kehlani - you should be here (2015)

!!!!!!

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

That's good. And nice quote from Omarion's "Ice Box" !

its a 'mixtape'??

I might've felt a little vulnerable last night, but the male collaborators sound good to excellent. Musiq Soulchild, yeah, but also 6LACK.

MUSIQ!

this is a v good whatever it is

[Pre-Chorus: Kehlani]
But here’s to being honest
Neither of us knew what we wanted
But all we knew is that we cared
Still all we painted was a moment

[Chorus: Kehlani]
And when I walked away
I left footsteps in the mud so you could follow me
And when I walked away
I left footsteps in the mud so you could follow me
You’re so bad at holding water, slips right through your fingers
We'd both end up drowning, it would hit the ground
And then the path would wash away, wash away

fuck me all the wya up

way!!

weird i guess it is a 'mixtape'

How is a mixtape different from an album? I've never quite understood this (I'm dumb)...

it mostly means "the label isn't promoting this release as much and not giving it a physical release" these days

been listening to this over and over

yes it is extremely good

oh my god she's so great

damn this tape is strong. thought "this has to be the best track on the tape" like 4 different times before arriving at "butterfly," which is totally the best track on the tape.

this is incredible

and a compact coda to the last album

i haven't checked the credits but my impression is there is a return to the producers/production of the first 'tape' more than the album? which i like

why is this the best album ive heard in like 2 years

don't get out much

lol

it's rly good

songwriting seems really on another level

i'm a little cool on the chorus/title of 'feels', seems too trite given her keen ear for conversational lyric-writing (if she were a novelist people would praise her ear for dialogue)

but the production on butterfly amazes me

[Pre-Chorus: Kehlani]
But here’s to being honest
Neither of us knew what we wanted
But all we knew is that we cared
Still all we painted was a moment

[Chorus: Kehlani]
And when I walked away
I left footsteps in the mud so you could follow me
And when I walked away
I left footsteps in the mud so you could follow me
You’re so bad at holding water, slips right through your fingers
We'd both end up drowning, it would hit the ground
And then the path would wash away, wash away

fuck me all the wya up

― J0rdan S., Friday, February 22, 2019 1:36 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah "feels" makes me a little itchy... i think i prefer "love language"

love "Toxic":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ej_l8C5Q94

yes - it owns, so does the new video. really hyped for the new album. while we wait was lk one of the best of 2019

that video - “Quarantine Style”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFP1AP-afM

new album It Was Good Until It Wasn't out May 8!

It's out!

'hate the club' is amazing.

I've been looking for it for a couple days.

playing now, all the advance singles and features have been great so i'm pretty hyped.

enjoying this but it strangely feels a little low-key compared to last year's While We Wait which everyone really slept on

hi!

you reviewed this, right?

no, alas

this is solid but I agree with "little low key" and the "transition record" comment from this vulture interview... the floor is lower than previous albums but I've yet to find the song that sends me like Undercover or Nights Like This

https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/kehlani-profile-it-was-good-until-it-wasnt.html

Kehani being ridiculously patient with Charlamagne here (who is trending on the back of this)

charlamagne really be gaslighting the FUCK out of his female guest and it pisses me off every single time. props to kehlani for keeping it cool cause i definitely woulda got in his ass talmbout “you cant forgive a lil cheating?” “niggas fuck up” https://t.co/WiUhyIwIUm

— lil gemini (@tr_imani) May 9, 2020

very surprised to learn SweetSexySavage was "rushed" and "half-finished ideas" because it's such a solid record, doesn't sound that way at all

This record feels rushed, actually; it's my least favorite to date.

well "rushed" and "half-finished" were the writer's words

“I started an album as one person and went through the most traumatic event in my life,” she says. Her label held fast to its deadline, leaving her to make an album from songs she barely recognized. “I didn’t connect with any of the music,” she says. “I was embarrassed of everything.”

she's talking about the album in a really specific personal context. she may have not connected w/ the music by the time it came out (or even when it was recorded?) but that's different than saying that the songs themselves aren't good

tbh to me it feels like the story is trying to wedge sexysweetsavage into the well worn storyline that goes "pop artist forced by label to record songs against their will, returns w/ more artistically true album." but it feels like inaccurate framing to me... i mean, i personally wrote at the time that the album was a triumph for "real" R&B in a world where branding and pop stardom mattered more, so idk it's hard for me to see it as a failed sellout record or something like that. again, this is divorced completely from how the recording and release of the album mapped across kehlani's own personal life, and how she feels about it now because of it

it is at best her third best project to me tho

sexysweetsavage didn't seem bad to me, just more 'professional'—not as lived-in in the songwriting or production

as for this album, it's kinda patchy at the beginning. but once it gets to "change your life" it's pretty great until the end. the production gets really cool, some of the melodic runs and stuff on "hate the club" are really cool. it opens up a bit gets, more acoustic... "can you blame me" is perfect. the james blake feature is regrettable. overall this is pretty safely one of the better records i've heard this year.

i really think 'sweetsexysavage' is kinda of a r&b masterpiece.