xp So many of his contemporaries are beholden to the clique that spawned them or the bigger star that sired them. That's not the case with Miguel.
― Evan R, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
he's beholden to ILM.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 February 2013 22:13 (eleven years ago) link
I've read a couple variations of the "Miguel is great and all, but he doesn't have a narrative" argument
what is this argument? what are the people making it actually trying to say? is it a complaint? o_0
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's a compliment; the gist is that Miguel doesn't have that same narrative advantages Frank Ocean had. Which, yeah, that's true; there's no inspiring, groundbreaking story there to fuel the buzz, so the music has to stand on its own
― Evan R, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah the closest thing he has to an ~angle~ is vaguely aligning himself with ~indie r&b~ (and the conscious way he does this is pretty lol, it's like he knows it's just savvy marketing/branding - esp considering how little he sounds like anyone else under that umbrella)
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
in the UK, he's had coverage without even any heavy PRing
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 February 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
I loooooove this album so much. Hadn't heard any Miguel til EOY tracks poll, but holy shit
so THAT's why this thread was at the top of SNA for so long (facepalm @ me)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
listen to his first album now!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 March 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
you are NOT the boss of me k3vin
but omg yes you know it :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
wish i could hear "teach me" for the first time again
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 March 2013 04:21 (eleven years ago) link
I was listening to KD in the car tonight and I almost had to pull over for Arch & Point. Was having a ~moment~
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
VG, considering you are one of the now seven ppl who post in the Meshell Ndegeocello thread, it is only right and natural that you are in love w this album
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
<3 so many threads coming together with this dude
and the fuckin ZOMBIES on top of everything
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
I took that 'ZOMBIES' literally, like there was some sort of horror movie reference that I had missed
p appropriate though considering Dont Look Back does kind of have a sort of that suspense to it, like it could be used in some teenybopper zomgbie movie trailer, or like in a promo for Walking Dead or something
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:33 (eleven years ago) link
lol wow that is a poorly constructed sentence, deliberate typo notwithstanding
― Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
lol Miguel + actual zombies, whiney would shit
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
love how random snippets of Kaleidoscope songs will pop into my head each day - lots of cool little earworms in all these tracks.
oh and K3v otm -- I listened to the first album today, so good
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 March 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
:)
― k3vin k., Friday, 15 March 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
he did a "Candles In The Sun" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTrnI-XKEH0
i was right upthread about "How Many Drinks" being the next single without "Do You" ever fully catching on, at no point was it less than 20 spots below "Adorn" on the radio charts
― some dude, Friday, 15 March 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
re-entered the hip-hop/r&b top 50 this week but yeah... i mean "adorn" is still hanging around the top 40, i'm not sure if any single would've succeeded in its shadow
― J0rdan S., Friday, 15 March 2013 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
"how many drinks" is dope tho so it's cool
yeah it's great, the rap gets stuck in my head
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2013 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
still amazed at "Adorn"'s success.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 March 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
was thinking a few days ago that "how many drinks" with miguel's rap verses swapped out for an actual rapper seemed like an obvious fourth or fifth single choice
― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 2, 2013 2:56 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark
http://instagram.com/p/XY0P2Gi194/
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link
and that we ended up with kenny and not wale is a small miracle
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol kendrick is going to turn the song into another temperance movement anthem, isn't he
miguel's 'rap' isn't really like a 16 bar thing and it directly transitions into the great variations in the last chorus so i hope they just add the kendrick verse to the song and don't do any kind of swap out w/ that section
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
also kendrick's wardrobe is getting a little miguel haha
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 11:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah miggy's rap is fine
― k3vin k., Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
i mean "that ass is colossal" is one of those things that ends up not really sounding very seductive/complimentary, but the way the spoken bit drifts into the "waste my time/waste your time" bit and then those great ad libs over the chorus is awesome
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
"waste my time/waste your time" bit and then those great ad libs over the chorus is awesome
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:39 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah this is the best part of the song, the entire final 30 or 45 seconds or whatever it is
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
but it always seemed obv to me that they'd just switch in a real rapper to give it some juice as a single
it's def not a desecration on the level of Wiz on "Adorn" but the way Kendrick bunts songs like "Fuckin' Problems" has me wary
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
people love his "fuckin problems" verse
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I think its a solid verse
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
yeah me too
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
kendrick getting outrapped by asap is some "your bodyguard's oochie wallie verse better than yours" shit
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
hah asap's verse is the 'kill' out of marry fuck kill on that song
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
you want dih dih???
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
lmao
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
i'll never tell
there's not one hot line in the kendrick verse, it's all a bunch of half-hearted almost punchlines. people do like the weird way he says "dick" almost as much as the weird way he says "bitch," though.
lol xpost
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:03 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
people love this shit. seriously.
― A$AP Rovi (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, I roll my eyes so hard at that line
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
girl i'm kendrick lamar / a.k.a. volcanic to me is lahar
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
pro tip: make kendrick's lamar a lot weirder by imagining him saying "pampers and threesomes tomorrow"
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
piss on em all, go potty in the hallway
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
Has this remix come out yet?
― Evan R, Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
nah only announced
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Stirred a lot of buzz for just an announcement. But anyway, Kendrick can't do worse by the song than Jay-Z did to the "BKMV" remix. Cautiously optimistic
― Evan R, Thursday, 28 March 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link