boo’d up • i like it • OTW

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

the other two were very immediate but OTW has really grown on me

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)

“Wolverine” is excellent!

The rest of the Diana Gordon EP is a bit of a mixed bag but "Too Young" is like Fearless songwriting with Reputation production values.

Heard boo’d up in the mall

What a song

def not "I Like It"
― billstevejim, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:27 AM (two months ago) Bookmark

I have come around to this one. Good summer song. But also yes re: reminders of Burger King commercials in the '90s.

Ultimately I stand beside my "Boo'd Up" vote.

ella mai record out today. deserves its own thread

boo'd up really grew on me. I absolutely love it

platonic ideal of a pop song

ba-dum, boo'd up

I like Boo’d Up.
It’s weird though.
She’s had a fair amount of similarish sounding cuts that generated little buzz.
Like somebody at the label suddenly went, ok that’s enough bubble, next mustard track with some bounce and a hard snare will be the hit, you can now come out as British and not Floetry notsureiftheyrefakingit British.

Listening to "OTW" for the first time as the result of this thread, and, gosh, that is a sumptuous 4 minutes of music. The beat is, like, holographic, the way that old Jam & Lewis productions used to sound compared to their contemporaries. Like you know how they had an improbably long career where they just kept successfully updating their sound to the times for several decades? This is what I imagine they'd be up to if that streak were still going.
A travesty that this never made it to top40 radio, especially when Khalid is such a hot property right now (apparently) off the back of comparatively beige material like "Eastside" and "Love Lies". Maybe the guests/producers on those were just higher priorities for the labels to get over than 6lack and Nineteen85, idk

it is truly an incredible production

i heard it on the radio for the 3rd time, like, ever this past week -- sounded incredible there and still a bit astonished it never completely took off. i guess his team was more focused on pushing the song with normani or something.

boo'd up was actually cut by several difft artists but never released before ella mai picked it up--some people apparently seemed confident it was a hit. it does sound strangely out of time though, like something that could have been equally huge eight years ago

since it doesn't appear to have been discussed anywhere else i am going to say very belatedly that the entire diana gordon ep is pretty strong!

Yeah, big shout out to Kool Aid.

whats the 2019 version of this poll?

talk • con altura • the london ?

maybe sub "go loko" in for one of those idk

I don’t like go loko or the London really ...

Go loko I’m pretty sure ripped off ambjaay’s uno and he’s a better rapper

Swap “Aute Culture” for “Con Altura”! Much much much better track.

there's no big r&b jam of this summer so far, is there? at least on the level of boo'd up.

"talk" was the closest i could come up with but it definitely tries to straddle styles a little w/ that production

that song is so bland that the official music video already looks like a target commercial

i think the production on "go loko" is arrestingly intricate considering that its concept is completely unsubtle, nearly gimmicky

well yeah i'm not saying any of these songs are as good as the ones from last year's poll

“Talk” does have a pretty arresting melody. Good a&r

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

I like this
https://youtu.be/ltYUH6fEYdE

Maybe not for this thread

It’ll have to be Old Town Road vs Panini vs Rodeo, sorry deej.

"fingías" is nice

hahaha old town road is def otm

Have you guys heard “yeh” by duke deuce