jeremih birthday sex

is the album out or leaked or what is the deal?

― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Thursday, July 23, 2009 4:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was released 3 weeks ago

man i really think that song is boring as hell - i was being a bit fatalistic on the r&b thread/jukebox but i do think it's a really below average song - don't see how the production is really at all noteworthy

― J0rdan S., Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cool showy synth textures, rhythm constantly shifting between triplets and straight 4/4, a big dramatic outro that sounds completely different from the rest of the song -- ymmv, but it has a lot going for it that is 'noteworthy' in the context of the stuff it's being played between on R&B radio.

birthday sex riddim is upon us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcBsfWipJ3A

it was released 3 weeks ago

― blame it on the jews, got you feelin' cankles (some dude), Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:41 PM Bookmark

lol I had no idea either

ships is otm about "I'mma Star" btw, the more I here it, the more I like it

at what point does a beat become a riddim? when jamaican dudes rap on it?

pretty much

Fell under the spell of "Imma Star" and grabbed the album. I agree that a lot of it is really samey, but I'm loving "My Sunshine" right now. "Runway" is pretty awes too.

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/news/Kevin_James-Mall_Cop.jpg

"Imma Star" is fabulous, the album is pretty good on first listen. Consistently lovely-sounding.

raindrops is fucking amazing....like unbelievably good. buh bye is pretty great too.

J0rdan OTM, "Imma Star" is so so boring. Y'all are fucking insane!

I like "My Time," though!

the last minute or so of "imma star" is really good, it's basically mid-level dream but that's cool w/ me. ship, when you're lauding its "outro" are you talking about that or the strings @ the end?

the rest of the song is bland as fuck, tho

You know the really awesome thing about "Birthday Sex" that no one ever talks about is those Aretha "aahhhhr-OOTS!" that pop up during the bridge. Somehow all the retro-soulers have left it to a teenager to bring back that one.

the bridge is great - the drum rolls coming up to the "aahhhr-OOTS!" part are awz too

yeah the last minute of the song is what i mean by outro

DON'T NEED ROGER EBERT OR THE PAPARAZZI
TAKE MORE THAN A RED OCTAGON TO STOP ME

Is this "up-tempo" mix of "Birthday Sex" at the end of the album the shitty technoid version yall were complaining about? It is kinda :'(

Album isn't as bad as yall are making out. Not on a Dream/E Red level, but I like it on a Ciara/Foxx level.

most of the posts about the album seemed pretty positive to me?

I dunno, seemed most ppl were pretty indifferent.

def bonus points for working roger ebert into contemporary hip hop track

just checking if anyone's on my level with this album yet?

ain't heard it yet -- any non-singles in particular that might convince me i need to?

is that including 'break up to make up'? i dunno man, if you havent triangulated something you might wanna check out outta the three so far i'm not sure anything's gonna sway you any further -- feel like i'm spoiling it now but ok how about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARIMsP1KBjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Km0yRMUU4

also did you see the 'imma star' video??

oh wait lol is this the thread where the guy who splashed out on the new fabolous cd is wary of making a hasty purchase

yah I love "Imma Star" and the video, but didn't really dig "Birthday Sex" or hear anything else off it. "Starting All Over" sounds good.

ha xpost

damn "Break Up" is catchy as fuck

basically i like all the songs on the album - i can see how people might hear it as generic, or (staaaans) terius-jocking, or repetitive, but i guess what it comes down to is i like the kid jeremih a lot (andy k compares him to saadiq in his amg review - otm!!) and you really get the feeling this is exactly what he and the schulz guy always wanted to make; there's real charm and talent in the attention to detail they've put in to what is pretty much the most 2009 record you will ever hear that even when it's on something i wouldnt normally be mad for like the gaga-goth europop on 'runway' it still draws me into their shit cos it's somehow just theirs and theirs alone, i dunno.

nearly embarked on a schulz - peanuts folly there BUT I DIDNT

yeah listening to those last couple songs I heard a little bit of a certain high joyful tone I identify most w/ Saadiq and (dare I say it) Stevie Wonder -- always annoyed me when people referred to "Birthday Sex" as being somehow post-Dream when if anything it's just yet another guy with a high voice who's similarly post-R.

like ok, 'jumpin' there is on the face of it like every lame ron browz wannabe banger you expect to come across - but tell me that's wack, with that rollercoaster chorus and all? shit is riveting imo.

ha i didnt dare say stevie either! that breakdown on 'starting all over' in partic is just pure class for a hundred reasons: i'm saying hacks is the last thing these guys are.

the thing about post-dream/post-r is that yeah (musico)logically of course it's post-r because that's what the-dream is. but yknow, not playing dollshouse or anything but i could well imagine terius being more of an issue in these guy's minds as they were making it. in any case however it's wayyyy more interesting as post-dream just because of the delicious irony of 'birthday sex' in its mystic obviousness actually being a genuine international solo hit: time will wash this irritation from the history books but never, i bet, from terius' very psyche. (or so i like to imagine.)

(staaaans)

I was listening to Sly & the Family Stone's "Stand!" as I read that and heard it in my brain as:

staaaaaaans! staaaaaaans! STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANS!!!

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago)

yeah this a fab album straight up and down.

love the clicky clacks in 'Break Up to Make Up'

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago)

― goole, Friday, September 18, 2009 12:04 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know what you're thinking...and you're right

http://www.bearsandbellies.com/kevin_james.jpg

You say you want passion
I think you found it
Get ready for action
Don't be astounded

who is the 'k. james' credited on bday sex and imma star?

― goole, Thursday, July 30, 2009 11:55 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/news/Kevin_James-Mall_Cop.jpg

― max, Friday, July 31, 2009 5:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

ask the same question twice, get the same joke twice.

his came up as a broken img to me anyway

yes it looks like that is what happened.

xp

christ, that king of queens show ran for 10 years? we had a series of that on morning terrestrial a couple years ago i think, it fukking sucked

i say that as an everybody loves raymond fan btw

this album is mad generic and samey, I can name 5, maybe 10 better male r&b albums this year. it's not bad but it's not worth getting all hyped over, tho I do like Jeremih's personality

it's one of those albums that you listen to a few times w/o paying much attention and then realize that nothing on it is bad and you love it.

have y'all heard Pleasure P's album? Trey Songz (album & mixtape)? J. Holiday?... cuz all of their albums are way better than this.

maiayayayayayayayayayayai haus!

i haven't heard Pleasure P but i support him as his name sounds like some fictional they'd have in like a Lethal Weapon type movie in the late 80s, perhaps played by damon wayans

BTW the best song on this album is "My Sunshine" the uplifting ray of sunlight over a funeral scene fade out into end credits ballad. Check it.

i don't know about uplifting but i think you're right about funeral scene - "how could someone just take your soul so fast / and now youre gone"? and "if i could hold you again" might be a standard line but once i realised you could hear the chorus as having a double meaning............. :(

incidentally the abrupt switch in tone from that song into "...bet you'll fall in love with my ride!" is my favourite cackle of 09 i think.

brainwasher i take the point those other albums might be being underrated here (especially pleasure p's) but wtf man ur trippin so, so hard if you think you're gonna make that point on the basis of them not being as "generic and samey" as the jeremih

is anyone ever hyped for christmas albums?

― ufo, Friday, December 11, 2020 4:40 AM

I've a friend pitching a book about them.

I didn’t even know he had an album/tape out this year until I randomly googled him tonight. It’s amazing how stuff just happens but you don’t necessarily ever hear about it

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyJihFoIZ6EhqBgrSgJ6otctgQcSmbmCG

thats his mixtape from a decade ago, probably re-released or something

he did release a new single recently tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0xCsiK9cZ8

yeah pretty good!

he just needs to put an album out bcuz it will be awesome, i hope they're not trying to chase a hit or anything w/ him at this point

i love dude but that ship woulda sailed a decade ago if it was gonna

really nice track