Electrik Red- How to be a Lady Vol.1 Terius 'n' Tricky make girl-pop magic

yeah i can def see that, like it's hard to get her soft

was it jordan who was bitching about the explicit version of So Good, because the clean version is way better, but then I usually think that.

the sexuality is pretty aggressive

yeah it was me - i find it inconsequential now but it's a pointless remake, they should've just left it "clean"

still pissing me off

i love it when the dj when the dj play my shit my shit
i rock i rock my hips my hips

i think the title does such a good job of pulling the thing together

"i thought i wouldn’t really give a fuck / but now a bitch all in loooove"

I didn't even know that this is what the first line said. Such a good lyric!

― Tim F, Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:48 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^THIS

Funny how it makes me wanna go back and forth with L/H and LVM

has anybody spotted any cool meta stuff in it yet?

i love it when the dj when the dj play my shit my shit
i rock i rock my hips my hips

― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Friday, May 22, 2009 4:22 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah it was me - i find it inconsequential now but it's a pointless remake, they should've just left it "clean"

― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Friday, May 22, 2009 4:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but...it's not a remake...the song had "shit" in it in the first place, it was just censored for the single.

aside from the Tim F one above which I assume is a Luv ur Girl ref

the album is sequenced so well too - "friend lover" is such a revelation coming after the "devotion" -> "bed rest" run

it would have been a cute moment of ladylike behaviour if they'd left it clean

well what i like is the combination of different moods, in like the same song even.

yeah it was me - i find it inconsequential now but it's a pointless remake, they should've just left it "clean"

― oj da hoosman (J0rdan S.), Friday, May 22, 2009 4:19 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but...it's not a remake...the song had "shit" in it in the first place, it was just censored for the single.

― dream hater, come rescue me (some dude), Friday, May 22, 2009 3:27 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i guess but it's not like they just took the word out, they added that slight moan and i just think it's way better - it's a different song without it imo

bitch

walking around in my louis vuitton heals with my ass hanging out

9 to 5

my favorite is 'bed rest'

^^ yes

"kill bill" is 3:22 of O_O

i just put WFY on at work and had to turn it off real quick!

oops!

really excited about that distant time in the future when i get to hear this not hunched over my laptop in a hotel room

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/post/70310-elektrik-red-feat-the-dream-drink-in-my-cup/

video and review of "drink"

ok so who's gonna start unpacking the ~class signifiers~ here

you?

nope! boarding plane in some minutes

btw the-dream sez it was all their idea, the title and concept and stuff, and they bullied him into getting their vision right

hmmm v interesting

and they danced on the boardroom table at the meeting when they got their deal

i guess that makes sense. it would be kind of weird if dream had conceived the whole thing totally and projected it onto some girls.

you think? i can totally imagine him doing that - like, conceptions of "femininity" and "class" seem to be at the heart of the electrik red album in the same way that "love" and "money" are to the-dream's. esp taking into account visuals, videos &c

and they danced on the boardroom table at the meeting when they got their deal

this is awesome

Is it just me or did Dream basically cast his female doppelganger to be the lead Red? As for class signifiers...um...I dunno. Conceptually (not musically) most interesting bits are when the girls take a fictional male audience member to task for, e.g., wearing jeans that are too tight.

yea that made me stop and think

was exchanging tips with a music friend tonight and she was all opposed to the idea of this album, saying "i have class in my taste"

and i was like uhhh i got that drink in my cup

fav lyric in bed rest is obv "i'm so horny"

now that's how to be a lady!!

what does "drink in my cup mean"? I have been wondering this for SOME TIME

I'M THE SHIT

WITH THIS SHIT

Really, an ideal version of "So Good" would contain both "ooh...*gasp*...damn" and "I thought I really wouldn't give a fuck/ but now a bitch all in love"

^^^

I don't really like swearing in pop music because it makes me embarrassed to sing along

wth

i could see being embarrassed to be singing along to like..... "what's your fantasy" or something but otherwise

plax u are a weird dude

apparently "So Good" isn't Tricky Stewart, it's some guy named Sean K

Ah so there was a reason I hadn't noticed "I thought I wouldn't really give a fuck" prior to listening to the album version.

"So Good" is just A+ songwriting, every single bit of it.

I don't mind the ooh/shit/damn bit, if only because the "shit" carries so much ambivalence - like is she saying it because she's pissed off or because she's being serviced right at that moment? And, if the latter, then it must be really good to make her start swearing like that.

Whereas the use of the word "Rockin' That Shit" seems more pointless to me - it's just a general stand-in word in that context.

it should be noted that P is for Power, the U is for Used to, cause my P better than that P that you used to

you guys

https://twitter.com/MissyElliott/status/304497472124903424

ugh. alassssss.

Electrik Red – will there ever be another album?

Man, someone just asked me about that today.

How to Be a Lady’s so slept on! It’s a perfect record.

Well that’s the point – it’s slept on! If everybody had just bought it then we’d have probably made four records by now. Solange loves that Electrik Red album. Every time we get a chance to talk she’s like ‘Electrik Red, that album…’. And I’m like ‘I know!’. We hit a home run with that album. But again, it comes back to marketing, there’s a lot of things that have to happen – people have to know that it’s there… It’s almost becoming a little cultural thing of its own though.

http://www.factmag.com/2013/09/05/monogamys-like-trying-to-re-do-biology-rnb-hit-machine-the-dream-on-why-sometimes-it-pays-to-be-a-jerk/

(saw terius live last night, it wasn't so worthwhile as to bump a thread but at least he did "fancy")

only 5000 people bought the Electrik Red album, but each of them became a bass music producer

lol

p sure each of them posted to this thread

"I thought I wouldn't really give a fuck, but now a bitch all in love, don't mean to be a hater, but OOH SHIT DAMN you're so good, so good, so good, so good, OOH SHIT DAMN.'

(What else in the world is really as... joyously and unconditionally celebratory of female sexuality as this album?)

((Probably an academic question, but still.))

I watched that video this morning and it's still the best.

this album is still maybe the best album released in my lifetime

and i feel like if a group like them came along right now they would be incredibly popular

It's insane that there hasn't been a follow-up album.

oh shit damn

Agree with all of that

yeah beyond this did this record ever have much traction in the SJ or feminist community? posting on ilx always makes it hard to judge what the real world thinks of things but it seems like this was a couple years too early for both r&b's acceptance by the pitchfork crowd and the rise of tumblr etc

im also in.

ooooh this is an ER song I've never heard before! also, I miss them ;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29yb6pe3Vgs

nice!

2012–present
Since the debut of their first album, Electrik Red has been in the studio working on their second album which has an unknown release date.

Sometimes I use my old ipod at the gym and their album's songs pop up. Another one would be nice

1 member was in NYC doing choreography in 2016

The up-tempo musical numbers, choreographed by Kyndra Binkie Reevey, give the convoluted plot nice jolts of energy and are danced with ebullient relish by the cast. But “Cherchez La Femme,” unlike Kid Creole’s best songs, never really finds a comfortable groove.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/theater/review-cherchez-la-femme-struggles-to-find-its-groove.html?_r=0

I feel like Yung Baby Tate - GIRLS is the closest we've gotten since

I had a premonition that you would be the one to revive this thread

(This is a good thing, BTW)

Can’t believe it’s been 10 years.

oh hi it's me, lonely girl still thinking baout Electrik Red

Damn, apparently no one else has posted on ILM about Yung Baby Tate? GIRLS is the most fun album this year and the ER vibes are strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKIH0bzBDx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YpFHTdY2Yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSOaZHbjmcs

Also for whoever this is of interest, she's Dionne Farris' daughter.

have we discussed the female empowerment angle?

― have the lime of your life, heyyyyyy (Tape Store), Friday, May 22, 2009 4:06 PM (ten years ago)

^^^^