No thread for her yet? Talked about a bit in the Rolling R&B threads. 3 excellent mix tapes in 2012-13. Acclaimed early-2014 single ("2 On"). Proper debut album out in October. Latest single is "Pretend," with A$AP Rocky:
https://soundcloud.com/tinashenow/tinashe-pretend-featuring-aap-rocky/
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 24 August 2014 14:34 (two years ago) Permalink
"Pretend" is just heavenly. Highest hopes for this album.
― Evan R, Sunday, 24 August 2014 22:38 (two years ago) Permalink
Yes, looking forward to this. Haven't checked out her tapes at all.
― MikoMcha, Monday, 25 August 2014 07:09 (two years ago) Permalink
the last tape was pretty bad aside from "vulnerable" - which katy b later reworked into something more transcendent anyway.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Monday, 25 August 2014 07:41 (two years ago) Permalink
this new song is awful
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 25 August 2014 14:07 (two years ago) Permalink
"now i admit that i was fucking with a kid" is a line that could've been rewritten imo
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:06 (two years ago) Permalink
it reminds me of something specifically i can't put my finger on but more generally it's pretty superior morose rainy day r&b à la brandy's afrodisiac
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 09:08 (two years ago) Permalink
The Rocky verse in particular is very De La Soul/Teenage Fanclub
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOmdg3epcic
― Evan R, Tuesday, 26 August 2014 14:00 (two years ago) Permalink
that asap rocky song is still trash but this is dope http://www.thefader.com/2014/09/15/tinashe-feels-like-vegas
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 15:34 (two years ago) Permalink
"It begs for a Wiz Khalifa guest verse"
lol foh Fader writers
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:12 (two years ago) Permalink
aw I like that A$AP track
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:16 (two years ago) Permalink
Yeah "Pretend" is great. Weird hearing Stargate become Noah "40" Shebib on this Vegas track tho
― Evan R, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:18 (two years ago) Permalink
2 On > Pretend > Heaven or Las Vegas
They're all great though.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:18 (two years ago) Permalink
idh why j0rdan hates "pretend", i'd've thought it was totally in his wheelhouse
― lex pretend, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:19 (two years ago) Permalink
*idg
it's like R&B as written by linda perry -- i'm good
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:32 (two years ago) Permalink
Heaven or Las Vegas
interesting slip
― een, Monday, 15 September 2014 16:40 (two years ago) Permalink
haha i was about to say
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:42 (two years ago) Permalink
although it's easier to imagine Jhene Aiko singing "Heaven or Las Vegas"
Uhh, that was quite intentional.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 15 September 2014 16:43 (two years ago) Permalink
Pretend is hot garbage
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:10 (two years ago) Permalink
Also Matthew trammel is a good writer I don't think he nec. meant the wiz thing as a compliment
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:11 (two years ago) Permalink
yeah as a neutral statement i agree w/ him
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 September 2014 18:41 (two years ago) Permalink
The song definitely needs something imo... there's a lot of space there it doesn't know how to fill
― Evan R, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:48 (two years ago) Permalink
xps guess that was a lil too subtle for me, Herbie Handcock
― een, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:08 (two years ago) Permalink
meh these non-"2 on" songs are boring, not sure she will ever get interesting ime
― dyl, Monday, 15 September 2014 22:57 (two years ago) Permalink
Are y'all about to pull a Jessie Ware/Imagine It Was Us on this woman and constantly judge every new track by how it stacks up against the one song in her discography that was actually atypical of her usual sound?
― Greer, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:14 (two years ago) Permalink
feel like jessie ware's recent output has been judged against far more than "imagine it was us"
idk, i guess i'm still checking for tinashe. i cherrypicked some of her mixtape tracks & like a few of em. just not v excited for this album yet.
― dyl, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:42 (two years ago) Permalink
Jessie ware is dope, this is trash. easy
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:02 (two years ago) Permalink
― Greer
it's a slow night
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:05 (two years ago) Permalink
i'm with j0rdan that linda perry doing r&b sounds most unwelcome, but i don't really see what "pretend" has to do with that. just sounds in the lane of all the other songs this year aiming to sound a bit like deep brandy album cuts off afrodisiac
don't think either new one is a patch on "2 on" (obv) and i hope it's not all in this vein but they're def better than anything from her mixtape days, i could see them clicking into place in album context
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 10:16 (two years ago) Permalink
The more I hear from this album the less sense I have of what it's trying to be. This is track 2 from the record, and its pacing and long, wonky guitar outro spit in the face of album sequencing best practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftB-DccfZkY
― Evan R, Monday, 29 September 2014 14:00 (two years ago) Permalink
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/22001/1/stream-tinashes-debut-album-aquarius
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:26 (two years ago) Permalink
Awesome!
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:36 (two years ago) Permalink
Stream doesn't work, blogs keep posting it anyway.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:18 (two years ago) Permalink
Content above all!
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:18 (two years ago) Permalink
it's a pretty solid album
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:28 (two years ago) Permalink
it feels very zeitgeisty in a contained way
that's vague
it feels zeitgeisty in that it tracks along post-drake, post-aaliyah is a goddess R&B but not like fka twigs or something where it's *all* about that
insofar as it's an album with inherent commercial motivations that still manages to sound 'hip' it feels perhaps even more idiosyncratic and considered than something like twigs where the aesthetic is really the meat of the album
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:31 (two years ago) Permalink
not that the two need to be pitted against each other or anything -- i like the twigs album a lot too
could swap jhene aiko out w/ twigs and i think the argument still holds
I am very curious to hear this. does the stream not work for anyone? soundcloud told me it was because I was in the wrong country
― rob, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:34 (two years ago) Permalink
Everything else on her soundcloud plays for me except the album stream.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:46 (two years ago) Permalink
About halfway through, and am enjoying this - Aquarius seems like a really suitable title, given the full on shiny, aquatic dub sonics and subsumptive dynamics. And, ah, pan-pipes.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:25 (two years ago) Permalink
Yeah, those pan-pipes...
Also about halfway through, also enjoying it.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 16:26 (two years ago) Permalink
what? the strength of the twigs album is that the pre-release narrative about that aesthetic is a gigantic red herring b/c it's not that relevant to the album, which feels like it's in another lineage entirely. it's got tinges of r&b about it but certainly not the real zeitgeisty sad-drake-r&b/glacial-aaliyah-vibes sort, and it's a v minor component anyway
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:10 (two years ago) Permalink
How Many Times is amazing.
― Greer, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 18:11 (two years ago) Permalink
The stream I think is UK only but it worked for me using hola.
― uxorious gazumping (monotony), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 21:22 (two years ago) Permalink
oh thank you, I recently moved to Canada from the US and have been meaning to figure out a good vpn
― rob, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 23:51 (two years ago) Permalink
Man, I love the end of Bet, with the final thick chord, and then the guitar solo playing that little riff, which then becomes the bass-riff on Cold Sweat.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 00:25 (two years ago) Permalink
Half-expect Enya-sample from Ready or Not to drop at the start of Bet.
The best parts of this record recall Aaliyah's s/t slowjams.
It's crazy long tho, reminds me of Goldenheart that way - could have been a bit more concise.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 2 October 2014 06:59 (two years ago) Permalink
i wonder if this is the album she wanted to release before her label made her fuck it all up?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 4 November 2016 15:30 (seven months ago) Permalink
I haven't listened to this yet and I am not well-versed in the mixtape world but what would make this not an album?
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 4 November 2016 15:37 (seven months ago) Permalink
there is no way this is not the original album
― boxedjoy, Friday, 4 November 2016 15:40 (seven months ago) Permalink
it's not if you say it's not, stevie
― j., Friday, 4 November 2016 15:44 (seven months ago) Permalink
manifestation, sigh
― j., Friday, 4 November 2016 15:49 (seven months ago) Permalink
ya I just read an article on Noisey that was basically like "a mixtape is an album that people release themselves and aren't trying to market like a proper label release"
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 4 November 2016 16:34 (seven months ago) Permalink
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, November 4, 2016 8:30 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i assume this to be all the R&B tracks she recorded during the JOYRIDE sessions, and her and the label settled releasing them as a ~mixtape~ so her proper album can be more of a pop record (where we'll probably find "superlove" and, more importantly, "player," hopefully without chris brown)
― josh, Friday, 4 November 2016 16:48 (seven months ago) Permalink
:O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-pl6d_rpE
― Evan R, Friday, 4 November 2016 17:50 (seven months ago) Permalink
mostly empoweringly drab mood music with the unfortunate jojo quality of making you sympathise with the execs somewhat
hard to think of many capable artistes surviving being this polarized, in fairness
flickers in the last third; 'spacetime' is v cool on that reliable astral b sure tip; 'touch pass' is superb, the perfect elusive tinashe poise
― r|t|c, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:45 (seven months ago) Permalink
'touch pass' is actually probably p regulation cassie on its own but context gives it ballast
always-underrated amethyst ep now only getting better as artistic statement in retrospect
― r|t|c, Friday, 4 November 2016 18:56 (seven months ago) Permalink
not underrated by me!!!
low end production, esp in bass drum, seems a little itunes-cruddy on this, but oh well
i like all the ones where she sounds like she is sad and sits in her room
― j., Friday, 4 November 2016 19:24 (seven months ago) Permalink
i def like a lot of this but it feels really like a hodge podge of more introspective/odd stuff with attempts to be commercial r&b
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 November 2016 19:27 (seven months ago) Permalink
this mixtape is very excellent
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 5 November 2016 02:07 (seven months ago) Permalink
i love "touch pass" and "ghetto boy" but it felt like i had to sift through a lot of shapelessness to get there
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:56 (seven months ago) Permalink
"sympathise with the execs somewhat" otm
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 November 2016 16:57 (seven months ago) Permalink
so mmmmmmmmmmm this ones a skit mmmmmmm i call it binaural test mmmmmmmmmm basically i mmmmmmmmmm [exec stares at superb cleavage pondering missed lambo repayments]
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 November 2016 17:07 (seven months ago) Permalink
heyyyy
― j., Saturday, 5 November 2016 17:11 (seven months ago) Permalink
i apologise for lowering the tone with str8 facts my guy
― r|t|c, Saturday, 5 November 2016 17:22 (seven months ago) Permalink
the thing is that this case makes a pretty clear case for why it was shelved as an album but it's not like the alternative of turning her into 2006-era ciara is working artistically or commercially either so like....
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 November 2016 17:46 (seven months ago) Permalink
this tape**
i think she prob needs to break up w/ her label and skip to the part where she's the next carly rae jepsen. indie audiences like fka twigs and dev hynes.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 November 2016 17:48 (seven months ago) Permalink
if that Far East Movement single is any indication, she has no talent for club bangers either.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:04 (seven months ago) Permalink
have you heard the song "2 on"?
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:12 (seven months ago) Permalink
"2 On" does not sound like this Far East Movement track.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:20 (seven months ago) Permalink
I think my biggest problem with this isn't that its all downtempo moody haze ambience but that she does nothing interesting with her voice at all. Like, compared to all the personality on Aquarius' big moments - 2 On, All Hands On Deck, Feels Like Vegas - this is so inconsequential.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:51 (seven months ago) Permalink
Good to hear The-Dream back on his game
I like Superlove but it's such a collection of 2010-11 Terius songwriting tics that it feels like something he could have written in literally minutes.
No interest in the mixtape at all really.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:09 (seven months ago) Permalink
have a cynical suspicion that that only ever got greenlit cos of the running man challenge
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:29 (seven months ago) Permalink
Sevyn w/Terius >>> Tinashe w/Terius
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:37 (seven months ago) Permalink
this is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the terius that accompanies the "End of R&B in Music" - 2016
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:55 (seven months ago) Permalink
Tinashe really needs a forward thinking pop producer - 2 On was peak Mustard, but bringing Terius back just isn't the way to go. What's becoming painfully obvious is that she only knows how to write two songs: the one where she's waiting for something to happen and the one where she's excited that it's kind of happening or trying to make it happen.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 11:29 (seven months ago) Permalink
have a cynical suspicion that that only ever got greenlit cos of the running man challenge― r|t|c, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 3:29 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― r|t|c, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 3:29 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
def
― Spottie, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:52 (seven months ago) Permalink
nobody wants to hear songs about things that did happen
― j., Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:31 (seven months ago) Permalink
yeah that post rly is premier water torture arguing
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:49 (seven months ago) Permalink
i just stared at it for a while like whuh... buh...
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:50 (seven months ago) Permalink
qualified exception for songs about things that didn't happen
― j., Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:54 (seven months ago) Permalink
but not from tinashe!!!!
you want a song about stuff that happened? maybe you should check out a little tune called "we didn't start the fire"
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 18:38 (seven months ago) Permalink
If you like super love you'll love tink - wet aquafina
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 20:01 (seven months ago) Permalink
Let me rephrase that. A huge chunk of her songs are either about trying to get off in some way, impatience at not getting there fast enough or flat out frustration when it doesn't happen. It's all there on Aquarius from the great "get ratchet, go dumb then go more dumb then / we can keep it lit, let's roll" until the album ends with an orgasmic thunderstorm. But as her career's been stalling the sense of inertia and frustration has become all the more pervasive, and on Nightride her "and I know how to get there, don't follow me" lines just sound less convincing, with no release in sight.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 20:10 (seven months ago) Permalink
Thread is way underrating Nightride imo. It sounds beautiful and really opens up and reveals itself after a few listens.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 21:55 (seven months ago) Permalink
The Terius "Mr. Yeah" coda tacked onto the end of "Company" is pretty unncessary
― Evan R, Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:12 (seven months ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/Tinashe/status/827251204681986048
fundraising for the aclu
<3
― j., Thursday, 2 February 2017 20:52 (four months ago) Permalink
don't know if it's just finally seeing the video which really brings it to life but I had grossly underestimated how great "Company" is
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 4 February 2017 15:04 (four months ago) Permalink
I mean, it's fine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eB4EGjusrc
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 16 March 2017 19:56 (three months ago) Permalink
i think she prob needs to break up w/ her label and skip to the part where she's the next carly rae jepsen.
She tried taking Jordan's advice but did it wrong :(
This is dire
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:33 (three months ago) Permalink
yes do not listen to this : /
― j., Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:45 (three months ago) Permalink
seriously ?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 16 March 2017 20:46 (three months ago) Permalink
hahahaha wow this is completely nondescript
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Thursday, 16 March 2017 21:11 (three months ago) Permalink
I feel like this was originally written for Jordin Sparks or something
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Thursday, 16 March 2017 21:12 (three months ago) Permalink
The secret to appropriating 80s pop is you need to sound like you enjoy 80s pop. She did not get that memo.
― Evan R, Thursday, 16 March 2017 22:54 (three months ago) Permalink