Ciara - Basic Instinct (2010) (prod. The-Dream)

think this deserves its own thread really - it's certainly my most anticipated r&b release of 2010 so far. i've ended up obsessed with everything i've heard so far - tonight it's the lush slow jam, "i run it" - the way the chorus swells is so triumphant in its sensuality. "i'm gon do it til i've done it, and the next time they ask yoouuuu - you tell 'em that i run it!"

4 those not up 2 speed yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wzjb9Cxyw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV6bKK8-JJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTmJbO2_RMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u3iLdLTRgQ

let the games begin!

I really dig "Speechless" -- haven't given the others enough time to let them work their magic. But I will.

That fourth link is one of the least convincing displays of anger I have ever heard in a pop song and if as a pop star you can't fake being fucked off about something that someone's said about you on the internet then you've got a problem.

Yeah I know she's thriving off the attention as well but really getting up in your face is probably not her forte.

i love the title track. it's playful and the song structure is weird. seems to be about the interplay of anger/inspiration, so i don't think it's straight anger she's going for.

i dunno, i don't really recognise this Ciara, these hard edged Los/tricky(?) joints arent really what i want from her, she's sleeker than this like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ0pe691q_Y

"i run it" and "speechless" are two of the softest songs she's done!

synths are still too buzzy or something, i dunno, i'd prolly be freaking out if these were leaked demos by a new kid at the party but Goodies was way too classic an album for me maybe

Yeah, this is my most anticipated album of the year!

Have we talked about the "Ride" video being banned from BET?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQ4D-5v0d4
^^^Some awesome news in this

e.g. only two features--luda and -dream--on the album and, regarding the second single, "get ready to dance off the freakin' roof"

Have we talked about the "Ride" video being banned from BET?

really? why on earth...

i don't actually like the "ride" video that much, i mean she goes hard and it's a bit O_O and all that but it's pretty unimaginative

ride video and song are my favorite things of the year so far, surely. her moves are crazy, not to mention the way she looks. and the way the choreography is syncopated with the lyrics is ace. like, the first time i watched it, i actually heard every single word she was singing pop like a ring pop. from the very beginning when she's slamming the floor, to her marketing her bathing suit and fur coat, to the janet/michael inspired ATL hat and leggings moves, the package is an all around jaw-dropper. the imagination of the video lies in its purity of purpose -- no, these aren't new concepts, but they're presented like they're the most fresh, bold ideas out there. i have never seen the delta of sex, advertising and gender economics represented so well in my whole life. plus the whole song makes me weak in the knees.

i think 'basic instinct' is fun and that ciara goes in extremely hard

i run it sounds nice but a bit limp.
though might just be the youtube video.

it sounds like it was already a song to me, in a good way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9v50i_MqL4

YES

so appropriate that i'm hearing this while getting ready to go out

i like the letter S wit the line down the middle

this song is kooky

ok i have changed my mind abt this!

hasn't she done like 3 songs called "get it girl" already?

i market it so good

i can never really get over how shes called Ciara

?

it is like top five most popular irish girls name (real traditional, there was like three in my class in primary school) only you say it like Keera

i can never really get over how hes called plax (ico)

hasn't she done like 3 songs called "get it girl" already?

― what it feels like for a goon (The Reverend), Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:57 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUNtMXdVEAU

btw this is my second most anticipated album of the year after terius himself

i guess it was "go girl" that i was thinking of

also she got an insane amt of press in ireland circa goodies (and 95% of it was "omg look what she's called!") ppl were p. disappointed when it turned out she pronounced it "wrong."

i know this makes me tuomas

Ciuomas

i like ireland.

yet you almost never vist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_blNZLoe1k

Chorus of "I Run It" is a little weak to me, but the verses are soooooooo astonishingly sexy it more than makes up for it.

i run it = !!!. i want to listen to it on big headphones looking out to an unspoilt vista from inside a grand designs house with bespoke windows while smelling cedar.

i think the chorus of "i run it" and "ride" burn nicely and purposefully slow to smooth out the verses

what the choruses to "i run it" and "ride" lack in words, they more than make up for in sheer voluptuous feel

how could i ever have been underwhelmed by "ride"? i have to listen to it thrice daily now.

i market it so good
they can't wait to try-y-y-y-y me-e-e-e
i work it so good
man, these niggas tryna buy-y-y-y me
he love the way i RIIIIIIIDE it
he love the way i RIIIIIIIDE it
he love the way i RIIIIIIIDE it
he love the way i RIIIIIIIDE the beat like a muhhfukkin freak - ohh!

i heard it at the strip club the other night. the way she enunciates "try me" kills

another R&B song with shit, garden variety 'freaky' sex lyrics.

cant wait.

" i market it so good " is def not a garden variety lyric but whatevs

i heard it at the strip club the other night. the way she enunciates "try me" kills

the stutter so jolting in the middle of all the griiiiinding going on

" i market it so good " is def not a garden variety lyric but whatevs

ok fine, another 'freaky' sex lyric awkwardly mixed with corporate sales speak.

EVEN BETTER.

she should talk about going door to door, pitching and cold calling in the remix.

you see, ciara could actually make the words "cold call" sound sexy

yea, i would actually really like to hear that remix. are there a lot of songs that ft corporate sales speak? can you name a few?

haha that is in no particular order except which ones came to my jetlag-addled mind first

how can one rank her 16 perfect songs anyway, like choosing between your children &c &c

i would take heavy rotation over any of my sixteen children

"pick up the phone"!!

that song just kills me. the first ciara album truly redeems jazze pha's whole existence.

yeah ciara first album is v. good - "thug style" is another great one.

y'all are sleeping on "keep dancin' on me" though, I never see that song get any props but it's definitely my fave from Fantasy Ride.

I have a soft spot for "Ciara To The Stage"

"i would take heavy rotation over any of my sixteen children"

otm

i think "echo" is my favorite cici song

well, after "promise"

the "fantasy ride" demos staying as demos/bonus tracks is one of the great tragedies of pop music IMHO

i was just reading the old posts about those in the promise thread and realized i'd never heard em--which all should i track down?

i'm not the expert on these (alex in mtl, lex & others know more) but definitely

echo, click/flash, supernatural, rattla, i'm on

i think alex made a zip once actually, i may be missing some

cherry pick the best joints from the actual fantasy ride + the best stuff from the demos & you have an out and out classic

j0rdan basically named the best ones, but also check:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPpx8EQYg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1sQPBYoXaQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELO2SWKOy38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYLTBoS9zzU

"echo" is tops though, should have been the first single from Fantasy Ride tbh... the fact that it's a bonus track is ridiculous. Definite top 10 ciara joint

been into 'turn it up' on this album

holy shit echo is sublime

ride is like a mirage now, it was so good

also u can get it

yeah i remember the "echo" crazy fondly

you both forgot "go girl" !!

put all this shit on a playlist tonight & "go girl", even tho i like it, really stuck out... it's just so unassuming & quiet for a lead single -- it should've been an album track but it was a bizarre choice for a lead single, even allowing for the t-pain feature

yeah "go girl" totally underwhelmed as a single and i only started to like it when i realised they were going to go stalin on it

i feel so cheated of an "echo" video/dance routine

echo ft. young jeezy = absolute classic. regular echo is pretty awesome too, though.

weird, i always thought the jeezy version was superfluous

this is the first i've even realised a jeezy version even exists

he seems entirely the wrong rapper for it, not that anyone else is really needed

ciara 10/10s:

goodies
oh
promise
like a boy
c.r.u.s.h.

incredible sequence

did we mention I'm On? Because I'm On is really awesome, also.

i got my
right hand
in position
so i can get back
wit cha

i don't need nobody else
i can do damage by myself
walk in the club everybody like
DAMN!
she can do damage by herself.

still think "Ride" is a clunky piece of shit

i love "Ride"

damn, Jacques Greene looped the opening horns for like a full minute before he dropped this last night and I went hamilton vs burr at that shit

err "this" being the duet version of "speechless"

am glad someone in the world is playing that, i thought the solo version on the lp had replaced it out of existence

MMJG. <3

Was this opening for The xx? Or somewhere else? I got tickets for the gig long before Frank Ocean announced a show the same day which promptly sold out. :(

I mean. Excited for xx and JG but Ive seen them before. So glad to hear its a good show.

the solo version doesn't exist on my version of the album

Back when he and some friends of mine had a weekly Thursday club night he once dropped that, Gimme That and Yamaha all in the same set, which also included (I think) Ryan Leslie's Addiction and closed out with Cassie's Skydiver.

the solo version doesn't exist on my version of the album

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will dig out & play again, maybe my mistake

no i mean i replaced it

oh ha. good move.

Just dropped everything to play that song twice. The solo version is great—it feels like it could have become a standard, if the album would've had more reach—but the duet is just next level. So much more intense, and Terius gets so many great lines that were just cut from the solo take.

Man I forgot how much I love this song

Alex: he opened for the xx at a theater and then headlined a small club later in the evening, I went to the latter. He also played Kirko Bangz "What Yo Name Iz", an amazing remix of Amerie "That's What U R", a Weeknd/2 Chainz joint that I refused to dance to until I heard Tity Two Necklace, and a lot more house than I would have expected. Did not play "Another Girl".

On another note, I did manage to get my CD into his hand.

also played Evian Christ "Fuck It None Of Y'all Don't Rap", which goes v v hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLBXuTkSDls

The What U R remix is his own off his white label I think, which also includes his Motivation mix.

One of his mixes is how I found out about Drank in My Cup so I'm not surprised he played Kirko.

Glad you got him your EP. <3 I think I mentioned that I sent a few of the tracks to our mutual friend/DJ Seb Diamond a couple months back (?), but I don't know if he ever passed them along.

I still haven't come up with overall feelings about that Evian Christ album but that track bangs.

I am not v impressed w/ the non-FINOYDR Evian I've heard, but that track is something else

i am finally listening to this album in full. i like it, and i like the title track.

My favorite album of hers.

Revisiting "I Run It," and it's probably my favorite slow jam of the last decade. (Well, 11 years now.)