Kim Kardashian - Jam (Turn It Up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjf8ww8iWng&feature=related

produced by The-Dream

is this great or what?

that would be "or what"

this may sound like a cheap zing but i seriously hear shades of rebecca black in this song

"all i see is angels in my eyes" <3

great song

I love the way she sings "pick out any boy that I want"

this... is hilarious

sounds like a 3rd grade talent show

Is there a genre named "Real Housewives" yet?

haha shasta

what are the odds of the terius brigade getting this into the ilx year-end tracks poll

well they should concentrate their efforts on this considering 1977 is so naff

but... this is terrible

like, worse than Paris Hilton terrible

Xpost yeah forgot abt his stuff w/ beyonce

Is the "jam" being referred to here the slurry of fluids left over from her sex tape?

Santorum (Turn It Up)

xxxp yeah, 1+1 and Countdown will probably be the terius tracks that get the support on the year-end poll

great great post on this song: http://jonathanbogart.tumblr.com/post/8845009848/let-me-explain-i-cannot-get-this-song-out-of-my

maybe the angels line being an "oddly beatific vision (that) is an act of self-determination" is stretching it considering there's a lot of ass and tits in the leaked music video, but still!

If someone told me this was the new Rebecca Black song, I probably would believe them.

But the moment in the song which always catches me isn’t any electronic manipulation — the production is too blank and anonymous to provide even those cheap thrills — but a phrase in the second verse. “I’ma burn it out tonight/It’s goin’ down by live via satellite/And all I see is angels in my eyes/And the buzz got me way up in the sky.” Wait, angels in my eyes? The phrase stands out for not being just one more in what is otherwise a laundry list of club promoter’s cliches, for edging even briefly into metaphor and symbolic language beyond the dull metonymy by which “Maybach” means “money.” All she sees are angels in her eyes? What could that possibly mean?

rmde

IT MEANS SHE'S HIGH

five more shots of tequila, i'm thirstaaayyyy.

this is the equivalent of those Diesel "BE STUPID" ads

Is there a genre named "Real Housewives" yet?

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:52 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd9H7L10WPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_K0u1ilg34

kandi is amazing though! unfortunately she was too boring and got booted from the show i think.

yes!

you "get" "it"!

good job.

it's kinda weird cuz she's all autotuned to death but still sounds like she's singing flat and off key

i listened to the love king album on spotify and i *kinda* got why ppl were freaking out about the-dream, at least some of the best songs

but this just sounds pretty boring to me, like the production of it

i swear this song came out/leaked months ago?

anyway it's not good

the song came out in march, just got a new wave of publicity from (part of) the video leaking

This would sound great with the vocal set against something more austere, like the XX. I could imagine it having the same haunting effect as "I Want to Dance with Numbers."

"I Wanna Dance with Numbers," that is.

this would sound great with different music, and a different singer, and different lyrics, and a different melody

in fact, if this was completely unlike how it is now, it could be great

this may sound like a cheap zing but i seriously hear shades of rebecca black in this song

― all shitley chess club (some dude), Tuesday, September 6, 2011 8:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

no way, not nearly enough hooks to qualify

also if it were called "I Wanna Dance With Markers"

xp

why would these shitty vocals sound good set against something else? i don't get what you ppl hear in this shit honestly.

it's like the music equivalent of those ppl that see a picture of jesus in a piece of moldy bread they found in the garbage

and the weird part is that i get the sense u like it not in spite of kim kardashian but BECAUSE it's her, like if this were just sally muffintop from cincinatti no one would give a shit

if we're talking about albums from non-musicians in 2011, easily my most anticipated is kim kardashian's

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:19 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

actually the kim kardash opus is probably my most anticipated full stop

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:19 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

before even one song leaked

m@tt^^^OTMx10000

if we're talking about albums from non-musicians in 2011, easily my most anticipated is kim kardashian's

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, January 6, 2011 7:19 AM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

aw lex didn't know there's a new Fall album coming out :(

mark e smith replaced the band with sally muffintop for this one so I dunno man

why would these shitty vocals sound good set against something else? i don't get what you ppl hear in this shit honestly.

Because then it would sound tragic rather than simply misbegotten?

and the weird part is that i get the sense u like it not in spite of kim kardashian but BECAUSE it's her, like if this were just sally muffintop from cincinatti no one would give a shit

fwiw blog post linked above disavows ANY prior knowledge of Kim Kardashian (except for porn lol quel surprise)

Srsly if this were just some anonymous Eurodiva no one would give enough of a shit to hate on this.

Love that Terius, who can be lazy at the best of times, clearly cobbled this together in about thirty seconds because he wanted to hang out in the studio with Kim Kardashian.

There is potentially an excellent moombahton remix lurking in there somewhere though.

i mean i don't fault him for taking a shitload of her money for some random track he had on a hard drive

the-dream fucks for tracks

"all i see is angels in my eyes" <3

great song

― uberweiss, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 02:11 (21 hours ago) Bookmark

kim karaite judaism more like

(one 4 the old skool fans there)

Srsly if this were just some anonymous Eurodiva no one would give enough of a shit to hate on this.

TBF if this was some anonymous Eurodiva, the singing would be better and we never would have heard it in the first place.

I will say I thought I liked the song when I was watching a snippet of the video but hearing the song in isolation shows me that I just like watching sweaty Kim crawl across the floor.

I mean, this is no "Popozau". Ruminate on that for a while.

yeah this song's technically atrocious but whatever, it's the old cassie fan club charms

tbh if you havent got bigger fish to hold in contempt ur just plain doing this music thing wrong really

There's something about her flat, resigned voice and lines like "I'm going to work like I'm paying my bills" which make this song seem oddly poignant to me - like, this poor girl is just going through the motions and doesn't really know how to enjoy it any more, she's using partying to escape her problems but it just isn't working.

I heard she loosely based it on "Lysistrata," actually.

seriously these lyrics are just like random ass phrases thrown together with zero thought and you guys try to ascribe meaning to them like they are some sort of important text.

you guys should come to my house and read my refrigerator magnet poetry, shit is oddly poignant

this is like the dance music version of like underground hipsters cats liking the shaggs or song poems, shit like that

her voice sounds flat because she can't sing for shit and so they digitally processed that shit to death! she sound resigned because she's a completely vapid boring person, have you not seen her show?

i realize how huffy and puffy i'm getting abt this but honestly this fascination with the Emperor's New Ho is unreal stupid

I really tried to come to this with an open mind. I don't watch her show and I don't care to know much about her, but what I do know - ugh. That said, this girl lacks an ounce of charisma, at least in her voice. She could be singing about roadkill for all I know.

I was able to find some high points in the Paris album, but this is worthless.

Girl, I don't even...

m@tt OTM some more

also awesome dn I lol'd

having not thought about or played this song in three months, i now have it embeddd in my head

they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam

this song just refuses to make an impression on me at all, even in badness

this and those bieber singles make me kind of wonder if terius intentionally gives his dumbest lyrics to his more airheaded clients

all of those biebs singles >>>>>>>> this

baby baby baby oh
baby baby baby no!

i'm willing to bet that terius intentionally dumbed down his lyrics for justin bieber, yes

this is way better than bieber

I don't even know what aesthetic criteria could be used to make such a judgment

kim is hottt

meh

http://i.imgur.com/1Dw4O.png
http://i.imgur.com/362ZI.png

they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam
they playing my jam

turn it up
turn it up
turn it up
turn it up
turn it up
turn it up
DJ

turn it up
turn it up
turn it up
turn it up

This loop is constantly in my head these days.

I'm so sorry

for some reason it's just the phrase "live via satellite" that i have stuck in my head right now. that and ANGELS IN MY EYES of course

There's something about her flat, resigned voice and lines like "I'm going to work like I'm paying my bills"

but the thing is that partying IS her work to pay her bills!

Generic dance-pop by dead-eyed socialites is pure, undiluted lexohol. "It's meant to be crushingly joyless."

That said, even Paris's Stars Are Blind >>>>>>>> this.

what do you mean EVEN "stars are blind" - that's a high bar for anyone to surmount!

i hope the emotional pain of her divorce inspires her to ask terius for some more songs.

(i am still listening to and enjoying this one obv)

(bai ling's "rehab" dodges the generic dance pop route, that really is a very odd piece of music indeed)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKaP0pe5mS0

dude, "Stars Are Blind" is a very boring song

xp In retrospect, an airy, reggae-lite trifle not about being in the club seems like charm itself.

I wld be curious to know what emotional pain did she suffer

I'd assumed this was a clusterfuck about her hating on the gays but no apparently there are still things to say about this song.

"stars are blind" inspired my favourite ilx post of all time. of all time!

yeah! well you've also got "suicide" as merely "stupid pride", a somewhat hardline xtian sentiment which that indeed daring pantheism x astrology "gods are crazy / stars are blind" double whammy immediately vexes. and then yr everyday manichaean "be the devil and angel too" chaser. paris milton more like.

― rtccc (mwah), Sunday, August 27, 2006 1:17 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cf, from that jonathan bogart post linked upthread, this re: "jam (turn it up)"

Where other Will-to-Party club songs emphasize debauchery, sexualization, and hooking up to the degree that the club might as well be a Roman orgy without the architecture, this song claims to see nothing but symbols of purity and transcendence. People dancing in the world of this song are neither predator nor prey, without the usual commodification of the body, and in fact barely corporeal: they are semi-divine, perfect, celestial, inviolable. It may be the Platonic ideal of a party; it may be the eschaton.

I think I may have reached my limit when it comes to music writing that strives desperately to dress up a banal song as some kind of paradigm-shifting philosophical breakthrough. Eschaton. Get a grip.

LOL @ "the emotional pain of her divorce"

we've lost DL's readership

Ha, no, just that Bogart guy upthread. Unless that's actually you in which case yes.

now i have the sound of homer simpson saying "that borgnine guy" stuck in my head

this song reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxjtcd4-kw#t=1m15s

arrrgh fast forward to 1:15

i can never remember/tell if lex and rtc hate each other or are bros

they bro down, have a pint and watch football together

it's not really either/or

football?! oh how little you know me shipz

It's more that the battle lines are constantly changing so it depends on which side they find one another when that happens.

"i hope the emotional pain of her divorce inspires her to ask terius for some more songs."

im sure she could pretend she is in pain to wring a good musical narrative out of her life

football?! oh how little you know me shipz

― lex pretend, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 3:42 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark

shit i thought you were a manly man dawg!

This is a moment in ilx hugglez to rival the Morbius/JW reconciliation.

football isn't manly!

i was playing off of the idea that you are not a macho soccer hooligan type, i mean we know lexbot does not compute jokes so n/m

yo @ that bai ling song

having not thought about or played this song in three months, i now have it embeddd in my head

they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam
they playin my jam

glad you printed the lyrics, because i heard the chorus as "they play in my jam."

bai ling says: her song is an "unprecedented" genre of music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEjP9RobaeM