Ciara - 'Fantasy Ride'

just talking about ciara here?

either, really.

imo "echo", "lover's thing", "high price", "never ever" and "work" (preferably w/o missy) are as good or better

turnin me on is a really good song but i tend to f/w "alienated" more often

"Turnin' Me On" is better than anything on Ciara's album. Too bad I find it impossible to give a shit about the rest of Keri's.

haven't listened to the new ciara all that much. (which I should get on but I kinda burned out on all of the leaks) but I always feel like keri's tracks drag when I listen to in a perfect world because they're often just too freakin' long. like, I understand that there are two big guests on "knock you down" but does this song really warrant its 5mins+ running time? it would be so much stronger at 3-4mins.

agreed that the standouts on both albums are comparable.

knock you down needs to DROP KANYE and it's a top ten of the year for me.

yea, he's pretty useless on it. ne-yo is great, tho.

"I used to be commander in chief of my pimp ship flyin' high"

Ne-Yo's the only good thing about that song

honestly surprised that there is not more talk for "How does it feel" on the hilson album, which is easily my favorite song on either album

yeah, I love it.

I finally came around on Ne Yo solely because of Knock You Down.
Wish I could find another track that he sounds that good on.

sometimes i swear with you

try:

ne-yo - miss independent
ne-yo - closer
ne-yo - mad
ne-yo - because of you
ne-yo - so sick
ne-yo - sexy love
rihanna ft ne-yo - hate that i love you
jamie foxx ft ne-yo & fabolous - she got her own
ghostface ft ne-yo - back like that

"sometimes i swear with you"?

I couldn't get into miss independent,closer, mad or she got her own; back like that is fine, but I find him unimpressive there.
I'm honestly not trying to be difficult.

i believe you - i just don't get how you could like ne-yo on "knock you down" but none of his hit singles

"single"

well, what I like on Knock You Down was the slow burn of the complex roller coaster that his voice takes on each of the individual verses and then the great climax that he carries through in his crooning on the chorus.
It doesn't hurt that I think Knock You Down has a much more solid musical heart than any of those other songs. I was impressed for once by his capabilities and range; mostly (as I've harped on at length in the Chris Brown thread) I find Ne-Yo really unremarkable and kinda bland.
Still keeping an open mind though.

lool @ "smoo-smoo-smooches" in pucker up

this gets better with distance

pissd yall were talking about knock you down in my absense

i take a hot boy, and give him cold feet

the great 'fantasy ride' vs 'in a perfect world...' debate of 09

don't recall this debate?!

fantasy ride anyway

I finally came around on Ne Yo solely because of Knock You Down.
Wish I could find another track that he sounds that good on.

― an average room of dentists (forksclovetofu), Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:13 AM (1 year ago)

this guy

i know

wtf

you guys will be happy to hear that i found another track

it's one in a million fyi

man the new keri single is some fucking bruno mars ish

even tho ur rite that this gets better with distance, jordan, still don't kno the answer to
the great 'fantasy ride' vs 'in a perfect world...' debate of 09

― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Sunday, October 17, 2010 5:32 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

have i said that ciara to the stage is one of my favorites now? lol

like, really

that song is beautiful

<3

bashment remix of "love sex magic": http://www.mediafire.com/?2tmtmymneyy

"echo" is so flawless, ciara's second masterpiece after "promise" y/y?

now check that bauble on my finger so right, so right
got the windows tinted but i's catchin the light, the light
speakers thumpin hard to that 2pac and 50 track
they runnin to the corner yellin who dat, who dat
RUN IT BACK

yeah it is flawless

Guess I just got the knack, the knack
See a cutie, push up on him, yes I'm a mack, a mack
Ain't got no suave, I can travel from trap to trap
On my J.O., ayo, when my mac talk back
Run that back.

"Guess I just got the" is such a perfect tongue twister of hard and sort "g" sounds.

ajghjhfkd i still can't believe how much they fucked this campaign up, like how much could've gone right for her if they'd stuck with "high price" as the lead single, and "pucker up" was all swag swag swag several years before everything was

HIGH PRICE with big budget action video
ECHO as summer jam
PUCKER UP
WORK with video as it was

how do you fuck that up

as shoulda coulda woulda hit parades go i don't find that one very convincing. didn't they try to launch the album with "High Priced 'Oh' Rewrite" and it totally didn't work? at the moment Ciara's got probably her most buzzed about single in ages and you're still reliving the flops and trying to analyze how it might've gone differently.

sounds like somebody else on this board

lol

"high price" sounds literally nothing like "oh", and they didn't try to do anything with it

they tried to launch it with "go girl", failed, eventually got it off the ground with the very safe "love sex magic"

i heard "high price" on the radio a tiny lil bit, i assumed they made some attempt at making it a hit. it's not running off the "oh" template as obviously as all her little "promise" knockoffs but it's pretty clearly on the same vibe imo.

iirc it leaked, was slated as the single, was never made a single (never sent to itunes etc) and then 5 million delays ensued

the entire vibe is so different, "oh" is minimal and restrained and ciara's icy-cold, "high price" is explosive and huge-sounding and OTT and ciara's doing her nut in this mental operatic voice

there is absolutely no sonic similarity btw high price and oh except ludacris

and putting out get girl or whatever the fuck it was called and love sex magic over high price is pure insanity and somebody should be arrested for it

body party kinda sucks unfortunately

^pure distilled rongness