however, i do approve of young dro on the new '2 the morning' mix.
holy shit what
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:07 (fifteen years ago) link
a lot of these are a little same-y to me though
she has an aesthetic*, she sticks to it. i admire this! and there are endless subtle variations within it. 'in love with the dj' = every word is truth
*actually she has 2
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 August 2008 10:15 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG "Nobody But You" (Prod. by The-Dream)
Love the drums! Not sure about the mixing, but this isn't high-quality.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 9 August 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
no, it certainly isnt.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 9 August 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
this is pretty good but it's giving me "love in this club" flashbacks
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 August 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
which would be the second dream song to leak this week that kinda beatjacks that song
chorus is really pretty on this, kinda sounds like something mariah would do
"my house" is incredible omg.
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 18 August 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
did you see her vlog message? she said she was upset that it leaked because "she really wanted it to be on the album." This frightens me.
― Tape Store, Monday, 18 August 2008 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no :( it MUST be on the album. i'm starting to doubt whether her album will actually come out because of all these leaks...
― The Brainwasher, Monday, 18 August 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
activate is soooo great!
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
also official girl video
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
she looks great in the video
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
also on myspace, cassie (cute as ever) says she's really pissed at the people leaking these tracks and that every time one leaks, she goes back in the studio and records a new one. and that as a result, she keeps getting better. but she's still pissed.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:09 (fifteen years ago) link
she should do a double disc, one of the leaks and one of new material.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
lol who would buy a double disc cassie album (besides you and lex)
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
whichever assistant diddy sent out for the assignment
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Cassie has 627275 friends.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
... then why hasn't her first album gone gold yet?
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It sold like 600,000 and she didn't even have a fraction of her current hype. Also Ciara has 292434 friends.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean, the second collection of tracks could be a digital-only deal.
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
she only sold like 300k in the US, Ciara's last album is 2XP
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
and there's like no hype for her album anymore since official girl flopped and all of the tracks leaked
but I think the video should restart things
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
why hasn't gotten a 360 deal yet??????
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 August 2008 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
omg 'activate' <3
'my house' inevitably wormed its way deep into my heart, so fragile. there's a real secret-garden mystique about it which i love, like cassie's some sort of victorian gothic heroine. "this is my castle, babe..."
she has to release all of these songs! they are too good to be lost down the back of the sofa. but saying that she makes a new song every time one leaks is tremendously heartening.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i am particularly cassie-fan-club this week
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 August 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"activate" is like "i'm that chick" vs. "migrate"
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:43 (fifteen years ago) link
-- The Brainwasher, Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:16 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- Tape Store, Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:33 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Tape Store, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...it has 80 gazillion friends on MySpace.
― some dude, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link
also we're talking about the protege of a guy infamous for creating a ton of fake accounts to get on YouTube's most subscribed list.
― some dude, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"nobody but you" is by far her best song
"official girl" is really good of course. serious alliyah vibes from that video, mostly the wardrobe/hair
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
guys, i was joking but i failed. ok.
also wtf. nobody but you is really good, but it's not close to being her best song!
― Tape Store, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
she's somehow managed to become even more awkward and lacking in charisma since she started making videos.
xpost - when you're really good at self-parody, don't be surprised when people are fooled by it!
― some dude, Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
her most affecting chorus
sounds like a low-key mariah song to me
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 23 August 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, "Official Girl" is an official flop, any news on a second single Tape Store?
― After The Hurricane (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 11 October 2008 10:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Should take out that Li'l wayne thing, re-release.
― I know, right?, Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It's so funny how Cassie is so gonna be "re-discovered" as this retro-fetish act years from now.
The video blog she posted on her site (that first link up top here) is really adorable. Really upfront and meek and pleasant and friendly--'hey I just woke up and I'm sitting in my bed in my pjs not wearing makeup, uhh, what do you guys want my blog to be about...?' The closest thing to anything vain, which I was kind of anticipating, was like "my life's not very intersting, actually...I am getting a massage later...hmmm..." Well. That sounds nice.
Nice songs, too.
― ^^^ (RabiesAngentleman), Saturday, 11 October 2008 11:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Really, I just listened to Official Girl in the Li'l Wayne free version, and the interplay between the nearly absent Danja character and her robot (really she's amazingly processed on this) voice is really beautiful. It's like an android love story, just slightly numb.
― I know, right?, Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, "Official Girl" is an official flop
figured alex would use this as a zing one day
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 23 October 2008 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
no, i've been working too hard on forgetting i ever heard it to think up zings about it.
― some dude, Thursday, 23 October 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
haha otm. "she was never appreciated in her lifetime!"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 23 October 2008 07:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I can't believe it took me so long to get so much of this Cassie, I mean Me & U is maybe one of my favourite singles ever, but I'm falling over these really delicate pop-songs (Is it You?, Ditto, Long Way To Go). There's something really compact and minimal about all of them, Is it You in particular really lifts off without a whole lot, just that shoegazey guitar sound and those needly synths. She is really the most restrained singer. On Long Way to Go she barely even bothers to sing, the whole thing is just an excercise in barely-there remoteness.
― I know, right?, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah. the remoteness/minimalism is the only thing i can think off that's preventing her from taking off, because it puts the listener at a remove. at first listen there's so little to the songs and then they deepen and open up sonically the more you listen to them. i'm honestly not sure what it would take for Cassie to genuinely get another hit song.
― the other Alex in MTL, in fact (Alex in Montreal), Friday, 24 October 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck hit songs, I just want more micropop
― I know, right?, Friday, 24 October 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
She is really the most restrained singer. On Long Way to Go she barely even bothers to sing, the whole thing is just an excercise in barely-there remoteness.
― I know, right?, Thursday, 23 October 2008 23:59 (Yesterday)
The bitch can't sing. Let's just call it what it is.
― Put A Ring On It (The Brainwasher), Friday, 24 October 2008 00:08 (fifteen years ago) link
She's obviously got a limited voice, but she has a directness of tone that comes through over the pretty merciless processing that's sometimes used on her voice (which, btw, sounds amazing in super-synch multitrack)
― I know, right?, Friday, 24 October 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Official Girl is a bit More Than A Woman, but way more concise, same feeling of lift though and maybe a little slinkier than the usual Cassie track.
― I know, right?, Friday, 24 October 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
like, there's some really loose lines working under the ice sheets of synths
Also Brainwasher, i think we should just realise that we really do not have the same taste in pop music
― I know, right?, Friday, 24 October 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
oh wait, sorry, i just re-read upthread, you like this one...
― I know, right?, Friday, 24 October 2008 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link