Jason DeRulo

"Adorn" is quite literally laptop soul.

^ lol yep!!

slow the tempo on "adorn" a few bpm and the similarities are pretty striking

i can see the connection between "jealous" and "adorn" ... i still see "adorn" as being outside that group of songs tho

he does not deserve his awesome new jam being ignored though, u scumbags

― r|t|c, Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:56 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Do you mean "Name & Number"? I love it but I am weirdly into his ropey vocals on it.

― Tim F, Sunday, March 22, 2015 8:00 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

this song is so good

he looks like the biggest fucking goober and yet his vocals are so weirdly endearing and sweet

he sounds and looks like the 5th most important member of a second-tier boy band

AND YET

ya i think i said b4 his singles are all on a runtish jordan knight tip

yes exactly

But what better song of personal liberation is there than "Ridin' Solo."

I wasn't into this song at first

But my officemate kept on playing it and now I think it's great, it's one of "those" songs

Looking forward to hearing this everywhere

He was also playing the new Carly Rae and I still think that song is bad and not good and doesn't improve with casual brushes

Sorry Carly, next time... maybe?

lol that crj song really sank like a stone after a week of people losing their minds about it

The CRJ single is only being added to radio today.

Cap'n Sav-a-Rae

heard that in the wild on sunday

i wouldn't be surprised if the crj song doesn't really pick up

arguing that "adorn" is the genesis of songs like this is one of the worst insults i've seen about it. i don't hear it? i mean if you change everything about the production and tempo maybe but those are quite big things.

as a song this one is really nowhere near "jealous"

I'm not massively in love with this but it doesn't really seem offensive?

so this album's good, including the Keith Urban-Stevie Wonder collaboration.

what a strange career this guy's had

on one hand i'm pretty embarrassed for having liked "whatcha say", otoh i love "trumpets" and "want to want me". i don't think i have any idea what is and isn't a good song with this dude

Caramanica, somewhat baffled, calls him chameleonic. I say the guy has scored the most frictionless hits of the last few years.

all I ever wanted was some fuuuuuunnn

debates upthread about whether "WTWM" fit into the "Style" lineage but imo "Cheyenne" gets far closer to belonging to that bloodline

Totally.

so did y'all end up getting tired of "want to want me"

Nope!

not tired of the album either

No commentary on his judging "So You Think You Can Dance?" or his performing "Cheyenne" on last week's show? Let Mary Murphy's non-renewal not be in vain...

"X2CU" is incredibly good

terius-level outro

I JUST WANT X2CU

This album's goodness was such a surprise that I haven't done a good job proselytizing.

i had forgotten while writing about tropical house that matoma produced that song on here w/ j lo -- at the time the album came out i had no idea who he was. apparently it's the next single.

yeah "X2CU" is fantastic, so annoyed it's not a single

Prime Michael Jackson would have killed "X2CU."

uhhh

https://www.thehits.co.nz/video/jason-derulo-shocks-fans-by-singing-classical-opera-and-he-sounds-incredible/

hmmm I'm no expert but that sounds more like an opera style impression than actual opera singing

what an abomination of a song

It is popera for sure but still

oh yeah he delivers it fine, just before the show goes over a cliff