thread of miguel

"pussy is mine" is on the album, it's pretty close to iirc what he was doing live. just him & the guitar and then it leads into the stripped down version of "candles in the sun"

with samples of John Lennon saying "I have found out personally, not for the whole world, that the pussy is mine"

not really feeling the Labi Siffre appropriation on the title track. Do You is tremendous though

hi, my name is, my name is, slim miggy

j0rdan please tell me that you think this album is better than channel BORING so that i can merely jealous of you hearing it and not resentful as well

no, be resentful as well

My fear is that Miguel's album is as boring as Ocean's. The heart can't handle these kinds of blows.

already impossible based on the tracks that are out now

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/HVHd1T04R9w/0.jpg

New tracks are great. Still constantly shocked and delighted over how this whimpy dude with a really muffled mixtape I somehow downloaded and a nice song with J. Cole became one of my favorite contemporary artists

idk if miguel changed it up or what but just noticed the double tracked whispers on 'use me'

"Adorn" is now his second R&B #1.

'the thrill' makes me cry every time i hear it

(in a good way)

"adorn" will almost certainly be officially his biggest hit ever next week

it's #41 on the new hot 100

third #1 if you count "Lotus Flower Bomb"

idk if miguel changed it up or what but just noticed the double tracked whispers on 'use me'

― dayo, Monday, September 10, 2012 7:26 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

the layers of different vocal tracks w/ different effects and intonations on his new stuff is just masteful

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

guelly da kid angling to get a shoutout in the the very definition of showmanship: The Crazy Mic/Mic Stand! thread

I could have sworn I been had posted Migs in there.

pro tip: sing "sensitive thuuuuuuugs, sensitive thuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugs" to the tune of "Do You"

Shouldn't it be "sensitive thuuuuuugs, do you need huuuuuuugs?"

oh, duh

Listening to "Kaleidoscope Dream" (the song), it occurs to me that Miguel's Prince appropriations are at times startlingly like Me'Shell Ndgeocello's Prince appropriations.

rofl roscoe dash tried to come at the god today on twitter

asserting that Miguel did not write the words he sang on "Lotus Flower Bomb" is doing him a favor imo

btw there are a shit-ton of "Adorn" freestyles out right now by rappers you would never want to hear on that song but Ma$e's is the only one i felt compelled to rubberneck at: http://rapradar.com/2012/09/10/new-music-mae-adorn-remix/

yeah they all started piling up at once

i hope the no-rappers policy on the album is extended to no official remixes. actually he can just not collaborate w/ any rappers at all (although i like "summer on smash")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxKxShNHY-g

pleasing fwiw

kids in my school's journalism/broadcast program chose "adorn" as the outgoing credits music for the first school announcements video segment of the year. it was a nice moment at the end of the program. (half of the kids in my homeroom were like i love this song! and half were like, who is this?)

also waiting to hear which song had been chosen for the outro was the #1 thing my kids were invested in about the broadcast, so i choose to attach some *significance* to the choice.

god the guitar ringing out suddenly 2/3 into "do you" >>>>>>>>>>>>

good billboard feature: http://www.billboard.com/features/miguel-s-kaleidoscope-dream-inside-the-r-1007955262.story#/features/miguel-s-kaleidoscope-dream-inside-the-r-1007955262.story

also finally get an answer to my question about whether the song was lengthened after the fact: With radio stations already asking for the mixtape cut, Miguel agreed to return to the studio and add a bridge to the track, and soon "Adorn" became a three-minute, 14-second official single

I thought Lex said the exact opposite.

http://www.youtube.com/v/JxKxShNHY-g&fs=1&hl=en

pleasing fwiw

― r|t|c, Friday, September 21, 2012 5:32 AM (2 days ago)

this pleases meh

when is this gonna leak already

oh yeah, maybe lex can clarify what was said? (xpost)

Alicia Keys is apparently on the album version of "Candles in the Sun" :/

lol ugh

i hope just shouting "THERE'S NO SEPERATION, WE'RE ALL ONE!" in a british accent

I can't decide whether I loathe Alicia Keys or Rihanna with greater intensity.

Interesting to note that All I Want Is You only sold roughly 1/40th of its eventual total in its first week out.

iirc he also told me that adorn was always longer and that he put the shorter version on ADC

also that thing about alicia being on "candles in the sun" is incorrect. that was just a screw up in the complex article.

miguel wrote "where's the fun in forever" while he was in jamaica doing work for her album, she ended up not taking the track for her album and she agreed to let him have it. they left some of her vocals on the song, but it's far from a duet or something.

I like that "Do You" has this late 90s post-Timbo jitterbeatz thing going on rhythmically, but with a totally different sonic palette.

btw Billboard article says that "Do You" is the next single and that the Target edition of the album will have bonus tracks (hopefully new-new stuff but i wouldn't mind some more ADC stuff getting included)

I think he said something about "do you..." being the next single back when it was called "drugs"

He did say something to me about doing some bonus tracks because the album isn't crazy long but I have no idea what those are

the longer version was the original but he prefers the shorter version

― lex pretend, Wednesday, August 8, 2012 9:35 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink