Erykah Badu: C /D, S&D

sure!

She’s having fun in those Met Gala photos

I just found out there's an album called Worldwide Underground in-between her four classics. I feel stupid but I kinda have a fresh new Badu album to listen to. It's good and fun too.

I know some people who would call that her best.

A dull cliche!

As always with women who want to find out things, she told more than she learned.

Erykah Badu is among the most commercially successful R&B artists of her generation and artistically the most promising. Eric, dear, this is Alfred.

"Play 'Green Eyes' again."

"But that was the fourth straight time."

"Then this will be five."

puff.

"I Want You" is esp so incredible on WwU...

BTW, I'm finally seeing her in concert in October. She more or less closes out my top 5 must-see concert artists.

She disappointed at Pitchfork a few weeks ago. My first Badu show too.

This thread made me check and realize she's playing near me next Thursday. Ugggggggh, I'd love to see her but I don't want to go to a big mega place. On a Thursday. I feel old.

if worldwide underground is her best work, we really are on the way out as a species.

A couple years back she was kinda defending R Kelly. Wonder if she has said anything lately. Or maybe I don’t want to know.

Worldwide Underground is sick

"I Want You" is esp so incredible on WwU...

emphatically seconded

sou as water torture, in the best way

this is probably heresy but her debut is probably my least favourite of hers. still a good album, it's just that all the others do more i love

if worldwide underground is her best work, we really are on the way out as a species.

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Tuesday, September 28, 2021 3:09 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is Austin our Worst Poster

Not at all. It's her least impressive, but only compared to what followed.

xpost

Granted I'm a bit contrarian on Erykah but there are definitely times I think WWU is her best.

it has some of her best moments at the very least

Saw her live in 2019 and I Want You was probably the highlight

I'd love to see her play live again.

It's been too long since she released anything.

I still wish she'd press up her Tiny Desk Concert, that performance is sublime.

Baduism is, in places, fantastic - Next Lifetime, Otherside Of The Game. It's just been surpassed by everything else she's done.

The live album that followed Baduizm is pretty poor - lots of covers. Especially considering how sublime a live performer she's been for the last two decades.

Is Austin our Worst Poster

― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, September 28, 2021 7:37 PM

idk. i'll ask him what he thinks and get back to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWCYjTVYt4k

this and that super long version of "next lifetime" are worth it i think. i like the covers on it fine, but it was probably a mistake to put out a live album that quickly before she had established much of a repertoire. also i liked "tyrone." it was silly, but that was the point.

i will say one nice thing about worldwide underground: the initial vinyl copy that i had (purchased on release date lol) sounded fantastic. i don't know much about mastering processes or whatever, but i did notice a (decidedly worse) difference with the cd. i probably played it a lot more than it deserved just because the music sounded so vibrant coming out of my stereo; especially side one. that and i like "i want you." the buildup is great and it was a mixtape and djing favorite at the time.

be very interested to know the story behind this (though it sounds fairly meh based on the snippets there).

Tyrone is boss, for sure.

Saw her live in Jan 2020 at the bahidora festival. She was an hour late and idk if most of the crowd weren’t aware of her music and how important she actually is but she seemed disconnected from the crowd and viceversa.

I saw her in 2010 and she was on time, fantastic and locked in the entire night. Terrific show.

Seen her twice i think? Late both times by at least an hour and absolutely slayed both shows.

the old unplugged episode with the roots is so fucking good

wait maybe it wasn’t the roots. sorry, stoned

I saw her do a STELLAR show at the Brixtno Academy, super-intense version of Green Eyes, and she hits that penultimate long note at the end, and is just spent, and everything goes silent, and she's just stood there, in the moment, wrung out, feeling it, everyone in the room is feeling it, this moment of like, "Just feel the dust falling, the heaviness", absolute silence,

And then this incredibly drunken, off-key voice from the audience croons out, "Baaaa-aaaa-aaag laaaa-aaaa-aaaa-dy!", and she just dissolves into hysterics, and the whole room erupted into laughter, and it was just this wonderful thing where the tension had risen to dizzying levels, and this relief that followed it. It was one of my favourite concerts ever.

Oh man, I hope something similar happens at my concert in October!

I've seen her live two or three times. One was behind Mama's Gun and she killed it. Another time was ... I forget when, but all I remember is 15 minutes of her doing pilates.

She gave a basically straightforward concert in Minneapolis last night, but damn that's all I needed from her. Fantastic, fun and breezy ... AND she did "I Want You" interpolated with "Don't Stop the Music"!

I heard 'the healer' for the first time in years recently and reminded it was so ahead of if it's time, conceptually and sonically. This is a cool live version.dope!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuObEg9A2Ew

i might put the healer on a top 500 songs of all time list

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101. not really a song i've ever grown tired of. ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxITI3A2KWA

"next lifetime" (1997)

super sustained vibe on the long live version from the only official live album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05KLHZYOpg

probably one of the defining artists of my life. love her so much.

so good, playing it now - thanx for the reminder!

welp, guess it's afternoon somewhere. close enough.

it ain’t that type of party

or in other words: I can’t make sense of your last post.

sunday afternoons + slow jams 101.

― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Sunday, May 22, 2022 11:36 AM

time once again making fools of us all. wish it was the other way around. next lifetime, right?

seeing her again in August in Brooklyn, i think this is the fourth time? pretty excited.

Ms. Erykah Badu (a.k.a. @fatbellybella) is giving us a show at @RaviniaFestival tonight.

Here she is performing:

“Otherside of the Game”

🎥: @Waldens_Block // The TRiiBE pic.twitter.com/zF0rsQTvfT

— The TRiiBE (@TheTRiiBE) September 12, 2022

brooklyn set was, unsurprisingly noteworthy for her going on about two hours late and for it being fucking great

Wish she'd make another record soon, she's the very best