Your bonus for the day: Niniolaās official video for āAddictedā that just came out today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-7bk5BW-RU
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
ayo breastcrawl, what did you vote for? I scanned the thread and didn't catch an explicit mention--and am i right in thinking you haven't said a peep about Twice As Tall yet?!
― rob, Thursday, 27 August 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
this poll was set up as a consultation of the ILM hivemind to help me decide, so it wouldnāt have been right for me to vote myself! I * think * I would have gone with āDangerous Loveā, but I love āDangerous Loveā, āWomanā and āAddictedā about equally, which is a whole damn lot, and even more than the others, so Iām pretty happy with this outcome.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
You would be right about TaT, my only peep has been to say that the Fireboy and especially the Burna have been throwing me for a loop. I will get to it, but I will say now that Iām finding it a lot easier to enjoy Apollo.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
I'll definitely check other works of the producers involved in here. These all have in common tasteful production, amazing mixing and some vibe-y, out of the box ideas in their sound.
FWIW I think you'd find it more rewarding to explore via the lead artists themselves rather than the producers - there are many wonderful producers across Nigerian pop at the moment but the quality is uniformly pretty high.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Not sure about that. They're both valid ways of exploring. It can be very interesting and yes, rewarding to dive deeper into a particular producer's work if a track they produced blew your mind.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Xp Fair enough! And yeah I feel like Iām still processing Twice As Tall
― rob, Thursday, 27 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
thread for Tiwaās phenomenal new album:next level at 40: šøTIWA SAVAGEās CELIAšø album
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Sunday, 30 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link
listened to the Tiwa album and the Fireboy album in a row and while I like Tiwa's album it is clearly an attempt at mainstream pop. I miss tracks like Ma Lo, Ileke and One. Fireboy's album is also pop but it's unabashedly a tribute to the 90s and keeps firing surprises at me.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 30 August 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
not sure I agree with you, but it depends on what you mean by āmainstreamā here. but by all means take it to the Tiwa thread, thatās what itās for!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 August 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
btw DL, you might also be interested in this outstanding request by ufo:
someone should make a thread for fireboy too, i would but i'm not sure i can properly articulate what i love about his album
Fireboy thread is a great idea, although slightly wary of clogging ILM with tons of afrobeats threads (not that I'd be the one complaining).
I love Fireboy's completely random list of influences. The fact he loves Sacrifice by Elton John puts his music into an amusing context
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 31 August 2020 10:22 (three years ago) link
itās not clogging, itās the Afro Takeover!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 31 August 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
You should start that thread! Rolling threads are great for shining a brief spotlight on things that would otherwise not get talked about but they don't engage people who aren't already on the bus.
If you want the unconverted to listen properly, start a thread š
― Matt DC, Monday, 31 August 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
Happy with these results, yes
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
i didn't vote but these results look about right
― ufo, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
https://everyrecordtellsastory.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/adam-ant-goody-two-shoes.jpgyou donāt vote, you donāt start threads, what do you do?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
(sorry, couldnāt resist)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
lol
i just never got around to listening to a few of the tracks i hadn't heard here, but i'm glad i did because "woman" rules especially
― ufo, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
Okay cool, here we are folx:
Thraed of š„ Fireboy DML š„ and his new album Apollo
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
Having listened to all these songs a stupid amount of times now I can confirm that this is the scientific and objective order:
Woman > Smile > Dangerous Love > Eli > Addicted > Wonderful > AG Baby
That said, the best one is the one I'm listening to in the moment, perhaps witht he exception of AG Baby, which hasn't yet dug itself in for me yet.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
š„š„š„xp
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 1 September 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
This poll would have even been better (and tighter!) with "No Stress" as the Wizkid entry instead of "Smile". And it would have been a Perfect Eight if Davido had dropped his "Fem" in time.
With the Wizzy album out now (dedicated thread here, six out of these seven have their accompanying albums released. In chronological order:
Burna Boy, Twice As Tall, released Aug 13Fireboy DML, Apollo, released Aug 19Adekunle Gold, Afro Pop, Vol. 1, released Aug 21Tiwa Savage, Celia, released Aug 27Niniola, Colours and Sounds, released Oct 2Wizkid, Made In Lagos, released Nov 29
So that only leaves our winner, but there's no word on a Rema album yet, afaik.
(However, Davido's A Better Time is apparently scheduled for Dec 3 now)
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 1 November 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
oops, Wizkid, Made In Lagos, released *Oct* 29, obv
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Sunday, 1 November 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
Our winner finally gets a proper video!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7dsnMbRAHYitās Rema getting his Apple Sugar High on.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Thursday, 12 November 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
...and Davido's A Better Time album is out today.
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 13 November 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
Producers Ozedikus and Altims talk about how they created āWomanā (sort of) together:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdfBQ3eGYs(and oh, Altims, the word youāre looking for is āNaijapianoā)
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Saturday, 21 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link