What was so good about HNIN anyway? Whatever U Like was good, but I don't care much for Puakenikeni, Baby Love or Super Villain. What else was there?
HNIN would have made a GREAT album tbh
Whatever U Like, Just Say Yes, Save Me From Myself, Physical, Supervillain, Happily Never After, Power's Out, Who's Gonna love you, Love Like This all sounded great.
A pretty versatile and quality album. She should have added a few more urban club bangers on there and it would have been flawless. She also had some top notch collabos on there.
What was so good about HNIN anyway? Whatever U Like was good, but I don't care much for Puakenikeni, Baby Love or Super Villain. What else was there?
Have you not checked for her unreleased tracks? Over the past 4-5 years
To me Nicole's look goes with a sexy and sultry R&B sound and obviously with her Diddy collab, her usage of whoever the hell that was in WUL (maybe Sean Garrett) and the usage of T.I., R&B flavored pop song with Will.I.Am then working with Pharrell... she knew this.
But I also thing that she caught on to the UK market after Baby Love got some spin over there and studied what charted and just made a CD of that. If I had my way, Nicole would be that sexy mixed chick shaking her ass with the best of Beyonce and Ciara.
But she does rock, and dance, and pop and all of that stuff she can't pack into one album just yet. IDK maybe I am just stuck on her PCD style and image. (ex: Takin Over The World, Buttons)
Have you not checked for her unreleased tracks? Over the past 4-5 years
To me Nicole's look goes with a sexy and sultry R&B sound and obviously with her Diddy collab, her usage of whoever the hell that was in WUL (maybe Sean Garrett) and the usage of T.I., R&B flavored pop song with Will.I.Am then working with Pharrell... she knew this.
But I also thing that she caught on to the UK market after Baby Love got some spin over there and studied what charted and just made a CD of that. If I had my way, Nicole would be that sexy mixed chick shaking her ass with the best of Beyonce and Ciara.
But she does rock, and dance, and pop and all of that stuff she can't pack into one album just yet. IDK maybe I am just stuck on her PCD style and image. (ex: Takin Over The World, Buttons)
Although i love her dance material and im excited for her to do some house/dubstep since she's one of a few capable to MURDER some EDM drops, URBAN Nicole ***** so hard
But im ready for this new era. I think she will do great. The material sound great, and she has this whole year to focus completely on the album and promoting it.
I hope so and I hope that after the long wait it's something that I actually want to buy an album, I have select singles but no full album.
As a fan from the US, loving a US based artist.. it's just obsurd to me. I'm only going to stan off of Youtube rips from 2009 and iTunes rips I find for so long.
I like I'm a Cheat, but I didn't realize it was HNIN track. I don't think it is. The rest are alright. They sound like cheap pseudo-R&B tracks from the mid-2000s. Maybe worth releasing in 2005-06, but not after. WUL was produced by Polow da Don and Sean Garrett (and so was Buttons) btw.
So you're saying Nicole should pigeonhole herself into "urban" music because she's dark? She's not black and I remember when PCD came out I kept laughing at her faking her accent in the songs to sound more "urban." I like her pseudo-urban sound in songs like Buttons and I'm a Cheat, but I don't mind when she does ballads and other types of songs. And look at Ciara now. She's not doing well. Rihanna is because she makes dance music.
I hope so and I hope that after the long wait it's something that I actually want to buy an album, I have select singles but no full album.
As a fan from the US, loving a US based artist.. it's just obsurd to me. I'm only going to stan off of Youtube rips from 2009 and iTunes rips I find for so long.
I hope so and I hope that after the long wait it's something that I actually want to buy an album, I have select singles but no full album.
As a fan from the US, loving a US based artist.. it's just obsurd to me. I'm only going to stan off of Youtube rips from 2009 and iTunes rips I find for so long.
I like I'm a Cheat, but I didn't realize it was HNIN track. I don't think it is. The rest are alright. They sound like cheap pseudo-R&B tracks from the mid-2000s. Maybe worth releasing in 2005-06, but not after. WUL was produced by Polow da Don and Sean Garrett (and so was Buttons) btw.
So you're saying Nicole should pigeonhole herself into "urban" music because she's dark? She's not black and I remember when PCD came out I kept laughing at her faking her accent in the songs to sound more "urban." I like her pseudo-urban sound in songs like Buttons and I'm a Cheat, but I don't mind when she does ballads and other types of songs. And look at Ciara now. She's not doing well. Rihanna is because she makes dance music.
A) for the first paragraph, some are demos and unfinished I'm sure. I'm a Cheat is actually supposed to be given to Christina Milian who seems to have her own life long struggle of putting out another album that won't be shelved. Punchin'/Punch You In Your Sleep as well is a demo for Milian.
B) I'm not calling her black.. never did. I said mixed because, no ****, she's mixed with different races that aren't necessary black or anything African related. I didn't just become some fan yesterday and watch a video and think she had a banging ass perm.
What I'm saying is, my ears like her R&B material from an era that I feel was cheated. It's my taste and I feel that it could work from her. It's not like saying "OMG Lana Del Ray needs to get in a thong and bust a flow with her microbraids) it makes sense for Nicole. Did you not see how similar her and Keri Hilson seemed artist wise in the Scream video?? I endorse whatever success she gets from Killer Love. I'm proud for her, I actually like some songs from it. BUT just like you don't want me to "pigeon hold" her in the R&B realm just because I think she appeals to that market, I don't want her to lock herself into some UK Pop world just because she has a chance at Top 10 over there and that sells like hot cakes because it's dime a dozen on the radio and she can make a hot video.
Her swag if she had made the I'm a Cheat song hers would have been that of an Urban girl.. her songs at the time fit the urban realm. Avant, 50 Cent, Diddy, Pharrell, Timbaland, Will.I.Am, Sean Garrett.. hell. Where am I lost at to think that wasn't damn near the pitch for HNIN?
A) for the first paragraph, some are demos and unfinished I'm sure. I'm a Cheat is actually supposed to be given to Christina Milian who seems to have her own life long struggle of putting out another album that won't be shelved. Punchin'/Punch You In Your Sleep as well is a demo for Milian.
B) I'm not calling her black.. never did. I said mixed because, no ****, she's mixed with different races that aren't necessary black or anything African related. I didn't just become some fan yesterday and watch a video and think she had a banging ass perm.
What I'm saying is, my ears like her R&B material from an era that I feel was cheated. It's my taste and I feel that it could work from her. It's not like saying "OMG Lana Del Ray needs to get in a thong and bust a flow with her microbraids) it makes sense for Nicole. Did you not see how similar her and Keri Hilson seemed artist wise in the Scream video?? I endorse whatever success she gets from Killer Love. I'm proud for her, I actually like some songs from it. BUT just like you don't want me to "pigeon hold" her in the R&B realm just because I think she appeals to that market, I don't want her to lock herself into some UK Pop world just because she has a chance at Top 10 over there and that sells like hot cakes because it's dime a dozen on the radio and she can make a hot video.
Her swag if she had made the I'm a Cheat song hers would have been that of an Urban girl.. her songs at the time fit the urban realm. Avant, 50 Cent, Diddy, Pharrell, Timbaland, Will.I.Am, Sean Garrett.. hell. Where am I lost at to think that wasn't damn near the pitch for HNIN?
I didn't say you think she's black or part black. You said you think she's suited for R&B/urban music because of her looks/image to which I responded to saying I don't she should be working within a genre just because of that.
That said, I do agree that R&B suited her. HNIN was tailored for that type of image because that's what PCD put out and what was popular then, but then it was canceled because of poor single sales and backlash against Nicole for supposedly abandoning PCD and by the time Nicole was ready to release solo material again, R&B/urban music wasn't big anymore. It was 2010 and RedOne happened so I don't think it's just because they're trying to appeal to a UK audience.
Was the one you're talking about from the HNIn era? Urban?
Whatever U Like 2.0
One of my favorite Nicole songs
It was mid-tempo. I'll look through my tweets and find it. I think there was also another unreleased song Nicole sang, but I could only find pitch-altered fake male version on Youtube. I'll look for that too.
It was mid-tempo. I'll look through my tweets and find it. I think there was also another unreleased song Nicole sang, but I could only find pitch-altered fake male version on Youtube. I'll look for that too.
We really need to make a list in Base.
J-esper has a list with all her unreleased material.
I didn't say you think she's black or part black. You said you think she's suited for R&B/urban music because of her looks/image to which I responded to saying I don't she should be working within a genre just because of that.
That said, I do agree that R&B suited her. HNIN was tailored for that type of image because that's what PCD put out and what was popular then, but then it was canceled because of poor single sales and backlash against Nicole for supposedly abandoning PCD and by the time Nicole was ready to release solo material again, R&B/urban music wasn't big anymore. It was 2010 and RedOne happened so I don't think it's just because they're trying to appeal to a UK audience.
Well Calvin Harris is blowing up is he next? Nicole needs to work on setting her image without PCD because right now they don't know **** about her.
Working with what's hot for a hit or two is fine but it's time to get an image going. IDK if she's a ballad girl, a urban pop girl, the biracial rocker who remixes PCD songs on concert, the next queen of Dance.. I'm lost.