17 has potential but it's not right
― janice (surm), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm hoping 17 was a misdirection and not an archetype.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not very subtle
― janice (surm), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
I think I like this one too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLtJ2LB0f-w
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Stand Back definitely deserves a good present-day cover, maybe even by Sky Ferreira, but this one was done ALL WRONG.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a cover? That's why it sounded so familiar!
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Stevie Nicks.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Aha, you're right, the original is much, much better. Still like the Sky one though.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoever produced the Sky cover is obviously more rooted in club production than radio production. That BOOM BOOM BOOM beat sort of bludgeons all the charm out of it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
"one" is terrific. i totally wrote off sky at first when i saw "17" playing on mtv, but wow, "one" completely changed my attitude about her. i hope the album is good!
and yeah, it seems like they're doing the ke$ha/"tik tok" approach for "obsession" -- build profile 'organically' via internet/myspace, etc., then unleash guaranteed-smash single late in summer, release officially a bit later, then let it slowly conquer airwaves just in time for the enormous post-christmas sales. it's probably a fucking dr luke/benny blanco prod. smh. (i was listening to the radio on the way home tonight and heard three dr. l/bb produced songs back to back. that is fucked up.)
and yes "alejandro" is wonderful
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:46 (thirteen years ago) link
the rumor is that it's ryan tedder and that sky hates ryan tedder
― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
ALL RIGHT THINKING PEOPLE ON EARTH HATE RYAN TEDDER.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm anticipating the Paul Epworth tracks.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Thursday, 29 July 2010 05:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently, that Stand Back version posted above IS a remix. I'm hunting up the original vsn now (hoping it's not disappointing).
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13b3sUoO4k0
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually appreciate that it sounds a little like really late-period Talking Heads, especially during the verses. Her vocal and numerous overdubs are fine, but it's probably best this never gets a commercial release.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
You mean as a single? I think it would still make a decent album track.
― daavid, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
tape store back me up on alejandro sucking pls? just so i'm not the only one?
― janice (surm), Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
thx
xxpost ...may need a little more work.
― daavid, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Alejandro is grebt.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Anyway, I found a zip file of some demos, etc people have collected from over the past year or so. I vaguely remember hearing about her a LONG time ago, when she was still just a Myspace buzzword, but I don't remember if I actually listened to anything on her streamer.
Some of this stuff is good ("Femme Fatale" for sure), and some of it is really, really underdeveloped ("Almost"). afaict, this album could go either way.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i've got yr back, surm
― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store), Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, her weird cover of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" over a recycled Dr. Dre beat is novel at least.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
her vocals are great on that
― I have an iTunes playlist called "That Feeling" (Tape Store), Thursday, 29 July 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Phil Collins. Not really because of his music, his songs somehow come up every dramatic aspect of your life. F'rillz."
jesus fuck, someone kill her.
― Dwight Yorke, Thursday, 29 July 2010 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
jesus fuck, someone kill YOU, asshole.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
it says a lot about the current crop of pop stars that i find myself interested in ferreira pretty much on the basis of not hating her immediately, à la katy perry or ke$ha. "one" is ok, i guess.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:22 (thirteen years ago) link
though i definitely think "17" has more to it
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Please detail the ways in which 17 is not:
lazyboringcommonpretty badall of the above
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think anything i've heard warrants any ~FUTURE OF POP~ talk, it's all much of a muchness except "17" is catchier
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, despite starting the thread, I don't expect her to take the wheel and steer pop in an altogether new direction. tbh, I haven't heard enough of what she's written yet to even know if she's a solid bet or if she's patchy. I do like "One" and "Femme Fatale," though, and those are incredibly different types of songs. otoh, if it's true that "Obsession" is a Ryan Tedder composition, I can just about already predict what it will sound like. She's probably wise to distance herself from it in advance, and that indicates to me she's pretty aware of what she's doing and knows she might have to do grunt work a couple times to get to a better place.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 09:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm surprised the one you like is "17", lex, given how much she sounds like La Roux in the chorus.
― daavid, Thursday, 29 July 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao, hearing that she may hate ryan tedder is artificially inflating my opinion of her.
― teledyldonix, Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
that one song is pretty decent but this is all a bit little boots or whatever all those other chicks whose names i cant remember are. dont really get how she is a breath of fresh air or anything. she looks a bit like a young brooke shields though. Bloodshy and Avant are awesome when they get it right but their failures are so horrible, i mean that they get it right on that One track btw. Hi!
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
that one song is pretty decent but this is all a bit little boots or whatever all those other chicks whose names i cant remember are.
― plax (ico), Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah i'm with you on this
― janice (surm), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Little Boots always seemed like an empty vessel to me, but SF has more personality maybe? In fact, three years on, I still don't know anything about Little Boots other than that she plays with some kind of light board and that she can be a bitch.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont really know how much leverage you really have to blow fresh air into the music biz w/ ur sassy attitude when you're in a the type of position she is wrt major label grooming; being 17
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"One" is seriously addictive.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 9 August 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite part (that's not the hold & repeat effect on specific words) is the little ascending and descending sequencer part the runs throughout the song's chorus. Very cool.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:42 PM Bookmark
Totally - woke up with this stuck in my head today.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 August 2010 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
but, lord christ, could she wear a little less makeup in the video?! It's a super creepy look.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 August 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i read an interview w/ her in which she says for sure that "obsession" is produced by ryan tedder. oh the horror
― teledyldonix, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a bit in Entertainment Weekly's current issue on her (hype watch!) which says "Obsession" is kind of a jock jam custom made for sporting events and the like. I know she's a smartass, though, so hopefully she's kidding.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a short clip of the song up on amazon.com and i am mortified to report that she wasn't really joking. there's a lyric about wanting her name on the marquee.
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
oy! that's lame. screw you, Ryan Tedder and whatever label she's on in the US.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/ileaks/sky-ferreira-obsession
like srsly wtf
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Who do they think that would appeal to?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
like at least when i heard "tik tok" for the first time (around this time last yr) i was slightly horrified but could at least tell it had potential to be massive... this sounds like mike posner's single or sumshit
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
she played a song called “innocent kind” — there’s video of it from other shows. i thought it sounded good! the songs from night time sounded revelatory anew to me
― J0rdan S., Monday, 3 July 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
leak?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:00 (six months ago) link
seeing people say that it's just a collection of previously leaked demos someone put together? idk i can't actually track down this 'leak' though
but she did announced a bunch of tour dates so maybe something will happen
― ufo, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:07 (six months ago) link
on a soundcloud account called stifler’s mom
― just sayin, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:23 (six months ago) link
yeah a lot of those tracks have previously leaked afaik but idk if it's all
― ufo, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 11:13 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7YdTW7A8C4
― President Keyes, Sunday, 14 April 2024 21:51 (one week ago) link
she's a karaoke covers artist now
― dyl, Monday, 15 April 2024 20:42 (one week ago) link
lol I saw her live and yeah that "Voices Carry" cover is note by note
very chaotic gig
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 April 2024 10:08 (one week ago) link