SHANELL _ NOBODY'S BITCH _ ALBUM OF THE YEAR

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

haha Jeremih has taken an epic aesthetic journey in your mind (xp)

'last time' doesn't sound that diff to something from that jeremih mixtape tbf to poor old jeremih

I'm kind of reacting to this the same way I reacted to Frank Ocean? I am enjoying listening to this but it's unlikely I'm going to go back to the songs I've heard so far to play them again except for "Last Time" and "360" (the other songs being "Pay Me", "Love Is A Losing Game", "You", "None Tonight"; I'm also assuming that the songs being presented to me by Youtube are the songs on this album since they were uploaded with the cover art, so I'll probably download this to listen to it in sequence at some point)

are you 'having a hard time processing it'?

not really

"On The One" is pretty nice, too

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?"

Really resent some of the arguments at work here, and that this is being held up as some exemplary model of what female R&B should sound like in 2012. Women released so many great R&B albums that weren't completely ridiculous and that didn't open with desperate Azealia Banks knock offs

holdin' gauges
pussy outrageous
dinosaur flow
my period's cretaceous

would strongly urge folks to totally disregard the last two tracks p much, bonuses they may be but their additional distraction downplays a seriously terrific lil album

'you' is a fine end besides

"On The One" is good. "Just For The Night" isn't.

wrong. leave.

no actually come back here i wanna hear this, you seriously don't like 'just for the night'?? why on earth not?

shhh I'll explain when I finish with "Last Time."

fwiw as this goes on, I think it's a stronger effort than Frank Ocean

she was doing really well on "None Tonight" (love the tape stop effect) until the chorus.

alfred u have to leave sorry ;_;

love "Last Time"

earring to nose ring attachment of the... decade

― salute me or crut me (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 17, 2012 3:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

def 1st response HOF btw

OK. Re "Just For the Night," which I just heard again:

The Herbie Hancock-esque programming/scratching in the intro = fabulous. I didn't hear enough tension between her wan chorus and the rest of the song though, esp when the bridge teased me into thinking a banger was coming.

i see, so it fails on the terms you arbitrarily invented for it

I'm not aware of other terms.

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?

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