actually, i have to admit, back in the late 90s i was also on the 'neo soul is what more R&B artists should be making! why are people thinking timbaland is better than dangelo and erykah badu?! why doesnt k-ci make a whole record like if you think youre lonely now?!?!'. that wasnt so much rockist (and to put everything down as rockist actually just feeds rockism) as hip-hopist, that idea that 'real' musicians = 'real' R&B/soul (real basically meaning old/60s/70s) like what you heard on old samples etc. but in fairness, a lot of baduizm and brown sugar werent just revivalism, they sounded like the 90s. there were no samplers being used on 70s records. ali shaheed made brown sugar sound like a hip hop record. the idea that it was just like a black american britpop doesnt quite work as it always sounded of the time (voodoo and mamas gun came later, and were much more traditional, but who cares). so yeah, relentless chase for a non existent authenticity sounds about right. but hey, playing music tribes can be fun.
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 7 October 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
erykah busking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQY8lqFScM
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
She's posted a soul mix over on mixcloud a couple days back here.
― Daylight M, Monday, 27 July 2015 09:24 (eight years ago) link
just came here to say that return of the ankh is amazing and is just making me feel really good right now, i love this album so much
― marcos, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:12 (eight years ago) link
We're not officially in the longest wait between Badu albums since the beginning.
― Norse Jung (Eric H.), Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
not NOW
thx for the heads up daylight
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
We're now officially in the longest wait between Badu albums since the beginning.
:(
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
she's touring tho
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:39 (eight years ago) link
I thought she was just doing DJ tours
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
nah full live show at the warfield coming up soon, shakey!
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
waaaaaht
I kinda hate that place but that's tempting
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 July 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/erykah-she-ill-badu/hot-line-bling-but-u-caint-use-my-phone-mix
:D
― crime breeze (schlump), Friday, 2 October 2015 04:08 (eight years ago) link
singing colbie caillat on facebook remains the best badu jukebox moment of the past year imo
― some dude, Friday, 2 October 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
god i love erykah
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
that link is... 2 posts up
― just sayin, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
hm, thought that was something different off the caint use my phone mixanyways, it bears repeating
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
yes to the hotline bling refix (old news obv), not too sure about "phone down"
― art baengels (monotony), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
sounds like a demo -- it's missing, I don't know, a verse, middle eight?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 22:43 (eight years ago) link
I did not like "phone down" at all - thin, tinny, plus autotune, not playing to her strengths
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 November 2015 23:03 (eight years ago) link
jfc some grotesque shit posted itt way back, kind of fucked to know some of those people are still posting
― marcos, Thursday, 12 November 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
i said hella dumb shit in this thread. really stupid thinking back then.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 12 November 2015 00:21 (eight years ago) link
i love how hypnotic "phone down" is
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 12 November 2015 06:18 (eight years ago) link
i need to take some time with thishttp://blaecny.com/music/mixtapes-albums/erykah-badu-but-you-caint-use-my-phone-mixtape/
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 08:06 (eight years ago) link
SQUIRRRRRRLLLLLLLLL
― lex pretend, Saturday, 28 November 2015 09:56 (eight years ago) link
oh shit £10? itunes you are rinsing us britishers
― I don't have the time or energy to make a counterargument (stevie), Saturday, 28 November 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
got through it three times and this is frankly brilliant
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 16:57 (eight years ago) link
i mean, as with all things, i still wish drake wasn't on itbut he's fairly benign here
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
it's not Drake, it's a Drake soundalike who is signed to Erykah's label, very weird corny publicity stunt
her voice is always a joy to hear and obviously this is a tossed-off minor work by design, but it really is little more than a "songs about phones" listicle aside from the Andre 3k song
― just knocked me cold and left me on the sidewalk (some dude), Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
?mixtape lists tracks as "feat Drake"
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:15 (eight years ago) link
also listicles can be brilliant too
http://pitchfork.com/news/62273-erykah-badu-mixtape-out-now-features-andre-3000/
― just knocked me cold and left me on the sidewalk (some dude), Saturday, 28 November 2015 18:20 (eight years ago) link
That IS weird. The guy on the track is tapping AS drake , like in persona, so I dunno what they were thinking
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 November 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
it's bizarre but pretty funny imo
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 28 November 2015 23:06 (eight years ago) link
this tape is super fun and great
― marcos, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
drake impersonator is hilarious, wtf is going on there
also i think her hotline bling remix is legitimately great, this kind of detached slightly melancholic spaciness intrinsic to the song just works really well in erykah's style imo
― marcos, Monday, 30 November 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
not heard the new tape but i love the drake semi-remake/version/do-over/whatever. was weird to hear her on the zane lowe show though. not heard her speak for so long, so kinda shocking in a way to hear just how spaced out she is, talking about 'downloading life'.
actually more than hearing that she seems even more new agey than i remember (obviously i know this is a 'duh' moment, it was weird to think that erykah is getting *old*. i think shes on that cusp of sounding slightly out of touch. which i wouldnt actually mind. im up for hearing badu start doing standards and what not. lol.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 30 November 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, she'd do a good set:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fwm5H3VpQw
― thread of getting sw0le and lena jokes (Eric H.), Monday, 30 November 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
Musically it's a watered down version of her last album (and that was five years ago), plus it's basically erykahraoke and while her voice is still great it's all a bit ehhhhhh.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 30 November 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
nu amerykah was basically a mixtape anyway, so im surprised this is her first proper official Mixtape.
i think shes not that interested in writing songs how she used to. she might want to get off the internet a little bit longer. cos it sounds like shes pretty addicted to it.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 30 November 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
obviously this is a tossed-off minor work by design
yeah, I presume she rushed to record it in the past two months after her Drake remix got such a good reception. it's a fun trifle tho.
― The Reverend, Monday, 30 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
the upside of never really giving hotline bling much of a chance is that when i listen to this, i can pretend it's the canonical version and like it unreservedly
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
its what mixtapes are meant to be though, i think, i.e. not virtual albums, just covers, some demos, some experiments, kind of like an odds and ends thing, that shows a side to someone you wouldnt get on their album.
drakes version of HLB is still king though - erykahs version is very much in her manner, but it lacks the lilt and playfulness of drake's.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 30 November 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
nu amerykah was basically a mixtape anyway
come again?
― k3vin k., Monday, 30 November 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
presume they meant Worldwide Underground?
― Number None, Monday, 30 November 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
yeah that was a bizarre statement
― The Reverend, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:38 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeCB7Kn-VE
― The Reverend, Monday, 30 November 2015 22:48 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vibe.com/2015/11/dawn-richard-transforms-adeles-hello-on-latest-cover/
― Eugene Goostman (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 December 2015 09:03 (eight years ago) link