why must it only be in youtube quality
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
SO MANY amazing sonic and vocal details in this
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
Here's a Soundcloud link: http://soundcloud.com/rapup/pretty-wicked-things-dawn-richard
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is rather massive
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
this is at least the third really good dubstep r&b song from this year
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
Wow. Every time I think it can't get any better, it does. It's like one of those videogames where it keeps going up to another level and then another one and then another. The ~sonic textures~ ... this really is just a walking exercise in what ~sonic textures~ are and should be. Also the things her voice does at the end. I don't know if it's digital manipulation (and not even the obvious pitch-shifting) or if she's really singing that but the way the main and backing vocals twine together from 3:00 on - I don't even care if it's manipulated but some of those swoops and especially where she goes up the octave at about 3:25 - the vocal arrangements are like some John Tavener kinda shit.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost what are the other two?
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
the one on the usher album and the one on the bieber album
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
i care for u & as long as you love me
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
WCC OTM re: the vocal arrangements, I wish there was more drone layering/vocal line reflection in them to make them go full-on Taverner
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
it should be noted that putting studs on the underside of fake fingernails is pretty next level
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I love how "I Care For U" teases (threatens?) to drop but never does. I think that's my issue with this new Dawn track; when it actually breaks open it's not so thrilling.
But the sonic details on it really are incredible
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
It's just the intricacy of the polyphony that is completely slaying me. There is just such detail, the composition is just staggering.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the vocals are as mind-blowing as the production details - the sudden space around the whoops at 3:40 is just so...light and airy and clear
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
lot of overstating dubstep itt
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'm neutral on the dubstep. I just get slayed by the vocal acrobatics on display, that's a hell of a way to pretty up a blahblahbogstandard drop.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 3:02 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
well i'm just using the very general definition. say edm or whatever, idk.
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
it really is a tour de force vocal performance - as well as the acrobatics the really subtle touches, like when she murmurs "i ain't ever felt the same since" and you just gasp.
i love how it doesn't do anything as straightforward as just break open from an ominous start - it goes through stages of increasing intensity that culminate in the half-time digital storm.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
let's not say edm but also let's not have this argument. it's not "a dubstep song" obviously.
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
xxp yeah i know, and the song does go halfstep for a bit, but it just seems part of the modern production language now imo and isnt deserving of being bracketed in a kinda passé-loaded way like it was britney five years ago
idk it wouldnt have really crossed my mind if i hadnt read it here is all
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
and nor did it for the ursh/bieb jams
eh ok maybe the bieb
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
WOO-OO-OO-OO-OO-OOO-OOOOO @ 3:39 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
kinda felt like thunder, kinda felt like rain kinda felt like him and the storm was the same
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
This is how amazing this song is: I went and listened to the leaked Thom Yorke solo track just now. And then I turned it off and actually came back and listened to this Dawn Richards track instead. That's right. This song is stronger than lust.
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:12 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think i'm realizing that my ear picking this stuff out is from coming up in the midwest hearing shitty post-hardcore bands. so many raggedy ass halftime breakdowns, i can't even explain to you. whether it's dubsep's 'fault' idk, but don't tell me skrlx himself doesn't know!
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
anyway i'm pretty far afield now, carry on.
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
no hold on what bands are these, i'm intrigued
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
cos i am hearing dubstep drive like jehu in my head and tbrr i'm liking it
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
you say that now...
― goole, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wow, she's done it again
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
holy christ the HQ makes it even more amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
can i just say how remorseful i am that i let the revelation that Dawn studied marine biology come and go without making a "porpoise built" joke
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh there it was, staring me in the face
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
was it you that captioned a picture of chris brown with a dolphin as "you got fins and i got fins" back in the day? hahaha
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:03 (eleven years ago) link
lol i'd totally forgotten about that! iirc that took an... unedifying length of time to come up with
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
in the absence of any records of the incident, reproduced here from memory are the lyrics of a young chris brown's song to the stranded thames whale as performed on mtv c2006:
i'm on the london eye, over the river thamessinging to the whalerescued by the officersbut he aint going to jail
the whale later died
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:25 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
hehe
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
that chris brown thing is not real?
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 14:16 (eleven years ago) link
love this obv
― Tim F, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
PWT available on iTunes now
― dayo, Thursday, 19 July 2012 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Wild N Young/Faith video O_O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXt8vksmdw
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Why O_O?
I thought it was pretty awesome.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
She is ~MAGNIFICENT~
― my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
isn't she!
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
when "pretty wicked things" came out, ann powers tweeted that it was as though aaliyah and tori amos had had a baby, which i didn't get at first, until i remembered this amos song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aD4egZFxw8
it's the same...percussive/vocal frenzy, that sense of flux and malleability and confusion and something massive at stake but you're not sure what
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
She's great - and intriguing. Pretty typical of her to start the video off with the least "commercial" of the two songs though - as if she's trying to make sure that Faith doesn't become a hit.
― insane in my mansplain (longneck), Thursday, 30 August 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
the collaboration you've all been waiting for
http://soundcloud.com/stfutia/drake-dawn-richard-where-were
― Number None, Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
nooooooo
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
ehh they were already on a song together on Last Train To Paris -- if this is an indication that industry types are taking her seriously as a solo artist then good
― nutrition aziz (some dude), Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
NNNNoooooooooo
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 16 September 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link