boo’d up • i like it • OTW

Good poll. I think I have to go with OTW even though “boo’d up” has a better shot at being sots

i was at a bar last nite and they played each of these 2 times in under 2 hours lol

can’t decide yet, but the energy of cardi verses on ‘i like it’ is thrilling

"otw"

"i like it" has sounded v good on these blisteringly hot sunny days tho

could go any way here but i think it's "boo'd up"

yeah, all great but "boo'd up" for me as well

I like it

Comparing these songs feels weird to me. Way different universes of sound.

All three are ace but “boo’d up” is such a delight.

have a real soft spot for "otw" but i voted "boo'd up"... i don't really rate "i like it"

OTW is a shade too repetitive for me. Have to go w Cardi

agree with jordan that "I like it" is a level below the other 2. have to think about my vote for a couple of days tho

every time I've heard "boo'd up" in public has been an absolute still-unexpected joy

"boo'd up" is so sumptuous and layered, it cuts a pretty remarkable figure whenever it comes on the radio, especially when surrounded by other soundcloud-propelled urban radio hits

"otw" is great, just not quite as sonically immersive or charming as "boo'd up." "i like it" is lively and entertaining and cardi's verse is great, but the i'm a little turned off by the generic latin pop backing track.

boo'd up feels simultaneously very now and very retro at the same time

retro as in 2000s

Boo’d up just chills me right out and like it fires me up. Depends on the moment, already voted like it but boo’d up made cleaning up so much more lovely today.

i just heard this song for the first time and it is a very good song

i just heard this song for the first time and it is a very good song

mustard on the beat

xp- which one?

the other 2 are more sui generis whereas ‘i like it’ is just like the perfection of the cardi b formula, also i don’t love the guest verses... her verse and chorus seriously drive me wild tho

otw is delectably languorous

retro as in 2000s

― ||||||||, Monday, June 18, 2018 1:17 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

been ready for this since 2011

plot twist of the year is when ella mai reveals herself to be british at the end of “boo’d up”

— jord (@jordansarge) June 8, 2018

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lol jordan otm

My favourite part of I like it is cardi’s bird calls

i cant get over "I Like It" sample being super obvious, i mean that shit was in fucking burger king commercials in the 90s, i associate it w lame television ads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KrHfPsV0s

"Damn song of the summer"

idk I feel like the obviousness is kind of the point

Cardi's exuberance saves it anyway

im not saying its a bad song, just hard for me to feel any kind of totalizing excitement for when its so overfamiliar ... 22 years later & the saturation effect is still with me

"Boo'd Up" gets me high.

"I Do" is where I go for a Cardi bump.

i can see the sample being a dealbreaker. i uh, like it but i love big dumb & obvious

i'm very neutral on cardi b the musician but i do think she has a unique ability to use super obvious samples and not have it come off as cynical... there's something about the personality she's cultivated on/off record that makes it feel like, idk, someone revealing the parts of their taste that crosses over w/ the masses in a way that does not feel like pure piggybacking off the song in question? or maybe she's just good at picking super obvious samples... her remake of "chickenhead" is on the one hand very "obvious" given the current cultural moment but also i can't think of many other contemporary rappers who could do something off that record in a way that could make it feel both novel and genuine. it stands in clear contrast to all the recent re-uses of "slob on my knob" to me

also i think w/ "i like it" there's an element of there obv being an unprecedented explosion of popularity of latin music in america right now, and so there's a celebratory/victory lap element to doing that song w/ bad bunny & j balvin on it in a way that i think justifies the obviousness of it. like idk if rap rarely if ever charted and then there was all of a sudden 8 rappers who become superstars and three of them re-did "rappers delight" i might rock with it

personally im just not a huge fan of "i like it" the original which neuters my ability to enjoy the cardi b version of it but im not mad at it

I did not expect a Mustard-beat to be my song of the summer in 2018. He is actually halfway to Ten.

i feel like the only person on the internet who does not think "boo'd up" is a complete revelation. like it's fine and i'm happy to see it doing well but... like, i haven't even listened to any of her other music and i'd be shocked if there weren't something better on her ep.

^ I don’t think it’s a revelation either, just a good track.
Reaction seems similar to ilms sacred cow KING

Wait, do all of her songs end witha British monologue??

i'm sad i didn't vote for boo'd up

starting to lean towards OTW... this poll is hard

OTW

^ the correct answer I am thinking

boo'd up video is cute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNZlXfW6Ho

i like Boo'd Up but was kinda disappointed to find out mustard produced it and not cardo. he should give him a production credit or a percentage for ripping his sound wholesale.

sub in 'taste' for 'i like it' make this a fair fight

def not "I Like It"

vid for otw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e9diL0xTN4

'taste' is just a hot beat

― flopson, Thursday, June 28, 2018 12:26 PM (one week ago) Bookmark

me not icy that's unlikely

why you claim that you rich? that's a false claim

you ain't got no style see you on my instagram

OTW > boo’d up >>>>> I like it

i've really come to kinda hate "i like it"... would much rather hear "be careful"

sub in 'taste' for 'i like it' make this a fair fight

― ||||||||, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:19 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fully on board with this now.

def otw

Here in the UK Boo'd Up has done nothing and it is astonishing to me. I keep putting it on at parties and it's a head turner - I've twice seen people who've never heard it start singing along during the first chorus - I don't understand why it hasn't transferred to this side of the ocean?

Isn't she from London? I just assumed she's a hero there.

Ikonika edit btw:
https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit

There was an article in the guardian about her being huge in the USA and unknown in the UK - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/02/ella-mai-bood-up-r-and-b-charts-number-1

The comments below the line are some of the worst guardian music comments of all time, and that's like being the worst strain of bubonic plague, but might be instructive about why she isn't big here, if you have a particularly high tolerance for pricks on the internet.

pseudoracism isn't it :(

Ikonika edit btw:
https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/track/ella-mai-bood-up-ikonika-edit

― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, August 9, 2018 5:34 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark

dope

diana gordon’s “wolverine” a strong contender for late summer langurous vibes jam

shame that OTW wasn't as a big of a hit as the other two, it's the one i've been playing the most lately

the other two were very immediate but OTW has really grown on me

i feel like "otw" had a bit more potential than it ended up realizing but i didn't hear it on the radio until months after it had already come out. (see also its late video release)

“Wolverine” is excellent!

The rest of the Diana Gordon EP is a bit of a mixed bag but "Too Young" is like Fearless songwriting with Reputation production values.

Heard boo’d up in the mall

What a song

def not "I Like It"
― billstevejim, Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:27 AM (two months ago) Bookmark

I have come around to this one. Good summer song. But also yes re: reminders of Burger King commercials in the '90s.

Ultimately I stand beside my "Boo'd Up" vote.

ella mai record out today. deserves its own thread

boo'd up really grew on me. I absolutely love it

platonic ideal of a pop song

ba-dum, boo'd up

I like Boo’d Up.
It’s weird though.
She’s had a fair amount of similarish sounding cuts that generated little buzz.
Like somebody at the label suddenly went, ok that’s enough bubble, next mustard track with some bounce and a hard snare will be the hit, you can now come out as British and not Floetry notsureiftheyrefakingit British.

Listening to "OTW" for the first time as the result of this thread, and, gosh, that is a sumptuous 4 minutes of music. The beat is, like, holographic, the way that old Jam & Lewis productions used to sound compared to their contemporaries. Like you know how they had an improbably long career where they just kept successfully updating their sound to the times for several decades? This is what I imagine they'd be up to if that streak were still going.
A travesty that this never made it to top40 radio, especially when Khalid is such a hot property right now (apparently) off the back of comparatively beige material like "Eastside" and "Love Lies". Maybe the guests/producers on those were just higher priorities for the labels to get over than 6lack and Nineteen85, idk

it is truly an incredible production

i heard it on the radio for the 3rd time, like, ever this past week -- sounded incredible there and still a bit astonished it never completely took off. i guess his team was more focused on pushing the song with normani or something.

boo'd up was actually cut by several difft artists but never released before ella mai picked it up--some people apparently seemed confident it was a hit. it does sound strangely out of time though, like something that could have been equally huge eight years ago

since it doesn't appear to have been discussed anywhere else i am going to say very belatedly that the entire diana gordon ep is pretty strong!

Yeah, big shout out to Kool Aid.

whats the 2019 version of this poll?

talk • con altura • the london ?

maybe sub "go loko" in for one of those idk

I don’t like go loko or the London really ...

Go loko I’m pretty sure ripped off ambjaay’s uno and he’s a better rapper

Swap “Aute Culture” for “Con Altura”! Much much much better track.

there's no big r&b jam of this summer so far, is there? at least on the level of boo'd up.

"talk" was the closest i could come up with but it definitely tries to straddle styles a little w/ that production

that song is so bland that the official music video already looks like a target commercial

i think the production on "go loko" is arrestingly intricate considering that its concept is completely unsubtle, nearly gimmicky

well yeah i'm not saying any of these songs are as good as the ones from last year's poll

“Talk” does have a pretty arresting melody. Good a&r

i like "talk"... it's funny to me that critics were at separate points head over heels for both khalid & disclosure and now they have a huge good pop hit together and nobody really seems to care

I like this
https://youtu.be/ltYUH6fEYdE

Maybe not for this thread

It’ll have to be Old Town Road vs Panini vs Rodeo, sorry deej.

"fingías" is nice

hahaha old town road is def otm

Have you guys heard “yeh” by duke deuce