Love this so much
― Tim F, Friday, 10 August 2018 10:03 (five years ago) link
So it looks like the strategy for this album is to get Ciara on as many genre playlists as possible but if the execution is this good on all of them then I'm onboard.
I also feel like afrobeats hasn't inflitrated US R&B and rap to anywhere near the extent it has in the UK, so this might actually lead somewhere exciting? I mean the alternative is that no one there cares about her any more, but if you're going to bandwagon jump to mitigate that then this is a pretty good one to be on.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 August 2018 10:41 (five years ago) link
love both these tracks but lmao at Level Up being based on Fuck It Up Challenge
― ufo, Friday, 10 August 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
I approve of this collabo, but “Freak Me” didn’t come out of thin air either. It sounded super familiar, and yes:https://www.google.nl/amp/s/amp.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/ciara-samples-tiwa-savage-on-new-single-freak-me-with-tekno-id8708959.html
― breastcrawl, Friday, 10 August 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcfwvX0HPVI
three for three
― ufo, Friday, 14 September 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link
Yep. At first I thought "hmm a Lose My Breath rip off" but it rewards repeat plays. A+ video too.
― Jeff W, Friday, 14 September 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
haven't heard yet (no headphones at work) but does this one have a prominent sample as well?
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 14 September 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
not feeling this so much - functional and perfunctory but nowhere near the level of the last two
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
new song is super gorgeous, fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BjpWJyd_hk
― monotony, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:35 (five years ago) link
Beauty Marks is another disappointment.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
ton of good stuff on the record, kind of a DOA first track though
"thinkin bout you" song of the year
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
I like the one.
I really can't stand this tendency to lapse into therapyspeak with goddamn Macklemore and the title track.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
* I like THAT one
the bookends are the worst, it's true. really love the run from "dose" to "freak me," which should've been in the ilm 77 last year
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
'I Love Myself ft Macklemore' is a blazing do-not-listen-to-this batsignal that I sadly failed to heed.The rest rules but the afrobeats tracks >>>>> all.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
You might like the original “Freak of the Week” as well:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeasOeUgkA8Tiwa Savage ft. D’Prince • Before Nko
― breastcrawl, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
(I posted about this upthread as well, but I feel it’s important to give credit where it’s due. This is more than just a sample or an interpolation.)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
Woof, minus a few of the singles this is a stinker
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 12 May 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
yikes
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:38 (four years ago) link
not a stinker but what a disappointment - the good stuff here is the adventurous and unexpected sonic moves so the first half being heavy on the formulaic r&b is really uninspiring and I really don't need another "I'm going to out to have fun" xerox like Girl Gang. She's always been more comfortable than most others doing weird stuff and Level Up/Freak Me were the first time in ages I felt she had broke out the bubble of yesteryear r&b star, so why this falls back into really lacklustre stuff seems a mystery. And both the opener and closer are terrible choices.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 12 May 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link