Rolling R&B Thread 2012

understatement's not a virtue for which ILX is famous.

haha rev his "yeah" was clearly kind of piggybacking off your post to also respond to me, don't blame him that you didn't read the post right

I pretty much view it in the same lineage (and inferior to) "u got it bad" and "burn" but with more production frippery that doesn't really add to the song. which is a better look for him than anything else he's done in the past five years, mind you.

yeah, i read from where i had it bookmarked and ended up looking like a dummy. my bad.

I disagree on the frippery. The arrangement and singing is thought-through. I suppose it's not much different from "There Goes My Baby," which I dig too.

bad/burn/papers are are most comically transparent in being rewrites of each other but i don't really hear climax as being in that tradition

"Papers" is the gold standard of post-Confessions Usher singles imo, but that's because it's the only one that strikes me as genuinely sad

What I do find encouraging about the new Usher singles, though, is that they've really put the emphasis on his voice again. After the Versus era dude is really flaunting his range

haven't much cared for many of his club bangers tbh

why do you all hate "moving mountains"

it is NOT a bad song!

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 02:28 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

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yeah to be honest i've never been big on club banger usher -- love "u don't have to call" but compared to his other clubby hits it's downright cozy

climax is super entertaining to sing along to in ::dramatic:: fashion

mind u so is lotus flower bomb and best believe i'm not officially cosigning that

"lil freak" is easily the best post-confessions usher single for me and even then it's hardly amazing

smh @ j0rdan slipping "omg" and "dj got us falling in love" in his on-a-par-with-climax list

"omg" was kinda trolling but "dj got us falling in love" is basically the classic eurohouse r&b song of the past few years

"post-Fesh"

simultaneous desire to paypal and sb you for this

lol

usher/ross song is good... beat kinda reminds me of "i'm on one"

http://www.thisisrnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/usher-l4m-cover.jpg

Also, Nikkiya Speakher Overload Deluxe Edition is out. Has a few new tracks on it and a remix of 'I Like What Your Doin Main.' Just listening to this now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf9Sz7MpCbw

Kevin Cossom mixtape 'Hook vs Bridge II' produced mostly by Danja:

http://www.mediafire.com/?36l36jbbjtt3t0l

Actually really digging the new Ne-Yo track (save for one sub-Bruno Mars line right at the beginning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KZtKAVfdvk&feature=related

This is actually pretty great.

Have we talked about Emanny's Songs About Her? I know I got it from one of y'all either here or on Tumblr or somewhere. It triangulates Drake, The Weeknd and Ne-Yo basically but it's awesome because he has actual songwriting chops and just uses that post-40 soundscape to really dig into solid songs.

http://www.datpiff.com/Emanny-Songs-About-Her-mixtape.354536.html

That might have been my rec. I'm still really digging it. Seems like he's sort of positioned himself as a more traditionalist Bei Maejor; he embraces a lot of the same post-Anticipation sounds, but usually stays grounded in Mario/Ne-Yo balladry. This one's probably my fav right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3hjmRYo_pI

lolling at both the phrase 'post-Anticipation' and its intended meaning

yeah. forever is really pretty.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a384612/ciara-confirms-new-single-sweat-album-one-woman-army.html

Ciara has revealed the names of her comeback single and album.

The singer confirmed that her new single will be called 'Sweat', while her fifth studio album will be titled One Woman Army.

1) SCREAM
2) good Ciara titles
3) ominous lack of release date

RocaBoi18
YES CISUS! I am ready!!! I'm buying 5 copies of the album!!!!
May 31st 2012 at 1:29pm

Jason Butcher
YESSSSSS!!!!! CiCi is about to slay!!!! people need to remember how talented this woman is!!!! can't wait till shes back in the uk!!!! Csquad STAND UP!!!!!!
May 31st 2012 at 11:41am(+1 like)

ha i know a guy name jason butcher but he is not a british ciara stan

would make more sense if it was him in that case

"Cisus"

RocaBoi18 would later be c-sectioned under the r&b mental health act

reference to slayyyyying reminds me, has anyone else sampled the latest delights at stan wars yet?

http://stan-wars.com/knockdown.html

new jhene aiko - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DREkQjsQnJU

wow that's great

and she's still really freaking hot

huh, jhene aiko and adiah were the same person to me until a minute ago

seriously, k3v? totally different vibes, to my ears.

adiah's stuff is much more, for lack of a better word, tropical? upbeat? i dunno. 'drumz' and that new song are both 'fun' or whatever.

jhene is basically the female sonic equivalent of drake and the weeknd for r'n'b but lex likes her. sometimes. she's also affiliated somewhat with kendrick + the black hippy crew and it sounds like it.

also affiliated w/ miguel + fisticuffs

never been grabbed by her stuff for w/e reason

i mean, they both kind of sound like cassie, i guess, but not even in the same way

yeah i mean in fairness i've heard like 2 songs by each of them and they're both incredibly hot, aiko moreso i think

in fairness

i find jhené aiko really uncompelling actually

it's kind of like someone trying to deliberately recreate the prime cassiefanclub aesthetic (which cassie herself seems guilty of as well these days)

I don't really see the Cassie/Jhene comparison besides the thin voice? Cassie's songs, while sort of detached in performance still have a certain air of either (a) menace a la Me & U or (b) sweetness a la most of the rest of her stuff. It's bubblegum, and it's thin but it's polished and 'pop'. Jhene's stuff seems like Cassie trying to do Drake.

Much closer to the sonic universe of Drake/The Weeknd/this new Emanny album/Anticipation-era MMTS/whatever.

Old-school Cassie was always much tighter, either in her post-Neptunes R-Leslie incarnation or the more actively R&B but also club music era of Connecticut Fever, or King of Hearts, which is straight-up dance music, beautiful-detached-robo-Cassie vocals or no.

god, Connecticut Fever will never not be hilarious

that's why it's my favourite! it was never a real album and it never will be, but it's such a great name and it's the best way to shorthand

i really wish drake would've named a mixtape Toronto Fever