So good. I think clips like this kind of validate but also respond to deej’s point about these songs being mannered - like, yes they are and she fucking loves it
― Tim F, Friday, 24 July 2020 08:55 (three years ago) link
There was already this video (Ware-approved and/or -commissioned, it's on her YT):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS_o7XpnEqA
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 24 July 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
yeah, i have much preferred the individual dancer videos, they seem to capture the vibe of the moment much better
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 24 July 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
guys one thing has come to my attention after repeated listens to the album, and that is ...
the lyrics are (mostly) bad :(
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
They serve the beats.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
i need the whole package
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
it's quarantine, honey. Use your imagination like the rest of us.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
jessie ware has never been a lyrics-forward artist anyway
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
there's an art to unobtrusive lyrics that don't actively detract from the experience!
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Monday, 27 July 2020 20:58 (three years ago) link
A craft at which even Bernard Sumner failed sometimes.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 July 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
and I like the lyrics of the last two tracks just fine
i take it back about the lyrics, they're good actually, i just heard a few clunkers on "read my lips" the other day and extrapolated
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:43 (three years ago) link
any good remixes so far? the album has if anything just grown on me more over the course of the summer
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHwsQHvmQ-c
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
i think that's literally the only one though? (i wish i liked it more.) hoping for more.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
jessie needs rave synth drama not a moodymann-lite treatment imo
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 11 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
Georgia's remix of "What's Your Pleasure" is closer to rave synth drama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZilR39_BY
― voyou, Friday, 11 September 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
ty
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
Only good one or only one? (as there's quite a lot of remixes on Spotify)
― groovypanda, Saturday, 12 September 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
ok a bunch more since the last time i checked
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Saturday, 12 September 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
hey yall who invoked Azana, thanx so much! Just now listed, then commented & linked to Frank Kogan, who had sent South African picks:Here's a good -sounding playlist, all from her currrent album, Ingoma, I think--might seem a bit ballad-y at first, but mostly of a smooth pulsation, luxury class but never wasteful---or wasted, alas; I wouldn't something a little less reasonable, but she's as good, as that gets. Relatively mainstream "Your Love" is even a fave---first single, and I totally get that, ditto the plainer version of "Goodbye," but most faves make more overt use of "ethnic" elements, like the other version of "Goodbye," feat. Just Bheki and Afriikan Papi, and another fave, "Uthando Lwangemela" (that might be my No.1), also "Sikelela", with 0 guests listed. Ditto the mystique of "Egoli," with clipped accents drawing catchy verses around the sidewalk, then chorus stretching some syllables toward dreamtime--here's the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV3lUftsRbYnDhoIIwZoqvIfFN4gOYkFAnd one of several not on the list, v. catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCml8NfC8I There's also a live at the Redbox set, where she performs the whole album, apparently, haven;t listened to that yet (several African artists with vids from the Redbox, I see) (Oh also on the list: "Lovers and Best Friends," feat. Disciples of House.)
Somebody in YT comments said, like, "If she were Anita Baker or Sade, people would be raving." Yeah she's in there between them, vibe-wise, also found/from her own nexus.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
Also think of Sade re more sensuous phrasing (of Jessie) brushing by on the beat train, overall effect also recalling that Sade is a band. Agree that while JW has her Granny's disco collection down as ground, she's also learned from subsequent releases, sounds like she might like Robyn, for inst.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
"More sensuous" sometimes than others on *her* album, I mean, not comparing her to Azana.
― dow, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
She has her own thread if you're curious: Azana - Ingoma
― rob, Thursday, 5 November 2020 22:47 (three years ago) link
that's right - I c+p'd your post to that thread, dow.
in case you (or anyone else) missed it, the new album by kindred spirit Simmy is out today, more here: THE HOUSE OF SUN-EL: Sun-El Musician, Simmy, Mlindo The Vocalist, and other related artists
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 November 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
Thanks so much! I like her track w Sun-El Musician, and dazzled by prospects of all the vids etc. on his thread, incl. Simmy.
― dow, Friday, 6 November 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
Do you like the Ware?
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 November 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
O hell yes, did I not say enough about her? Very much! You guys have covered it pretty well. How does it compare to her previous?
― dow, Friday, 6 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Bass-ier, faster, sensual-er.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
ooo-wee!
― dow, Friday, 6 November 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
it's her best album imo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 November 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Stunning archive Ware performance on tonight's Jools Holland (selected by, er, Mel C).
― chap, Saturday, 7 November 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Ahh I love this, this is like the polar opposite vibe of the original (and I fucking love the original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpaihnd2a4Y
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 4 December 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
that took a turn!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
Jessie's gonna be a judge on Drag Race UK's upcoming season and if the two queens up for elimination on her ep don't LSFYL to WYP's title track, I will plotz
but knowing it's Drag Race and they never give us what we want, they probably won't even lip sync to a Jessie Ware song on her ep
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 28 December 2020 04:48 (three years ago) link
yesssssss
Just so you all know. There's gonna be a deluxe. I have listened to your calls (demands 😉) and I'm trying to get this shit together as quick as possible for you. I got you XXX— Jessie Ware (@JessieWare) January 8, 2021
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 9 January 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
THANK U QUEEN
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, 9 January 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
maybe the deluxe will over Overtime #justice4overtime
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 10 January 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
She’s so underrated outside the UK.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
is she?
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
this album was probably rated more highly by american critics than just about anything she's ever released which is insane
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
is it
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:18 (three years ago) link
yes
her first two albums -- even the imperfect second one -- where she was trying to carve out a voice of her own & interacting w/ contemporary pop music >>>> trad disco revivalism
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:19 (three years ago) link
you know there's more going on than "trad disco revivalism" but ok
― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
devotion is still a classic and was very well received critically also, it just probably had less crossover to us critics because it was only released in the us nearly a year after its uk release
no way is tough love better than what's your pleasure though
― ufo, Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:39 (three years ago) link
are we really arguing about whether she's underrated here? Check Metacritic in 2012 and 2020.
― meticulously crafted, socially responsible, morally upsta (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:50 (three years ago) link
it is weird to me that this album is comparably well received to devotion which is imo more interesting and emotionally resonant
― dyl, Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
No she’s not underrated and Devotion = WYP
both questions settled, next
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 10 January 2021 03:57 (three years ago) link
imo Pleasure > Tough Love > Devotion >>>>>> Glasshouse
Neat how different people hear things differently.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 January 2021 04:14 (three years ago) link
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, January 9, 2021 7:01 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Apparently she has a sizable following in Poland -- Devotion apparently made a successful impact there. I believe she has performed on The Voice Poland
― winters (josh), Sunday, 10 January 2021 04:24 (three years ago) link