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― Tom, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling is a hellova writer. I just wish Tweet sounded half as good as he makes her seem. (I'd say she's at about 1/4 which ain't bad at all.)

I wonder if I'm alone in feeling a bit of a chill in listening to Tweet or Ashanti in regard to how well they fit into that Aaliyah void. I can't help but sense how calculated it is.

― bnw, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The best piece of writing on FT ever. Well done.

― sean, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A really excellent review, but I think the last paragraph kind of ruined it for me.

― Nicole, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the weird thing is that...

*frowns, thinks*

...that the review makes the album sound like an ultimate Frankenstein's monster of an FT album, which I mean positively. But now I'm not really sure I want to hear it, I prefer the image in my head.

One of the better discussions about how lyrics can matter, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nicole: yeah, I was bothered when I wrote that paragraph too, but it always feels worse when I remember it than when I read it. The article was v.v. inspired by ilx-speak, & the section there by some of the nz comments about vulnerability on the "flip the script" thread which felt pretty important to me.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

India Arie isn't the girl in your average video and Alicia Keys knows what a woman's worth and Jill Scott likes long walks in the park. If that doesn't help distinguish between them, that's because the ethos is common -- a return to the days when women were treated with respect and men were moral. What Jill Scott really wants is A Walk To Remember. A song which claims restorative justice without admitting emotional hurt isn't about people and their relations, but reinforcement of social strictures; isn't about living free, but living right. The singer and the message are estranged and the artist is transformed exactly into the dehumanized corporate message delivery device that their most avid critics rail against.

I can't see this being true. For one, Tweet is probably just as "guilty" of this sort of this pro-female "corporate message" as any of the folks cited. And I'd really like to know when these "old days" were, because damn if India.Arie et. al. are members of the NEW school (which they aren't), while Tweet, all the electronic accoutrements aside, is towing the R&B "woe is me & my man" line (which, outside of the two "Oops" tracks and 1 or 2 others, she seems to do, and quite well). If that's not the reinforcement of social strictures, then please prove me wrong.

― Daver, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mainly Tweet is a seductress. And open to interpretation because she captures human experience -- which R&B at its best has always done. The "new school" [which relies on the authenticity of the old school to get away with what it does] lays down the law. And the law isn't new law but old law. Old as the testament.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Point being why do I wanna hear a chick telling me I don't treat her right? Or that she wants long walks in the park and deep heart-to-hearts and how fucking special she is. There's too much of that role-playing sally jessie raphael bullshit in the real world.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

That was great, Sterling. Though don't you find the album incredibly depressing/depressed? I think that's kind of what sets it apart, in many ways. There's an odd, almost druggy, Southern Gothic-ness to it.

When will we hear more from Tweet?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

c-c-call me real late at night
when my man's asleep, and take a red eye
to the west side
up and down my spine
i'll let you feel what you've been missing
i'm so bona fide

^^this song is so real

― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:06 (sixteen years ago)

What did happen with her anyway?

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:55 (sixteen years ago)

started this website www.twitter.com

― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:56 (sixteen years ago)

sorry for that btw

― 'entertainment purposes' ONLY! (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 23 May 2009 23:57 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Why's no-one talking on the new album!!...its glorious...'Southern Hummingbird' on steroids...what a come back...

― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 12 March 2016 18:52 (nine years ago)

check the r&b thread where we are all going nuts

― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Saturday, 12 March 2016 18:53 (nine years ago)

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