thread of miguel

because this dude has outgrown the R&B thread

new ep is fantastic. 'adorn' and 'gravity' are immediately brilliant but 'that i do' has also really grown on me. i only really remember loving 'sure thing' and 'all i want is you' from the album last year but this has made me wanna relisten.

I've come to the opinion that "Quickie" is the best single from the debut

yeah i love the new EP, this after "all i want is you" and "sure thing" were basically my favorite r&b songs of the past 2 years. he's making a case for replacing jeremih as my facvorite male r&b singer

how big is this dude now I have no sense of scale for pop music anymore

genuinely like what I've heard of his

"Adorn" is the best song I've heard this year. Thanks Rev!

how big is this dude now I have no sense of scale for pop music anymore

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:46 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark

"sure thing" was the #1 song on u.s. urban radio last year and his song w/ wale brings his total of big r&b hits to 4, but he hasn't crossed over to pop audiences at all, even to the moderate extent of trey songz or whoever

so sad that adorn is only 2:19 long

i guess he's in that weird robin thicke zone of 'non-black r&b singer whose fanbase is predominantly black'

Miguel Jontel Pimentel was born in Los Angeles.[1][2] He is one of two sons born to a Mexican father and an African American mother.[2]

oh word, i thought he was just full on hoos is mexican

so sad that adorn is only 2:19 long

― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, March 4, 2012 10:21 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is prob the best part about it!

like it ends and I'm all "what a good song that was"

what a good post that was

I grew up w/ indian parents who only listened to indian music but since I grew up in new orleans they also listened to a lot of aaron neville and only nevilee (????) and I think there is something nevilleish abt this that I really appreciate

didn't mean to spell him wrong the second time

"that i do" is incredible

"gravity" is my favourite on the EP i think

"adorn" hasn't clicked with me yet, i think with these reedy-voiced guys like miguel and jeremih, i find myself either falling head over heels with songs where some alchemy makes them sound perfect ("sure thing", "birthday sex", "imma star") or i'm left a bit cold.

the production doesn't grab you?

i don't think anything on the EP touches "adorn" but that's the single of the year so far, so no biggie

it's nice? it might sneak up on me in time.

it's not the single of the year, it's not even the r&b single of the year lol

*shrug*

yah "adorn" is my favorite song this year too i think. out of the 20 i've heard at least

i don't think anything on the EP touches "adorn" but that's the single of the year so far, so no biggie

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:24 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

haven't heard it yet but aren't there only like 2 other songs on the EP? 'best of three' is kind of...anyway "Adorn" is nice but i have absolutely no idea how it's in any way different from or better than anything off the first album.

i'm not saying that it is! just that it's the best song i've heard this year

"gravity" is really good too

al you don't see how "adorn" is stylistically different than like, "sure thing"?

you just gotta vibe to adorn, dude

i vibe to it, but i also vibe to his whole album.

at this point he's only got a fairly small number of songs out that are all good to great and none too similar to each other. so "adorn" is unique but of a piece of that body of work just as "sure thing" is. its brevity is the only thing i see as any kind of departure.

I need to check out this ep. Thanks

So I found this 2005 12-inch in a dollar bin a year and a half ago, and I bought it on the off chance it was the same Miguel. Turns out it was. The song is very much a product of its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC0JalDPiqI

just went on Spotify to see if they had the new EP, they don't, but they do have a single he apparently released in 2011 called "Strawberry Amazing," which i had never heard anything about before, pretty good, very lo-fi Prince

something i noticed on the Art Dealer Chic liner notes -- Miguel self-produced the whole thing (except for one co-production from Fisticuffs, who did "Quickie" and "Girls Like You"). afaik Miguel didn't really do any of the production on the first album, so it looks like he's really stepping up and getting more involved in that side of things.

"Strawberry Amazing" was on his 2008's Mischief, too, and he co-produced that entire mixtape with Fisticuffs. That mixtape was super lo-fi; it sounds like he recorded it with a Casio and a boombox, but you can definitely hear a lot of echoes of the new EP in it.

i don't really feel like the Jive album sanded off the edges of that aesthetic much at all, give or take a few of the more established producers' contributions

Yeah, I agree. When I first heard the Jive album, I was actually surprised by how low-budget it sounded at times, especially the Fisticuffs productions. Because it came out so quietly at the time (this was before "Sure Thing" had any legs) I was wondering if Jive had cut corners and were just trying to bury the album. It definitely took a few listens for some of the more muffled production to make sense.

I kind of think of that hazy, reverbed vibe as the album's distinguishing characteristic. Gives it a very warm, intimate feel. Although a lot of that is down to Miguel himself, too.

like Strawberry Amazing but always hear a little Lenny Kravitz :/

i don't think anything on the EP touches "adorn" but that's the single of the year so far, so no biggie

― J0rdan S., Sunday, March 4, 2012 6:24 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

'adorn' is great but the single of the year so far is obv 'climax'

"Climax" hasn't really hit me yet. I'm an "Adorn" partisan.

'adorn' is great but the single of the year so far is obv 'climax'

wanna say "dayo otm", but i guess i got something to listen to when i get home

My ex is friends w his little brother lol. Apparently he sings too tho not professionally afaik

I like miguel. Sure thing was never my thing but he has a great voice and feels like a genuine original

I think EZsnappin nailed it on tumblr where he said "Adorn" sounds like early-80s Marvin. The greater trick though, is that he achieves that vibe without any air of tribute or homage.

ban dayo

"adorn" is so killing me atm

i agree with dayo that "climax" is better than "adorn"

"Adorn" makes me think of Prince fwiw

it makes me think of Prince less than 80% of his material but he definitely wrote it in part because he couldn't write another song called "Adore"

nbd, just a cross between marvin gaye & prince

vol 2, tomorrow

my neighbors always know when I come home because I bump adorn 4 times

what’s with the last usher album ass artwork

I like the new song

this is pretty cool, reminds me of the EP era

I thought he sang, "Do you feed me menthols?"

not really into this

imo this rules

I have no idea why Tainy is billed first on this track, he's barely on it, this is clearly a Miguel song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMSMtW00wwE

Tainy is one of the biggest producers in reggaeton

miguel over a reggaeton groove works surprisingly well

i would presume the credits are like that bc it's going to be on a tainy album or something

Yeah my bad, spoke too soon

i hope there is a new miguel album on the way soon though, it's been a while

i like that

https://pitchfork.com/news/miguel-announces-new-art-dealer-chic-vol-4-ep/ !!!

adc vol 4 is out here now and why did he feel the need to include that skit at the end of "triangle love"

it's fine overall but doesn't really have me excited for a full new album or anything :/

“Broads” sucks

"triangle love" is great

"broads" is, what, almost ten years old

why did he feel the need to include that skit at the end of "triangle love"

― ufo, Thursday, April 8, 2021 6:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao he really did sample closer, hilarious

"...All" is top five Migs.

i think all these new songs are really good

it's also ... very much of a piece with the other art dealer chic eps

"broads" is, what, almost ten years old

adc vol 1 to 3 were from 2012 in the lead up to kaleidoscope dream

the whole thing is nice, but "So I Lie" is superb

there's a video, though I was glad to learn the "dead frogs" thing at the start is not on the official EP lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl8U5djfWAs

triangle love IS great but omg that ending makes it impossible to repeat listen to

I’m usually very pro-drugs but Miguel is the sort of artist who I think would benefit from cutting down on them. Everything he has released since Wildheart sounds unfocused to me. Hell, even Wildheart sounds unfocused tbh.

is he a well-known druggie? I thought "Do You?" an affectation.

“Do You?” is about MDMA which he has admitted to liking. I can’t find the interview so maybe I’m mistaking him, but I remember seeing one where he sort of admitted having seasons of smoking weed daily before breakfast.

I mean they’re “soft drugs” so whatever but daily use sort of kills the recreational use of it imho.

almost 100% of musicians smoke weed every day

ILX in a nutshell.

GHB in a capsule

nothing about this, really? great track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96EuNdBFvhU

Surprised we haven't mentioned the newfound success of "Sure Thing."

not enough hours in the day to care about when TikTok discovers an older song tbh

except when it's a great song

do keep up:

MIGUEL - all i want is you - POLL

Multi-thread threats are the best.

I thought it was just a coincidence that I've heard "Sure Thing" whenever I've had the radio on in the car lately, because one of the top 40 stations here recently retooled their format to add more older songs, and so there are now two stations that play stuff like Ne-Yo and Usher on the regular.

it became a hit again this year, getting the play at top 40 stations it probably should have gotten 10 years ago. pretty much all such stations are playing it now, regardless of how gold-heavy they've set themselves up to be (tho yes, more stations are upping their ratio of throwbacks to currents lately)

yeah I figured that out after I looked at the Hot 100 for the first time in a while

late on this but his new single with Lil Yachty is fantastic imo, might be my favourite track he's released in ages:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRSjYiF490

i don't love it but it's a weird track (in an interesting way), especially the outro

yeah outro's my fave bit as well, love it when miguel gets weird

Not bad

animal collective ass song lol

lol otm

uhh I do not like this

he's on a jessie reyez song that recently came out that's pretty nice