Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

and thus it begins

also look how pretty she is!

she is v v pretty

haha i remember when baduizm first came out, and before i'd heard it at all i saw her being interviewed on mtv and she was talking, vaguely and flakily, i thought, about "baduism" as some kind of inspirational spirituality, and i found her super-irritating and was like this lady is wack. little did i know...

it bothers me when people wear turbans that cover part of their eyebrows tho

resistance is futile

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ljew4A9d1qgcra2o1_400.gif

behaving like a passive-aggressive dick for ages, coralling your cheerleading fans, and then belatedly issuing an unconvincing apology.

is this about wayne coyne or me getting 51'd last year?

lol #teamwhiney

the concept is i drown you and your sister in a bathtub, k?

ha

unless you have an explicit agreement that states otherwise filming something for someone elses project does in fact constitue consent - what you think every person in any video gets a copy sent to them and signs off on it, every actor gets final cut of a movie

^^^ this is otm btw

Point missed slyly

merely filming a scene doesn't mean you're effectively consenting for it to be released at all.

Actually, it does, unless you have a contract that explicitly states otherwise. Which I would have, if I were getting filmed naked and covered with goo.

one can always dream

the real tragedy itt is how many of you guys totally could have been erykah badu's lawyer

.....”Oh really, Mr. Coyne, if that's true how do you explain THIS?” *dramatically whips out a signed contract giving Erykah Badu final approval of video*

Judge: ”Officer, take this man into custody, sentencing in two weeks”

*Erykah tearfully hugs me*

B b b b boing

*jay electronica glowers in back of courtroom*

Jay Elec is presumably too busy tapping Rothschild pussy to get mad about anything involving Erykah at the moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7lbY-THNHc

I think flying lotus has an incredible track record when it comes to producing tracks for women to sing on (tea leaf dancers I think is prob the best), but this seems kinda lackluster idk

whenever I happen to find that one elpee of his I play tea leaf dancers like 20 times

Haha "Shit I really liked the version of that song we did with Erykah Badu, but who can replace her, who is not going to be angsty about the nakedness and unconcerned about looking like a dick for replacing Erykah?"

"AW YEAH AMANDA PALMER!"

If you love The Flaming Lips you might enjoy my band Connoisseurs of Porn.

wtf

there needs to be an entire genre of music that takes 'out my mind, just in time' as its launchpad

avant-prog r&b that features motherfucking *songwriting*, it's like where ilm and i finally converge and seek a better tomorrow

listening to it right now i'm convinced it must be one of the best songs of the last 10 years

fwiw 'return of the ankh' hit me way harder than 'nu amerykah' in general

she's just uploaded some new cannabinoids stuff: https://soundcloud.com/the-cannabinoids

I've never been able to get past thinking "Out My Mind" is just a much weaker take on "Green Eyes" :/

finding that song *right now*

None of those Cannabinoid uploads are new. They used to have another account or something. I think the newest thing - the Jaffe remix - is from September or October. The others are last spring or older.

I've never been able to get past thinking "Out My Mind" is just a much weaker take on "Green Eyes" :/

― The Reverend, Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:22 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah
some of it's nice & all

finding that song *right now*

― imago, Sunday, January 27, 2013 8:22 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is probably the nicest way around in which to hear them

I've never been able to get past thinking "Out My Mind" is just a much weaker take on "Green Eyes" :/

― The Reverend, Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:22 PM

idk, out my mind is still winning for me - looser, jazzier, weirder, more sublimely psychedelic, more flowed-together, more interesting tune(s)

but bear in mind i've heard omm(jit) upwards of 10x, and bear also the subjectivity of these things. also don't underestimate the 'first one heard preference' syndrome

lol @ hearing green eyes filling the fourteen minutes between yr posts

'i want you', to complete the badu marathon trifecta, is much more promising thus far - krautrockish r&b crescendo, love it

Yeah, "I Want You" might be my favorite Erykah song.

whoa, that ending came out of nowhere! yeah, very, very awesome song.

I think "Didn't Cha Know" is my favorite.

i eat a lot of vegetables

otm

seconded

Beyond structure and girth, there is a world of difference between "Green Eyes" and "Out My Mind." One is nostalgic/throwback to complement her romantic recidivism. The other is, as pointed out, fractured avant nonsense, the perfect accompaniment to her clearly premature optimism about walking away.

I think they're both great, tho, as is "I Want You."

I don't dislike anything she's done.

Except the Cannabinoids shit.

Ankh is def the FFF to 4th World War's Innervisions, but I still give the edge to 4WW.

I held to the line that Out My Mind was just a boring Green Eyes retread for a long time, until I heard LJ rhapsodizing about OMM on the 2010 tracks poll

'a long time'

"and I'll hate you too if you want me to"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=7YrvzRN-U2c

local club shows doing Baduizm and Mama's Gun sold out so quick. grrrr

Her birthday blow-out is next week but I have to work a show across town. Grr.

She hasn't played London in months. Grr.

I live nowhere close to anywhere she plays ever grr