blindfold me >>>>>>>> whatever u like
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
the hawaiian track is "puakenikeni" or something like that, it sucked
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
actually relistening to it it's not that bad
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
that song is kinda worthless post-calabria 2007 huh?
what was the song she did w/ t.i.? that one was good
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:49 (fifteen years ago) link
that was "whatever u like", and it was just a less good version of kelis' "blindfold me"
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
it had an incredible video though - she was on some ring type shit there. her terrifying stare in the pool scene, the body contortions, the hot coals
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah the video was hot
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
whatever u like >>>> blindfold me, imo
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I still don't get why her solo career was such a failure, I mean she was totally set up to be massive
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I still don't get why she attempted a solo career, given that PCD is essentially her solo vehicle and was already massive
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
her last name is hard to pronounce
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i40.tinypic.com/dwf3t0.jpg
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
loll
i remember when she performed "whatever u like" at a vmas PRE-SHOW
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
the way Wayne filled in for T.I. and did a whole new remix verse (that AFAIK was never released as a studio version) was pretty cool.
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah with lil wayne, that was kind of hot
anyway glad Keri Hilson got a hit finally so people can stop using this:
http://i37.tinypic.com/zu2m8x.png
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
ya im pretty sure he just freestyled it - it was funny too because id doubt scherzinger knew what he was going to do and he started rapping about sex and he started grinding on her and she had to pretend to be like really into getting spontaneously humped by lil wayne
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
wayne doesn't freestyle dude
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
too soon - should've been after two PCD albums...as big as they were she wasn't well-established enough, wasn't perceived to have paid her dues.
t.i.'s verse on 'whatever u like' is pure, raw sex.
i'm listening to it b2b with 'blindfold me' now - i thought they were on a similar level at the time but wow, listening back 'whatever u like' is so ridiculously far ahead. kelis sounds strained and vaguely wheezy compared to nicole's whiplash agility.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah another reason for 'whatever u like's superiority is obv t.i. being fine & sexy rather than nas talking about hugh grant
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago) link
talking of hilson, this is still my favourite cut by her, and i'm still sure it was meant for scherzinger
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah t.i.'s verse is sexy - "eat it beat 'til it's swollen/you 'gon need an ice pack" jesus! but kelis still winz though because... she's Kelis!
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yess "Hands and Feet" is massive... my fave Keri is "Where Did He Go?" though.
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
t.i. is reeeally nasty on that justin leak "if i"
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
okay listening to both "whatever you like" is better - i concede.
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
thank you Tape Store.
this song is definitely mindnumbingly wow.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:43 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you know it!
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:12 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean
lol you are always so late
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, February 17, 2009 3:44 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sean garret is so gay I swear, he has written like every 'bad bitch' anthem of the past 5 years
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I should start a sean garrett appreciation thread
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
ya "whatever u like" is crazy - too bad that beat got wasted
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
lol t.i. didn't even show up for the video shoot
oh i guess that's him in the box :/
sean garrett probably is gay. who isn't?
his fail of a solo career is lol too
― big fatass rick ross (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah he did he's in the video she's all on him
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yes his solo career is a big LOL
i can't hold Garrett's hubris against him, when The-Dream and Ryan Leslie are releasing albums and having solo hits, who's to tell him his voice isn't good enough or he's not handsome enough to be an artist?
― brainless popcorn (some dude), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah you're right
― i brings that levity (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck that madrigal shit – this is how you make a tone poem.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
kinda doubt it, considering it was originally released as part of the "In the Mix" OST way back in '05!
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
was gonna put this in the vacuous pop thread, but in the interests of saving teh zinger from undead cassiedom --
rather than once again scrutinizing the secretly interesting thing inside the trojan horse of tim's pussycat dolls analogy, i was thinking wouldn't it be more illuminating to assess the contours and grain of the horse itself? (cos yknow, generally speaking troy fell in like 2001 amirite.) because without the dolls scherzinger is nothing, yet with them one wagers even her rankest flop mightve gained chart purchase, however counterintuitively ('i hate this part' being just as first person intimate as 'supervillain', for instance).
putting aside the eye candy canard for a sec, i'd venture that the dolls manage to diffuse the scherzinger signal without diluting it, creating like an acephalous zone of pop crowdscene that opens up an avenue into the songs that avoids the intimidating one-to-one r&b artist eye contact poetix the lone scherzinger implies. but then in a sense the horse isn't trojan at all, because everyone knows by now that the dolls do nothing whatsoever; an in-joke turned outward. if the boundaries of that zone, then, are already explicitly agreed upon by all parties, the dolls become something more like a visual autotune for scherzinger - an accepted gimmick vehicle for extremes of emotion, that the listener also employs for it to be enjoyable.
in breaking that contract, and provoking a backlash against her supposed hubris, scherzinger solo was bound to fail really. what i *think* mightve worked is if she'd first done a big cover ballad that didn't necessarily depend on establishing a brand new her, but would still be just too silly if it was a pcd group session. 'save the best for last', i'm telling you!! but oh well.
― lol laocoon (r|t|c), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone else come around to loving the Diddy single she did? i mean i liked it at first but i gradually got really into it.
― LMA.O. Scott (some dude), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah basically if this still fantastic song had been a PCDs single it could've been a #1 np
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yathink? maybe it's just her name. scherzinger.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I think maybe you all are vastly overrating how good "Whatever You Like" actually is.
― Lots of praying with no breakfast! (HI DERE), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yea i'm still warming up to that a bit.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
nicole's a slightly colder (or um hotter) fish than yr average
^^this point from way upthread might also be key to the scherzinger's solo failure - in a group this isn't so much subsumed or diluted as transformed into high camp, but solo r&b females don't really seem to have the option to work the superbitch persona. like how girl groups can get away w/misandrist and even misanthropic female anthems, but once you go solo it's all crazy-in-love sexuality or broken-hearted balladry.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
but yeah the whole PCDs/nicole package is pretty unique. are the PCDs doing badly w/the new album btw, or is that just idolator's wishful thinking?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
like how girl groups can get away w/misandrist and even misanthropic female anthems, but once you go solo it's all crazy-in-love sexuality or broken-hearted balladry.
i don't know if i buy this 100%
― Surmounter, Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
the 2nd PCD album is kinda skidding along, not a flop but definitely not as big as the 1st, hasn't gone gold yet. that's only 2 singles in, though, who knows how the next one will do.
― LMA.O. Scott (some dude), Thursday, 19 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
― LMA.O. Scott (some dude), Thursday, 19 February 2009 15:10 (Yesterday)
ya, total classic - i always forget this was her actual first solo appearance and the whole reason anyone ever got excited. IT'S BAD BOY, BITCH + that cold gleaming beat >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> trashy "whatever u like".
all of which reminds me!
― r|t|c, Friday, 20 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
but it has all these switch-ups! so much more interesting than the route-one redone bosh nicole did last time
― lex pretend, Friday, 30 May 2014 08:50 (nine years ago) link
Soundcloud version has gone now, found a youtube cut though - sounds great! Doo doo doo doo....
― nxd, Friday, 30 May 2014 08:57 (nine years ago) link
this song remains amazing. double breakdown!
― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 July 2014 19:59 (nine years ago) link
I hope she's ended up with all the Christina Milian rejected songs from her marriage to Terius
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 17 July 2014 20:17 (nine years ago) link
man i went into this hoping to like it and it's like a big pile of foam insulation that's been sprayed with glitter
― maura, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
it's like she finally found the project that perfectly fits her image and skill set that she'd been working towards her entire career up to this point
― some dude, Thursday, 17 July 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
...oh, you guys were talking about a song and not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jpHOw2Uqno
breh
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― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link