Just heard this on the radio. Another one in the "Crazy In Love"/"1 Thing"/"Ain't No Other Man" mold. A bit more mid-tempo but still pretty fuckin great. They're gonna play it again at 3, so I'll record it and post it (elsewhere, ysi watchdogs).
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)
http://rodneyhateshiphop.blogspot.com/
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)
this is good, but man definitely no "Crazy in Love". is this seriously the best Beyonce + Hov + Beyonce and Jay's people could do?
― sean gramophone (Sean M), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)
― musically (musically), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)
― kelly baaad (whatatotaldrag), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)
I love the moment right at 1:25 when the beat drops out for a second and her voice eases into the 2nd verse.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)
In the opening section he has some line that sounds like its explicitly referencing a verse from the black album, but its all 'rehashed' in that its another terrible verse about how great a rapper he is, all hype no substance.
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)
― paulhw (paulhw), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)
Sure its not his best but (CLICHE ALERT!) his tossed-off verses sound better than most people's A-game, so its hard for me to be disappointed. I actually think his 2nd verse is really good.
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)
Overall I think the song would be better without it.
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)
― max (maxreax), Thursday, 15 June 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)
Also I spent all day with the "Used to run base like Juan Pierre" line in my head, so there's that.
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 15 June 2006 05:03 (nineteen years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 15 June 2006 07:11 (nineteen years ago)
― danzig (danzig), Thursday, 15 June 2006 08:13 (nineteen years ago)
so it is super effective both as genre exercise and as song too: "I don't think Beyonce has the vocal cords to pull this one off": this i don't buy one bit - the xtina of 'no other man' would bludgeon these tight cruising swerves, the whole tenacity of the thing, like with that gritted-teeth "cant get ov!-er! you!/ all i see!-is! you! / ...no substi!-tute!" with hornpunches holepunching the document of b's etc etc finish my sentence off. beyonce gets pretty wild by the end anyway. i mean it is called 'deja vu', "boy i try to catch myself / but i'm not in control", it has an extra layer of questioning self-regard that isn't exactly xtina's one statement of "hurrah, new bloke!!"
also by rights it's quite proper for jay to just be stylin' away in the background, it's like the camera is seeing what beyonce is on about with all this charisma she can't escape. he doesnt have to address the audience with a long essay about the nature of temps perdu or anything cos it's not his song. (altho come to think of it it does work quite well as a song about how the rap community just won't let jay go whatever he comes out with innit)
nb. still not really feeling the xtina song btw, but i can admit it as an interesting counterpart at least.
― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)
― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)
― rtccc (mwah), Thursday, 15 June 2006 10:31 (nineteen years ago)
beyoncé not having vocal cords to pull this off is almost as crazy and nonsense as that dude on the xtina thread saying it'd be better performed by tom jones.
both xtina and beyoncé sing like they're head-over-heels excited to be in love, but xtina's feeling it for the first time in her life in 'ain't no other man', while beyoncé's getting deja vu, and is a bit more wary, but she gives in by the end anyway.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)
Ha. I actually started the blog a while back and made like two posts, then kinda gave up on it. It just seemed a convenient off-shore place to post the link. I might start it up again now, though.
― It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLa5HEX0BiQ
(The video for her new, Swizz Beats-produced single "Ring the Alarm." It's the logica follow up to the Deja Vu video... she's so in love with him that she's can't help but dance like a madwoman, and now he's cheated on her and she's having a mental breakdown basically!).
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)
― danzig (danzig), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)
You must not know bout me You must not know bout meI could have another you in a minuteMatter fact he'll be here in a minute
You must not know bout me You must not know bout meI could have another you by tomorrowSo don't you ever for a moment Get to thinking you're irreplacable
Okay so that probably doesn't convey it's brilliance. But the way she performs it, it's total stiff upper lip, lump in yr throat heroic fronting - Beyonce riding off into the sunset, a tear still drying on her cheek.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)
The album as a whole is like this odd illustration of "be careful what you wish for". It's everything yr average critic wants from a Beyonce album, or it tries to be at any rate, and ends up kind of a heroic failure.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 August 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)
(...without the er other right leg she was standing on aka the boyfriend! altho haha that would be walking around in a circle, forget i said anything)
it's at once vulnerable as it is resolute, basically, and it kills.
― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)
"So since I'm not your everythingHow about I'll be nothingNothing at all to you!"
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 28 August 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 28 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)
― ()()()---()()() (internet), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 01:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)
I was kinda including myself in the definition of "yr average critic". I think the album is certainly loud and funky, and often fun, and I think it's probably a better album than Dangerously In Love, but in an odd way the combined forces of "Crazy In Love" and "Baby Boy" may have been worth more than a consistent Beyonce album.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 September 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 September 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 24 September 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)
also, in light of "Freakum Dress," I think whatever license to coin neologisms that Beyonce thinks she earned after "Bootylicious" needs to be revoked.
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 24 September 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 24 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)
Bidet is pretty damn good. "Get Me Bodied" (double dutch goodness!) and "Resentment" (yay! more emo&b ala "Unfaithful") are my faves.
― Rodney doesn't like polka. He is racist. (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 24 September 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)
jay z is all that saves her these days. i used to be screaming the praises of beyonce but just can't for this weak song.
― nijoli (nijoli), Monday, 25 September 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 25 September 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Rodney doesn't like polka. He is racist. (R. J. Greene), Monday, 25 September 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 25 September 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 25 September 2006 06:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 September 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)
(when one is drunk not when it is drunk.)
'kitty kat' is classic because for most of it beyoncé is addressing her own vagina.
'freakum dress' is a MONSTER banger!
i think because i didn't rate 'crazy in love' quite as highly as everyone else did, i don't see beyoncé's other bangers in that vein as living in its shadow.
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 25 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)
― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 25 September 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)
Ditto.
Re: the Cassie album, the first couple songs are great, as are the last couple. The rest is just kinda there. As a whole it doesn't do much for me. It reminds me very much of Aaliyah's self-titled album, but not nearly as good.
― Rodney doesn't like polka. He is racist. (R. J. Greene), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)
yeah have u seen the 'long way 2 go' vid? haha, half of it is just her rejecting friend requests on myspace
― rtccc (mwah), Monday, 25 September 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)
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