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Member Since: 10/9/2011
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Originally posted by Ozzy8923
Can't believe Celine has the same # of top ten's as Nicki and Ke$ha. |
the digital era has made it possible to get so many fast hits 
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Lameson, why are you so obsessed with Christ and his legal troubles? Even I don't care about them and I'm a stan. Are you jealous that he went to jail or something?
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Member Since: 10/1/2011
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Originally posted by Kang.
Nicki Minaj owned this week. Obviously. Duh. She’s owned this entire year, honestly, without releasing an album yet, but she especially owned this week. When her sugar “Pills N Potions” came out, people fretted that the fiery mixtape version of Nicki, the one who’d done “Chi-raq” and “Yass Bish!!!” had gone back into hibernation. When she coasted her way through a couple of random Future and Cam’ron guest verses, people worried that she’d blown all her creativity early in the year. This week, she proved that nobody has any cause to worry. She dropped her own much-awaited “Anaconda” single, the one with the cover art that provoked thinkpieces before anyone even heard the damn thing. But she did even more notable things while guesting on songs for a couple of other people: a long-running Memphis underground hero who somehow became a pop star, and a long-running Houston pop star who somehow became an underground hero.
First, there’s her song “Anaconda,” in which she surfs a nervous, jumpy, jacked-up beat and extolls the virtues of her own ass. The track, from Da Internz and faded hitmaker Polow Da Don, is a skittery thing, its nattering synth-line and restless bass building tension but never releasing it, its Sir Mix-A-Lot sample yelling at you from across the dancefloor. It’s a hectic, jumbled tune, a track that refuses to fade into the background. But on top of it, Nicki is all sleazy and nonchalant, idly flipping through the back-pages of her sex life while making plain, as explicitly as possible, how her human thickness kept her drowning in dudes. “He can tell I ain’t missing no meals,” she says, and you better believe she’s mother****ing bragging.
“Anaconda,” like “Stupid Hoe” before it, bridges that pop-Nicki/mixtape-Nicki divide by slamming you with so many effects, so quickly, that your brain stops trying to differentiate the two. Juicy J’s “Low” pulls off a similar trick, from a different angle. Its lush, widescreen beat comes from mega-pop architect Dr. Luke, who has assuredly never done anything with Young Thug before. But the track works because it elevates all the underground rappers on it, letting them rap hard but still placing them in a context of abundance. For Juicy, that means he gets to hammer those syllables the way he did on Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” while bringing that old Three 6 Mafia transcendent ignorance: “I ain’t even pack no clothes, nothing but rubbers in my suitcase.” (Think about that. He has a whole suitcase packed with nothing but condoms, which is several levels below Jay-Z’s “got a condo with nothing but condoms in it” but impressive nonetheless.) For Lil Bibby, that means he gets to lock into his double-time mutter while growling like an action-movie villain, throwing unprovoked shade at LeBron James in the process. For Young Thug, that means he gets to play the agitator, slip-sliding anarchically through the hook like a human sound effect. And for Nicki, who already is underground and pop at the same damn time, it’s a chance to flex both sides at once, casually creeping on dudes and then dismissing them with empress ease. Best song called “Low” since Cracker’s “Low,” or maybe since David Bowie’s entire Low album.
And then there’s Nicki’s team-up with arguably the world’s biggest pop star, or at least its biggest nonfictional pop star. (Princess Elsa from Frozen is probably really the world’s biggest pop star; I can’t wait for Nicki to work with her. Nicki already has princess-cut diamonds; she’s on her Disney.) As brand positioning for Beyoncé, “Flawless” is good fun, even if her dismissal of the Elevator Incident feels like emergency damage-control PR, complete with tortured syntax. (**** should go down when it’s a billion dollars on an elevator, as long as that elevator is supposed to be going down and not up. Billionaires should only use functional elevators!) The song was already a highlight on Beyoncé’s self-titled album, and it’s fun to hear her go into half-rap purr mode, and to let those old OutKast horns creep into the track. But things get very serious very quickly when Nicki shows up in full “Monster” mode, roaring out her greatest verse of 2014. She raps in an Eastern European accent. She says “pussy served delicious” and makes it sound like a threat. She froths and snarls and screams. When it sounds like her verse is about to end, she takes it up another notch. And she gets the entire second half of the song to say that winning is her mother****ing protocol, and to prove it.
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Member Since: 4/28/2011
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Originally posted by Jameson Teqkilla
Remember that time Chris Brown had to go to jail because he was too dumb to follow his probation?
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the white man tried to bring a black man down and we said NO!
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I hate discussions in which y'all keep on ranting about some irrelevant artists no one cares about except a few random street corner hookers in the US
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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Honestly though, before Jessie Ware, Banks, etc. came onto the scene, R&B was not about artistry. It was just sex sex and more sex.
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Not y'all still trying to use metacritic scores to prove anything when THIS is the jist of his "album reviews"
"Chris Brown beats women. The End." - 0 stars.
"I morally can not give this album anyting more" - 0 stars.
The absolute desperation of clinging on to obviously biased reviews  Keep trying.
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Originally posted by Kang.
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In January 2013, Brown was involved in an altercation with Frank Ocean over a parking space, outside a recording studio in West Hollywood. Police officers in Los Angeles said that Brown was under investigation, describing the incident as "battery" due to Brown allegedly punching Ocean.[125] Ocean said he would not press charges despite his claim that Brown had threatened to shoot him, and one of Brown's entourage had called him a "******".[126]
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We must stop the Westboro Baptist Chris Brown
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Member Since: 9/3/2012
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"The stakes on Fortune are consistently as high as they can possibly be in the way only an adolescent can see them: the end of the world, one chance life-changing sex, music as substitute for carbon or water, Magnum condoms, the finest girls and the trillest marijuana.
Perhaps most importantly, the women Brown comes in contact with come complete with majestically moist vaginas. Chris Brown provides an appealingly maximalist view of the world…that is, provided the drugs have kicked in. To the sober mind, Fortune is another overload of poor decisions just as Brown’s previous two albums have been. To his credit, he at least avoids any Rihanna talk or begging for the public to stop reminding him of the decisions he’s made."
http://www.popmatters.com/review/162...brown-fortune/
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Originally posted by FAME.
n Not this tired excuse when he has had one of the biggest hits of this year. Clearly you and everyone else is aware of his existence. Have a stadium full of seats. Preferably in the back because you're stinking up my area.
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Originally posted by FAME.
Not y'all using metacritic scores when THIS was the jist of his "album reviews"
"Chris Brown beats women. The End." - 0 stars.
"I morally can not give this album anyting more" - 0 stars.
The absolute desperation of clinging on to obviously biased reviews Keep trying. |
As if there aren't plenty of women-beaters with ACCLAIMED music
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Member Since: 4/28/2011
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honestly, if X is like a hit (maybe because AUBR!H is on it) then i hope Loyal gets a SOTY or ROTY nomination...and honestly it could actually win.
*not over Say Something because i'll have like a majah eppy
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
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Originally posted by Allstar
I hate discussions in which y'all keep on ranting about some irrelevant artists no one cares about except a few random street corner hookers in the US
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I agree, we should stop talking about people who have two albums that couldn't reach 40 on Metacritic and couldn't scan gold. I think that's more than enough evidence to call them useless. 
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Maurice destroys Drake in every aspect.
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Member Since: 11/20/2010
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Originally posted by FAME.
Not y'all using metacritic scores when THIS was the jist of his "album reviews"
"Chris Brown beats women. The End." - 0 stars.
"I morally can not give this album anyting more" - 0 stars.
The absolute desperation of clinging on to obviously biased reviews Keep trying. |
But isn't this his own fault or did someone else give him the Greatest Hit of his career the night of February 8, 2009?
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Why are yall so obsessed with Christ, his jail time though? Like literally nobody cares as much as y'all seem to. Is it envy or jealously? Do y'all wish you were the ones there getting bent over behind a cot or? Am a bit confused.
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"The album wastes little time before rubbing listeners’ faces in Brown’s petulance. After bowing to pop trends with the empty dance single “Turn Up The Music,” Brown sets about the ugly business of smiting haters. On “Mirage,” he lashes out at all who would judge him—“You don’t know half the **** that a ****** been through,” he fumes—while saving his harshest ire for the unnamed woman who turned her back on him. He punishes her in the cruelest way his egotistical mind can fathom: by withholding sex. “She want me to hold her down,” he gloats, “Sorry Boo-Boo, you gets no love now.” A thinly veiled threat disguised as a plea for understanding, the putrid ballad “Don’t Judge Me” reiterates that unconditional approval is a prerequisite for Brown’s companionship. “Please don’t judge me, and I won’t judge you,” he fusses, “because it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.”"
http://www.avclub.com/review/chris-b...ortuneem-82179
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Originally posted by Allstar
omg, it's so random you're watching this now - especially the original but just WOW @ how it reeks of influence, no? Even the later seasons are good, probably because they took their time developing each one of them.
It's definitely a lot better but nott too much on God of the Lake
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Well you know I love crime **** and I keep seeing Oprah & Spielberg plugging that Helen Mirren movie about how it’s ok for white people to eat food cooked by Indians and I remembered Prime Suspect.
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