i'm very neutral on cardi b the musician but i do think she has a unique ability to use super obvious samples and not have it come off as cynical... there's something about the personality she's cultivated on/off record that makes it feel like, idk, someone revealing the parts of their taste that crosses over w/ the masses in a way that does not feel like pure piggybacking off the song in question? or maybe she's just good at picking super obvious samples... her remake of "chickenhead" is on the one hand very "obvious" given the current cultural moment but also i can't think of many other contemporary rappers who could do something off that record in a way that could make it feel both novel and genuine. it stands in clear contrast to all the recent re-uses of "slob on my knob" to me
also i think w/ "i like it" there's an element of there obv being an unprecedented explosion of popularity of latin music in america right now, and so there's a celebratory/victory lap element to doing that song w/ bad bunny & j balvin on it in a way that i think justifies the obviousness of it. like idk if rap rarely if ever charted and then there was all of a sudden 8 rappers who become superstars and three of them re-did "rappers delight" i might rock with it
personally im just not a huge fan of "i like it" the original which neuters my ability to enjoy the cardi b version of it but im not mad at it
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 June 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
I did not expect a Mustard-beat to be my song of the summer in 2018. He is actually halfway to Ten.
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 June 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
i feel like the only person on the internet who does not think "boo'd up" is a complete revelation. like it's fine and i'm happy to see it doing well but... like, i haven't even listened to any of her other music and i'd be shocked if there weren't something better on her ep.
― dyl, Monday, 18 June 2018 23:33 (five years ago) link
^ I don’t think it’s a revelation either, just a good track. Reaction seems similar to ilms sacred cow KING
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 01:00 (five years ago) link
Wait, do all of her songs end witha British monologue??
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
i'm sad i didn't vote for boo'd up
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 05:18 (five years ago) link
starting to lean towards OTW... this poll is hard
― flopson, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
OTW
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 20:49 (five years ago) link
^ the correct answer I am thinking
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
boo'd up video is cutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNZlXfW6Ho
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
i like Boo'd Up but was kinda disappointed to find out mustard produced it and not cardo. he should give him a production credit or a percentage for ripping his sound wholesale.
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
sub in 'taste' for 'i like it' make this a fair fight
― ||||||||, Thursday, 28 June 2018 06:19 (five years ago) link
def not "I Like It"
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 June 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
UK edition it’s probably ramz’ “barking”
― ||||||||, Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
I Like It > Boo'd > OTW
I Like It is a hoot
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Thursday, 28 June 2018 07:06 (five years ago) link
Just heard Team Familiar do a DC "grown and sexy" go-go version of "Boo'd Up." Similar vocals with a DC rhythmic bottom
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
― ||||||||, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
'taste' is just a hot beat
― flopson, Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:26 (five years ago) link
Tyga trying to channel 100s on that one.
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Thursday, 28 June 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 30 June 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
boo'd up - uber chill
i like it - smash hit that references Mario
OTW - haven't heard it
boo'd up is my choice cuz i like it is a certain mood...
― Rhubarb (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
You couldn’t listen to the one song you haven’t heard before voting?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
heard it now, still go with boo'd up
― Jang Mo Jib (Ross), Saturday, 30 June 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 1 July 2018 00:01 (five years ago) link
wow didn’t expect such a huge gap. i guess most ilxors voted w/o hearing otw but i still expected i like it to do better. same poll on twitter was basically a 3-way tie
― flopson, Sunday, 1 July 2018 03:57 (five years ago) link
a song i like didn't do as well as i thought it would so therefore most people didn't listen to it
― dyl, Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:08 (five years ago) link
Lol people were literally posting in this thread that they didn’t listen to it
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:17 (five years ago) link
travesty
― Simon H., Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:25 (five years ago) link
good poll (except exclusion of taste)
― ||||||||, Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:30 (five years ago) link
I listened to it but it’s no boo’d up.
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 08:34 (five years ago) link
― dyl, Sunday, July 1, 2018 2:08 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was just teasing ross, not mad at the results at all ‘boo’d up’ rules
― flopson, Sunday, 1 July 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
haha cheers buddy :)
― Garden variety uncouth (Ross), Sunday, 1 July 2018 21:46 (five years ago) link
vid for otwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9diL0xTN4
― Hall of Fam (Spottie), Sunday, 8 July 2018 07:02 (five years ago) link
― flopson, Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:26 PM (one week ago) Bookmark
me not icy that's unlikely
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 July 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
why you claim that you rich? that's a false claim
you ain't got no style see you on my instagram
OTW > boo’d up >>>>> I like it
― k3vin k., Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:08 (five years ago) link
i've really come to kinda hate "i like it"... would much rather hear "be careful"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
fully on board with this now.
― InfoWarriors (Spottie), Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
def otw
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
Here in the UK Boo'd Up has done nothing and it is astonishing to me. I keep putting it on at parties and it's a head turner - I've twice seen people who've never heard it start singing along during the first chorus - I don't understand why it hasn't transferred to this side of the ocean?
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
Isn't she from London? I just assumed she's a hero there.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
Ikonika edit btw: https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
There was an article in the guardian about her being huge in the USA and unknown in the UK - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/02/ella-mai-bood-up-r-and-b-charts-number-1The comments below the line are some of the worst guardian music comments of all time, and that's like being the worst strain of bubonic plague, but might be instructive about why she isn't big here, if you have a particularly high tolerance for pricks on the internet.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 9 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
pseudoracism isn't it :(
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:12 (five years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:34 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark
dope
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 9 August 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
diana gordon’s “wolverine” a strong contender for late summer langurous vibes jam
― ||||||||, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
shame that OTW wasn't as a big of a hit as the other two, it's the one i've been playing the most lately
― ufo, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
the other two were very immediate but OTW has really grown on me
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 20 August 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link
i feel like "otw" had a bit more potential than it ended up realizing but i didn't hear it on the radio until months after it had already come out. (see also its late video release)
― dyl, Monday, 20 August 2018 08:12 (five years ago) link
“Wolverine” is excellent!
― Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
there's no big r&b jam of this summer so far, is there? at least on the level of boo'd up.
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
"talk" was the closest i could come up with but it definitely tries to straddle styles a little w/ that production
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link
that song is so bland that the official music video already looks like a target commercial
― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
i think the production on "go loko" is arrestingly intricate considering that its concept is completely unsubtle, nearly gimmicky
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
well yeah i'm not saying any of these songs are as good as the ones from last year's poll
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
“Talk” does have a pretty arresting melody. Good a&r
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
i like "talk"... it's funny to me that critics were at separate points head over heels for both khalid & disclosure and now they have a huge good pop hit together and nobody really seems to care
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 30 June 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
I like thishttps://youtu.be/ltYUH6fEYdE
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Maybe not for this thread
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
It’ll have to be Old Town Road vs Panini vs Rodeo, sorry deej.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
"fingías" is nice
― dyl, Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
hahaha old town road is def otm
― k3vin k., Sunday, 30 June 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Have you guys heard “yeh” by duke deuce
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 30 June 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link