almost too cruel to invoke that possibility when it will never happen
i think she'll be great at going pop in whatever era though, albeit not with this new one specifically, which feels a bit trudging compared with her own stuff
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
relistening to "he loves u not" now (<3) and the first girl really is a dead ringer for kehlani!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
maybe the pop & oak connection is polluting my thinking here but the way the sample is used in the "did i" hook is a little too reminiscent of "say it" for me
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
the rap part of the verses remind me of drake's big rings hook
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 December 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
good bridge
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
which actually reminds me of "FWU"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
what the fuck is going on
― j., Tuesday, 29 March 2016 07:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/29/kehlani-suicide-attempt/
Always so sad to hear about anyone reaching this place.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
new songhttps://soundcloud.com/kehlanimusic/24-7a
― Spottie, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
this one's dope, way better than 'did i' IMO
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link
THE EAST COAST AINT GOT NO LOVE FOR KEHLANI ?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHoonuZ8og
― Spottie, Monday, 18 July 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
Not as into that one as the other new one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGky5MaSLs
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 25 July 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
something very swv about "distraction", i love it (and "24/7" is also such a necessary song)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
I love it too but it's about 45 seconds too long? idk
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 July 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
"The Letter" is so brutal.
― Tim F, Friday, November 20, 2015 11:16 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally. really exemplifies what makes her songwriting so effective for me - it's so unflinching, she doesn't sugarcoat any word or emotion (and her relatively plain style of singing accentuates this), but really elegant in the way she pieces together a situation and its consequences via so many details that bring the entire song into focus
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 12:08 PM (nine months ago)
it's kind of fucked to put it even as early as trk 9 / 8 (w/ intro), since it wrecks you and then the next few songs can just pass by in a daze
― j., Sunday, 4 September 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
"crzy" is getting those payola spins
― dyl, Sunday, 4 September 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjoPDgUEAErbq-.jpg:large
― Spottie, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:04 (eight years ago) link
can we initiate hype proceedings for the ilm aoty 2017 or what
'undercover' is perfect
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
looking forward to her going a bit more pop if so, feels right now. maybe someone oughta hook her up with some y2k 'he loves u not'/ 'no matta what' spazz beats just cos she can
― r|t|c, Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:10 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Omg yes
― Tim F, Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:43 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:48 Bookmark
lowkey close!!
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
I'ma save your name under somethin' elseI'ma keep your things deep in myselfI'ma tweet our inside jokes to the outside worldForget you, go awayI'ma pick you up from the back in trainsKept you in the world when it's all pretendYou're just you, I'm just meThere's no us, it's nothin'
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
'undercover' is perfect― r|t|c, Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:02 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― r|t|c, Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:02 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeh it is.
― Spottie, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
i loooove "undercover" and basically all of the other songs i've heard from this record
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
it's not even like chance x tlc blew my mind or anything but as soon i saw the cover and title i had this v relaxed certainty that yes this album will be a happening
now it feels like being in the airfield tower watching the career plane approach smoothly for landing
still quite opaque to locate the moment when/why her tide rose. to say it was the incident is reductively cynical but also pretty wrong i think
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
weirdly i think it was the grammy nom? like, them getting her singer-songwriterliness
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
omg "undercover"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I've listened to "undercover" about 20 times today
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
ha same
― Spottie, Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
this album is too long but there's tons to like... i listened to you should be here today and i think that is still better but this album has some of the best songs she's ever written, some stuff that feels purposefully experimental that she really pulls off
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
the first track sounds like one of the upbeat songs on southern hummingbird, she does one song that is like fka twigs that is great, and this also has probably the most faithful and best aaliyah homage i've heard
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
there's no way I can get away with this in a review but "distraction" is both really good and like an R&B "bright yellow gun"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
"piece of mind" is crazy good
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm listening now. Sounds good.
katherine, that's an amazing description.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
why is this album 62 minutes long lol
― monotony, Friday, 27 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I don't care for the last third, or at least it hasn't clicked yet, but "Do U Dirty" to "Too Much" is my favorite sequence.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
it's def too long, there's like 4-5 songs i'd cut to make it an easier and better listen, and i think most people will feel that way, but with different songs
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 January 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
the first 7 songs are pretty great, then after that it gets a little patchy and starts to feel long, but there's still a bunch of great songs
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 January 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
the New Edition quote in "In My Feelings" is well done
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2017 00:57 (seven years ago) link
oh man "Gangsta."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2017 01:03 (seven years ago) link
too long my ass this is a classic
― r|t|c, Friday, 27 January 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link
Lol how is 60 minutes long, do u guys even remember the 74 minute cds of the era this draws inspiration from
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 27 January 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
wow i was not planning on listening to this album but i'm def gonna now
― j. winters (josh), Friday, 27 January 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link
do u guys even remember the 74 minute cds of the era this draws inspiration from
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, January 26, 2017 9:52 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah and those were also too long
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 27 January 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
My point was 60 minutes isn't that long
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 27 January 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
the more tracks the more spotify streams i guess. isn't that drake's tactic
― monotony, Friday, 27 January 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
WE SAY FWOOEEEEOOOKKK IT
― j., Friday, 27 January 2017 06:27 (seven years ago) link
i luv concision but most of my fav records of the last few years have been pretty long; idk time is elastic and subjectively felt anyway (i always remember "distraction" as faster than it is) and "keep on" is already forecasting a relaxed, luxurious sense of time and space
this record's got my number btw
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
i'mma tweet our inside jokes to the outside world
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 27 January 2017 14:49 (seven years ago) link
in so far as length goes i've only sketched it out so far but i) the album clearly holds equal interest in, has taken the same care with, all its songs and ii) i love spending the time with her, all of it
― r|t|c, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:54 (seven years ago) link
oh my god I love this album, I'm looking forward so much to getting to know these songs. I was disappointed when it ended so soon
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
horrible
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 18:21 (five months ago) link
sigh.
i hated it immediately :(
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:03 (five months ago) link
i think it's fine if undistinguished and obvious
― dyl, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:32 (five months ago) link
same but as a direction i like it a lot better than that last album which was by far the most forgettable of her career
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:55 (four months ago) link
this is certainly the first time I've become aware of a new Kehlani video by reading Al Jazeera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpI7ekFG8A0
― rob, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
i actually like “after hours” a lot, good summer record. there is a yearning & longing that i think plays off the sample really well the rest of the album however
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 11 July 2024 14:59 (two months ago) link
I like the album better than anything she's put out since 2019. I do not like the Christina Aguilera interpolation or the Jill Scott number.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2024 15:14 (two months ago) link
After hours is a gem, yes
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:40 (two months ago) link
new mixtape is about a billion times better than the new album, you hate to see it but it happens
― ivy., Saturday, 31 August 2024 20:12 (one month ago) link
i like the song named after her that she remixed lol
― dyl, Sunday, 1 September 2024 03:03 (four weeks ago) link