which of these "recorded songs" for the new timbaland album shock value 2 do you think would be the worst?

shouldve left the nickelback song out nothing else will get votes

miley definitely

nickelback >>> the fray although its like picking which racist nobcheese you prefer.

this is tragic! not that tim's been on his best game lately but hoo boy. on the bright "talk" could be potentially amazing! nickelback gets my vote, obvs.

esthero? really?

also the answer is jet

I'm gonna drown Katy Perry (n/w)

Calling a song with Chris Brown "Maniac" seems... strategically unsound.

Jet no question

The Jet one has the potential to be even worse than the Nickelback one.

Yeah, Tim + Nickelback = basically the same as OneRepublic except with funnier vocals, whereas Anybody + Jet = worst pub band ever plus god knows what

Also Jet might try and do something "cool", or, saints preserve us, "funky".

Daughtry are way fucking worse than Nickelback. I think even Jet has the potential to be funny, but NOTHING GOOD can come of the Daughtry one.

nickelback >>> the fray although its like picking which racist nobcheese you prefer.

otm

so long as by >>>>> one means more bad and not "is better than"

No way could this not be the Fray.

Alex OTM -- Nickelback has at least shown a glimmer of self-consciousness in their career to date. It's kind of cute to see that someone is trying to resuscitate Esthero's career! Is she going to try to be the next Ke$ha now or something?

I briefly read that last one as "I Love Them" by Girl Talk (meta!) and would've ticked.

Eek, listening to Esthero again and I'd forgotten that she's an unholy mix between Tashbed and Pink. Second track of her album starts with an impressive piece of garbage spoken-word poetry slam thing that includes these lines:

I'm at the hip hop show head-bopping in the back
Smoking anything that'll burn
During intermission, I'm in the club bathroom
Hold up in a stall praying in earnest for Jeff Buckley's return
Thank heaven for you, thank heaven for you, thank heaven for you
I'm a studio rat, designer geared, Toronto kid, Hollywood brat
Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat

Can I change my tick? (Nah, Timbaland will prob keep her safely in the background.)

Hahahaha that is brilliant

Why does it seem like all alt.black.chix love Esthero? This has been concerning me for some time.

― The Reverend, Friday, January 2, 2009 9:43 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My friend Aleeta loves Esthero, but she's basically just an R&B chick.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, January 2, 2009 10:47 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah, I guess it does extend into plain ol' r&b chicks too, but my point is that whenever I meet a cute young black lady who is into "interesting music", somehow that category includes Esthero

― ::cannon:: (The Reverend), Friday, January 2, 2009 11:00 PM Bookmark

:(

Well, she's pretty small potatoes in the scheme of things -- probably for fans of the genre, too -- and if you're going for "outre alt black R&B women" I can see how she fits in. Will be interested to see what Timbaland does with her, actually, because despite how hard she tries to shove Personality at you on her own album, I can't imagine he can do much but turn her into wallpaper (a la Ke$ha before "Tik Tok").

Well, as black as a white girl (I think?) from Ontario can be, I guess.

Wow: "born Jenny-Bea Englishman"

Like Jenny-Bea's oddly tasteful attempt to stick a line like "she won't fuck you like I did / she's not into that wild shit" into one of her songs. She's totally ready for 2009.

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i just got into esthero music as well, great for love making, sensual and bold

ha, that's kind of a great line, but I can't imagine it working in an Esthero song

Check it out! "If tha Mood" has that line, plus her taunting at the end "heh heh...I fucked yer boyfriend..."

Chorus: "If the mood should hitcha and you wanna, baby I don't mind, a little taste may relieve the tension I feel inside...ooh, I'm in the mood ba-da-da-da"

(Can't find it on YouTube except live version)

Wouldn't say it "works," in that I want to strangle everyone responsible for the track (reminds me of the stupid Little Jackie song about "boys are such a drag, what if I just tried being GAY" or whatever), but she's totally ready for c. 2009 Billboard charts with the right overbearing production.

"heh heh...I fucked yer boyfriend..."

an MC Luscious reference?

omg esthero is a treat

She is sometimes compared to artists Björk, Portishead and Sade

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Esthero.jpg/220px-Esthero.jpg

Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat
Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat
Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat
Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat
Bad gal, war child, bookworm, Sierra Leone activist cat

can i just

jet??

not that awful bar room rock band from 2004? surely it can't be.

the 'Morning After Dark' song is good.

okay jet

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Can I just

WTF is wrong with Timbaland btw? How can a dude who can be so forward-thinking in his own music want to collaborate with all these MOR buttrock douchenozzles?

looks to be about 4 bucks on itunes

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When you dis Nickelback you dis yourself imo

"Carry Out" is very by-the-numbers but i still really like it

it's by-the-numbers timbo which means it resembles nothing else in the world except maybe other timbo songs, which is not a bad thing at all. it's not groundbreaking but it's a solid pop tune with a killer beat and some nice random twists and turns.

i kinda liked several songs off that album he did with chris cornell, and working with a rock guy was clearly pushing tim into some different grooves, so maybe this album will be interesting that way? tim's been switching things up so successfully for decades that i'm not gonna write off anything he does without giving it a listen or two first

I was driving to pick up carry-out the first time I heard it.