The Best Song on The-Dream's Love vs. Money

what did you think it was?

then lol @ whatever def jam intern typed that up!

i've never looked at the lyric booklet, that's what i've always heard!

thought it was like a Jolie/Madonna ref I didn't get :-/

It really does sound like that

your blackberry down

http://celebrityblackberrysightings.com/kanye-west-is-a-blackberry-user/

PUT YOUR BLACK BABY DOWN, PEOPLE IS AROUND YOU!

true story: The-Dream wrote "Put It Down" about Madonna's adopted black baby

ashamed lols

IRL lols

i guess it sounds like a lot of effort put into something sort of empty to me? like, the story he tells is well-told and it sounds pretty, but the story itself leaves me kind of cold? i guess that's kind of conceptual, yeah.

i would vote for take you home to my mama maybe. i like the first album better, i have to admit.

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― horseshoe, Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:13 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think part of what really interests me about it is how much effort there is in something like that ... its such a strongly felt idea for something that seems pretty aberrant to me personally & i start thinking about the state of ppl's attachment to consumption & status & shit & how strongly it is tied to their emotional well-being -- pretty weird i guess but it feels so honest here & its about someone who came from 'nothing,' which sort of increases the emotional impact ... i dunno i just like it a lot

thread is bringing me round to fancy which was the original "oh shit" moment when I heard this in the first place

yeah. by the time the song gets around to being first-person i like it more. i don't know, i think its artfulness just pulls me away from it for some reason. i find the sentiment itself moving in other contexts, in a song like "All Falls Down," for example. i guess i just don't find the woman who gets material goods out of relationships archetype a relatable story? obviously he's pretty invested in it.

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I don't get why this song is particularly conceptual maybe someone can school my, it's just a third person narrative u guyz right?

its 'conceptual' in that "they say you can't buy love, they lyin" is something that the narrator feels at that moment but i dont think the-dream = the narrator, per se

like its all part of an overarching concept section of the record

the song is certainly conceptual

one of my favorite parts on the whole album is right at the beginning of "right side of my brain" when his voice is suuuuper autotuned and he goes "fell in love with a real heartbreaker/ and there's nothing i can dooo, to shake her" - part gets stuck in my head all the time

― s1ocked up, they won't let me out (J0rdan S.)

yesssss. this was my favorite part of the album the first time i listened to it

(I'm so sorry)

http://videos.onsmash.com/v/fnbI5nmRJNQWagMz

Trailer for The-Dream's new track Hit It On The Road" from his "Love vs. Money: The Hangover (Extended Version)"

this doesn't sound good at all - the "diva" beat with a chorus sung by soulja boy

weird idea, i guess it's good that they're committed to still pushing the album even though sales haven't been huge -- enough room on the disc that they could add 4 or 5 new songs

"Love vs. Money: The Hangover (Extended Version)"

which track gets the alternate Galifianakis vid?

My fav is still "Take U Home 2 My Mama" tho. the backup-Dream doubling the lines stuff is super fun, especially "..cuz I'm already gone (I'm already nyeeah)"

it's selling pretty well isn't it? it's gonna out sell love/hate by a bunch at least

they should just release "mr yeah" instead of this thing

400k in 3 months, not bad but nothing special, still 150k behind the first album.

I don't listen to this album outside of "RSoM/Mr. Yeah" anymore. Going with "Mr. Yeah" mainly because of the chorus and the outro. Can't decide if the bridge is just dead weight, or needed in order to contrast with that brilliant outro, which I think is 1. the best 10 seconds of The-Dream ever and 2. a metonym for The-Dream's style

"Right side", easy. otm about the intro being great. this track embodies everything I like about dream.
my second best would be "take you home".
somehow, I like "fancy" but almost never want to listen to it...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the "brrrriiiiing" after the first "take you home to my mama, home to my mama, home to my mama, yeah" is the best single sound on "take you home 2 my mama."

so many good sounds on this record. the synth trumpet on "rockin' that shit"!

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

fuck you people and your walking on the moon bullshit.

haha these results are mostly ok w/ me. wish love vs $ pt 2 got more votes

Pretty surprised @ these results! "right side" is great and a deserving winner, but who voted "walkin on the moon?"

Walkin' on the Moon 5

really?

also i love that we pulled another 100 post thread on this album out of our asses

haha otm

jordan did u vote my love?

errr, for the song

nah i voted "right side of my brain"

so did I, although all the "Fancy" talk upthread persuaded me to move the thing into my iPod after several months. Thanks, thread!

walking on the moon? huh?

I would have figured Right Side > Fancy > Rocking That Shit > something from the Mama/LvM Suit > My Love

Walking on the Moon is such an eh track.

I considered "My Love" for a while - it was my favourite track on the album when it came out, but I feel like I played it out pretty quick. It really needs one more verse or something. It feels strangely lacking somehow.

h8 walking on the moon

i love fancy now

Will anyone own up to being the oddballs voting for "Walking On The Moon".

Haha -- "Walking On the Moon" did OK in the Stylus jukebox a couple of weeks ago. Stand up and be counted, knaves.

forgot to vote in this, but the right song won.