
She’s had a fair amount of similarish sounding cuts that generated little buzz.
Like somebody at the label suddenly went, ok that’s enough bubble, next mustard track with some bounce and a hard snare will be the hit, you can now come out as British and not Floetry notsureiftheyrefakingit British.

Listening to "OTW" for the first time as the result of this thread, and, gosh, that is a sumptuous 4 minutes of music. The beat is, like, holographic, the way that old Jam & Lewis productions used to sound compared to their contemporaries. Like you know how they had an improbably long career where they just kept successfully updating their sound to the times for several decades? This is what I imagine they'd be up to if that streak were still going.
A travesty that this never made it to top40 radio, especially when Khalid is such a hot property right now (apparently) off the back of comparatively beige material like "Eastside" and "Love Lies". Maybe the guests/producers on those were just higher priorities for the labels to get over than 6lack and Nineteen85, idk

it is truly an incredible production

i heard it on the radio for the 3rd time, like, ever this past week -- sounded incredible there and still a bit astonished it never completely took off. i guess his team was more focused on pushing the song with normani or something.

boo'd up was actually cut by several difft artists but never released before ella mai picked it up--some people apparently seemed confident it was a hit. it does sound strangely out of time though, like something that could have been equally huge eight years ago

since it doesn't appear to have been discussed anywhere else i am going to say very belatedly that the entire diana gordon ep is pretty strong!

Yeah, big shout out to Kool Aid.

whats the 2019 version of this poll?

talk • con altura • the london ?

maybe sub "go loko" in for one of those idk

I don’t like go loko or the London really ...

Go loko I’m pretty sure ripped off ambjaay’s uno and he’s a better rapper

Swap “Aute Culture” for “Con Altura”! Much much much better track.

there's no big r&b jam of this summer so far, is there? at least on the level of boo'd up.

"talk" was the closest i could come up with but it definitely tries to straddle styles a little w/ that production