6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

i haven't been able to shake the impression of The-Dream as Jazze Pha's mini-me since the "Shawty Is A 10" video

dude didn't even have any real radio hits even as a writer for a year or two there, but "Love On Top" and "Birthday Cake" changed that, maybe he can stop his commercial tailspin after all

yeah, he's lucky that something off that beyonce album finally hit

So I saw The-Dream at the Fillmore Silver Spring last night, outside Washington DC. He had a drummer and 2 keyboard/synth players (one of whom also played bass). The-Dream alternated between singing live, and singing along or lip-synching with pre-recorded vocal tracks or letting the crowd sing while he asked for more Patrone. The show lasted for just an hour( $33 admission). He did dance and strut energetically. He's in tour mode: was wearing the same Oakland Raiders cap, black sunglasses, black jacket, and Roc-a-Fella Records necklace I read that he wore in NYC at SOBs.
He again proclaimed himself "the realest" out there, and grumbled more about the fakes who have imitated him in the last two years. Much of the crowd did not seem enthused with the cover of "Beat that p*ssy up". I didn't like it. It was alternately sad and comical watching him go overboard in his attempt to be a swaggering 2012 era foul-mouthed star, or maybe that was part of his Marvin Gaye for 2012 mad at my ex shtick. I forgot the name of the other mad at his ex song he did. "Walking on the Moon," "Shawty", "Falsetto," "Kill the Lights," "Rockin' that ..." all went over better. He had a woman singer come onstage and do a song and a half(the latter was part of Kanye's "All of the Lights" that I think he assisted in writing).

^^ valuable dispatch from somewhere outside the borders of Teriustan

as a recovering terius stan i have no real desire to see him live. his twitter makes him seem like a clown

Just realized how badly Chris Brown's "Strip" bites "Rockin' That Shit."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-dream-at-fillmore-silver-spring/2012/03/18/gIQAFBtDLS_story.html

The freelancer reviewing him for the Washington Post was now wowed either. She and Caramanica in the NY Times were harsh on Nash's vocals. I'm less concerned with him not having Al Green's range and more with what he was singing, his cliched between song patter, and with his reliance on the backing vocal tracks. He's a great songwriter though.

gotta say i'm leaning towards becoming a "recovering terius stan" too. not saying he'll be useless from here on in obv, i'm sure there'll be great stuff to come, but the god period, the imperial phase, is over

Away from a stage and his twitter, he might still be able to write and record strong material

that's how it usually works, yeah

i had an absolute blast at the show tonight

i think we were lucky that we saw him after he had played a few weeks of dates... he obv can't really sing but he was great on stage and the band was good, none of the tracks sounded like ass or were turned into linkin park tracks.

the set was pretty heavy on LH & LVM, i don't think he played any album tracks off LK, tho he did do one of the ones of 1977 that i don't remember. singles got the best responses but like when he dropped into the rap on "fancy" the entire crowd was spitting w/ him, it was kinda nuts.

also he did "i luv your girl" -> loverance which was hilarious and pretty awesome

anyway it wasn't a mindblowing show but it was really fun just to be in a big room full of people that knew all the songs and all the words and it was appropriately goofy and all that

also he ended w/ "rockin that shit" which was prob the biggest response then he went off for a sec and came back for "let me see the booty" which was pretty hype. but i love that song.

Kicking myself for not driving down to this show tonight; totally forgot about it :(

so weird to think of him closing w/ his biggest hit and then encoring with the flop that the other song was a face-saving recovery from

yes, very weird

it was an incredible act of defiance

I'm always shocked when setlists aren't structured in reverse order of chart performance

he came on stage and did a bit of "love vs money" ("when love is a problem" repeated) then went right into "shawty is a 10" which got the crowd going, then he did "fast car" -> 90 seconds or so of "nikki"... then i think he did "kill the lights" and let casha do that cover from 1977. then i think he did "falsetto" (while miming getting head w/ the mic as his dick, obv)

he also did "falsetto" in the middle of the set, did the "gangsta luv" and "throw it in the bag" hooks, did "roc your body" (this sounded good) "walkin on the moon" (this sounded surprisingly great), "purple kisses"... was surprised that he didn't do "yamaha" tho

also all the house music was songs that he'd written for other artists

then i think he did "falsetto" (while miming getting head w/ the mic as his dick, obv)

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

having a lot of trouble imagining how this could happen

yea 'walking on the moon' was a highlight i recall too

kinda pissed i didnt get a 'let me see the booty' "encore", otherwise hes prob doin the same set everywhere more or less

yeah i think he's been doing the same set

i was with some friends that had been checking the setlists and once he finished w/ "rockin that shit" they were like "that's it, he's done" but then he came out for "let me see the booty" so i guess it was something he was feeling last night or w/e

having a lot of trouble imagining how this could happen

― dayo, Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

he held the mic at his crotch like it was his dick and sorta like... idk slowly humped the air while moving his hand on the mic. it was bizarre, obv.

o - who was doing the singing, or was it piped in?

there was a backing track but he was signing def singing. he let the crowd do a lot tho.

also all the house music was songs that he'd written for other artists

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

that's pretty cool imo -- i'm always surprised artists w/ a big catalog of side projects or whatever that don't do something like that when playing live

Terius Nash ‏ @MrTeriusNash
Shout out to my nigga Carlos "Los" Mckinney who Produce this record with Me!

^encouraging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WyH9b9W4_Q&feature=

I can't disagree with this YouTube commenter:

she sexy but cant sing.. he fuxn her dats y she on da track.. but she soo fine
officialdollface14 2 hours ago

http://i.imgur.com/dE3ro.jpg

FUCK no

-_-

lolwut

glad homie finally came out of the closet as a garden gnome, we all knew the truth all these years anyway

hahaha

*deletes all my terius albums*

next album: The Love Aquatic

yay

i appreciate the way he's making it easy for us to get over him

maybe it was shocked blonde?

Still don't understand; is this a costume, or did he Chris Brown his beard for fashion purposes?

wake me when it's over

http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/dream-dyes-beard-blonde-losing-bet-111854068.html

radiokillarecords.com
oh man i really like this?

same

it's the first dream thing in a while that sounds really interesting or fun. roc was v prefab. he's singing it real nice - that real nice old vocal style breakdown near the break at the end - it's kinda playful, like i can see it as the weird upbeat florida university analogue on a new record.

1 year passes...

lol