kehlani - you should be here (2015)

the bass on everything is yours m/l gave my sub a nice workout

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22794-sweetsexysavage/

Atlantic groomed her publicly and behind the scenes for cred and stardom, from 2014 mixtape Cloud 19 to 2015’s album-called-mixtape You Should Be Here to heavy promotion at radio.

correct me if i'm wrong here, but atlantic didn't sign her until after cloud 19. we were talking about her here on ILX before she signed

not a criticism of the review mind, which seems more positive than that score which is kinda weak. i shudder to think of what middling PR-driven garbage beat out 7.0

It's a great review Katherine! (as are all your reviews) the score did seem somewhat incongruent tho which is often the case with pitchfork reviews

generally speaking anything 7+ is in the "very good" category

Yeah that was a v good review to be clear

lol I know 7 is "v good" but cmon

I have to agree with deej here. A plain 7 just feels wrong at this point..

her last tape was a 7.4...

quibbling over bloody p4k decimal places does not befit kehlani

haven't been this excited about an album since dumblonde's debut. this is kinda like my r&b pipe dream of the last 16 years or so.

belatedly the decimal places are because I really liked You Should Be Here

http://www.spin.com/2017/02/kehlanis-sweetsexysavage-argues-that-theres-more-to-modern-rb-than-sadboy-jerkoffs/

some nice lines in jord rvw

album is strong and interesting enough on its own terms to not require modern rnb industry 101 crit layups imo, but i get it

agree that empathy is def the keyword. "i kill em i kill em i kill em with compassion"

arguably it's actually a lil bit of a trap to counterpoint this against "acidic r&b at the moment" because it underplays the headstrong advances keh makes to the now slightly stale popular/critical idea of ~relatability~

generally i find myself writing a lot about context, always trying to remind myself to write more about the music... but thank u

on Wednesday when a student asked who some of my favorite singers were and I said "K Michelle and Kehlani" she brightened and we talked about radio for about ten minutes. It felt good to establish a vaporwave-free zone.

I love this record. I gotta hook up with a boy, love him, and face familial resistance so I can make "Undercover" our anthem.

I know we live in an unfair universe cause "Undercover" isn't everywhere

haven't been this obsessed with a song for a while now

head over heels 4 "escape" today

trying to figure out what song that opening guitar reminds me of. some babyface thing I'm sure

big fan of how "too much" slows down and reshapes "more than a woman"

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, January 27, 2017 8:24 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeh its a great homage

even more appreciably so when you put it next to the empty-feeling 'know' on the new syd lp

I like that Syd album more than I thought I would (esp "Got Her Own") but yeah obv no Kehlani

my only criticism of j0rdan's review (and i suspect it's a 'writers don't write headlines' thing) is that I don't think i've heard anyone say 'jerkoffs' since seventh grade

syd's kind of got a heavy-handed sense of rhythm to me. feels kind of clumsy or something, like its asking for delicacy

at least on this album idk, im not super familiar w/ the internet's stuff but i know ppl like it

i was v fond of last the internet record hence prob why 'dollar bills' is my fave on this solo and the rest hasnt done much for me

even more appreciably so when you put it next to the empty-feeling 'know' on the new syd lp

― r|t|c, Thursday, February 9, 2017 11:22 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just listened, beat def sounds chintzy in comparison. beats gotta snap if ur gonna do timbo

xp that kinda makes it sound like i just like them as an n.e.r.d pastiche but idk she just seems way more comfortably expressive within that metier compared to this chillier timbahintaland

my only criticism of j0rdan's review (and i suspect it's a 'writers don't write headlines' thing) is that I don't think i've heard anyone say 'jerkoffs' since seventh grade

― flopson, Thursday, February 9, 2017 1:28 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

lol thankfully nobody has written my headlines in years

i like the syd album a lot too, way more than i expected to. i hear the criticisms of "know" for instance but i think that's a legit hook. i do like that it sort of deviates from the aaliyah mimicry later in the album as rtc sorta insinuates

man i am loving this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAEQas2eCN8

good beat, almost feel like they overwrote the song listening to it now

kehlani having an impact https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html

wow

This is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8OJsHxBUko

a victory lap that doesn't feel like it's rubbing your face in it, very good

'cause how is the man of my dreams
not a man of his words?
and how is the man for me
just a man that makes me hurt?

aoty

was this never posted somehow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wVB6pfWwnE

that's extremely lovely

that's gorgeous.

I can't decide between "Get Like" and "Undercover" for my 2017 mix. Feel like there's a song on this album for every stage of a relationship and its attendant feelings/attitudes.

she's so cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_x7fDljZPU

Like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wb04PvJO5Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I99qCuWx1mI

this album still goes

new mixtape soon

first track on the new mixtape is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrnDdKoCgE

!!!!!!

whole mixtape is fantastic but that first track is especially great yeah

wild that she's got another album planned for later in the year on top of this