we all must ask ourselves if we're willing to care about another young money artist
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
YOU'RE A HO TO THEM EITHER WAYSO PLAY THE GAME THAT THEY PLAY
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
oh my god "on the one" echoing and billowing out across an abandoned dancefloor
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Jane Child in the body of LaToya Jackson.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
my rapping vagina puppet is going to drop an album on December 1st next year and totally rearrange lex's year-end list
― these markers love soda (some dude), Monday, December 3, 2012 12:04 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
backup plan is a black barbie (not nicki minaj, an actual black barbie doll) programmed to say CLITORIS CLITORIS CLITORIS over and over
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
lmao xp
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Ugh, I was hoping to bury memories of Shanell somewhere in the trash bin with my download of Dedication 3. I've seen her live three times with Wayne and the Young Money entourage, and she's always the low light of the show. Like, worse than T-Streetz.
― Evan R, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
"So Good" was imo the only Young Money song of 2012 that should have been a hit and wasn't
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
there's an interlude on this where she's in the middle of like a thinkpiece on ostracism with badu 'window seat' on in the background
still tho keep up the stand-up routine and/or useless shilling guys, good job
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
I want to like this, b/c there really is a need for strong women in R&B right now, but I just can't buy into the logic that any and all attitude is good attitude. I don't get why anybody would want to listen to this woman declare war on hoes and brag about how clean her candy is and crush Mountain Dew cans on her forehead for 50 minutes
― Evan R, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
she doesnt do that
stop wasting everyones fucking time and listen to the thing
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
having given this a proper run i might,might, downgrade to... third? best of the year just cos it understandably runs out of zip a little in the final furlong ('you' is dope though)
before that however is all A+++ awesome extraordinary and warrants every hyperbole fuiud
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
lex have you heard "Chow My Box" by Diamond Escalade? i think you'd like it
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, December 3, 2012 4:43 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
i will say that the world needs more fki r&b beats
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
you are all so fucking boring
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
this sounds really great, we're just having some fun
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
this def shares qualities w/ dawn but is more appealing to me stylistically
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get why anybody would want to listen to this woman declare war on hoes and brag about how clean her candy is
I have listened to the album, and she actually does these things. Like, the last song is literally a chant about slapping hoes. The mixtape ends with her comparing a rival's pussy to a hallway in which a hotdog can be thrown. Those are her parting words.
― Evan R, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:42 (eleven years ago) link
if we can't make fun of an album w/ skits called "nobody's bitch speaks" and "nobody's bitch speaks again" then i don't want to post on ilm anymore
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
The mock-Dawn songs here are terrible though. They're so shrill and dubsteppy. They fall into all the traps that Dawn skillfully avoids
― Evan R, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
fki def out here on his 08 vintage terius shit
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
even w/ this acoustic thing
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
i can't get this image out of my head of lex's funeral... he lays in his casket as a mourner solemnly presses play on a loop of shanell singing "fuck me daddy / suck me good"
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
dying
― tpp, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
The mixtape ends with her comparing a rival's pussy to a hallway in which a hotdog can be thrown.
ok, so she's on ilx?
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
board desciption xp
― tpp, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty old and incredibly boring to see female-fronted music which dares to have explicit sexual attitude get reduced to this ludicrous stereotype again, while so much shit made by slow sad dudes gets the full chin-stroking treatment. go away, all of you
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 17, 2012 4:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
loooool
― flopson, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
people be getting disinvited to lex's funeral ITT
I want to hear this to confirm but it already has a provisional spot in my top five for the year.
― Tim F, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
seriously, some of the shit these people have repped for, i don't know how they have the nerve
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Monday, December 17, 2012 4:29 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you can't pull a Big & Rich in 2012 and not get the goofball parade, c'mon you know this
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
'on the one' is so good
― tpp, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
"just for the night" goes straight into the pantheon of Other Woman songs
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, December 17, 2012 4:54 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
<3<3<3
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
― some dude, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:55 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
peanut gallery is a peanut gallery, what are you so proud of
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, December 17, 2012 3:54 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
trying to figure out if this is #shotsfired at blue oyster cult or not :/
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
"Last Time" is great
"Pay Me"... is not
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:05 (eleven years ago) link
AS SHANELL HERSELF SAYS HERE, "people have a hard time processing it when it's not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment, so they don't know quite what to do with it or how to place it or what to say, because surely a woman couldn't be intelligent enough to be making a point?"
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
lex were you on ILM when peaches was out? did you like her?
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
― Evan R, Monday, 17 December 2012 21:42 (20 minutes ago) Bookmark
and this is the only thing she does is it? nothing else
even if it was SO WHAT lex otm ffs
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
no, and yes, but not really any more, but electroclash was formative club music for me and i'm happy with that
xp
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
she was probably more influential than ppl give her credit for in the long run
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:05 (1 minute ago) Bookmark
what a bizarre pair of songs to pick out
― r|t|c, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah a mixtape "bonus track" being a non-standout prob doesn't mean very much
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
even beyond the ~attitude~ (which is AMAZING and has been so lacking of late, except it hasn't cuz it turns out everyone just ran to the comfort blanket of sad dudes this year) there's so much going on vocally and production-wise...she revels in her versatility here
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
can't get to datpiff to download so I'm going down Youtube in the order the songs are presented to me, which I recognize is going to give a pretty disjointed view of what this album is actually like
― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
she probably introduced lots of white people to women talking about sex on record, i guess it might have been revelatory if you didn't listen to lil kim or trina
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
this rap-up post has a sharebeast d/l link http://www.rap-up.com/2012/08/13/new-music-shanell-nobodys-bitch-mixtape/
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
this shit needs a lady feature <3<3 'turn up on him' is a monster
― tpp, Monday, 17 December 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
i see, so it fails on the terms you arbitrarily invented for it
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not aware of other terms.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
an unhappy story told from two sides of lonely lies and love by proxy, appropriately set in a churning trudging strobing clubland that is a deliberately false impression of a good time and which approximates but never achieves fleeting release just the same way as its inhabitants do. alternatively its routine placidity as sad weary happiness that's just enough
but either way your exultant chorus, banger, tension would be in aid of what in the song?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
I've got the brains, you've got the looks.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:19 (eleven years ago) link
would you like to give me a proper answer now or would dorothy perkins like to keep pretending she's dorothy parker?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
All those things in aid of a song I'm not hearing but you do.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
you don't hear... the lyrics?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
i mean if you have an alternative reading that you feel the performance or production inadequately dramatises i'd love to hear it
perhaps not if it's going to take 40 posts painstakingly extracting it from you though
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
The lyrics are sharp! I love the doctor bits. I was trying not to rely on lyrics though.
I mean, I hear what you're saying about exultant-verses/flat-chorus, willing herself to have a good time. I'm just not transported, although I'll listen to it again.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
I did hear a bit of Dawn Richards' cyber-erotic devastation in "Last Time" but she's bawdier, and that's a plus.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
dawn hasnt really crossed my mind at all with this, i guess when prompted i can see where the mentions come from on the face of it but shanell's viscerality completely takes dawn out the picture for me
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 01:57 (eleven years ago) link
kalenna though would certainly be viable
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
thread of the century, album is top 5 just for it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
the possibilities become endless
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
well this is great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
this is great for sure. need to have time to really dedicate to listening to it, though. so my proper thoughts will come in a day and a half.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
This album can't possibly live up to this thread
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
that's what i thought!
and it didn't! though they complement each other nicely
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
what is good about this thread, or do you enjoy reading people trying to be "funny" with lamentable results
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
my fault for putting aoty in there :/
that'll teach me to be enthusiastic
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
c'mon rtc, it's not as if you haven't cut down many the enthusiast in your time.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
i prune for a brighter tomorrow not salt the earth out of boorish spite
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
Lol but also otm
― Tim F, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
Skimmed a bit of the album on soundcloud; this does have a certain appeal. Will investigate further tonight
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_06/2005/0387131/l_118571_0387131_cf9c6137.jpg
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
have we discussed the female empowerment angle yet?
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Instead of critiquing this album, anybody who is not a fan should just post an animated gif of a woman angrily swinging an axe any time it is mentioned.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 18 December 2012 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
rtc telling alfred to leave the thread inspired real lols, lex
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 December 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
The cover got me in, reminds me of possibly 10 things that I'm probably recollecting wrongly.
And yeah the tone can be aggressive seeming but then more quiet and the wistful piano touches in so mopey too. From a listen there are more mooods once you go further in.
The 'speaks...' stuff in it is great. Gives the record a shape.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 December 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link
this thread is hilarious and raises the question: is the message board format doomed to always eventually become an ouroboros
― slam dunk, Friday, 21 December 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
i liked something-one person
we already 'did' liking something-other person
idk what the best track from this would be to introduce people to shanell? "fuck me daddy" is obv stunning but might be a bit too extra...think it might be between "on the one" and "360" with "turn up on him" as sleeper choice
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
ya i would say "on the one" or the one w/ busta
― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 December 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
On the One. Like a summation of a few moods and emotional registers in one place.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 December 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVJQ0ctWzw
omg lol
amazing
― r|t|c, Friday, 21 December 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
pretty good album imo
― 乒乓, Thursday, 27 December 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
"touch" me daddy and just for tonight have videos. the first one...the scissor legs scene. the little dog. the BANANAS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9FezaSWDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXbqRQTU5I
also, her terrifying nails in both
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
obviously i am still MASSIVELY ON this mixtape, in terms of songs i'm especially on "360" and the way it basically sounds like an r&b jerk song then the beat goes into nola bounce
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/cloopmusic/shanell-catch-me-at-the-light
^^INCREDIBLE new song
http://soundcloud.com/cloopmusic/shanell-dedicated
^^sweet new song
http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/22370/shanell-midnight-mimosas.html
^^new mixtape that i can't listen to yet (honestly i work in an office for like 5 days per year and it DOES MY HEAD IN not being able to LIVE like a NORMAL PERSON) but it's called midnight mimosas which, you know, she got me right there
― lex pretend, Friday, 7 June 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
happy for her but being reminded of this nadir of a thread darkens my bloodclaat mood tbh
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
it's neither you nor me nor her who should be embarrassed about it
― lex pretend, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
The new mixtape is solid straight through and legit stunning in places. "Show Me," "Boy Stop Playin'," "Dedicated" and "So Good" are early highlights for me
― Evan R, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Not sure if this is supposed to be "another side of Shanell" or a complete retcon of Nobody's Bitch, but the reinvention is really working for her. This is the best she's ever sounded.
― Evan R, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
haha just watched 'my button' again... hands down one of the best songs of the decade imo
― r|t|c, Friday, 7 June 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:07 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 June 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
a reinvention that reuses multiple songs off nobody's bitch?
anyway this is pretty good, nothing's touching "catch me at the light" so far apart from maybe "boy stop playin" and it certainly doesn't have the whoa factor of nobody's bitch but i'm liking the sumptuousness and feeling. "catch me at the light" is sooooooo fantastic though, sorta likea response to terius' "fast car" type tracks
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 21:36 (ten years ago) link