Jason DeRulo

Cause when the roof caved in and the truth came out
I just didn't know what to do
But when I become a star we'll be living so large
I'll do anything for you

Duh.

Did Loon use this sample, too?

i don't think so - it's pretty recent for a loon sample

No, I mean "Hide and Seek"!

yeah thats what i mean! was loon actively making music after 2005?

well, here you go

"What You Say" Loon featuring Christopher (2009) - a cover of Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap song)

where did you even hear this?????

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/2694/thementalistredjohnsfri.jpg

He's on Alexa Chung today!

"whatcha say" is amazing btw imo

Although this guy's got nothing on Drake or Trey Songz.

hm

truth hurts

dunno if this is old news but

http://youtu.be/hwvbCzbfVUk

awesome

http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/28/jason-derulo-tattoos/

horrendous review. let's use it as a barometer for the state of current music criticism.

didn't know mr desrouleaux had his own thread

"talk dirty" is a pretty fun/wacky song

2 chainz verse is kind of a masterpiece too

"her pussy so good i bought her a pet" is a classic dad joke

huh, had no idea yanks were unfamiliar with this commonwealth chart topper

yeah it's great! 'trumpets' v cute too imo

Pretty sure Jason Desrouleaux is my actual least favorite musician.

Wanna hear this new track but YouTube is down. My gym plays Jason DeRulo's 2009 hits fairly regularly, and it always makes me really happy hearing them. 2009 or so was such an awesome time for happy pop music, and DeRulo pretty much embodies that era for me.

derulo's 2009 music made me pretty reliably unhappy

can't help but wonder how much better "talk dirty" could be if performed by someone w/ personality like idk trey songz

and had that last clip removed

someone who can sing like idk trey songz too

talk dirty is great but "the trumpets dago" is supremely uncute rtc you crackhead

Ok, "Talk Dirty" is fun but obviously Trey should have sung it and Derulo should have fucked off.

late to the talk dirty party, but it's great

it's been all over pop and R&B radio for months… and yeah it's a fairly weird recording… if people ran around trying to crown "a song of the winter" or some such shit, this would be a prime candidate…wouldn't be surprised if Girl talk fucks with it…

I wonder how much money the Balkan Beat Box dudes are making off of that sample

The transition to the bridge is surprisingly awkward in that song.

"Wiggle" is....uhh.....yeah

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

Christgau:

Albums accomplish this better than singles, often by exploiting our craving for musical confection to expose us to harder stuff -- savories, meat and potatoes, crusty bread, tropical fruit. One of the two I've had on my mind while writing this is a best-seller. The other is by a 59-year-old who's been taking his 1937 Gibson on the road for decades. Neither has gotten the recognition it deserves. Say hello to Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" and Hamell on Trial's "The Happiest Man in the World."

Granted, Derulo's never all that hard. His third album comprises 11 songs about pragmatically carnal sex so mind-blowing that three times he proposes matrimony behind it. I value both sex and matrimony too much to recommend this life strategy. But compared to the predatory Chris Brown of "Loyal" or the chauvinistic Trey Songz of "Foreign," he's so exuberant and playful he helps me get why guys and dolls fall for it--even share their thrills some, vicariously. And his command of contemporary hookcraft is musicianship aplenty by me.

zzz

yo

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

this song is incredible

this is like if ilx incubated a pop song

"Ridin' Solo" is still one of my top guilt pleasures (guilty as in I don't expect anyone else to be on board).

this is my favorite song

heart of plexiglas

Oh man, I want to like this, but I'm wishing the chorus did something...more.

it is already a very generous chorus

This is by far my favorite Derulo song, despite the falsetto coming like four years late.

idk i heard it the other day and have already forgotten everything about it

you're tripping

Heard this the other day, and yeah, it's nice, but really, it treads awfully close to Maroon 5 territory, which makes me uneasy. Obviously JD's voice is at least tolerable, though, which is a major step in the right direction.

this song makes me very happy

yeah listening again i feel like it is squarely in maroon 5 territory or even like mkto lol, not particularly interesting

i actually like some other desrouleaux songs that basically everyone hates tho so what do i know ;_;

yeah listening again i feel like it is squarely in maroon 5 territory or even like mkto

the production is way more dynamic than anything done by these two bands imo

m5 "love somebody" x the only mkto song that ppl have heard

idk it's very ersatz but it's hardly "uptown funk"

vis-à-vis the raves upthread it's somehow both much better and much worse than expected

it's the same as uptown funk but disco as template makes its inherent woe cut closer, too close ime

yeah not rly into this sorry boys. tryna take me out to dinner i cancel it

i lolled at this.

still not sure what shift k3y deserves for replacing my daily internal dialogue with that exchange

he does not deserve his awesome new jam being ignored though, u scumbags

Do you mean "Name & Number"? I love it but I am weirdly into his ropey vocals on it.

I note "Not Into It" was finally released! Some 18 months + later.

yas kween name & # is what i mean

i read ropey as inviting karaoke

Shifty is for the people.

eh "Hold On" definitely wanted to be "Adorn" but none of these songs really have much in common with "Adorn"

My GF texted me about "Jealous" being an "Adorn" knockoff and I trust her judgement.

wow I don't hear it. Still sounds like post-Justin laptop soul moves.

"Adorn" is quite literally laptop soul.

^ lol yep!!

slow the tempo on "adorn" a few bpm and the similarities are pretty striking

i can see the connection between "jealous" and "adorn" ... i still see "adorn" as being outside that group of songs tho

he does not deserve his awesome new jam being ignored though, u scumbags

― r|t|c, Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:56 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do you mean "Name & Number"? I love it but I am weirdly into his ropey vocals on it.

― Tim F, Sunday, March 22, 2015 8:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

this song is so good

he looks like the biggest fucking goober and yet his vocals are so weirdly endearing and sweet

he sounds and looks like the 5th most important member of a second-tier boy band

AND YET

ya i think i said b4 his singles are all on a runtish jordan knight tip

yes exactly

But what better song of personal liberation is there than "Ridin' Solo."

I wasn't into this song at first

But my officemate kept on playing it and now I think it's great, it's one of "those" songs

Looking forward to hearing this everywhere

He was also playing the new Carly Rae and I still think that song is bad and not good and doesn't improve with casual brushes

Sorry Carly, next time... maybe?

lol that crj song really sank like a stone after a week of people losing their minds about it

The CRJ single is only being added to radio today.

Cap'n Sav-a-Rae

heard that in the wild on sunday

i wouldn't be surprised if the crj song doesn't really pick up

arguing that "adorn" is the genesis of songs like this is one of the worst insults i've seen about it. i don't hear it? i mean if you change everything about the production and tempo maybe but those are quite big things.

as a song this one is really nowhere near "jealous"

I'm not massively in love with this but it doesn't really seem offensive?

so this album's good, including the Keith Urban-Stevie Wonder collaboration.

what a strange career this guy's had

on one hand i'm pretty embarrassed for having liked "whatcha say", otoh i love "trumpets" and "want to want me". i don't think i have any idea what is and isn't a good song with this dude

Caramanica, somewhat baffled, calls him chameleonic. I say the guy has scored the most frictionless hits of the last few years.

all I ever wanted was some fuuuuuunnn

debates upthread about whether "WTWM" fit into the "Style" lineage but imo "Cheyenne" gets far closer to belonging to that bloodline

Totally.

so did y'all end up getting tired of "want to want me"

Nope!

not tired of the album either

No commentary on his judging "So You Think You Can Dance?" or his performing "Cheyenne" on last week's show? Let Mary Murphy's non-renewal not be in vain...

"X2CU" is incredibly good

terius-level outro

I JUST WANT X2CU

This album's goodness was such a surprise that I haven't done a good job proselytizing.

i had forgotten while writing about tropical house that matoma produced that song on here w/ j lo -- at the time the album came out i had no idea who he was. apparently it's the next single.

yeah "X2CU" is fantastic, so annoyed it's not a single

Prime Michael Jackson would have killed "X2CU."

uhhh

https://www.thehits.co.nz/video/jason-derulo-shocks-fans-by-singing-classical-opera-and-he-sounds-incredible/

hmmm I'm no expert but that sounds more like an opera style impression than actual opera singing

what an abomination of a song

It is popera for sure but still

oh yeah he delivers it fine, just before the show goes over a cliff