SHANELL _ NOBODY'S BITCH _ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

backup plan is a black barbie (not nicki minaj, an actual black barbie doll) programmed to say CLITORIS CLITORIS CLITORIS over and over

lmao xp

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.

"So Good" was imo the only Young Money song of 2012 that should have been a hit and wasn't

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

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

she doesnt do that

stop wasting everyones fucking time and listen to the thing

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

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

i will say that the world needs more fki r&b beats

you are all so fucking boring

this sounds really great, we're just having some fun

this def shares qualities w/ dawn but is more appealing to me stylistically

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

stop wasting everyones fucking time and listen to the thing

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.

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

this def shares qualities w/ dawn but is more appealing to me stylistically

The mock-Dawn songs here are terrible though. They're so shrill and dubsteppy. They fall into all the traps that Dawn skillfully avoids

fki def out here on his 08 vintage terius shit

even w/ this acoustic thing

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"

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

dying

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?

board desciption xp

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

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, December 17, 2012 4:48 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooool

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.

seriously, some of the shit these people have repped for, i don't know how they have the nerve

still tho keep up the stand-up routine and/or useless shilling guys, good job

― 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

'on the one' is so good

"just for the night" goes straight into the pantheon of Other Woman songs

seriously, some of the shit these people have repped for, i don't know how they have the nerve

― lex pretend, Monday, December 17, 2012 4:54 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

<3<3<3

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 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

peanut gallery is a peanut gallery, what are you so proud of

seriously, some of the shit these people have repped for, i don't know how they have the nerve

― 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 :/

"Last Time" is great

"Pay Me"... is not

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 were you on ILM when peaches was out? did you like her?

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 (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

no, and yes, but not really any more, but electroclash was formative club music for me and i'm happy with that

xp

she was probably more influential than ppl give her credit for in the long run

"Last Time" is great

"Pay Me"... is not

― Jesus, the Total Douchebag (DJP), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:05 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

what a bizarre pair of songs to pick out

yeah a mixtape "bonus track" being a non-standout prob doesn't mean very much

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

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

she was probably more influential than ppl give her credit for in the long run

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

this rap-up post has a sharebeast d/l link http://www.rap-up.com/2012/08/13/new-music-shanell-nobodys-bitch-mixtape/

this shit needs a lady feature <3<3 'turn up on him' is a monster

I intuitively agree with you lex re sad dudes but who do you actually mean apart from the weeknd? or do you class frank ocean in that category also.

yeah

maybe "mopey" is more apt than "sad", or maybe i just mean SLOW AND TORPID AND LACKING IN ENERGY, and you can chuck how to dress well and jeremih in there too

busta's verse on "last time" is so bizarrely out-of-character

the vague throwbackishness and the way she sings puts in mind some vocal midpoint between Elle Varner and Janelle Monae

would you like to give me a proper answer now or would dorothy perkins like to keep pretending she's dorothy parker?

All those things in aid of a song I'm not hearing but you do.

you don't hear... the lyrics?

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

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.

I did hear a bit of Dawn Richards' cyber-erotic devastation in "Last Time" but she's bawdier, and that's a plus.

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

kalenna though would certainly be viable

thread of the century, album is top 5 just for it

the possibilities become endless

well this is great

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.

This album can't possibly live up to this thread

This album can't possibly live up to this thread

that's what i thought!

and it didn't! though they complement each other nicely

what is good about this thread, or do you enjoy reading people trying to be "funny" with lamentable results

my fault for putting aoty in there :/

that'll teach me to be enthusiastic

c'mon rtc, it's not as if you haven't cut down many the enthusiast in your time.

i prune for a brighter tomorrow not salt the earth out of boorish spite

Lol but also otm

Skimmed a bit of the album on soundcloud; this does have a certain appeal. Will investigate further tonight

i prune for a brighter tomorrow not salt the earth out of boorish spite

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_06/2005/0387131/l_118571_0387131_cf9c6137.jpg

have we discussed the female empowerment angle yet?

what is good about this thread, or do you enjoy reading people trying to be "funny" with lamentable results

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.

rtc telling alfred to leave the thread inspired real lols, lex

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.

this thread is hilarious and raises the question: is the message board format doomed to always eventually become an ouroboros

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

ya i would say "on the one" or the one w/ busta

On the One. Like a summation of a few moods and emotional registers in one place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGVJQ0ctWzw

omg lol

amazing

pretty good album imo

"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

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

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

happy for her but being reminded of this nadir of a thread darkens my bloodclaat mood tbh

it's neither you nor me nor her who should be embarrassed about it

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

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.

haha just watched 'my button' again... hands down one of the best songs of the decade imo

have we discussed the female empowerment angle yet?

― k3vin k., Tuesday, December 18, 2012 10:07 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark

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.

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