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

I mean, I know all of the 1977 songs by heart. They're great: perfect, bitter-but-uplifting breakup songs. And Form of Flattery is such a great diss.

longneck I don't know if I can trust your opinion about anything anymore

tsk tsk tsk

ha yeah you fell right into mytrap

"slow it down" dropping today, apparently

this song sucks

the production on his songs has really fallen off, "roc your body" excepted

tricky is busy on this sub-weeknd b.s. :-/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa7xvIJNDq4

Does not suck. Is great. Love it.

it's just sad how much terius has fallen off at this point :(

always used to love how he could somehow produce genius even when being really obviously lazy/tossed-off but there are just no ideas left

the well does indeed appear to be dry

then again i do love "nobody's business" (purely as a song dammit, not for CB)

my lurker username is looking shitty these days

nah this is fantastic. total return to form after all that post-love king bullshit imo

i dont think it's awful, but it sounds to me like someone trying to ape dreams style more than anything else, which is incredibly :[

i think his downward turn in consistency has been pretty gradual and not actually that huge, though just enough to matter obviously, but i don't even know how this song is half as good as "Dope Chick"

I love them both.

"dope chick" has the dopiest chorus, i could never get into that song

it's not top shelf or anything, but it grew on me

i feel like every time this guy drops a song, a random set of people are like "a return to form!"

i mean i thought that about "roc your body" so no hate, it's just a weird phenomenon

I'll give support to J0rdan's point: This new track is great; his best since "Body Work/Fuck My Brains Out." Didn't think he had something so bottomlessly hooky in him anymore. Return to form.

i really liked "fuck my brains out" too

That's the shit he does better than anybody else... just barrage you with hook after hook after hook after twist after hook. It's an incredible thing, so I can forgive him for losing his knack for it. Nobody could sustain that writing style for more than three or four years

"fuck my brains out" is the only solo terius song i've really loved post-love king

baffled at any love for this - even "roc" was sort-of-ok in a basic way but this is just sad

i honestly always thought his solo stuff was just one decent-sized fraction of his best work. these days would much rather hear something he's written for Beyonce or Rihanna or whoever, feel like his outside writing has suffered less lately.

yeah his stuff on 4 doesn't back up my impression that he's fallen off post-love king (but then looking at the list of writers lord knows how much he had to do with those songs)

xp That's definitely true, but his solo records gave him room to just let a song ride in a way the songs he writes for bigger stars never could. His best solo stuff was always so unhurried, so you could just sit there and luxuriate in how hooky and gorgeous it all was. I miss that vibe.

it's funny that he starts this new song off by saying "i know they're not gonna play this on top 40 radio" despite that quote from a year or so ago where he was like "i can write a solo smash whenever i want to, that's not what i'm going for right now. i'm gonna do that when i'm 50."

I miss good terius so much

chillin w/ my ella / there's nothin u can tella

This is a bit of a trifle but I'm enjoying it, more than I expected to from reading the most recent posts at least. Fabolous verse is woeful though.

I stand by my theory that Terius has always had pretty much zero quality control, but he barely needed it up to 2010 or thereabouts because his overall quality was so high.

the fab verse definitely sucks but the nu-dream alternative would've been an electric guitar solo so i can deal with it

no one will be talking about this song a month from now

Listened once, that's probably enough.

no one will be talking about this song a month from now

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Friday, February 15, 2013 5:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No. They'll be singing it instead, looking at butts.

a generic 3rd rate version of one of his actually-good songs probably WILL be the one that blows up & makes me hate the-dream

still dont think it'll be this one, though

I quite like the sound of Fab's verse, if not the content

if the-dream ever makes a solo song that blows up and people sing along with again, it will definitely feature the line "looking at butts"

I don't know about you guys but when he sings "You can see her ass from a satelite!" I get all warm and fuzzy inside.

Can he go away and not come back until he's made a whole album along the lines of "Schoolin Life" (not strictly the same, but variations on that theme. Preferably with Bey)

tim did you hear his song on the keyshia album

man i swear for all the years i've been bullshitting about terius on this board i've never understood anyone's - except probably tim's - taste in dream songs. this os hardly a leap forward or anything - i don't want to say "those days are over" because he'll come and hit us with some of his best work out of nowhere like he did with "4", but the days of that being the norm are certainly over - but this is just a solid terius joint. real warm, hooky, everything in its right place, sort of 2013's "FILA". i'm OK with this existing

oh boy tim's against me and i'm agreeing with matt dc and longneck. up is down, left is right, luol deng is a back-to-back all-star

this is just a solid terius joint. real warm, hooky, everything in its right place, sort of 2013's "FILA". i'm OK with this existing

^^ this is otm i think. was super curious to hear this having read a couple of responses here but yeah it's just like ... fine, & nice. it's funny, i was reading some thing about suit & tie in which the reviewer talked about various things having stepped into timberlake's shoes in the five years in which he was quiet, dream records & frank ocean & various subgenres of r&b, &c, & wrt this song that feels kinda pronounced, too, like hearing something that's so terius - in being this pretty lush textural build-up of all of his favourite tropes - the song feels like a more specialist, slightly marginal catalogue entry for dream fans more than it does an general new release by anyone else. like you go to it for what you get from him, & you get a kinda 2013 FILA as a result, even if that thing has become slightly less significant or universal than it once was. i'm psyched for the record too, even as just a bunch of generic dream textural synth jams. it sounds nice.

thing is terius has made solid, unremarkable, even terius-by-numbers singles before - "rockin' that shit", "love king", "fila" - that he obviously did in 10 minutes but they were still pretty likable and hooky. this is just tired.

Well this is definitely likable and hooky to me. It is self-consciously throwback, but in a fun way. But then again I love terius-by-numbers better than I love almost any other numbers.

I only had to play it twice before the kids and wife started to sing along to it. They didn't say anything about it being tired either.

"rockin that shit" was unremarkable hmmmmk

haha yeah i raised an eyebrow at that too

it's funny that he starts this new song off by saying "i know they're not gonna play this on top 40 radio" despite that quote from a year or so ago where he was like "i can write a solo smash whenever i want to, that's not what i'm going for right now. i'm gonna do that when i'm 50."

― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Friday, February 15, 2013 11:10 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

there's also the 'radio killah' that gets sung right before this part

career killah killah killah

imo ppl repping for this song are in denial or fetishizing dream's dream-ness