Katy B - On A Mission (4 April 2011) - hype, anticipation &c

love a lot of this album, including the title track. but i just played it and when the chorus arrived, i expected it to sound ... bigger, maybe? like it was rocket that didn't quite tear out of the docking station during lift-off.

xp this is the remix you want - one of 2011's enduring little classics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptkNUvd7ADM

great show in shep bush tonight. she looked like she was having the time of her life, it was super infectious.

"movement" video like your favourite holiday photos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwGeW2HmcA

Movement is a single too now? goddamn!

DREAM VACATION

she just got a write-up in SPIN, fairly small but worth checking out if you're an utter obsessive

is it by my man's and dem powertweeter whiney g?

nick duerden? am i missing out on some intricate ilxian inside joke?

Notorious ILX rabble-rouser Whiney G. Weingarten writes for SPIN.

Katy B doesn't seem like his "thing"

he actually tweeted recently that you're an asshole if you want to listen to how to dress well (or whoever it was) instead of katy b

what if you like listening to both?

http://twitter.com/#!/1000TimesYes/status/123815014615355393

http://twitter.com/#!/1000TimesYes/status/124136955809243136

Katy B - On A Mission (4 April 2011) - hype, anticipation &c

( Elliott Wilson fired as XXL editor-in-chief )

lol so yeah, no expression whatsoever of appreciation for anything about her music, just a furious dichotomy hurled at asshole strawmen

strawholes

Ha! I guess the 'A' doesn't stand for 'Asshole' anymore. #movingup

i love this album to death but i'm on my third week since listening to it and

"standin at the bar with my friend oliviAAA" remains not only the one line i can retain from any song, but something that just randomly interjects itself into thought

Tbh I've kind of fallen out of love with "Easy Please Me"...right now this album is all bout the title track, Go Away, Disappear, Broken Record, and Beautiful Stranger...

...waitaminnit I meant "Perfect Stranger". Duh.

I used that line to explain something in a conversation about diff accents.

xxp

How so? A lot of times, strictly going on singing voice, I almost feel Katy could be from a place like D.C. or somewhere more somewhat-accent-neutral-but-not-totally as some places in the south are

Perhaps because a more traditional London accent would pronounce it as "Oliv-e-er"?

"Olivia" and "bar" don't even come close to rhyming in my accent.

You're not a pirate then ?

xp this is the remix you want - one of 2011's enduring little classics:

i'm listening to this album on spotify

i like it. it's bubbly.

i like her name too "Katy B" and the title "On a Mission" it sounds like girl rapper from the '80s

haha holy shit her accent threw me...i thought on "easy please me" she said "One thing I can't stand is Africans/there's no way that we could ever get along" but I realize she was saying "arrogance"

she should stop having such a racist accent tbh

One thing I can't stand is Africans

lol i think you're like the 5th person itt to have this reaction

Hahahahahaha...that still throws me once in a while.

Y'ALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqelNJl4_F0

whoa!

I love this album. It's in the car.

in New York shortly, anybody seen her live and know if it's worth the trouble?

She's great live, well worth seeing.

Co-sign. She's a warm and engaging live performer, and her band really deliver the goods.

gonna see her this next coming saturday, very excited

and tickets are $10!! waaaaaaaaaat

damn

Need to get tickets but she's here Jan 27th. Excited! (Especially because Los Camp! just cancelled their show here a week before)

I want to go too, Alex! But I've never been to a dance/electronic show at Belmont - any idea what time she's likely to actually be on stage?

Not sure. I saw Hercules & Love Affair there and they were on by 10 or so, I think?

Kingdom/Nguzunguzu/Bok Bok was a bit different.

I'll see if I can find out any info and let you know.

So good live. So good. Played from 1:30 to 2:15 maybe

Louder
Broken Record
Easy Please Me
Movement
Witches' Brew
Perfect Stranger
Lights On
Katy On A Mission

Might have mixed up some of the order. A++ good live. Vocals carry through. Charisma like crazy. Much shorter than anticipated (physically, not the length of the set).

with jim jones

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhvlwk8bx1qbjyhgo1_500.jpg

bin meenin to post a review as a i saw her some weeks ago here in denver, but the enthusiasm has admittedly sort of faded and what i thought was going to be a 4 paragraph in-depth look now feels like possible diatribe

anyways:

she played for about 30 minutes. really short show. for such a small venue as ours she seemed absolutely enthused to be singing and i really thought she was a masterwork at having a *stage presence* that was just inescapable and rarely dawdling. she repeated a lot of lines, verbatim, i've seen in youtube videos from other shows which sort of added to this uber-rehearsed atmosphere i ultimately got but whatevur.

likely the most awkward part of the night was during "katy on a mission" in which she'd point the mic at the audience to complete the chorus (oo aa oo aa oo!) and, as far as i could tell, nobody took up the pledge.

and she kept doing it. i couldn't tell if she was more disappointed or curious as to whether we'd finally give in.

by lines, i mean things said in between songs... song commentary, etc.

when i saw her in london last year she played for well over an hour, the audience sang every line and the place went crazy during perfect stranger, on a mission, lights out etc. tons of fun.

Not sure how she can do over an hour unless she also does all the deep cuts. We got nothing but the hits, but it was still a solid 45 minutes or so plus chatting in between.

Wish she had let the audience do the Ms. Dynamite verse during Lights On instead of just repeating the chorus a lot, though.

We totally could have.

There wasn't a single person in the club not singing along to every word.

Nothing to do with Katy B, but I figured Katy B fans would be interested or know the answer to my query

Does anyone know what happened to Ny?

She was on a couple of good dancier tracks back in the day and released two mixtapes - the second of which "Split Endz Vol 2" was really very good but I haven't heard anything about her since?

Similar to some of the Katy B/Delilah/etc. type thing but c. 2007.