Electrik Red- How to be a Lady Vol.1 Terius 'n' Tricky make girl-pop magic

i hope this album makes it into ilm's end of year top 10 - would be the smallest of victories no doubt but we can try our best

"if my body's a club you're my disco ball" is an incredible line - so powerful. makes me think of gaia and stuff, the club as the whole world, and those giantesses in sébastien tellier videos.

the grinding synths + soprano vocals in the 'freaky freaky' chorus were TOTALLY slaying me last night

I still haven't been able to find this in stores around here.

been meaning to mention the awesome soft-rock guitar solo in "Muah" also the part in "We Fuck You" where they drop out the "We" and just repeat "Fuck you!" over and over

oh and "9 to 5" is the slow burner, been trying to figure out exactly which Prince song it sounds like and the answer is "Gotta Broken Heart Again"

Could not find it ANYWHERE in HMV. Why oh why? What do I have to do to get a physical copy?

I broke down and ordered it from Amazon. After looking again at lunch today, I'm convinced there is conspiracy to keep this out of the Chicago area. But, y'know, thats what you can expect with a tiny little no-name label like Def Jam handling things.

so far i'll be voting this #1 probs

mm

ok we've got surm/tapestore/lex/masonic love for this -- sounds more than safe, I'm ordering NOW. (Impossible to find physical object around here though (tried for a week or so on s/t/l love alone), but mailorder physical object is for some reason marked down 40% already! -- do not get reason, but shan't complain.)

OK thanx to J0rdan S for pushing me to finally listen to this. I know Siltbreeze apparently has better distribution than Def Jam but does anyone know if the lyrics are included with the CD? It'd be nice to have them all in one place.

Because I'm a very tacky person, my fave so far is "P Is For Power." And "Kill Bill" makes me guffaw (a good thing).

once it sets in how amazing the songs are you realize how many places all of them go. "we fuck you" alone has like 15 incredible parts

― hazmat yayo (J0rdan S.), Friday, May 29, 2009 6:32 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

i love the end where she goes "it's cool, it's cool, it's in fashion"

man, this was listed as 13.99 when i picked it up, then i went up to register and turns out it was only 7.99, shittttt

awww, and in the thank yous, binkie says "and to my girls in Electrik Red. LOVE YA - we getting Spice Girls money!"

;_;

>:(

"Shoobies: Kanye West, Usher, Ne-Yo, Ludacris, Jamie Foxx, T.I., Nick Cannon, Ciara, Amerie, Jamaica Ibn Jasper, Gee Roberson"

"...thanks Batman for all the advice"

does it have the lyrics in the book?

naw, but it has cool ER quotes...."Always remember where you came from and never forget those red pumps on the way to where you're going," etc.

ok we've got surm/tapestore/lex/masonic love for this -- sounds more than safe, I'm ordering NOW.
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:01 AM (1 hour ago)

I am offended that I am not included in this axis.

cassie fan club llc

i think im going to spend the weekend transcribing the lyrics into this thread, but don't hold me to that

you better be coming to trapped in a closet tonight

when/where? im pretty trapped in the closet'd out tbh

ugh you guys are like making plans

yeah i'm jealous :(

lol, it's at sparky's. we have r kelly's chocolate cherry butterfinger ice cream! starts @ 11. also a show right now at cafe berlin that i'm heading out to. and another at the fugue (lol) that's weird but notable

this is pretty sexy...i approve.

i put this album on when some friends were over and it operated perfectly fine in those circumstances, which was good

Bed rest is pretty much perfect

not even on iTunes, huh?

This is one of those cases where I would LOVE to buy the album, but have had to rely on d/ling just coz it doesn't seem to exist in the physical world.

you saw my titties before you saw my face

k8, not only does this not have a UK release date, but when i mentioned electrik red to the-dream's UK PR, she hadn't even heard of them. this is the point where i carp endlessly about how PRs will bombard me with CDs and emails and phone calls about their terrible indie bands, but when i'm actually enthusiastic about an act, getting basic information like a release date is suddenly blood/stone.

it's apparently available to order on amazon though!

ill walk around this bitch in my louis vitton heels with my ass hanging out

I've been blaring this in the ice cream shop and in the car. "Freaky Freaky" is perfect in both situations, blowing my mind.

when i mentioned electrik red to the-dream's UK PR, she hadn't even heard of them

This is ridiculous.

I suspect they'll probably wait to see how The Dream's album does over here before even making a call on a release date. Despite the Electrik Red album being like 20 times better.

listened to this so much over the wkend walking round in the sun

OK, I am gonna play the shit out of this album. Starting tonight. I'm going to play it out every set.

Devotion is the only one I'm not mad crazy about but that's because I don't really like breathy slow jams. I'm sure it's a great example of its kind though.

I'm OK with Devotion - the only one I skip is 9 to 5.

devotion is great, but i can see how it's a tough sell sandwiched tween "so good" and "Freaky freaky"

the lyrics "expose my devotion" and "verify my love" have that gr8 balance of technical + romantic that i lpve

"expose my devotion" is such a visceral lyric

clinical too <3

bed rest does this bjork syllabic repetition thing at the end

ill walk around this bitch in my louis vitton heels with my ass hanging out

― i am rubber, t u.r.koglu (k3vin k.)

http://kuwait-style.com/images/2007/05/05-30-07-LOUBOUTIN-SUPER-WALLIS-PLATFORM-PUMPS-357Pounds.jpg

LOUBOUTIN!

anyway, Rich Juzwiak's write-up of this is really good:

http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2009/05/oooh-shit-damn.html

great piece. Though I'd rate this a little bit below The-Dream's own albums.

i wholeheartedly disagree

thx for the louboutin lesson brain ;)

Hrrmmmm. That blog raises an interesting point - that, despite all the gurl power stylings, they are still females singing men's words.

(See also: the endless arguments that Miss AMP and I had about the Long Blondes*.)

I suppose it comes down to the concept of acting / performance / delivery whether it comes across as believable, as much as the skill of the lyricist. I mean, girl groups and divas have a long history of singing other people's words and making them their own, making you FEEL it - so it's not bothersome that they're singing someone *else*'s words, so much as singing a man's pneumatic ideal of what an uber-sexy in control babe would sing. (Are they really posed as whores, or women who demand a man who is capable of meeting them on their own level? I don't get whore so much as "I'm a fucking rock star baby, you ought to be able to hold your own with me, financially as well as sexually.")

Do I find them more convincing than, say, Pussycat Dolls (who I find revolting) or more that I *identify* with their take on sexual freedom?

*I suppose the disparity there was the conflict between this notion of Indie Band - i.e. song-writer author, supposed to write their own lyrics, and yet still reliant on dynamic of male songwriter / female mouthpiece and how that just played into the whole "men act, women appear" thing.