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
― j., Thursday, 28 February 2019 03:59 (five years ago) link
[Pre-Chorus: Kehlani]But here’s to being honestNeither of us knew what we wantedBut all we knew is that we caredStill all we painted was a moment
[Chorus: Kehlani]And when I walked awayI left footsteps in the mud so you could follow meAnd when I walked awayI left footsteps in the mud so you could follow meYou’re so bad at holding water, slips right through your fingersWe'd both end up drowning, it would hit the groundAnd 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
― flopson, Thursday, 28 February 2019 04:01 (five years ago) link
yeah "feels" makes me a little itchy... i think i prefer "love language"
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 February 2019 04:15 (five years ago) link
love "Toxic":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ej_l8C5Q94
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 13 March 2020 08:16 (four years ago) link
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
― ||||||||, Friday, 27 March 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
that video - “Quarantine Style”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmFP1AP-afM
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 27 March 2020 23:08 (four years ago) link
new album It Was Good Until It Wasn't out May 8!
― ufo, Saturday, 25 April 2020 01:02 (three years ago) link
It's out!
― Nourry, Friday, 8 May 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
'hate the club' is amazing.
― Nourry, Friday, 8 May 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
I've been looking for it for a couple days.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
playing now, all the advance singles and features have been great so i'm pretty hyped.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 8 May 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
enjoying this but it strangely feels a little low-key compared to last year's While We Wait which everyone really slept on
― ufo, Friday, 8 May 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
hi!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
you reviewed this, right?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 9 May 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
no, alas
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 May 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 9 May 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
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
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 9 May 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
This record feels rushed, actually; it's my least favorite to date.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
well "rushed" and "half-finished" were the writer's words
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:11 (three years ago) link
“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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
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
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 9 May 2020 23:18 (three years ago) link
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
― j., Sunday, 10 May 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 May 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
i really think 'sweetsexysavage' is kinda of a r&b masterpiece.
― Nourry, Sunday, 10 May 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
"Water," "Can You Blame Me," "Hate the Club," and "Open (Passionate)" are my keepers.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 May 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
oh man "change your life" rules
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
Leaning into Toxic, Change Your Life, F&MU, Water as the return tracks. I wish Tory Lanez wasn't on Can I, it's otherwise quite good.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 10 May 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
it's really just the first 2 songs on here i don't like. "bad news" is a really beautiful song. there's at least 3 instant classic records on this, prob a handful that i would put on a best of mix, and i've been playing the full album aside from "toxic" and "can i" nonstop since friday
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
the way she slips in and out of "frontin" on "everybody business" is awesome
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
i've listened to "hate the club" like 100 times, what a song
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 12 May 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
I really like toxic. thought this project was pretty low key but need to sit with it for a while. sweetsexysavage and while we wait both masterpieces for my money tho
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 08:10 (three years ago) link
you should be here is so good too. building quite the catalog
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
"Leave the juice to your squeeze" my god
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
I'm pretty obsessed with the "Open" half of "Open/Passionate" and the lyrics of the pre- and the chorus (and the perspective flip in the second pre-/chorus!):
[Pre-Chorus]What if you slip up?What if tequila grab your neck and say, "Don't bitch up"?What if you wanna shoot your shot and load the clip up?Are you scared to lose your queen and gain a bishop?
[Chorus]Do I got you way too open to be open?Is the lens you see me through just way too focused?What if you're curious and caught up in the moment?Can you hold me down when I'm across the ocean?Can you control it?Do I got you way too open to be open?Would you let it twist up all of your emotions?What if you're curious and caught up in the moment?Do I got you way too open to be (open)
― winters (josh), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link
lmao my brain just shuts off and stops recording whenever i hear tory lanez's voice
otherwise i regret taking forever to get around to this record, it's fantastic
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
"bad news" is a really beautiful song
j0rd knows
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
"Open (Passionate)" is, according to my phone, 2020s most played song.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
i just skip the first 2 songs honestly... from that point on it's very easily a top 5 record of the year to me
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 June 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
hate the club... what an artist
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
"grieving" is so good i'll even endure the unwelcome yodel of james blake
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/kehlani-can-i-music-video-tory-lanez.html
Lanez wasn’t in the video, but it still featured his verse. “Full transparency cuz i believe in that with my following,” Kehlani tweeted. “His verse is still on the song, the video is solo. new verse on the deluxe.” In a since-deleted tweet, she added, “The album came out months ago i can’t remove it, doesn’t work like that. can only move forward.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 00:56 (three years ago) link
get lanez off this and it might be my fave track on the albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDDyKoNG2Q
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
there's a new album out???
― Nourry, Friday, 29 April 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Indeed.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 April 2022 16:25 (one year ago) link
It's pretty good
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 29 April 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
i think shes slipped quite a bit.
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Friday, 29 April 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
this is solid, hope it sticks with me better than the last one
― ufo, Monday, 2 May 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
kind of an odd record... it seems like she wanted to make an intimate, minor-by-design sort of album? i think it gets better at the end, starting w/ "altar." i like "tangerine" a lot. the gestures towards tempo (the slick rick sample, the bieber song) don't feel very realized. some of the production and vocals are pretty but idk how much any of the songs really stick w/ me.
the last album was great to me. this album is missing songs like "change your life" and "hate the club" ... and even "bad news" and "everybody business" does the sound of this album better than this album. will give this one a few more tries but it may just be a write off for me.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:43 (one year ago) link