100 Reasons Why "Ignition - Remix" Is So Damned Great

er fuck, my finger slipped

post should say: "that was a lot better than a university magazine article entitled 'R.Kelly: Misunderstood Genius' has any right to be"

i can never hear the hanging chord in this btw

it's just an extra measure - it comes right before the chorus - you sorta think the chorus should kick in sooner than it actually does and it leaves you hangin for a second

Thanks, LRN. I think?

xxp I can't hear it either!!

Yeah, it's not really a hanging chord. As Tracer says it's that little bit before the chorus where you hear R say "yeah, c'mon". It delays the chorus coming in slightly, making for false anticipation and breaking from the 4/4 tradition. It's very clever actually, and was what drew me to the song in the first place.

Are you talking about when he says "that's why they say it on the radio" bit? the extra measure?

At several points R. Kelly, who plays the central character Sylvester and several others (including an old drunk and ‘Pimp Lucious’ whose name tells you all you need to know about the character) interjects and comments on the events. This breaking of the fourth wall is obviously a reference to dramatist Bertolt Brecht’s alienation techniques as well as Austrian director Michael Haneke’s classic 1997 film Funny Games

I would wager money that R. Kelly has no idea that Brecht and Haneke exist.

Or I guess it's half a measure depending on how you count the BPM

ignition (single, not remix):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJYZLjc8JQ

Pies Pies Pies: I was trying to be funny. I liked the idea of Kells watching Funny Games. S'not meant to be a wholly serious piece.

haha okay that does make me feel better because that section, esp. in the context of the rest of the piece, was really making me go o_O

why are ignition and ignition remix on different sides on the vinyl version?

of the album or the single?

album

any threads on "Sex me" and its remix? cuz that shiz is badarse.

Guys, I should listen to R. Kelly more. What album should I get first?

TP-2.com or chocolate factory?

from the 00s era, def choc factory & happy people/u saved me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld5aW0C5iWk

RUNNIN HER HANDS THROUGH MY FRO
BOUNCIN ON 24S
WHILE THEY SAY ON THE RADIO

RUNNIN HER HANDS THROUGH MY FRO
BOUNCIN ON 24S

this is indisputably one of the best rhymes ever

I'M LIKE SO WHAT I'M DRUNK

367. How the outro serves as a summarizing conclusion to the rest of the song.

http://open.spotify.com/album/1f0S7pJCiCC6reYPB7Ypzo

SMOOTH JAZZ COVERS OF KELLS' GREATEST HITS!

it's unbelievable to me that a human being actually wrote this song -- it's such an accepted and perfect american monument that it's easy to forget that it had to be formulated in r. kelly's head and worked on and perfect and honed and all that. at this point it just exists as something that... represents us that it's almost like it was here before we all were. it's like the statue of liberty or something.

anyway

368. how guttural yet clear and pristine he sings "mama roooollin that body" -- he hits such a perfect balance that it's the only line i refuse to sing along to because he just sings it too perfectly that i don't want to deny myself the opportunity of hearing it again

it's unbelievable to me that a human being actually wrote this song -- it's such an accepted and perfect american monument that it's easy to forget that it had to be formulated in r. kelly's head and worked on and perfect and honed and all that. at this point it just exists as something that... represents us that it's almost like it was here before we all were. it's like the statue of liberty or something.

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:26 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is crazy talk, the whole song is so much more a natural extension of the artist's catalog/persona than it is a universal standard singular hit song

i mean "I Believe I Can Fly" fits your description way more

well... i think it's both a universal standard hit song & and an extension of kelly's catalog -- i wasn't trying to imply that it was an outlier or anything -- it's just so perfectly constructed to me that it's almost inhuman

uh oh – auteur theory at work!

ha

369. I've always felt like it sounded like a 70s soul song, but for seven years it escaped me exactly just which one. Then it hit me, it sounds like "Let's Do It Again" by the Staple Singers!

370. Who are from Chicago. Just like R. Kelly. And it was written and produced by Curtis Mayfield, also a Chicagoan. I was in Chicago for a week or two last summer, and both those songs feel exactly like Chicago during the summer.

371. Back to the dancehall inflection on "Mama ROLLIN that body". He really drives the point home with the even more affected "LISTEN NOW!" that follows in the background, as if to remove any ambiguity that he knows exactly what he's doing.

372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxwnz7q4cQ

http://www.avclub.com/articles/young-the-giant-covers-ignition-remix,71123/

^not one of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAwNp5i-TuI

this is, i think, at least a little offensive to ppl that use ASL ("look at how they ~talk~") but g-d i lol'd ok

Released 10 years ago today.

I can't even believe that. Am I just getting old, or has the entirety of post 2000 time blurred together into one big indigestible mass?

Yes.

kids still love this song.

also 2003 was fucking amazing, so expect a lot more of these "omg no wai 10 years ago" deals

we get links

There was no "Ignition" (orig mix), was there?

Crying 4 u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJYZLjc8JQ

it was a radio hit before the remix dropped. it's on The Chocolate Factory directly before the remix. it's a fucking awesome song, and I hate that the remix has so totally eclipsed it for most people.

xp

I saw Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney cover the original "Ignition" in 2004.

It's not a bad song, but I've been disappointed when I've come across "Ignition" but not "Ignition (Remix)" in karaoke books.