why tho??? you already imply that yr reservations arent in what yr hearing but in what yr perceiving characterwise (i certainly wouldn't say amerie could bring anything different or do the same things any better on this tune) so what is it that amerie, or nicole, is representing here? not tryna jump down yr throat but the amerie UNQUESTIONING TOKEN INDIE TRUST question could do with some addressing before my head goes and explodes
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean ok, leggy english lit grads in ooh-la-la garms generally occupy my mind too but my stereo doesnt have to take the hit yknow?
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Todd Rundgren Ragga or sump'n. This is really good.
― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 18 August 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i certainly wouldn't say amerie could bring anything different or do the same things any better on this tune)
whereas i do - from a purely musical/vocal point of view. i just hear the affectations of amerie's voice working so well in this song's chorus particularly. character-wise it may well be that the song subject suits Scherzinger's on-record persona (would-be 'evil fembot' except is she even that interesting? can't seem to come round to her) better. essentially i think amerie's got more charm and think this sort of production would've suited her v well but never mind eh.
― blueski, Saturday, 18 August 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
to my mind amerie's voice is rounder, fuller, more genial compared to nicole's - qualities that in this partic song the beat alone manages to convey quite well. so rather than doubling up on that vibe, 80s jackie collins superbitch nicole's airy delivery gives u a nice steelier contrast, in that you kinda already knew only a supervillian would do for her but what the hey let's dress it up as a bouncy knockabout 60s thing. which is charming right? whereas for amerie (amelie more like amirite) it'd just be a bit "i said badman, tee hee!"
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link
but i'm not sure nicole's delivery is particularly convincing either (or at least not as satisfying as it could be)! must say the 'bouncy knockabout 60s charming' vibe for the 'i love bastards' theme makes a strange contrast but perhaps that's a good thing. an ameriete version with the only super villain being perhaps an occasionally disobedient puppy would be great too tho.
― blueski, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
but Amerie carried off bad girl vibe well enough on 'Touch' anyway
― blueski, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(i will be generous and leave aside the "but 'touch' was a load of cobblers THUS I WIN" loophole!)
'bouncy knockabout 60s charming' vibe for the 'i love bastards' theme is probably the least strange contrast ever in terms of girlgroup songs passim though innit. but cos nicole's a slightly colder (or um hotter) fish than yr average it works on a higher level to a simple genre throwback thing.
puppy supervillain i could down with though. "here, bounty killer! BAD DOG"
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
mary j blige ft jah cure - he hit me and it felt like a kiss 2007
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
is probably the least strange contrast ever in terms of girlgroup songs passim though innit.
isn't it usually at least disguised as berating their bastardity but admitting they can't help loving them all the same tho? this is more blatant approval (or even celebration).
i liked 'touch'
― blueski, Saturday, 18 August 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
she does vaguely say theyre not "good for her soul" but yeah, point taken
― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2007 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve it goes back to this doesn't it:
"He's good-bad but not evil"
I love this song so much, and really people should stop fronting and recognize the Nicole is a brillziant vocalist - if anything she sounds a bit like Mya a bit at times here (esp. in the verses), which makes sense as Mya has done this kind of song more than just about anyone in modern R&B, although usually kinda darker than this carnivalesque delicacy.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 August 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"Whatever You Like" (is this new? i'm not up on pop currently) is a total Kelis' "Blindfold Me" rip
― jaxon, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Nicole, as a singer, is an order of magnitude more versatile than Amerie.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 22:55 (sixteen years ago) link
amerie is, however, probably versatile enough that she doesnt have to use the phrase "order of magnitude" everytime she wants to say something.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
I totally do not get the jizzing over this track, and I can't quite work out why it isn't clicking for me.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
stylus sez.
MT Kafka: This is probably Nicole’s best recorded performance, and I love the way in which the snare rolls and background chants in the chorus are softened by the synthesized strings. It also has the campiest moment in pop this year when she sings “I ride or die!”: she practically spits out the “die!” (so butch, girl!) and then the vowel sound tapers off into something more like a canine whimper. [7]John M. Cunningham: As long as Nicole doesn’t mind eliding the distinction between cocky rebelliousness and outright evil (perhaps it’s another chart-pop dissertation on the multivalent meanings of “bad”), then I’m surprised that the video doesn’t feature slo-mo footage of Jonah Hill excitedly drawing penises during that synergistic chorus. Song’s got a good bounce, though. [6]Martin Skidmore: I like the style here, bouncy and clicky. I think she’s a fairly weak singer, and the verses here are a bit lame, but the chorus is very good, and it’s apparently produced, appropriately, by the Mad Scientist. I really like about half of this, but there are saggy parts. [7]Lee Hampton: The chorus is perfect – simultaneously urgent, uncomfortable, and catchy for the first half which leads into the light and bouncy second half. Fuck that madrigal shit – this is how you make a tone poem. One of the worst bridges I’ve heard all year, though. [5]Al Shipley: Where “Whatever You Like” took the femme fatale persona Nicole forged with PCD and gave it a slightly darker spin, this goes in the exact opposite direction, which is surprising, given the title. With those bright synths and her gleefully half-assed fake ragamuffin accent, it’s just so weirdly cheerful, and I’m still not entirely sure what to make of it after coming back to it several times. [6]
John M. Cunningham: As long as Nicole doesn’t mind eliding the distinction between cocky rebelliousness and outright evil (perhaps it’s another chart-pop dissertation on the multivalent meanings of “bad”), then I’m surprised that the video doesn’t feature slo-mo footage of Jonah Hill excitedly drawing penises during that synergistic chorus. Song’s got a good bounce, though. [6]
Martin Skidmore: I like the style here, bouncy and clicky. I think she’s a fairly weak singer, and the verses here are a bit lame, but the chorus is very good, and it’s apparently produced, appropriately, by the Mad Scientist. I really like about half of this, but there are saggy parts. [7]
Lee Hampton: The chorus is perfect – simultaneously urgent, uncomfortable, and catchy for the first half which leads into the light and bouncy second half. Fuck that madrigal shit – this is how you make a tone poem. One of the worst bridges I’ve heard all year, though. [5]
Al Shipley: Where “Whatever You Like” took the femme fatale persona Nicole forged with PCD and gave it a slightly darker spin, this goes in the exact opposite direction, which is surprising, given the title. With those bright synths and her gleefully half-assed fake ragamuffin accent, it’s just so weirdly cheerful, and I’m still not entirely sure what to make of it after coming back to it several times. [6]
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone know if lee hampton's house is available for burning down, at all?
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzingles jukebox.
― Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno, i morbidly enjoy the jukebox. god knows why. worth it for tom ewing's one rvw every 6 months at any rate.
mt kafka is so wrong on both a factual (it's "i'll ride all day" cloth ears!) and critical level i can only assume he's one of those kogan bunnies.
also jaymc wtf r u on about
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The whole chorus is Nicole singing "superbad" over and over.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
something like 8% of kids will get that joke.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
my bad tho!
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I only really decided to start contributing to the Jukebox recently because I'm so routinely horrified by the general scores/reviews that I wanted to at least be a voice of dissent when everybody gets it wrong.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 22:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Word to that.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
loving this.
― ^@^, Thursday, 23 August 2007 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Monday, 12 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you Tape Store.
this song is definitely mindnumbingly wow.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lol you are always so late
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i love 'supervillain' but i still love 'whatever u like' even more
what was the track w/the hawaiian name like in the end? i never bothered to hear it.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
blindfold me >>>>>>>> whatever u like
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
the hawaiian track is "puakenikeni" or something like that, it sucked
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
actually relistening to it it's not that bad
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
that song is kinda worthless post-calabria 2007 huh?
what was the song she did w/ t.i.? that one was good
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
that was "whatever u like", and it was just a less good version of kelis' "blindfold me"
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it had an incredible video though - she was on some ring type shit there. her terrifying stare in the pool scene, the body contortions, the hot coals
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the video was hot
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
whatever u like >>>> blindfold me, imo
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I still don't get why her solo career was such a failure, I mean she was totally set up to be massive
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I still don't get why she attempted a solo career, given that PCD is essentially her solo vehicle and was already massive
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
her last name is hard to pronounce
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i40.tinypic.com/dwf3t0.jpg
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
loll
i remember when she performed "whatever u like" at a vmas PRE-SHOW
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
the way Wayne filled in for T.I. and did a whole new remix verse (that AFAIK was never released as a studio version) was pretty cool.
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah with lil wayne, that was kind of hot
anyway glad Keri Hilson got a hit finally so people can stop using this:
http://i37.tinypic.com/zu2m8x.png
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ya im pretty sure he just freestyled it - it was funny too because id doubt scherzinger knew what he was going to do and he started rapping about sex and he started grinding on her and she had to pretend to be like really into getting spontaneously humped by lil wayne
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
wayne doesn't freestyle dude
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
too soon - should've been after two PCD albums...as big as they were she wasn't well-established enough, wasn't perceived to have paid her dues.
t.i.'s verse on 'whatever u like' is pure, raw sex.
i'm listening to it b2b with 'blindfold me' now - i thought they were on a similar level at the time but wow, listening back 'whatever u like' is so ridiculously far ahead. kelis sounds strained and vaguely wheezy compared to nicole's whiplash agility.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah another reason for 'whatever u like's superiority is obv t.i. being fine & sexy rather than nas talking about hugh grant
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
song is still amazing
― la senora (surm), Friday, 7 May 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
super villain that is
genuinely love "poison" now
this xfactor performance was legit great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn1tFlWlKcI
smh at everyone saying gaga would've done it better - it wasn't so long ago that gaga was the one biting nicole's entire steez hardcore
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought the song was a bit nothing-y but the sound on X-Factor could be to blame, it's designed to kill excitement. This is no "Super Villain" tho right?
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
finally heard Milian's madscientist-devoid version of 'Super Villain' the other week - meeeh
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's no "super villain" but i always preferred "whatever u like" anyway
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that was spoiled for me by always hearing Status Quo in my head
― absinthe of malithe (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
imminent album entirely produced by the-dream and tricky, it seems
i would be hyperventilating a few years ago, now i'm cautiously thinking "well let's see if there's any magic left at all"
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
I remember watching VMAs and Wayne subbing for T.I. on idoidoidowhateveryoulike before he was "officially" big
v important memory
― nova, Friday, 23 May 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah that was funny just because there was no official studio remix with Wayne and he clearly just wrote lyrics for the occasion of the performance and worked in references to MTV and filling in for T.I.
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 23 May 2014 10:38 (nine years ago) link
lol yes that was great
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:15 (nine years ago) link
also... what
when was the last time dream & tricky even worked together? he's been producing by himself or with los for a few years now it seems
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 13:19 (nine years ago) link
every Scherzinger project spends 4-5 years in the vault before hitting the public so it's possible the tracks are that old already
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 23 May 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
if they're releasing an entire album of five year old songs i'm even more dubious
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:03 (nine years ago) link
tbh i'd rather an album of five-year-old terius songs that an album of 2014 terius songs
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
fair
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
http://www.popjustice.com/briefing/nicole-scherzinger-your-love-is-very-amazing/127221/
― ginuwine's cousin (monotony), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
i can't remember who else he's written for recently but everything he worked on on the rihanna and beyone albums was stellar
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Nicole Scherzinger is about to storm back with a complete cracker of a single
iggy azalea feature?
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:11 (nine years ago) link
i can't really understand doing a top 5 scherzinger songs that doesn't include "super villain" or "whatever u like"
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
i didn't even realize until looking at wiki just now that Scherzinger had several sizeable solo hits in the UK. that didn't happen at all in the US, never got any real visibility outside of the Pussycat Dolls.
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Friday, 23 May 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
she replaced cheryl cole as an x factor judge and came across pretty well i think
the uk has really become this dumping ground for american flops to rebuild their career because britishers have no clue. then we give them back to you! hence iggy azalea happening.
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
i just learned that "damaged" was a danity kane song, not a pussycat dolls one
― markers, Friday, 23 May 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/nicolescherzinger/your-love
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 May 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
I would like a whole album of songs like "I Hate This Part" please.
― Tim F, Thursday, 29 May 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
This new song is amazing.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 29 May 2014 12:42 (nine years ago) link
ready for your lovemy love...your love. ok
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 29 May 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
i really like this song, which is surprising
― lex pretend, Friday, 30 May 2014 08:49 (nine years ago) link
it's not very teriusy at all
but it has all these switch-ups! so much more interesting than the route-one redone bosh nicole did last time
― lex pretend, Friday, 30 May 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
Soundcloud version has gone now, found a youtube cut though - sounds great! Doo doo doo doo....
― nxd, Friday, 30 May 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
this song remains amazing. double breakdown!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I hope she's ended up with all the Christina Milian rejected songs from her marriage to Terius
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
man i went into this hoping to like it and it's like a big pile of foam insulation that's been sprayed with glitter
― maura, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
it's like she finally found the project that perfectly fits her image and skill set that she'd been working towards her entire career up to this point
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
...oh, you guys were talking about a song and not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jpHOw2Uqno
breh
oh my god pic.twitter.com/V63Aqmmmtz— Ahmed/A&R/6ig 6iz (@big_business_) August 8, 2017
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link