Cassie: The new Ciara?

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

OMG "Nobody But You" (Prod. by The-Dream)

Love the drums! Not sure about the mixing, but this isn't high-quality.

no, it certainly isnt.

this is pretty good but it's giving me "love in this club" flashbacks

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.

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.

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...

activate is soooo great!

also official girl video

she looks great in the video

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.

she should do a double disc, one of the leaks and one of new material.

lol who would buy a double disc cassie album (besides you and lex)

whichever assistant diddy sent out for the assignment

Cassie has 627275 friends.

... then why hasn't her first album gone gold yet?

It sold like 600,000 and she didn't even have a fraction of her current hype. Also Ciara has 292434 friends.

I mean, the second collection of tracks could be a digital-only deal.

she only sold like 300k in the US, Ciara's last album is 2XP

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

why hasn't gotten a 360 deal yet??????

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.

i am particularly cassie-fan-club this week

"activate" is like "i'm that chick" vs. "migrate"

lol who would buy a double disc cassie album (besides you and lex)

-- The Brainwasher, Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:16 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Cassie has 627275 friends.

-- 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.

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.

"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

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!

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!

her most affecting chorus

sounds like a low-key mariah song to me

Anyway, "Official Girl" is an official flop, any news on a second single Tape Store?

Should take out that Li'l wayne thing, re-release.

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.

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.

Anyway, "Official Girl" is an official flop

figured alex would use this as a zing one day

no, i've been working too hard on forgetting i ever heard it to think up zings about it.

It's so funny how Cassie is so gonna be "re-discovered" as this retro-fetish act years from now.

haha otm. "she was never appreciated in her lifetime!"

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.

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.

Fuck hit songs, I just want more micropop

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.

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)

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.

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

oh wait, sorry, i just re-read upthread, you like this one...

I actually like Cassie, I'm just not going to pretend like she's this amazing vocal stylist or whatever.