https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYBWrQumfVg
first single from new album Twice As Tall out 'this summer' !!!
― ufo, Thursday, 25 June 2020 23:38 (three years ago) link
“Wonderful” is no lie. I love love this new sound. His voice sounds great, the beat and the production are fantastic, the guitar flourishes are ace. I wasn’t aware of producer Telz, but I see he also did a track on prettyboydo’s excellent new EP. With hindsight, Burna has guided us into this new era expertly with those two palate cleansing singles in December and February. He could have easily stuck with that modern-classic Kel-P sound, but I approve of this development.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 June 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
Great song and super exciting news!
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
Yeah I'll be curious--maybe a little surprised--to see if Odogwu and Money Play aren't included on this. It would definitely be impressive to have three really distinct albums out in just a few years
― dip to dup (rob), Friday, 26 June 2020 12:25 (three years ago) link
video for “Wonderful”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k33o1IgtUEM
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 1 July 2020 00:00 (three years ago) link
You’re all invited to participate in this poll:
🇳🇬 NAIJA SPECIAL: which of these *seven* current high-profile Nigerian hit songs is the best one? please help me decide
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
#TWICEASTALL 14/08 🦍 pic.twitter.com/YOMdN1s2xL— Burna Boy (@burnaboy) August 5, 2020
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
Yesssss
― rob, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:34 (three years ago) link
im ready
― Spottie, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 22:36 (three years ago) link
twice as tall tracklist was revealed:Level Up (Twice as Tall) [ft. Youssou N’Dour]Alarm ClockWay Too BigBeboWonderfulOnyeka (Baby)Naughty By Nature [ft. Naughty By Nature]CommaNo Fit Vex23Time Flies [ft. Sauti Sol]Monsters You Made [ft. Chris Martin]Wetin Dey SupReal Life [ft. Stormzy]Bank on It
looking forward to the sauti sol collab but not at all excited to hear chris martin's appearance
jae5 has also contributed to the production!
― ufo, Monday, 10 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
the YG and future songs from the lsat album ended up being pretty dope considering so i'm willing to give him some rope... "monsters you made" not rly a promising title tho lol
― J0rdan S., Monday, 10 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
*heart eyes*
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 10 August 2020 15:02 (three years ago) link
Monsters You Made (ft. Chris Martin)
great, a hook about Goop
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 10 August 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
It shoulda been Christopher Martin smh.
I'm kind of surprised neither Money Play nor Odogwu are on this. I wonder if the Naughty by Nature one will be like the Blak Ryno one on AG.
Other producers: LeriQ, Telz, P2J, Rexxie, Mike Dean, Timbaland, Skread, DJDS
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
as for the Chris Martin collab: you are all aware Burna’s on Sam Smith’s current single, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byO74UGa8bI#mainstreamingburna
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
I meant to ask if anyone has heard that yet...I have not
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
good to see he’s working with LeriQ again, the guy who produced his early stuff.and Timbaland - seems like a trophy collaborator, like Youssou N’Dour perhaps, but who knows...
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
xp
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
I quite liked it but ymmv
tbh I can't even remember what Smith sounds like so I'm not sure why I'm avoiding it
― rob, Monday, 10 August 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/arts/music/burna-boy-twice-as-tall.html
Interview / feature
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 August 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
solid piece. more production details:
For “Twice as Tall,” Burna Boy enlisted an American executive producer: Sean Combs, a.k.a. Diddy, who has long guided rappers and singers (most famously the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige) toward wider audiences.
Combs also makes his presence audible with voice-over intros on some songs, briefly upstaging Burna Boy.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
I like this description of Burna’s artistry or whatever the word is (although I must admit I can’t attest to the pentatonic African modes):
For the most part, Burna Boy hasn’t diluted his African heritage to reach his global audience. Instead, he has placed an unmistakably African stamp on music drawn from all around Africa and from across the African diaspora. He has a calm, husky, resolute voice that exemplifies the West African cultural virtue of coolness: poise and control transcending any commotion. His melodic sense is rooted in pentatonic African modes but unconstrained by them, and he has a stable of producers who deliver some of the most innovative rhythm tracks in 21st-century pop — usually working alongside Burna Boy in his studio, he said. He sings, most often, in a pidgin of English and Yoruba, confident that his meaning will get through even if listeners don’t recognize all the words.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Burna Boy is a leader amid a bounty of new African pop that has been increasingly welcomed in the West: a confluence of widespread availability via streaming, discovery via word-of-internet rather than former gatekeepers, and the sheer inventiveness taking place outside established music-business strongholds.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 10 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
can confirm the album is on my streaming service of choice
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Thursday, 13 August 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link
so far "way too big" rules so much
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 00:12 (three years ago) link
unsurprisingly chris martin is an extremely unwelcome presence here
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
diddy only shows up to interject once thankfully
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 01:47 (three years ago) link
Naughty By Nature (ft. Naughty By Nature)
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
Chris Martin is a bullet I'm not looking forward to biting, guess I'll tell myself it could be worse, could've been Allbran or somebody
― The Scampos of Young Werther (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 August 2020 08:12 (three years ago) link
Sheeran's going to be furious.
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:22 (three years ago) link
listening again and there is a second diddy interjection that i completely missed the first time through
honestly sheeran is a far less obnoxious vocal presence than martin, if some british white guy had to show up he'd be far from my first choice but the result would probably have been more tolerable
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 08:58 (three years ago) link
I told Burna I did a song with ColdplayNext thing I know he got a song with Coldplay
― triggercut, Friday, 14 August 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
Very good album. I can't imagine I'll end up liking it as much as African Giant, but that's not a knock, AG is genius.
I was nervous about the guests...rightly so. Martin does suck, but tbrr I don't know if that song would be much better with [yr fav] on it--though thanks to dog latin, I did briefly wonder if Chronixx could have made it work--it has my least favorite Burna vocals too. I have never liked Sauti Sol very much, so those two back to back are a serious lull for me, curious if Sol fans like that one more. It's not ruinous, but the absolute wrong Stormzy shows up, all slow and moody, a missed opportunity though I quite like the women singing backup on that (see also Bank On It; swapping out all the guests for women would be an interesting exercise). Still, there's a happy surprise: Naughty by Nature sound kinda leftfield great, and as ufo mentioned Diddy's presence is not too distracting.
Anyway, even if you outright delete all the guest tracks (though no need to cut N'Dour), you end up with a strong collection, at least on par with Outside, maybe a little better once I listen more.
― rob, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
yeah i'm not sure this feels like an endless parade of hits in the way that african giant did but it's still very good. i like the sauti sol track a lot, i've only heard a few of their tracks before but they've always been enjoyable. "naughty by nature" works despite its weird concept and i completely agree about stormzy being a wasted opportunity. even ignoring martin i think "monsters you made" is the worst track on this
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
i looove that synth outro in "way too big"
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
even ignoring martin i think "monsters you made" is the worst track on this
otm, I almost wish he'd leaned all the way into the "message song" vibe and gotten Bono
― rob, Friday, 14 August 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
Is Monsters You Made a deliberate Dirty Diana lift or just a coincidence?
― Matt DC, Friday, 14 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
it's deliberate, mj is a credited writer on it
― ufo, Friday, 14 August 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
all the select tracks i've tried so far are quite good. looking forward to digging in deeper.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 15 August 2020 03:11 (three years ago) link
Album is pleasant and competent, it maintains nice vibes, but it is seriously lacking innovation, energy and hits, and good feats as it has been said. He's not in front of these songs as he was in Outside / African Giant. 23 is one of the few standouts along with Wonderful, Onyeka and the too-short Alarm Clock (one could dream of a free-jazzy / funky Burna Boy album). I hate that generic trumpeting party sound in Way Too Big, it ruins the song. I don't think I'll spin this a lot.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 15 August 2020 06:24 (three years ago) link
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gq-hype/article/burna-boy-interview-2020
weird sequencing here leads to a smattering of garbage tracks throughout imo but there's a lot to enjoy. African Giant never quite clicked for me; this may make me go back to it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
I think I've landed on an 8-song version of this that I like quite a lot if not as much as African Giant (the other 7 range from not-bad-but-unremarkable to terrible):
BeboWonderfulOnyeka (Baby)CommaNo Fit Vex* 23Wetin Dey SupBank On It
* Spotlight on this, which is really good and doesn't sound much like past BB. I could dig a groovier, sunnier, wavier set that sounded like this and Wonderful.
So basically cut everything with a feature (sometimes Naughty By Nature sounds like goofy fun to me and sometimes like an awkward misfire), plus I find that opening run kind of ponderous. If you add Money Play and Odogwu, you'd have a strong back-to-back album imo.
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
(one could dream of a free-jazzy / funky Burna Boy album)
I would also be here for this (pretty improbable) imaginary album. I rewatched his Tiny Desk last night, and it would be cool to hear him collaborate with a band.
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
i've decided twice as tall suffers from a lack of kel-p vibes
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
i like twice as tall a lot an am not clear why people dislike it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
it lacks edgenot bad though
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
it's still good, i just prefer the sonic palette of african giant a bit more (and the guest stars on that album blend in a lot better)
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
I def wouldn't say I dislike it. In fact, "weird sequencing here leads to a smattering of garbage tracks throughout imo but there's a lot to enjoy" is really close to how I would put it!
African Giant is a personal fave and part of why is that right off the bat I loved it and couldn't stop playing it, so this inevitably feels a little disappointing
― rob, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
"Naughty by Nature" rules, improbably
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 September 2020 20:32 (three years ago) link