Brianna - 'Marilyn Monroe'

Fuck it. This is a great song, and it's not the kind of rap that fits in incredibly well with the goon thread, and I don't want Nicki's thread to totally derail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kEO5gLW2TI

oh cool, i'm glad they didn't use the remix w/ Wale for the video, i was afraid that was gonna be the version they give a big push

― some dude, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:23 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"sex symbol/should be on jimmy kimmel" is one of my favorite lyrics of late

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:26 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually, why doesn't this have its own thread. Do we feel like it's the kind of song that deserves its own thread?

― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:32 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well you never know how these things will pan out, but i wouldn't mind a dedicated Brianna thread -- she dropped a mixtape on Christmas that's pretty good

― some dude, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:40 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

favorite part of that verse is "bout to change my name...PRINCE SYMBOL," imo the most defensible grocery bag of the last few months

― some dude, Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:41 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Although it just reminds me of Missy's "Prince couldn't get me change my name"

― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 11:49 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Deserving imo, hadn't heard this until this morning.

this "arrogant/marilyn" rhyme is the greatest thing that's ever happened to me.

also they way she says "lyin'" on "you gettin more paper than me/that's what i call lyyyyyin'"

this is the mixtape she dropped on Xmas, has a remix of "Marilyn Monroe" with ugh Wale and not many other songs stand out as much but it's pretty good: http://www.datpiff.com/Brianna-Face-Off-mixtape.297588.html

she's from Miami but for some reason D.C./Baltimore radio was really early to pick up on the song, been hearing it here a lot since September or October, well before it charted nationally, iirc i was the only person to vote for it in Pazz & Jop

Great track, heard it via (IIRC) Lex & Al's EOY lists & wished it had a dedicated thread to garner more support.

Feels like a really classic/obvious sample being used - anyone know much about the production?

i heard this a couple of months ago and liked it a lot

Damn, I didn't know about this song. Great stuff. Also curious about the sample.

have looked around for prod and/or sample info and have yet to find any

Also, apparently the label just changed her from 'Brianna' to 'Brianna Perry' not sure why, but it's changed on iTunes and everywhere else.

Hmph.

probably because when you say it it sounds like rihanna and that's weird for people in their minds

yeah i was gonna say, i'd started to see her full name pop up more and more. probably a good thing, it's hard to be a mononym with a fairly common name.

i cosign this thread and this video, glad to see it's getting a push - way too good not to

ah so the guy who produced "marilyn monroe" is called cainon lamb and his past credits are basically "countdown" and "need u bad"

think that merits a one-to-watch stamp

yeah i think alex in montreal had pointed out that he also did "countdown," crazy to realize the same producer had 2 songs in my top 10 last year and i had no idea. didn't know about "need u bad," though, nice.

it's a co-production credit w/missy

he did a couple of monica singles too but i closed the tab accidentally and can't remember which ones

is the best easter egg on this the bit where she goes "i'm goin' blonde, i think i'm marilyn / so i bought more, maryland" cuz with her drawl "bought more" sounds like "baltimore"

haha i obviously caught that on the first listen so it never occurred to me that it could be a slow burner

WHOA.

Mind. Blown.

for ages i thought it was a lazy line b/c she rhymed "marilyn" with "marilyn" for no reason, i only got it because when you rap along the "bought" shapes itself into "balt" and then i went ohhhhhhhhh duhhhhhhh

i'm going to be talking about this song on the guardian podcast tomorrow and wondering how excruciating it will be if i try to explain that easter egg in a british accent, to people who might not get it

haha

i still hear this on the radio now again and am like damn this song still needs to blow up. or she needs to drop a worthy follow-up.

i finally got round to the most recent mixtape, it's pretty good too. has it actually charted? the video's on the atlantic youtube account so i assume she has a major label deal and is concentrating on finishing her album.

i'm going to be talking about this song on the guardian podcast tomorrow and wondering how excruciating it will be if i try to explain that easter egg in a british accent,

^would download

there's a post face-off mixtape?

no, face off is the one i meant

what was the whole elaborate charade with people pretending not to know the sample all about upthread

that... is what you were all doing right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSDiO90goE

btw

Not pretending. Slow brain. Illuminate for us...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac

hopefully soi-disant "drum nerd" and salaam remi/nas fan al shipz will find that video especially enlightening

heh oh yeah i remember seeing that before

"Marilyn Monroe" charted in lower reaches of the R&B chart, months and months ago, before the video dropped

oh duh

guys i have been trying so hard to make this song happen in my real life and so far nobody but one of my sisters has bitten. the other one hates it btw. ;_;

xp Lamb has been Missy Elliot's co-producer for a while now...

ok, so like, what songs of these did he do besides "need u bad": Missy without Timbo: singles, features, and songwriting/production credits

"holding you down," (actually, all of Missy's productions for Jazmine), "everything to me," a lot of stuff for Fantasia, Keyshia Cole's "Let It Go"... basically, most productions attributed to Missy in the last few years were co-produced by Lamb.

omg omg omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7tWcHgqttw

"LIL BRIANNA" IS BRIANNA WHEN SHE WAS 9!!

http://youknowigotsoul.com/?p=17193

big interview here

haha i think lex dropped that bomb on another thread (xpost)

bah now i cant think of her as smashable and she's just the kid off the terrible track i skipped every time doing a yung la impression

too much knowledge is a dangerous thing

rtc - I didn't mean the drum loop - I meant those horns, which I thought were a sample but maybe not... Sorry for the confusion.

I got all excited and thought you had placed where they came from.

The horns are "Amen, Brother" too

from

love this song and those cute angular sunglasses

damn it feels good to see people like horseshoe and abbbottt up on it

"all the kids at school call me baby trina" is still one of the more o_0 lines on that album. like given what trina's MO was/is, how does that even happen. and was lil brianna even allowed to listen to the album she was on.

i just gave that new swv album a spin yesterday, we should probably talk about it in the r&b thread at some point but i don't have enough thoughts on it yet to do it myself.

guys i have been trying so hard to make this song happen in my real life and so far nobody but one of my sisters has bitten.

i've DJed it out twice in the past month and both times people came up to ask what it was. we can do this!

lol @ people missing the amen sample (it is slowed down a ton, but still)

i've DJed it out twice in the past month and both times people came up to ask what it was. we can do this!

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:26 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes! i should just get new friends tbh. also i like that new swv album!

i'm going to be talking about this song on the guardian podcast tomorrow and wondering how excruciating it will be if i try to explain that easter egg in a british accent,

wow listening back this is actually even worse than i thought it was at the time

http://www.datpiff.com/Brianna-Perry-Symphony-No-9-The-Collection-mixtape.462363.html

new tape

only just stuck it on, she appears to be doing a shyne impression on the intro

ahahaha dead @ track 3, i won't spoil it

noooo this mixtape is just a bunch of snippets -_-

um no? unless you mean in like uh, creative terms

oh ugh i think i downloaded an old version of it which is all snippets except for like 4 full songs

*kills everything*

*downloads again*

there was a different "Symphony #9" mixtape out in November that WAS mostly half-song snippets, this new one appears to be a complete other release with basically the same title.

she's already in my bad books for fucking up my id tags by adding her surname AFTER i'd played "marilyn monroe" a million times

this tape is pretty b-grade tbh, fun enough but far too beholden to its guests after all the self-possessed character 'marilyn monroe' had

ANYWAY

"take my breath away" giving me that ruff sqwad "died in ur arms" realness

really thought she'd use "marilyn monroe" as more of a springboard

xp heh spoken like a true night slugger

it's more like a dipset heatmakerz nod (as was the rsqwad) only er, without the heat made. nicki can pull off that kinda prom dressantino vibe really well somehow, brianna kinda but not so much imo

find the mmts cut really hilarious for some reason, just him and that beat together

finished it and would agree with rtc's assessment, but it's still pretty fun - she works so well on uptempo beats that really knock, am feeling "red cup", "get it girl", "top notch" on first listen

pretty much functions how tiding-over mixtapes should

this tape is pretty b-grade tbh, fun enough but far too beholden to its guests after all the self-possessed character 'marilyn monroe' had

― r|t|c, Monday, March 11, 2013 10:18 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed :-/

just released two singles, the Trey Songz one from the mixtape and a new track, "Jungle":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TH986GBcc&feature=youtu.be

I like that, sounds tough.

great beat but brianna's biting lil kim so hard it's basically a homage? what with the missy sample it's not really what she needs right now