6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

all the women he sings about feel a bit 'canadian girlfriend' to me.

lol

the funniest/grossest/least believable aspect of FMBO is when she "turns around and gets on her knees"

lol goole, and okay, that's OTM and actually helps

the chorus to fmbo kind of sounds like a fast car retread

i feel like new the-dream after a few years of listening to him all starts to sound like a retread of the best songs on the first record

deej otm

I'm not sure if I just have Dream fatigue or if he has actually fell off but this "body work/fuck my brains out" song is v. dull

thirded

body work was pretty dull, at this point in my life I just can't accept another the-dream falsetto

I used to think Ne-Yo was muy sexy until I saw him without a hat. :/

the phrasing of the lyrics on fmbo totally reminds me of prince, the way he pauses between each line, the downward lilt, etc.

feel like I don't need to have a strong opinion on the-dream anymore tho

the chorus to fmbo kind of sounds like a fast car retread

totally but it's super-enjoyable nonetheless

I used to think Ne-Yo was muy sexy until I saw him without a hat. :/

hahahahaha

def. hoping for something *fresh* from him on love iv

fuck it i would still w with an album of retreads tho

the thing is i really don't mind it when terius doesn't bother with ~songcraft~, concentrating on ridic goonish punchlines and sweetspot production satusfies me immensely cuz they're kind of terius stripped to his essence. like one of my fav the-dream songs will always be "hit it on the road" which encapsulates a ton of what i love about him

re: his lying, i dont think gravitas has ever been one of his strongpoints - his weakness as a singer/someone who can convey believable emotion is kind of both his achilles heel (yo dream! stick to producing etc) and what makes ppl seem to love him so much.

smh @ u dudes saying his career has peaked before the new bieber album has even dropped

lol uhhh wait, you lads are coming out with this blasé uninspired retread stuff only now after love king?? these two songs are so much more switched-on than that stuff i can't even

even on the level of preaching to the converted (which i don't necessarily dispute) theyre infinitely more satisfying

I said the same thing about some songs on love king it's just something that gets worse w time and continued repititions of the formula. Really surprised you think these are some big step above love king, feels like same old same old to me

Like I was willing to write my dampening enthusiasm off to my own fatigue circa love king, at this pt it just feels unavoidable

yeah idk, like i say i'm still coming to this from within the morbid terius bubble - i'm not nearly as invested as i was with the lvm material - but the general point is that this has got me back in the bubble to begin with

do think it's a bit sloppy to say "with time and continued repetitions" though, it's obviously the quality of the repetition we're disagreeing over rather than just some sort of automatic ennui kicking in

k3v and finney been quiet, what r u guys saying

i have no idea wtf he is talking about on twitter 98% of the time.

smh @ u dudes saying his career has peaked before the new bieber album has even dropped

― the-dream's car of the summer (tpp), Thursday, June 9, 2011 4:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

fwiw i was referring purely to his career as a solo performer -- dream and tricky aren't producing smashes as often as they used to but i don't doubt they could turn out rihanna or beyonce or usher's next #1

lol uhhh wait, you lads are coming out with this blasé uninspired retread stuff only now after love king?? these two songs are so much more switched-on than that stuff i can't even

no. i came in very late, circa LK, and loved nearly everything on that record. went back and listened to the early stuff and found it all a bit samey when taken at once, but at least of equal quality. like both of these new tracks now that i've spent some time with them, but there's a noticable drop in immediate, jaw-on-the-floor quality. something's off...

Again, i don't think either of these will be on the album so i'm not really worried about the kind of throw-away nature of them.

yeah there is a single he's gonna play on monday. so who knows what these two are; they are freebies.

naturally i have already steeled myself for them turning out to be lk session offcuts

I don't really have any problem with more of the same.

MrTeriusNash Terius Nash
i may never beat LH or LVM... back then i was the only one Doing me now........

...I don't masturbate nearly as much?

(well there's an ILX Out Of Context post for ya)

fuck it, this shit is dope

really is - i've been jamming to it all day. love the final coda. hear a lot of the grinding, machinelike beatwork of the "love vs money"s in body work.

the vocals on the verses of "body work" are pretty unusual by his standards & yeah i dig all the grinding & whirring of the beat

Yeah. I've now listened to Body Work and Fuck My Brains Out 18 and 36 times respectively, so I guess I dig this.

im worried about that Tweet - is he admitting self-defeat?

numbers don't lie

http://twitter.com/#!/MrTeriusNash/status/79815825313374208

MADMAN

lol

The Atlantic with a very timely expose on "R&B's Best-Kept Songwriting Secret"

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/06/r-bs-best-kept-songwriting-secret/240294/

slate circa 2009 wants their swag back

He's firm in his own desires but ultimately respectful towards the women in his life

uh

Yeah that line stuck out for me too

I guess it's an obvious dichotomy to draw but the whole "he's written some of the most successful pop hits of his time, but his solo career hasn't reached the same heights!" is a really boring hook for a story not to mention that it totally glossed over any nuance

also it's been the-dream angle for at least 2 years now

plus it's...not actually that uncommon that songwriter dudes don't become stars in their own right? it's not like babyface became a household name outside of r&b fans either. sticks out more because that's changed a lot in recent years i guess (and yeah dreamer's solo material being of such quality)

Dream isn't as successful as Beyonce? Would ya look at that!

He's firm in his own desires but ultimately respectful towards the women in his life

Such a classic example of a writer projecting his own ideals onto a subject to justify liking that subject. It's like every piece praising some independent rapper b/c he doesn't talk about "bitches and hos," even if that rapper still talks about women in kind of queasy terms.

not a good piece