THE WAY I ARE

I never thought Tim's cornball brother/ghost-writer would be on a top 5 single. I still totally don't get this song or why it's huge, it just makes me wanna listen to "Push It."

this song is top 5 material of the year for me

both posts otm

shipley where are you on my steely dan poll

top 5 of the year material rather

i downloaded a house remix of this that stretches out all the trancey synth shit and loops up the vocals - fuck yeeeeah

oh is there a Steely Dan thread?

ugh

gino anthem

actually dom is yet to express an opinion

i guess you cant put gel in a $300 haircut tho

i just bought the 12" along with a bunch of circa 1980 dance songs

yeah you want a matt finish really, go for wax/putty

Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E. The Way I Are Play Count 38

deej did you get banned from soulstrut or something

was there supposed to be some zing there, aside from u stalking me?

i gotta upload my MASHEND of this with crystal castles 'knights'

someone explain to me why in the video there are men in suits playing with a SOCCER BALL?

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/waaambulance.gif

if this was some white label go-nowhere keri hilson album cut instead of the number one song in every country in the world your random-pop spizzazzz jocking ass would be all over it

xp to $300 haircut

I thought it was odd that Kanye claimed to ask Timbaland to re-do the drums on "Stronger" because of this song, of all songs. I mean, yeah, obviously Tim does drums better than Kanye, but the beat on this isn't really anything special.

rtc otm

they need to change 'whaaambulance' to 'take it personal' guru graemlin

http://www.codewolf.com/topics/boobies.jpg

This song is fucking great.

Top ten, probably not top five.

A mix of "Miscommunication" w/o Sebastian would be top five.

i never got that kanye thing either, this beat's just synth squiggle and clap? don't doubt it knocks harder than 'stronger' in the club tho

xp haha random-pop?!?! yeah cos me and popjustice and poptimists and the kogan bunch we go way back

now who needs the whaaaaambulance

'miscommunication' i do like

even if it is a brazen jack of 'last night'

clearly me

seriously i think ima ban myself from all timba/danja threads, i never feel more of a disconnect from the human race when i'm on them

'miscommunication' i do like

even if it is a brazen jack of 'last night'

Hilson > Cole (love "Last Night" too), therefore...

i would like to add my matchsticks of opinion to the bonfire of approbation this song deserves

male model feels disconnect from human race, film at eleven

It's Timbaland by numbers and I love it

wait i thought timbaland was over and a useless talentless hack only liked by herbs and losers, you guys need to make up yr minds

i love this song btw, so do my kids

rtc do you like 'don't stop the music'
i like it, aside from her creepy drugged out look in the vid

BUMBABUM doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo
BUMBABUM doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo doodadoo

we need a fleet of waaaahmbulances for this thread

andy i asked you what your undying love for hilson was based on on the other thread and you said nothing! i loved xzibit 'hey now' too but i dont think it beats out every other argument either

didnt know there was a vid, hold up

but no i hated that shit on the album

I like how it's the girl asking the guy to strip, rather than every other blah blah blah.

Neo-hiphouse > rtc

i imagine timbaland stripping to be him just flexing out of his clothes incredible hulk style.

i imagine timbaland stripping to be him just flexing out of his clothes incredible hulk style.

-- Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

does she say "concave belly" or am i mishearing the lyrics?

also will u marry me keri hilson?

OHSNAP! (xp)

the keri hilson joint with stat quo is pretty good

and i heard a great hip-house track on power 106 the other day that was like "i like girls who kiss girls" or "i like girls who like girls" or something... does anyone know what it is? is it a classic that i will get clowned for not knowing?

hip-house remix of they dykin by lil boosie?

andy i asked you what your undying love for hilson was based on on the other thread and you said nothing!

Admittedly my access here has been increasingly infrequent during the past couple years. I probably didn't see your qn.

I wouldn't say it's undying, though her album is probably the one I am most looking forward to hearing right now. (More than Teedra Moses and Rahsaan Patterson, at least as far as R&B goes.) She has a pretty high batting average with the songs she writes/arranges/etc., and of course I have absolutely no issues with the sound of her voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhOPiglM7k

hip-house remix of they dykin by lil boosie?

^^please tell me this exists

no its not but come to think of it they might have sampled boosie for the hook

jessie ortiz was like "everyones been asking for this" so i thought theyd play it again for sure but i havent heard it since

THEY DYKIN THEY DYKIN THEY DYKIN

also looking for a track about a guy hitting on a girl feat. the line "you hate the police? i hate the police too!"

c-murder - hustla's wife?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YGyK6Mb1II

There's a Keri/Clutch/Focus track on the Keke Palmer album, something about her boyfriend spending too much time playing video games: "It's like I wasn't even in the room/He was all up in that tic-tic-boom."

fuck its been to long since ive heard it to even tell... i hate it when you hear a track on the radio once and youre sure its an amazing song but you cant really even remember what it sounded like

thanks tho

I'd link to the YouTube of Twin Hype's "Do It to the Crowd" if it existed.

andy k can u help me out with this maybe?
disco song id

was reminded by max's otmness

'don't stop the music' is ok i suppose, but it still doesn't excite me particularly. and i don't at all mean this to sound like i'm pulling rank or flipping the fetish back over on anyone but isnt it funny how the only european on this thread is the only one hating on the cheesy europop?? maybe it's all a bit too close to what i know or something. (the lex was fucked off about this stuff too was he not)

you could also try say i was a hypocrite for liking stargate and old xtina milian and those freemasons mixes of beyonce, but then that transaction's the other way around right? conversely i probably enjoy 'cupid shuffle' and the new nina sky single and whatever other freestyle tinged thing comes out way more than i should, so maybe there is an element of idealized othering there after all

maybe i haven't been vocal enough about it on this thread but i'm def. on your side about this shit.

al you were into 'we takin over' right?

yeah but I like danja solo way way more than timbahandz

i.e. i'm cool with synthy beats when tim isn't doing stale fricky fricky routines and nate dogg impressions over them

the way i are is just so cheesy and sentimental... for some reason i imagine it being the lat thing timbaland ever does, like the track at the end of his greatest hits when he falls off a yacht next month

ha ha al agrees with the lex :P

re hilson, yeah her voice is fine on the okayish stuff she's put out but this is more about her as the face of the clutch isn't it? there's something i distrust about their formula (and it is a formula) that i can't quite place yet, but that video games song sounds like another good example

What new Nina Sky single?

Speaking of Nate Dogg, has he been on a milkbox yet? Where is dude?

'clothes off'

(i dunno, it was supposed to be the single a coupla months back and then i'm not sure whats happened after that - it's awesome anyway)

nate was on snoops cd and the 50/mobb joint off get rich soundtrack

in other words, he's still on every other Aftermath and/or major West coast rap release, neither of which come out as frequently as they used to.

Eh. I've been paying more attention to NorCal stuff lately, and he's not really there at all. Actually, I'm kinda glad he's on chilla. A few years ago I was at the point where I never wanted to hear him again.

So I guess this is the time for him to plot his comeback, now that people such as myself are getting over the Nate-Dogg on every record era of the early '00s.

haha well I should've said L.A. not West coast but I can fix that with the caveat that there aren't really any "major" bay/hyphy records lol

Yeah, but even established dudes like 40 & Short haven't had him on their latest records.

"every other" =/ "every"

Oh, right.

has anyone heard the wtf Nephew Remix of this that becomes a Scandinavian rock anthem?

"I'm Scandinavian, everything is what it is. I'm Scandinavian, everything is free"

the scandinavian i are

I think I've seen this tune as a crossword clue twice already.

re hilson, yeah her voice is fine on the okayish stuff she's put out but this is more about her as the face of the clutch isn't it? there's something i distrust about their formula (and it is a formula) that i can't quite place yet, but that video games song sounds like another good example

-- r|t|c, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:30 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

what is the Clutch's formula, as you hear it, then? usually I think I'm pretty good at picking up recurring motifs in a producer or songwriter's work but I haven't really noticed anything like that with them, maybe because I identify most of their hits as a Timbaland or Polow production first and not so much the melodic/lyrical elements.

I think I've seen this tune as a crossword clue twice already.

If it means we'll be seeing less of "Actress Skye," I'm all for it.

I really like Shock Value. A lot.

i downloaded a house remix of this that stretches out all the trancey synth shit and loops up the vocals - fuck yeeeeah

What's the name of the mix? I can definitely imagine that there are some killer mixes of TWIA out there.

there are loads of TWIA remixes out there. The Icons Remix is a pretty great house remix, but the OneRepublic remix is pretty great dance rock remix as well. OneRepublic's "Apologize" is also the second best song on Shock Value.

haha i've probly bitten off more than i can chew with that clutch dig, it's way too hard to pinpoint! if there even is anything to pinpoint. certainly on stuff like icebox/promise ring/videogames/anonymous you get the impression theyve worked back out from a single metaphor or cleverclever hook, and that's probably the main stuff i pick up soonest. but then a million people do that. ne-yo for instance (like with 'gallery' and 'mirror'), except when he gets it right his is realer and much less superficial. so 'irreplaceable' could never be a clutch tune, but then really i mightve said the same about 'like a boy' and '4 minutes', which did turn out to be them, a little surprisingly. at the same time though, they still seem way more recognizable than truly anonymous undetectable hitmachines like sean garrett and johnta austin. so i dunno?

there's just too many of the fuckers to get a proper handle tbh. when you go thru the crew solo a zillion more tunes come tumbling out, check out candice nelson! and j.que claims to have written 'yeah' and 'throwback' by usher.

don't wanna think about this anymore!!

This song is number 11 on my top 50 list, and it's probably my favorite single on radio right now (I don't hear "Umbrella," "You," or "Who Knew" very much). I don't even remember it being on Shock Value.

But yeah, GREAT track...It's one of the most gorgeous hyper-ballads I've ever heard (a traditional ballad, that is, where guy delivers verse, girl delivers verse, both guy and girl perform together...Also, there's the whole question-answer format and loads of repetition! I want to bring this to Lit tomorrow!). Also, I love that part where the synths drop out, and everything feels so ethereal. And then the "Push It" synths comes back, and the party starts up again. AWESOME

there isn't a thread on the entire album, is there? I was hoping the success of this track would inspire a reappraisal, people getting over the lack of next level whatnot and getting into the fun of it.

i'm really into this now. love keri hilson on this track. and the rehashed everything else about it.

most of the discussion has been here: Timbaland is mediocre, ADMIT IT

i like this a lot more than that "my love", but not more than "give it to me" which is more by the numbers timbaland to me viz going all of the way back to something resembling the song structure tricks in aaliyah tracks + it sounds so good in the mix. it's timbaland's delivery and lyrics and the vocal interplay that almost clinches it though. i love whatever he's doing to treat his vocals, too.

andy k can u help me out with this maybe?
disco song id

-- deej, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

No idea, deej. Sorry.

Opinion on Shock Value will prolly change by the end of the year.

i don't think it's very good. this song is the best thing on it by far.

blueski otm, before i heard it as a single i thought it was pretty much the only standout

I like Shock Value, but only actually listen to the first four tracks.

I can't believe anyone even listened to this album. And I still jam Welcome To Our World.

it did kind of feel like an obligation

that helps explain why you didn't like it

also will u marry me keri hilson?

^^ yes

also looking for a track about a guy hitting on a girl feat. the line "you hate the police? i hate the police too!"

-- max, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:42 AM (Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:42 AM) Bookmark Link

Damn, what is this? I know I've heard it.