PAPER TRAIL'S FOUR TOP 5 SINGLES POLL

i haven't quite warmed to dead and gone as much as the other three, all of which have probably spent time as my favorite. going with whatever you like for being so goofy and charming.

"Dead and Gone," by far. Paper Trail is the first time one of my favorite albums of the year had much better tracks than its first THREE singles.

Whatever You Like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the other shit, "Swing Ya Rag" better than all 4

yeah let me issue a preemptive apology to al ship for not letting him vote for "swing ya rag"

all the singles are great. "What's What's Happeninn" and "Swing Ya Rag" are great

wyl

dead and gone > whatever you like >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> swagga like is > live your life

i really love the first two and kind of hate the second two

^^^^ this

i'm gonna vote for 'live your life', i think it has some good lines like

Allergic to the counterfeit, impartial to the politics.
Articulate but still would grab a nigga by the collar quick.

what's haapenin is an awful and annoying song

except substitute "kinda like" for "Whatever You Like."

Paper Trail is the first time one of my favorite albums of the year had much better tracks than its first THREE singles.

the best paper trail track didn't even make the album ('let my beat pound')

i thought the album was little more than solid when i first heard it, but once you learn where to use the skip button it's a pretty awesome listen

live your life also has the best chorus

id go, live your life>>>whatever you like>>swagga like us>>>>>dead and gone

'whatever you like' is just hella catchy and makes me think about having sex with t.i.

the best paper trail track didn't even make the album ('let my beat pound')

^^^

jr rotem had a reeeeally good year last year i thought

'live your life' has the WORST chorus b/c it's fucking numa numa

numa numa filtered through autotuned rihaghna, at that. DNW

riyawna

i think I'm gonna be that guy and vote for "Swagga"

i think they use the sample aight, i mean it's the definition of a gimmick. if it didn't open w/ "myyaaheee" it would be hard to tell that numa numa is even being sampled i think

haha swagga like us just came on the radio

im gonna live blog

this song sucks so i muted my computer

after kanye's verse actually

turn it back on for t.i.'s verse!

'whatever you like' is just hella catchy and makes me think about having sex with t.i.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:58 PM (3 minutes ago)

disappointed you didnt bring this up in yr interview, lex

'swagga like us' is such a botch job, not even cuz it's MIA but b/c the echoey loop is set up so well but then just SITS THERE hammering away at your skull and you start hating it halfway through. oh yeah and all concerned barely brought their C game

they looked hot at the grammys though!

(except m.i.a. - pregnant bellu and shades A+, henry fucking holland atrocity FAIL)

i did ask him about being a sex object but his response wasn't v interesting

i thought the grammy performance was super dope but maybe i just couldn't control my star power boner

yeah let me issue a preemptive apology to al ship for not letting him vote for "swing ya rag"

― Hoos Passansteeno (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:54 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha thank you. "What Up, What's Haapnin'" too, that's as much a single as "Swagga Like Us"! it actually had a video!

yeah when they're all THERE you can look and admire and not bother listening to their words - was it you who said something about how 'swagga like us' sounds really good until you actually listen to it? that was otm

i guess it wasn't the star power part cuz that shit happens at the BET awards all the time but i think it's cuz it was in front of tons of old white people and like my parents were watching and stuff, i don't mind those four (or that song in terms of all four rapping and they were way into it) representing 'us' for a lack of a better term

i think it was tape store lex

out of these 4 choices i only like "Live Your Life." ordering the other 3 would be Russian roulette, but right now I hate "Dead And Gone" the most.

of these, swagga. i hear live your life and whatever you like as being the same song, now that i think about it. dead and gone is ok but i'm getting kind of tired of the to-what-degree-am-i-a-reformed-thug trope in general from t.i.

i like most of the album tracks better than most of the singles

im happy im not that the only one who hates "dead and gone"

i used to think i just disliked "Dead And Gone" in the context of the album because it comes off kind of redundant with the two better contemplative tracks immediately before it (and a whole mess elsewhere on the album). but really it just sucks, may have the worst bridge ever written. i thought i'd at least be bumping albums tracks like "Every Chance I Get" or "I'm Illy" 6 months later but i dunno...the CD's still in the car, maybe i'll throw it on tonight.

"Live Your Life" has grown on me massively through radioplay, it makes me absurdly happy when it comes on. Such a good song to turn up in the car.

But I think I'd go "Whatever You Like" --> "Live Your Life" --> "Dead & Gone" --> "Swagga Like Us".

^^

"Live Your Life" >>>> "Swagga Like Us" > "Dead and Gone" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Whatever You Like", which is a dopey and insipid piece of shit

"Live Your Life" puts me on some KIP shit every time I hear it XD

i haven't enjoyed "Live Your Life" on the radio in a while but when i put on the CD today it still sounded great in the context of the album. forgot that the bridge is in a different place on the album version and there's a whole Rihanna outro that's not in the video.

"whatever you like" off that list, but "no matter what" is still my favorite single from the record.

"live your life" >> "swagga like us" >> "whatever you like" >> "dead and gone"

i don't mind "dead and gone" but tim has written that song 20 times already!

"swing ya rag" & "no matter what" are better than any of them

what the balls is 'dead & gone' even about anyway, is he scolding wheelchair-bound victims of cruel circumstance dudes? finally someone standing up to those miserable fucks!!

what?

Plus ya hit four times bullet hit ya spine paralyzed waist down now ya wheel chair bound
Nevermind that now u lucky to be alive

oic is it meant to be like if the guy hadntve been all proud and talked back then etc. clifford is unclear! oh well, song is a terrible dirge anyway.

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justice imo

yeah

You fuckin people.

what the balls is 'dead & gone' even about anyway, is he scolding wheelchair-bound victims of cruel circumstance dudes? finally someone standing up to those miserable fucks!!

― r|t|c, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 9:20 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

dying here (of laughter)

I see challops to the east.

turn my head to the west, see some butthurt to my side

the awkwardly paced "...still nobody in sight" and the syllable-stuffing nonsense of "swallow that pill that they call pride" make such a strong case for Justin easing back on the songwriting and just singing for a while

don't really think that song is beloved enough that dissing it can be considered challops btw, unless you think any hit song is above criticism

Well, for a long time I was beguiled by how good Justin's voice sounds on this.

I can't think of another album I've liked in recent years whose singles were the worst tracks.

i really like "dead & gone" - though the still-easily-charming "whatever you like" is my fav paper trail single - but the best song from this era was "let my beat pound" which er wasn't on the album

there's some nice vibrato on the chorus, but the melody still feels kind of dreary and unpleasant to me

definitely a few good non-singles on this album but not as many as on most other T.I. albums

the melody still feels kind of dreary and unpleasant to me

^^^

this is going to be a 'you had to be there' thing, but i was first exposed to this song when a dude sitting next to me at a call center i was working at was singing the hook, apparently before it had become a single, and he had an argument with this girl over if it would be a hit or not. now i can't think of it without laughing imagining him switching between singing it pretty passionately and reading the script of the survey we were doing that night.