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So, I LOVE "Need You Tonight" and "Why Don't We Fall In Love?" is pretty nice as well. But what about the rest of the album? Is it worth the 8-9 bucks I generally see it going for?

― original bgm, Sunday, 29 December 2002 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

V. consistant sound which = good if you want mroe of the same. Lots of the songs sound a bit abrupt, like half-complete thoughts.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

yes 'consistent' is the word that jumps into my mind too.

― minna (minna), Monday, 30 December 2002 16:48 (twenty-three years ago)

hmmm... maybe I will wait for her next one.

― original bgm, Monday, 30 December 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

this is a totally classic album, guys

― zemko (bob), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone else heard the Richcraft Remix of "Why Don't We Fall In Love" - it's a brilliant companion to the original a la Jay-Z's "Girls Girls Girls Pt. 2". That and "Need You Tonight" are both utterly classic.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

this album is still totally classic

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 10:13 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 31 July 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

Hey Minna did you ever get the Teedra Moses album?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 31 July 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

I'll be damned, I didn't even know she *had* anything else earlier than this year.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:19 (twenty years ago)

yeah tim i was thinking about it as i was posting before! teedra and amerie are similar characters. i downloaded it when i was in london but never listened to it, and i just downloaded it again. i have been giving 'no more tears' a lot of play, it has a surprising amount of bump in it! which teedra songs caught you the most? (rnb wise im mostly listening to abt 4 songs from nivea 'complicated')

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

ned, you should get this album!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh doubtless!

I am a bit distressed at your Nivea mention, though, as I never could get past her name.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

whats wrong with a bit of nivea! keeps the hide nice and smooth, pleasant odour

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Now I have this image of you rubbing r'n'b singers over your body.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Minna, the Teedra songs I love the most are "Backstroke", "No More Tears", "Outta My Head", "For A Lifetime", "Last Day" and above all else (including pretty much everything ever) the title track.

The first Amerie and the Teedra album are pretty closely linked in my head.

I haven't heard Complicated yet! I assume it's not entirely in the mould of the bubblecrunk single though?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

"Backstroke"

As covered by Black Strobe. Er, wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

ok ned that is gross!! now i know what yr objection is

no tim hardly at all! well there is a non album song called 'put it in the air' featuring lil scrappy which is a bit dsouth but not at all crunk, anticrunk if anything, but v good. on a similar tip but amazing "turnin blue into green incredible" (listen now!) = okay (red cup remix) featuring an (im guessing) approx 16 yr old atl boy rapper by the name of 'the dream'. in addition to having nivea and the dream it has gorgeous windey buzzing bassline + pretty/stately handel violins.
at the moment i am also feelin the TITLE TRACK! it has this slightly detuned boys of summer nostalgic guitar song thing going on (but with hot beats!)
see also: 'breathe' (reviewed by facelift on spizzazzz), and 'parking lot' (reviewed by me on gel&weave)

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

haha nivea sez 'get crunk get crunk' in parking lot

http://www.crunkrealestate.com/rm/images/crunk.gif

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 31 July 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

"The debut album by 22-year-old Amerie is basically a showcase for writer/producer Rich Harrison, who constructs a series of mid-tempo rhythm tracks and writes lyrics of romantic longing. Harrison's lack of originality is suggested by his inability even to come up with new song titles: Among the tracks here are newly written songs entitled "Need You Tonight," Got to Be There," and even "I Just Died" (that's right, "in your arms"). Amerie has a pleasant-enough voice that she uses to express a tempered fervor and a degree of eroticism, but she seems to be just another modestly talented performer chosen mostly for her looks; record companies seem to be on an endless search for attractive young women of mixed racial heritage (apparently in hopes of demographic crossover) who can carry a tune, and this willing Georgetown graduate with a Korean mother and African-American father is just the latest in a long line. None of which is to say that she won't succeed (record companies make a lot of money taking such bets), but at least on the basis of her debut album, Amerie has nothing to recommend her beyond a fairly anonymous surface appeal." — William Ruhlmann.

Burn! I guess? Citing song-titles as the basis for originality strikes be as a bit of a stretch. His vintage condemnation of Harrison is appealing just in terms of variety, however thin and acerbic.

― Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Sunday, 31 July 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

I love this album!!!

― deej.., Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Still need it, if anybody feels like gifting.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 July 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

i should really know better than to find the fact that richcraft ws tutoured by BROTHER AH from the ARKESTRA amazingly cool n stuff

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 1 August 2005 08:56 (twenty years ago)

(bah i misspelled tutored in a fit of assumed anglo-proper-grammar cos i read the nick cannon thread and got miffed everyone ws typing fetus and not foetus, damn u all!)

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 1 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

when i first ws into teedra before the album dropped i did see her as a parallel to amerie's 90s rnb formalisms (4 want of a better term), partic wrt stuff like 'doin you' (which never came out rite?) and its endearingly unnecessary goofy scratch break and "ch-check out my melody" n whatnot. the album as body of work and sustained personality stage obviously diluted all that somewhat.

and 'no more tears' ws my fave too! indeed i ws once gonna say it ws like the smash instant potato tv advert robots in happy oldage retirement boggling away in the summer sun on an rusty old tractor on their real potato farm YEAH WHAT U KNOW BOUT THAT

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 1 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I don't think "Doin' You" was never released - nor "Still Got Love" which is her great voicing over the Kanye groove for Scarface's "Guess Who's Back".

"when i first ws into teedra before the album dropped"

This made me smile even though I know it's absolutely true.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

'Doin' You' is on the UK version of the album (also rmx of 'You Better Tell Her' with Lil Scrappy, and 'Still Your Girl').

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

I was gonna say, "hey no fair", but then I remembered that It's still never been released in Australia anyway.

Oi Minna (and Lex, Robthemco etc.), "Parking Lot" is awesomeness!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

I was considering getting the Nivea album the other day but got Teairra Marí and YYT instead, now I wish I'd got Nivea (instead of YYT)!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:29 (twenty years ago)

YYT?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Oh Ying Yang Twinz. Is it not good?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

(soz didnt mean it to sound like that!)

i however have no truck with saying HEY NO FAIR cos i only bought the cd to put money in her pocket in the first place! now to check if the jap version has any goodies on it too...

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

nope still 14 songs but check the cover!!

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B0002ZF1BG.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

(i have really not had much joy with teirieierra on 3 listens so far.)

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Teedra is so gorgeous.

on one listen the YYT album doesn't have nearly enough crunk on it (dspite about 947346 tracks) and also has the dude from Maroon 5 on one song. The Teedra track is spectacular though.

I really like Teairra, lots of sparkly and slightly discombobulating high end. 'No Daddy'!

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

(A rather large part of me is thinking that anyone who puts money down on a YYT album is getting everything coming to them. When did I go from finding them easily ingorable to actively hating them?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

when they killed crunk!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

JB, there is space for you in my OTM Posse.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

"(soz didnt mean it to sound like that!)"

it didn't actually robthemco, I just momentarily read it that way. That cover is great though! But then so is the original. I'm not even sure if she's more hot than other R&B artists so much as effortlessly stylish. Those bangles! And I like how she's not quite sneering but nonetheless looks vaguely unimpressed.

I read an interview with Teedra (not yours Lex, the new issue of Plan B hasn't turned up here yet) in Touch, and oh my god is she cool.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

She is awesomely cool.

They took all the style bits out of my Plan B interview, and the story of her last fight :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 1 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

The Maroon 5 guy song is the best part of the Ying Yang album, lex! Yr right though its pretty disappointing on the whole.

― deej.., Monday, 1 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

the new amerie album is ruined by 'touch'

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

i want it to have been all rich harrison (& compatible dudes) again because the richcraft songs on it are all good
i dont like '1 thing' all THAT much (i wish it had been an album track and shed been given 'get right' for the single) but ok 'rolling down my face' and 'all i need' and 'talkin about' are such a good update of the all i have sound! im a little freaked out by hearing carl thomas on the album too even tho the song is nice on its own. i want it to be just amerie & rich like mum & dad

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

oh and 'like it used to be' haha YES

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

KEEP ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN ROLLIN

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Saturday, 13 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

rock n'rollin!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 13 August 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

theres something a bit more obsessive & annoying abt some of these songs, i like it!

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:49 (twenty years ago)

jj OTM x1000

― deej.., Monday, 15 August 2005 00:04 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

'why dont we fall in love' sample is from '3 days of the condor' soundtrack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRetYfLKEcU

― deej, Friday, 30 May 2008 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

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