Rolling R&B Thread 2009

see, i'm honestly not tryna be mr negative every time but goddamn if that isnt the most inept entry yet to a long and proud cultural lineage of sampling ART OF NOISE, even ashanti made a better fist of that shit!!

yeah i know, woulda made a good poll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FakKUy0cJY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQgBv4vHyYk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyXaKhICc48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS0BWOn2IU0

if i hadn't dropped the MURDA MO bomb that izz!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzoUo6cQ5oU

had no idea mo murda sampled art of noise

lloyd was so real in 04 he also sampled 'beat box' on that same album too but i'm guessing ur all okay for youtubes right now. i kinda mislaid my lloyd fan club membership card this year and whats worse am pretty sure that trey songz mixtape is to blame :(

oh thats murda mo not mo murda

that trey songz mixtape was pretty great

"make it rain" is awesome.

yeah i can't hate, it really was. even the new proper album's... well, there's plenty stuff you can clown in there but on the whole it's better than a lot of things, especially this year. but ultimately yes it does lack that ugh-how-did-this-idiot-seduce-me walk of shame appeal the mixtape has.

troy taylor who produced a lot of it is a veteran of 90s rnb filler btw! http://www.discogs.com/artist/Characters%2C+The (clutching at straws, who me?)

love rifle love

but u knew tht

i did! i remembered.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zz9d6ZCASc

rifle love's grandad is yet still more amazingly brilliant, it has to be said. best song ever in fact! it's a shame going to the cinema is a rub plan for a 1st date irl usually though.

<3 "Shoot Em Up Movies"

i think we need to have a look at this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvSbKSfew6E

a year ago i'd've been all "omg! hott!" and so on, with that weird-ass minimalist beat and try-hard night-vision video. now...i think i do the same, but i fear gagaisms.

I think the pertinent difference between that and Gaga is that that isn't totally fucking awful on a musical level.

once again ilm's insanely ott gaga strawmannery proves itself more contrived than she herself could ever dare to be - there's no way that thing's not a thousand times more obnoxiously useless than any given l.g cut.

howevermanyfucking consecutive years is it now of randoms pulling the exact same bankrupt "weird" tropes, and the exact same people falling for it every single time? what does that tell you about "gagaism"?

love that teedra mixtape

is it even possible to strawman Lady Gaga? if you tried she'd just dress up like Ray Bolger and sing "If I Only Had A Brain" at the next big awards show.

agreeing with the rev here

brrrrrrring ittttttttt.

btw, booth help me out here - on track 2 of that teedra tape does she or does she not sing "smooth like lil mama was a silkworm"!! or is that another one for my unfuckwitable portfolio of misheard lyrics

sounds right

you're gonna wanna take your clothes off, too

the beat is the way best part of that song, though. which is fine cause it's sweet, but the vocal melodies are totally uninteresting.

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/z7YGlW4Efmvni8Nu&res=800

nonsense vid for a nonsense song - i know times is hard but get a grip love.

just realised that must be sean garrett doing the slick rick impression though - kudos!

yeah that's pretty unnecessary, although i appreciate that she's as gratuitous with the gams as every

after months of "Break Up" terrorizing the airwaves it's a relief that the new Mario single is a dreamy Rico Love thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6v45OIf6ZI

whats up with this vague missy/tim 97 pagan iconography suddenly cropping up everywhere anyway? do i spy me some... HYPNAGOGIC R&B??????

bah i knew that so bones dude you were all wise to blank upthread was a portent of something or other.

hmm that mario is some sugary shit but it's ok -- anything's better than 'break up' tho yeah.

http://sydlexia.com/imagesandstuff/bullshit_nes_endings/smb3_end.png

wish he'd grow his hair back as well, he be lookin like ghost rider in that jacket.

bah i knew that so bones dude you were all wise to blank upthread was a portent of something or other.

er...i...i lost my decoder ring, someone else translate this one for me

Rolling R&B Thread 2009

this guy! if you check the blog it is all breathless moronoder android phantasms and animal heads and covens of wyverns and what not.

oh...haw

disappointed that "so bones dude" isn't a new nickname for me with some arcane explanation though

um hey you know upthread when i was all moar gunshot sfx in tracks plz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uNeqeDLyqc

ohhh dear.

love the amerie video almost as much as i love the song. and robin (so bones) is an excellent dude, and the so bones night is banging. step off x 2!!

Oh... almost expected some harder obtrusive 'Thug Luv' bullets. I guess it makes sense that w/ Lloyd even the bullets swoon w/ little cupid wings.

lol mightve known i'd fall foul of some networking shit there. anyway lex please to elucidate how the amerie package is not 1x miasma of fail!

Oh... almost expected some harder obtrusive 'Thug Luv' bullets. I guess it makes sense that w/ Lloyd even the bullets swoon w/ little cupid wings.

um

i think this new usher is really, really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRS_DZNGEyo

agreed, this is nice.

i would welcome him back if he was trying to make songs like "burn" again

produced by zaytoven!!!

Tay zaytoven?

ah, the oj gucci guy.

produced by zaytoven!!!

― lorax body spray (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way

yeah doggie

yeah i doubted that myself, dope song

lol "myself", the zaytoven expert *turns up nose*

i remember reading an article about zaytoven a little while back that listed usher as one of the artists he'd been in the studio w/, thought it was interesting that an A-list R&B guy would get to him really before just about any A-list rappers

but yeah this song is dope ...

the new tearra mari single w/ gucci & soulja boy is super fun too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CeBVpRkxIM

ha, usher def does a better job w/ it