Jamie Foxx - Unpredictable

Blame it on the goose
Got you feeling loose
Blame it on petron
Got you in the zone

Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol
Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol

Blame it on the vodka
Blame it on the henny
Blame it on the blue top
Got you feeling dizzy

Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol
Blame it on the a a a a a a alcohl

A-A-A-A-A-ALCHOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLl

I'm a take a shot of the nuvo
Shawty then you know
It's going down then we can go kick and it like judo

BLAME IT ON THE A-A-A-A-A-A-ALLLCCCOOOOHOOOOOLLLLLLLL

i haven't heard that song yet

"number one" blows any and all out of the water

pretty sure its 'patron'

Fill another cup up
Filling on you butt what
You don't even care now
I was unaware how
Fine you was before my buzz set it(my buzz set it)

Blame on the goose got you feeling loose
Blame it on patron got you in the zone
Blame it on al al al al alcohol (blame it on a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol)
Blame it on the vodka (AYYYYYYYY)
Blame it on the henny (AYYYYYYYYYYY)
Blame it on the blue top got you feeling dizzy
Blame it on al al al al alcohol (blame it on a-a-a-a-a-aalcohol)

good job

lol "filling on your butt"

lyrics sites are always so rong

Fill another cup up
Filling up your butt what

"Blame It" is pretty awesome, yeah

BLAME IT ON THE GOOOOOOOOOSE
OH-WOAH-WOAAAAHHHHH

yeah "alcohol" is insanely good

funny that he uses the "chopped n skrewed" effect again and it's still fresh and awesome

also dream quoting = im in love

interesting thing about this album is that whilst foxx trendhops just as much (if not more so) than as in your usual bad mess of a modern r&b album it's still a pretty enjoyable (though madly lopsided) thing on the whole - in fact i kinda hesitate to pick a tune out of the album context (which is i guess the "you know jamie foxx is talented and seems to have a certain integrity so you don't really mind him pissing about" context - god that sounds boring when i put it like that!). hence i am not that big on 'blame it' or 'digital girl' as singles when they have to come at the expense of 'weekend lover' or 'i dont know' (best marvin rip out - stfu thicke) or even 'just like me', which is almost jazze pha-ish in its oddly completely satisfying generic radio tune steez.

since foxx doesn't have his whole career invested in r&b it really makes sense for him to be this trend-hopping vehicle for t-pain and ne-yo and the-dream. like t-pain writing "blame it" w/ foxx doing autotune should be basically detestable at this point, but (aside from t-pain's imminent charm) i like the idea of foxx being this blank canvas being used as sort of r&b radio cliff notes or something

i mean, surely no other person in r&b could pull off "i luv your girl" pt 2, "can't believe it" pt 2 and "miss independent" pt 2 with a straight face (not to mention a rap song with lil wayne)

absolutely the career polymath thing does give him a certain amount of public leeway on a chart singles basis, but i'm saying that perspective kinda takes the shine off of him being a very very good r&b artist in his own right - he's not just a celebrity sketchpad or anything. at the same time though, yeah, he's never had like a trademark base sound and fanbase to have to refer to, or through.

obv this was all way less egregious on unpredictable in 2005 - ie back when amateur karaoke weirdos didnt set the pace (although he couldve done a crunk tune, i suppose)- but still, check something like the wicked fake ginuwine cut for instance (writ. static, prod. timbo)

Video: Jamie Foxx feat. T-Pain - Blame It

Cameos from Ron Howard, Quincy Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Forest Whitaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cedric The Entertainer, Morris Chesnut, Tatyana Ali, Bill Belamy, and more

^lol, also t-pain is hilarious and lovable in the video

can I just take a minute to wonder how jigglepanda managed to work his way onto the set?

also:

yeah "alcohol" is insanely good

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― suggban stevens (J0rdan S.), Sunday, February 22, 2009 4:03 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

loooooooool@ ron howard being in this

haha just saw quincy jones

awesome video

ayo holding my hands up, i went too far repping the rest of the album over 'blame it' - it's just ridiculously effective. one of those tunes that make u reassess the other plaudits you've given out in the past for real.

vox are spot-on but seriously whatever foxx paid for this beat he got it 4 cheap!! even if u think u know it take a second to feel the craft, it's fucking flawless:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/568334507d55defa/

lyrics sites are always so rong

― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:29 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

But you're way to proud to say out loud
Cause niggaz gonna clown you, put your black baby down
People is around you

uhhh

well done to Christopher "Deep" Henderson for that beat btw, finally outstripping his ultra-classic 2002 bad roommate anthem 'oh no she didnt' by isyss! :O

tbf to the lyrics sites i seem unable to stop hearing it as "blame it on the 'tron / got your panties on", which would be either fairly innocuous statement of fact or uh something a bit more o_O depending on how you look at it

yeah i was probably giving Pain too much credit by just assuming he produced "Blame It" until I saw otherwise, but whoever did it shit is A+++

this guy

So, thanks to the enthusiasm of rtc & sarges, I checked out this album. It's kind of a bizarre circle jerk, but mad enjoyable! That first single with T.I. is pretty much the slightest thing on it, weirdly enough. Am I challoping too hard if I say I like this better than LvM?

"Just Like Me" is the least of the album's radio jams but it's really grown on me, especially for the verses -- the leaked Usher demo really confirms that in a weird way it totally plays to Jamie's strengths/persona

yep. i totally know what rev's saying about lvm, especially in this exhausting first blush epic breakdown period with it, and part of me kinda thinks it's actually way harder to nail something unassuming like 'just like me' than it is to go all out auteur. also tbh i will probably stick on intuition way more often than lvm while i do the dishes or something, but yknow, nature of awards ceremonies etc etc zzz whatever

ships i always liked you saying one time on your blog something like if you ever did a film you'd want it to achieve the quiet perfection of joe vs the volcano! it's a bit like that i suppose.

haha http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/badassbuddy_com-slowburner.gif

yeah i was probably giving Pain too much credit by just assuming he produced "Blame It" until I saw otherwise, but whoever did it shit is A+++

― blame it on the HOOS got you steenin' loose (some dude), Tuesday, March 10, 2009 2:00 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

otm, also rev you're challopsing yes

looolll

ron howard balling outta control in the VIP is the best fucking thing i've seen all year. kudos jaime.

I dunno. LvM is good, but I don't really get the n/l genious vibe I got from his first, and I'm kinda surprised to see someone like yourself who was up on the first one being this enthusiastic about LvM, which doesn't really contain much in the way of improvement on his template. It's not bad so much as disappointing. xp

foxx album is good but i think its pleasures hit immediately, whereas i find that dream's stuff is pretty enjoyable over the long term - i think lvm is gonna be the same way, also i think it's pretty incredible right off and improves on his template even tho i don't think that's necessarily necessary

this guy

― H3LP, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:03 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who the fuck is this guy anyway

seems like you need some H3LP

yeah the instrumental is sick

kinda crazy that they were able to write melodies to this, besides the drums everything is so weird

when I first heard the song with lil wayne i freaked out and told like everyone I saw that day that I was predicting the next huge hit song.

me too, pretty much

No way Intuition is better than LvM but it's a really good album (even though it's all over the place) my favorite track on it probably "Overdose" or "Weekend Lover".

and of course "Digital Girl" and "Blame It"

foxx album is good but i think its pleasures hit immediately, whereas i find that dream's stuff is pretty enjoyable over the long term - i think lvm is gonna be the same way, also i think it's pretty incredible right off and improves on his template even tho i don't think that's necessarily necessary

That may or may not be so, but for now I'm enjoying Foxx's immediate pleasures a lot more. I enjoy LvM, too, but it isn't really wowing me in any way.

Unrelatedly (or not?), Jamie Foxx's "A Milli" rip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beyonce's "A Milli" rip

I pop you out like chicken pox
Word to my nigga Jamie Foxx
We tighter than some sticky socks
I be in the slickest drop
Listenin' to some Iggy Pop
And I'm from the Dirty, I say fuck the broom and the mop

This is just one of those albums to me where there doesn't necessarily feel like there's any grand scheme, but damn near every song feels like a hit and is dope as fuck in its own right.

Unrelatedly (or not?), Jamie Foxx's "A Milli" rip >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beyonce's "A Milli" rip

― The Reverend, Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah this 100% otm

also your last post otm

wait what is the "A Milli" rip? "Number One"? I don't get that at all.

yeah I don't get the "A Milli" comparison... and "Number One" and "Rain" are the two songs I skip on the album...

jamie foxx is a really grand mimic and really poor at doing anything genuine imho. i can't help but feel like he's clowning; even when he's singing a love song, I keep waiting for him to go "naw just playing".
Mostly, I just skip to pain's verse on blame it and that answers that problem.

To all my ron howards that can buy their own bottles throw yer opie in the SKYYYYYYYYYY

cosine on number one btw, that has spring hit written on it in a big way

can't really get with 'number one' - tend to skip it past the first minute. my just blaze mileage post, i dunno, 'flipside' is pretty low generally, i can't quite figure out why exactly but it's just all a bit heavyhanded and forced fun tryhard. ('live your life' and 'breathe' being the only exceptions that spring to mind; i'm thinking it's the vox and sample respectively kinda camping blaze up to useful effect.) i also blame it on his blog, ever since the arrival of which i can't help but hear everything he comes out with as background soundtracks for a grown-ass man to smash his transformers together to.

(michael bay's tf remains the only film i have ever walked out the cinema on having paid a ticket for, fyi.)

forks, "really poor at doing anything genuine" strikes me as kinda funny, like if he was good at being genuine then he still wouldnt actually be being genuine yknow! nevertheless, while i don't see how that remotely has a bearing on something like 'blame it' - what, you don't believe he's actually drunk right there in the studio? fuckin sell-out!! - i take the point that it might affect the perceived integrity of his ballad type jams. however nor do i find him to be so overbearingly hammy that i can't map my own way around those songs; the foxx vehicle becomes sort of invisible to me in a way that lets the realness of the genre speak for itself, while at the same time leaving you kinda vaguely hyperaware of the general craft of things in a positive-attentive sort of way.

finally joe vs the volcano happened to be on over easter - cruel of yall not to say anything about how badly i'd misrecalled it as a classic humble genre flick!! (or indeed how i'd misunderestimated what al was saying.) i mean it is that, but it's a lot closer to punch-drunk love than it is sleepless in seattle nahmean.

Foxx seems to me to be in a perpetual state of goofing on whatever he's doing and continually two steps away from actually engaging in his own schtick. "Vehicle" feels like the only word; there's no connection and that makes his removal anything but invisible to me.

That said, I am liking this album almost in spite of myself.

hahahaha

to be honest i'm not even that sure what i meant by the whole Joe Vs. The Volcano thing anymore

It occurs to me that i have a real double standard with high sheen polish with my pop stars: i don't mind if women are super burnished, but it turns me off when male artist are all megaproduced, image conscious and squeaky fresh and clean.

― If God Loves Me, Why Can't I Get My Locker Open? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 8 April 2009 16:53 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you might also wanna take a look at why you love your kids to be goofy in some weirdo 50s archie-n-jughead pleasantville steez but decidedly not your male grown-ups.

(even if that applied to foxx, which i maintain it doesn't - do you really only hear stuff like 'weekend lover' and 'i don't know' and even 'just like me' as jokey pisstakes?)

funny thing about the whole genuine/perceived integrity conversation is that there are 2 heart-tugging ballads at the end of Unpredictable, one written to his daughter and one written to his mother, that both kinda get to me big time. i can understand why he'd never release that kinda stuff as singles but he is actually is sometimes good at things other than drunken hookup jams.

tbh i didnt wanna ram this narrative down anyone's throat or anything but yeah it's worthwhile considering what foxx does this all for given his outside success (assuming there's easier ways for him to make a buck.). cos either it's just for the straight-up love of music (hi dere genuineness) or if not it's the pursuit of pointless extra fame, him sitting in musical wardrobe trying on all these outfits he'll by default never entirely convince in. which is an interesting psychological angle to the album i think! i dunno, use your imagination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Corners_(film)

lol has anyone seen this btw? (it is from the j vs the v scriptwriter/director.) i've read that synopsis like 5 times and i'm still hella baffled.

well, sincere love of music isn't mutually exclusive with the music itself conveying a certain slimy disingenuousness (Timberlake or whoever, pick your poison)...i try not to second-guess anyone on doing things for the 'right reasons' though, but Foxx seems a little more secure in that than the average resume-padding triple threat type. wish i had seen one of those stand-up shows slash R&B concerts he did, though, that would've been a weird cross-platform clusterfuck to take in.

yeah absolutely, not to mention the fact that an overt integrity can often be off-putting and gross enough in itself. for instance i've only recently come round to robin thicke after having found a vaguely disingenuous angle on him (on my part), ie him basically being pretty ricky for the grown n sexy all along!! (also courtesy of finding out he had a hand in writing jordan knight's 'give it to you')

Dude, I love goofy ass grownups as much as the next guy! I don't often get accused of not liking goofy ass anything!
If you wanna take Just like Me as an example, I don't see that as a pisstake so much as a Foxxtron 3000 track that sounds like he's reciting it. Dude is an actor and I simply don't hear him engaging with his tracks. There's not a lotta soul there. It's not about "integrity"; I could give two fucks about a singer's motives. It's about whether or not a singer moves me on a gut level and I don't get that from this guy, I get it from his production.
This is all subjective o' course.

More to the point he's an OVERactor and I feel like he's hamming up the tracks in a way that makes them harder to enjoy. I had this same issue with his first album.

i dunno, like i said upthread, "Just Like Me" kinda opened up for me once i heard the Usher version and realized there was a way to deliver it wrong and Jamie did it right, he kinda hits an R. Kelly-type balance of communicating an emotional situation with a kind of strident and almost silly tone, and actually managing to have his cake and eat it too...anyway the ballads i was referring to where "Heaven" and "Wish U Were Here" if you wanna take a swing at seeing if those hit you on any kind of gut level.

don't get me wrong, "Just Like Me" is a little bit hamburger-dog, and all due respect to The-Dream for a solid lyric, but I can't picture him delivering a line like "and I was on some bullshit when I let that bitch up in our home" with the same kind of weirdly sunny undertones of humility and forgiveness that Foxx puts into it.

i dunno forks, i can't figure out your impasse! it seems to me like you're really stuck on the knowledge of foxx being an actor (which is salient knowledge in terms of listening of course, not saying you oughta put that aside) when really isn't he just the only actor in the music biz who actually does happen to be on the silver screen too? like, take my keri hilson complaint - she might well write her own stuff and try her hardest but she's still a billion billion times hammier and more problematic an actress than foxx has ever been imo.

and yeah - would you have accepted usher's engagement to 'just like me' without question?

(cos yknow, if we're generally talking hammy then here i stand was on some princess mononoke giant evil pig-god steez)

while foxx is more ham-on-wry, i find.

(i'm so sorry)

dude, I really think you're making some assumptions about how I listen to music. Yes, Foxx is a professional hollywood actor but even if I didn't know that, I'd consider him to be acting and not inhabiting the songs he's singing. It's part of the same beef I have with Dream and NeYo and a lot of the current crop of rnbsupastas: I know they're on the track but I can't feel them there. with Foxx, I feel like the songs succeed more in spite of him than anything. And it's not the hamminess (and I agree with you that Keri, who I love, is hammier than Foxx). Shit, Kells is about a zillion times more batty/brash/corny/overacting than Foxx but Kelly stamps each song with personality and balls on the line bravado.
Put it this way: I never know Jamie Foxx is on a track until I see the video or hear his name connected with it. He's neither distinct nor noteworthy to me as a singer, but he's a helluva barometer for market taste. Kind of a popsoul madonna. Again, none of this would matter if he got me in the gut (you could, as SD pointed out say all the same stuff about Timberlake). I just can't imagine hearing a song and thinking "ooh, i'd love to hear Foxx on that". I will cop to being unfamiliar with Usher's version of the foxx track.

I dunno, i may not be explaining myself particularly well cuz (and i swear i don't mean this sneeringly) up until now I really haven't devoted a lot of time to thinking about Jamie Foxx: musician.

it's ok, i'm not gonna be all "gee your life must be a hellish world of pain" i know right-style for your inability to appreciate one or two radio songs

you know who Foxx reminds me of is John Legend after his first album when his voice got all fucked and he had to change up his style drastically.

nice effect they've got going on all these rnb singers to make them sound identical.

that's weird, i never noticed any difference between John Legend's voice then vs. now

i know some cats who work on his live crew; apparently when he first started performing he was self-taught and really destroyed his throat. After touring that first album, he smoothed out and toned down his singing style to be a lot less yowly and more gq. Paid off real well.

Yeah, I guess I can see that...he does have a style that sounds like it would be rough on his vocal chords, but I hadn't noticed it being substantially softened, I'll have to listen for that.

I may be conflating softer with smoother, but his live shows definitely lost a lot of bombast and started becoming strolly quiet storms

i dunno, i saw him in a big theater in December and it was a very loud bombastic show heavy on uptempo material with just a little piano man flavor at the end. but then, that's more about the band and the song choices per se than how he was singing.

I've seen him twice before second album and twice after and there felt like a marked difference to me, but yeah your point is well taken. And I seem to always catch him in small venues where he no doubt tunes it down. Again, I'm basing this on scuttlebutt from his touring techs.

And a perceived dampening down both live and in his singles, tho' that is def. some PR/imageshaping at work.

bought this recently and have been playing out the first 6 joints in my car non stop

ditto except without the buying or the car

how great a conceit is 'just like me' anyway? we're both cheating on each other, so we must be made for each other

my car doesn't play burned CDs so i went to best buy to cop the ross CD just cuz i needed some new songs to play out but then i saw this and had an epiphany - car jamz 4 days

idk if this point was made up thread or not but he really deserves credit for this album, and as much as i wanted to paint it as foxx as blank canvass his dexterity is pretty amazing and really i can't think of another male r&b star who could pull this off. makes sense that dude has an acting background then.

btw

i be in the slickest drop
listenin to some iggy pop

i know why he pursuing you
that booty do be moving, boo

i always ponder that line. like is the booty moving, physically, or is the booty making him emotional?

little of both

personally i love them poignant asses and hope ti feels the same

if u want a soldier, baby, i can be ur sergeant
and if ur gay, ummm...i can be ur marvin

the bet award performance of "blame it" was like attack attack! in reverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB7fOzB3jWs

i know why he pursuing you
that booty do be moving, boo

― r|t|c, Friday, April 24, 2009 3:58 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i always ponder that line. like is the booty moving, physically, or is the booty making him emotional?

― beast of the admin log (some dude), Friday, April 24, 2009 7:58 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

rofl

an interesting tidbit from hurricane fenn's live blog

8:52: Jamie and T-Pain and just won an award. I don't know what it is because nominees apparently don't matter tonight. Funny story, when I talked T-Pain last year, well before "Blame It" dropped, he told me Jamie was the most insufferable, humorless person he'd ever worked with. We didn't run it, but all these months later, "Blame It" is one of the biggest songs of his career and he is consistently paired with Jamie. Sorry, Pain!

they didn't seem to interact at all on stage

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http://www.paintinghere.com/UploadPic/Edvard%20Munch/big/The%20Scream.jpg

anyone checked out the new album?

i feel like i should love "fall for your type" cuz it has that los da mystro thing going on but there's really not much of a song there

anyway

of course everything on here is pretty generic & has generally has is a direct antecedent of something or the other from the past few years, but enjoyable nonetheless & there are def a few joints

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

i know why he pursuing you
that booty do be moving, boo

― r|t|c, Friday, April 24, 2009 3:58 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i always ponder that line. like is the booty moving, physically, or is the booty making him emotional?

― beast of the admin log (some dude), Friday, April 24, 2009 7:58 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

this remains one of my top 5 posts of all time

i'm not gonna post "yep dat's me" but that is a banger duh -- pretty good luda verse, to boot

the slow jams in the second half are pretty nice, tho unspectacular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mybYde8iRdg