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<+)O Robido O(+>
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Aren't they though?
Sure - but the only artists who have managed the feat more than once are Britney Spears and Mariah Carey, and Mariah is the only one to have done it three times. And it's not as if the people doing, Idol artists aside, were flops:
- Michael Jackson — "You Are Not Alone" (September 2, 1995)
- Mariah Carey — "Fantasy" (8 consecutive weeks) (September 30, 1995)
- Whitney Houston — "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" (November 25, 1995)
- Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men — "One Sweet Day" (16 consecutive weeks) (December 2, 1995)
- Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 — "I'll Be Missing You" (11 consecutive weeks) (June 14, 1997)
- Mariah Carey — "Honey" (3 consecutive weeks) (September 13, 1997)
- Elton John — "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight" (14 consecutive weeks) (October 11, 1997)
- Céline Dion — "My Heart Will Go On" (2 consecutive weeks) (February 28, 1998)
- Aerosmith — "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" (4 consecutive weeks) (September 5, 1998)
- Lauryn Hill — "Doo Wop (That Thing)" (2 consecutive weeks) (November 14, 1998)
- Clay Aiken — "This Is the Night" (2 consecutive weeks) (June 28, 2003)
- Fantasia — "I Believe" (July 10, 2004)
- Carrie Underwood — "Inside Your Heaven" (July 2, 2005)
- Taylor Hicks — "Do I Make You Proud" (July 1, 2006)
- Britney Spears — "3" (October 24, 2009)
- Eminem — "Not Afraid" (May 22, 2010)
- Kesha — "We R Who We R" (November 13, 2010)
- Britney Spears — "Hold It Against Me" (January 29, 2011)
- Lady Gaga — "Born This Way" (6 consecutive weeks) (February 26, 2011)
- Katy Perry — "Part of Me" (March 3, 2012)
- Baauer — "Harlem Shake" (5 consecutive weeks) (March 2, 2013)[6]
And many of the songs that did it fell off the top within a week - Whitney's Exhale (Shoop Shoop) knocked Fantasy off the number one spot only to be supplanted by One Sweet Day the next week, and it still ran at #2 for eleven weeks after that. And Mariah's songs that debuted at number one stayed on top for 8, 16, and 3 weeks before falling off. She's not a special beneficiary of studio chicanery; plenty of top artists have tried that sort of chart manipulation.
Nope. I think Madonna's biggest claim to fame is her longevity and consistency; but there have been several women whose career peaks were as big as her career peak (e.g. Mariah was bigger in 1990 - 2000; Whitney was bigger in 1986 - 1995 than Madonna was in her most successful years), at least measured by album sales. I'm not sure about single sales, though those are harder to find accurately collated.
Leona Lewis
Banned
oh internet <3
The people have spoken.
Nemesis_
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Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Cashmere Cat played some of his track with Arianal: "Be My Baby" Production sounds great; I'd like an instrumental version without that real doll shrieking over it, please.
His mix for MoMA from last week is really good if you dig stuff like Kelela, twigs, Jeremih, Jhene Aiko, etc.
His mix for MoMA from last week is really good if you dig stuff like Kelela, twigs, Jeremih, Jhene Aiko, etc.
AyaisMUsikWhore
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The video was actually pretty good. It looked fun, made me wish all college parties were just this
. Her afro was everything. But, I'm not sure why Kimbra was in it when this song actually featured Solange - which makes me wonder, what part of the song was she in? I always thought she sang the 2nd verse but I guess she didn't.Supermanisdead
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mmmmmm i love this song and video, but lmao at that samsung promo. she better collect her korean won.
This made my day, Janelle gives me so much life.
Nemesis_
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The video was actually pretty good. It looked fun, made me wish all college parties were just this
Probably because her and Kimbra toured
but didn't
Seems she might be releasing a follow up this year too?
Leona Lewis
Banned
This is actually the first track of hers this year that I can actually bop to.
Hopefully the breakdown in the middle is from a remix, though, because it kills all the track's momentum.
<+)O Robido O(+>
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So, it seems like its drag Mariah Carey day. Let me chime in for a second, if I could. My first exposure to MC was waaaaaaaaaay back 24 years ago (I was 14, Mumei was 22) when her debut album came out. My little cousin came up to me and asked me if I had heard this new sanging ass white girl named Mariah. I hadn't. I think I was going through my heavy metal phase then. Anyway, she plays me a song she recorded off of the radio, Vision Of Love. It was cute. I caught the video some time later on MTV, and I was like... ok skinny white girl, go in.
I think I got a copy of the album and cassette from my homegirl, who was slayed. I thought Vanishing was everything. Still do. I got my life from Sent From Up Above, because it is the business. I mostly enjoyed the album, I thought the more hip hoppier tracks were trash and try hard. A trend that would continue for some time. I felt that her soul tinged MOR songs were more her lane and she should travel there.
Flash forward to the next year (Rihanna much) and the subject of this post came out. The first song I recall hearing from this album was Can't Let Go. There are no words for how this song touched my spirit. That whistle in the beginning. The more R&B-y groove. The chorus. Can't Let Go remains, to this day, one of, if not my favorite MC song. The first time I heard it I was in my Auntie's big as van, (the one she got for all them raggedy ass kids she has) that ho had a nice stereo system and Can't Let Go sounded like heaven.
Back in the day, young people, there wasn't instant access to everything like there is now. If you wanted to see a video, you had to wait for them shits to show up in the rotation on MTV, VH-1 or BET, with your VCR remote in hand for your tape that you had already set to record, paused, perched. Don't try to record a video during TRL (this was more towards the end of the 90's though,) Carson Daly's bitch ass would never let a video play all the way through. If you were a fan of a not so popular genre of music, you were relegated to early morning or late at night for special shows dedicated to your genre.
If you wanted to hear the song before the single was on sale, you had to wait for them shits to be played on the radio with your finger perched above the record button. Fun times. I think that's why records don't sell as much as they used to. There's no anticipation anymore. Everything is immediately available. You don't have to buy your song to hear it with any clarity anymore. When you recorded your jam on the cassette tape you've been recording your jams on for years, at FM radio quality, no less. You couldn't wait for the single to drop so you could spend your precious, trickle down economics coins on.
Anyway, I wouldn't hear the entirety of Emotions for a couple more years. The next year, (maybe Rihanna is the black Mariah) she appeared on MTV Unplugged and released a single from that which grated my nerves almost instantly and still does to this day. I'll Be There is trash. I hate it. I hate her for singing it. I hate Trey Lorenz and his annoying queeny vocals. Ugh. Someday was still garbage too. One bright spot, is the effervescent live version of Can't Let Go. It's just so good. It supplanted the album version as my favorite.
The next year (mmhmm), brought us Music Box. I remember thinking Dreamlover was aight. I remember hating Hero because it was sappy and they made us sing it at my HS graduation. I remember thinking Anytime You Need A Friend was vastly superior, and it's subsequent remix affirmed that thought. Outside of the title track (which slays lives) and Everything Fades Away, I didn't care much for the album.
1994 saw Robido, then 18 (Mumei was hitting his 30's) living in Southern California and flush with cash. (For once.) I finally got around to listening to Emotions. A bitch was [S L A Y E D]! If you gloss over the schlock that is Make It Happen and it's overwrought cousin If It's Over you've got a damn good album, and my favorite Mariah Carey CD. (We'd gotten our first CD player by then and skipping songs was a revelation. I can't tell you how many songs I had to force myself to like because skipping them every time they came on was a chore, unless you had one of those fancy tape players that could auto skip to the next song, even that would still take a minute to do.)
1994 also saw another yearly Mariah release (mmhmm) but it was a christmas album, and ain't nobody have time for that. I don't think I heard All I Want For Christmas Is You until I saw the 2003 movie Love Actually.... that can't be right... Anyway, I didn't check for christmas music back then, so hew knows.
1995 hit, and so did a new Mariah album. Fantasy came out and went EVERYWHERE. The ODB remix came out, and the hood was here for it. It even caused Genius Of Love to have a resurgence in SoCal. Daydream was... eh. A Glee-esque Journey cover. The slay that is Forever. The Always Be My Baby So So Def Remix was everything. I swear Jermaine Dupri is the only producer who can make her attempts at hip hoppier R&B sound good. Oh but children, the Fantasy CD single was my first exposure to Mariah club remixes. And when I tell you the 11:00 minute club mix of Fantasy was my everything and was in CONSTANT rotation, you don't have to believe me, but believe me. Oh Jesus. When those sirens start going 6 minutes in I get hype. When the beat drops and she starts vocalizing about her SWEET SWEET FANTASY, it's time to go to church.
IT'S JUST SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOoooooOOoOOOOooOOOOO. IT'S JUST SO SWEET SWEET. IT'S JUST SWEeEEeT.
Oh bitch, your run down, run of the hill fave could never, will never, and best not even try.
Moving on, Mariah returned 2 years later with a new nose, new tits, and with a CD that would make me stop fucking with her for the next 8 years. Butterfly dropped. I thought Honey was trash, obviously, but other than that it was well on its way to being my favorite MC album. The R&B was less try hard, the hip hoppier tracks (outside of that Bone Thugs collab) were almost decent. But oh bitch... Track 11 punched me out of the MC game. I saw the title in the tracklist, and hoped against hope that it wasn't what I thought it was. But as the the slay Fly Away interlude faded away, the unmistakable sound of a Prince cover came on. She should have taken a page from TLC's book and covered lesser known Prince tracks. But no.. this ho wanted to go ICONIC. smh. AND it was a Dru Hill collab too. No ma'am.
Butterfly was the last time I paid attention to MC til Mimi. I almost didn't pay attention then, because the lyric "Them chicks is ash, and I'm lotion." had to be the single most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.
Que sera sera. Mariah looks and sounds nothing like she did when I was checking for her. But it's her life, and while she's spending her coins and she's not hurting me or mines, imma let it ride. She did a lot more in her time than any of these soundcloud girls can even fathom, and on her worst day she's better than them. Just so long as them doesn't include Madonna. She ain't that iconic.
Girlfriends and squirrel friends, Emotions.
1. "Emotions"
2. "And You Don't Remember"
3. "Can't Let Go"
4. "Make It Happen"
5. "If It's Over"
6. "You're So Cold"
7. "So Blessed"
8. "To Be Around You"
9. "Till the End of Time"
10. "The Wind"
Bonus:
"Vision of Love"
"I Don't Wanna Cry"
"Vanishing"
"All in Your Mind"
"Alone in Love"
"Sent from Up Above"
"Can't Let Go" - MTV Unplugged
"Anytime You Need a Friend"
"Music Box"
"Fantasy"
"Underneath the Stars"
"Always Be My Baby"
"Forever"
"Daydream Interlude" (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)
"Looking In"
"Butterfly"
"The Roof (Back in Time)
"Fourth of July"
"Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)"
"Outside"
"All My Life"
"Say Somethin'"
"Stay the Night"
"Fly Like a Bird"
"Meteorite"
The Remixes:
"Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)" (Fly Away Club Mix)
"Fantasy" (Def Club Mix)
"Always Be My Baby" (Mr. Dupri Mix) featuring Da Brat and Xscape
"Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last Remix) featuring Joe and Nas
"Sweetheart" featuring Jermaine Dupri
I think I got a copy of the album and cassette from my homegirl, who was slayed. I thought Vanishing was everything. Still do. I got my life from Sent From Up Above, because it is the business. I mostly enjoyed the album, I thought the more hip hoppier tracks were trash and try hard. A trend that would continue for some time. I felt that her soul tinged MOR songs were more her lane and she should travel there.
Flash forward to the next year (Rihanna much) and the subject of this post came out. The first song I recall hearing from this album was Can't Let Go. There are no words for how this song touched my spirit. That whistle in the beginning. The more R&B-y groove. The chorus. Can't Let Go remains, to this day, one of, if not my favorite MC song. The first time I heard it I was in my Auntie's big as van, (the one she got for all them raggedy ass kids she has) that ho had a nice stereo system and Can't Let Go sounded like heaven.
Back in the day, young people, there wasn't instant access to everything like there is now. If you wanted to see a video, you had to wait for them shits to show up in the rotation on MTV, VH-1 or BET, with your VCR remote in hand for your tape that you had already set to record, paused, perched. Don't try to record a video during TRL (this was more towards the end of the 90's though,) Carson Daly's bitch ass would never let a video play all the way through. If you were a fan of a not so popular genre of music, you were relegated to early morning or late at night for special shows dedicated to your genre.
If you wanted to hear the song before the single was on sale, you had to wait for them shits to be played on the radio with your finger perched above the record button. Fun times. I think that's why records don't sell as much as they used to. There's no anticipation anymore. Everything is immediately available. You don't have to buy your song to hear it with any clarity anymore. When you recorded your jam on the cassette tape you've been recording your jams on for years, at FM radio quality, no less. You couldn't wait for the single to drop so you could spend your precious, trickle down economics coins on.
Anyway, I wouldn't hear the entirety of Emotions for a couple more years. The next year, (maybe Rihanna is the black Mariah) she appeared on MTV Unplugged and released a single from that which grated my nerves almost instantly and still does to this day. I'll Be There is trash. I hate it. I hate her for singing it. I hate Trey Lorenz and his annoying queeny vocals. Ugh. Someday was still garbage too. One bright spot, is the effervescent live version of Can't Let Go. It's just so good. It supplanted the album version as my favorite.
The next year (mmhmm), brought us Music Box. I remember thinking Dreamlover was aight. I remember hating Hero because it was sappy and they made us sing it at my HS graduation. I remember thinking Anytime You Need A Friend was vastly superior, and it's subsequent remix affirmed that thought. Outside of the title track (which slays lives) and Everything Fades Away, I didn't care much for the album.
1994 saw Robido, then 18 (Mumei was hitting his 30's) living in Southern California and flush with cash. (For once.) I finally got around to listening to Emotions. A bitch was [S L A Y E D]! If you gloss over the schlock that is Make It Happen and it's overwrought cousin If It's Over you've got a damn good album, and my favorite Mariah Carey CD. (We'd gotten our first CD player by then and skipping songs was a revelation. I can't tell you how many songs I had to force myself to like because skipping them every time they came on was a chore, unless you had one of those fancy tape players that could auto skip to the next song, even that would still take a minute to do.)
1994 also saw another yearly Mariah release (mmhmm) but it was a christmas album, and ain't nobody have time for that. I don't think I heard All I Want For Christmas Is You until I saw the 2003 movie Love Actually.... that can't be right... Anyway, I didn't check for christmas music back then, so hew knows.
1995 hit, and so did a new Mariah album. Fantasy came out and went EVERYWHERE. The ODB remix came out, and the hood was here for it. It even caused Genius Of Love to have a resurgence in SoCal. Daydream was... eh. A Glee-esque Journey cover. The slay that is Forever. The Always Be My Baby So So Def Remix was everything. I swear Jermaine Dupri is the only producer who can make her attempts at hip hoppier R&B sound good. Oh but children, the Fantasy CD single was my first exposure to Mariah club remixes. And when I tell you the 11:00 minute club mix of Fantasy was my everything and was in CONSTANT rotation, you don't have to believe me, but believe me. Oh Jesus. When those sirens start going 6 minutes in I get hype. When the beat drops and she starts vocalizing about her SWEET SWEET FANTASY, it's time to go to church.
IT'S JUST SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOoooooOOoOOOOooOOOOO. IT'S JUST SO SWEET SWEET. IT'S JUST SWEeEEeT.
Oh bitch, your run down, run of the hill fave could never, will never, and best not even try.
Moving on, Mariah returned 2 years later with a new nose, new tits, and with a CD that would make me stop fucking with her for the next 8 years. Butterfly dropped. I thought Honey was trash, obviously, but other than that it was well on its way to being my favorite MC album. The R&B was less try hard, the hip hoppier tracks (outside of that Bone Thugs collab) were almost decent. But oh bitch... Track 11 punched me out of the MC game. I saw the title in the tracklist, and hoped against hope that it wasn't what I thought it was. But as the the slay Fly Away interlude faded away, the unmistakable sound of a Prince cover came on. She should have taken a page from TLC's book and covered lesser known Prince tracks. But no.. this ho wanted to go ICONIC. smh. AND it was a Dru Hill collab too. No ma'am.
Butterfly was the last time I paid attention to MC til Mimi. I almost didn't pay attention then, because the lyric "Them chicks is ash, and I'm lotion." had to be the single most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard.
Que sera sera. Mariah looks and sounds nothing like she did when I was checking for her. But it's her life, and while she's spending her coins and she's not hurting me or mines, imma let it ride. She did a lot more in her time than any of these soundcloud girls can even fathom, and on her worst day she's better than them. Just so long as them doesn't include Madonna. She ain't that iconic.
Girlfriends and squirrel friends, Emotions.
1. "Emotions"
2. "And You Don't Remember"
3. "Can't Let Go"
6. "You're So Cold"
7. "So Blessed"
8. "To Be Around You"
9. "Till the End of Time"
10. "The Wind"
Bonus:
"Vision of Love"
"I Don't Wanna Cry"
"Vanishing"
"All in Your Mind"
"Alone in Love"
"Sent from Up Above"
"Can't Let Go" - MTV Unplugged
"Anytime You Need a Friend"
"Music Box"
"Fantasy"
"Underneath the Stars"
"Always Be My Baby"
"Forever"
"Daydream Interlude" (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)
"Looking In"
"Butterfly"
"The Roof (Back in Time)
"Fourth of July"
"Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)"
"Outside"
"All My Life"
"Say Somethin'"
"Stay the Night"
"Fly Like a Bird"
"Meteorite"
The Remixes:
"Fly Away (Butterfly Reprise)" (Fly Away Club Mix)
"Fantasy" (Def Club Mix)
"Always Be My Baby" (Mr. Dupri Mix) featuring Da Brat and Xscape
"Thank God I Found You" (Make It Last Remix) featuring Joe and Nas
"Sweetheart" featuring Jermaine Dupri
the ultraviolence video is boring. hope there is a big budget video for brooklyn baby
stan for one of the few non-boring song on that shitstorm
I discovered Mariah when she became the girlfriend of Latin Icon Luis Miguel. Lol.
Leona Lewis
Banned
Rob
FLAW
LESS
Also check out the little-known Always Be My Baby Morales mix and I Still Believe's Stevie J mix.
Life was never the same
FLAW
LESS
Also check out the little-known Always Be My Baby Morales mix and I Still Believe's Stevie J mix.
Life was never the same
Booty Patrol
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AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
All of this Mariah Carey education....
But shades "Make it Happen".......
But shades "Make it Happen".......
Nemesis_
Member
Speaking of which, I noticed on ATRL there was a post about Janet making a return but I can't actually find a source for the interview anywhere besides ATRL, so I'm a little bit skeptical.
Ian Cross is an audio engineer who worked with Janice on her last three albums.
I don't know why Rob thinks I'm an old man, but I would like to note that I was four years old in 1990.
And Rob forgot to include the remix of Anytime You Need A Friend, as well as my favorite b-sides, Slipping Away, Everything Fades Away, and Do You Think Of Me?, but it was still a pretty good post.
Rob, are you familiar with this remix? Or this one?
I don't think that any artist whose biggest successes occurred anywhere from ten to twenty four years ago is going to be a very prominent in the public mindshare, and that is especially true for an artist who is not simply on a career decline but one whose public image is decidedly uncool. I think any artist from that long ago whose career has fallen off requires some prompting; Whitney's death prompted reminisces of peoples' experiences discovering her and appreciating her at her peak; Michael's death had the same effect; even something smaller like Madonna's Super Bowl performance was an opportunity for something like that, since it functioned as a sort of Greatest Hits performance for her. But when you're not in the public eye, no one but your stans is thinking about you. That's not an observation about her lack of impact, or her career being ephemeral; it's a tautology that applies to just about any artist.
And Rob forgot to include the remix of Anytime You Need A Friend, as well as my favorite b-sides, Slipping Away, Everything Fades Away, and Do You Think Of Me?, but it was still a pretty good post.
Rob, are you familiar with this remix? Or this one?
I don't think that any artist whose biggest successes occurred anywhere from ten to twenty four years ago is going to be a very prominent in the public mindshare, and that is especially true for an artist who is not simply on a career decline but one whose public image is decidedly uncool. I think any artist from that long ago whose career has fallen off requires some prompting; Whitney's death prompted reminisces of peoples' experiences discovering her and appreciating her at her peak; Michael's death had the same effect; even something smaller like Madonna's Super Bowl performance was an opportunity for something like that, since it functioned as a sort of Greatest Hits performance for her. But when you're not in the public eye, no one but your stans is thinking about you. That's not an observation about her lack of impact, or her career being ephemeral; it's a tautology that applies to just about any artist.
Whitney had better hits and a more iconic voice.
Audio technology and Janet I'm in heaven right now reading this
<+)O Robido O(+>
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I don't know them shits son! Two were trash tho
and two (the b-sides) could get some use.
I am now. I prefer the second.
God, now I know how my mom must have felt in the 90's when I was jamming to some "old school" 70's music. Shit doesn't feel like it was that long ago and folks are already forgetting or have forgotten about it. Harsh, bro!
God, now I know how my mom must have felt in the 90's when I was jamming to some "old school" 70's music. Shit doesn't feel like it was that long ago and folks are already forgetting or have forgotten about it. Harsh, bro!
The lord's work is not done then. Let me keep reminding them every day.
Bless that post, Rob.
I've sad this before, but Can't Let Go has my favorite Mimi Whistle Moment. ;____;
It's pretty basic, on a technical level, compared to some of the crazier things Mariah's done in her whistle register...
But something about the final, sustained note she closes the song with is just so perfect. The effect is like waking up from a dream...
Although I disagree with Mariah's urban moments coming off try-hard. I think the thing that really set her apart at the time was how seamlessly she could transition between Pop and Urban
I've sad this before, but Can't Let Go has my favorite Mimi Whistle Moment. ;____;
It's pretty basic, on a technical level, compared to some of the crazier things Mariah's done in her whistle register...
But something about the final, sustained note she closes the song with is just so perfect. The effect is like waking up from a dream...
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Of course you would. You like it whenwomen dabble in R&B.pop
I don't really think of Mariah as a pop girl at heart. Her biggest influences as a vocalist were Stevie Wonder and Aretha; if you've listened to Aretha and Mariah enough you'll even start to hear Mariah cribbing a few of her riffs. The music she put out was sometimes more pop, but I think you could almost always hear the R&B influence.
I like what she did with that live; it differed slightly from performance to performance.
I don't know them shits son! Two were trash tho
and two (the b-sides) could get some use.
Which two were good?
Side-Note: Very cute usage of strikethrough.
Zel was right about you.
<+)O Robido O(+>
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I don't either. I joke wanna poke
fun at
I don't know why y'all keep summoning He Who Shall Not Be Named in these threads.
Hide ya kids.
Nemesis_
Member
Natalie Imbruglia is returning to music
Kind of disappointing, but I think that since her biggest hit was a cover then perhaps it makes a little bit of sense. Maybe she'll use it to launch something more later on.
But I do recommend everyone give Left Of The Middle a listen. It was a good pop-rock / trip hop album but I am not sure how well it stands up today.
Some other bops, which I assume only our UK popgaffers will know
Wrong Impression
Shiver
Glorious
She even has a singles compilation out if you can't be fucked listening to anything else of hers, which I also recommend. She was more of a grungey / rockey kind of pop girl but then slowly became a bit more accessible as she went through the albums
Kind of disappointing, but I think that since her biggest hit was a cover then perhaps it makes a little bit of sense. Maybe she'll use it to launch something more later on.
But I do recommend everyone give Left Of The Middle a listen. It was a good pop-rock / trip hop album but I am not sure how well it stands up today.
Some other bops, which I assume only our UK popgaffers will know
Wrong Impression
Shiver
Glorious
She even has a singles compilation out if you can't be fucked listening to anything else of hers, which I also recommend. She was more of a grungey / rockey kind of pop girl but then slowly became a bit more accessible as she went through the albums
and consequently flopped
I know what you're really thinking, don't worry.
And I linked three B-sides, and you only said you liked two... so I wasn't sure which two.
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Oh oops. Two of them said b-side in the description.
Slipping Away (ABMB B-Side) and Do You Think Of Me (Dreamlover B-Side)
Natalie Imbruglia is returning to music
Kind of disappointing, but I think that since her biggest hit was a cover then perhaps it makes a little bit of sense. Maybe she'll use it to launch something more later on.
But I do recommend everyone give Left Of The Middle a listen. It was a good pop-rock / trip hop album but I am not sure how well it stands up today.
Some other bops, which I assume only our UK popgaffers will know
Wrong Impression
Shiver
Glorious
She even has a singles compilation out if you can't be fucked listening to anything else of hers, which I also recommend. She was more of a grungey / rockey kind of pop girl but then slowly became a bit more accessible as she went through the albumsand consequently flopped
Left in the Middle is one of my favorite 90s albums. Play it all the time.
Bless Natalie.
So, I was forced into going to the Grave tonight, and it was about what I expected.
First of all, if you are in the GA, you will quickly realize how much this stage and catwalk fucking suck. There is only nowhere you can stand and be able to see everything, especially for me being close to the main stage area - she spends most of the time further out on the catwalk / by the piano area.
The setlist is the most disappointing part of the show. Almost all of the songs it seems are cut short. There is a clear distinction in the crowd reaction to ARTPOP songs and non-ARTPOP songs; being that no one seemed really here for the ARTPOP stuff (rightfully). The only ARTPOP song that garnered a huge reaction was G.U.Y., for whatever reason. I was thankful she played a song from her best album that wasn't acoustic, Judas, so I was able to get my life briefly to it.
The show in general is a huge step down from the BTWB, in terms of staging, outfits, setlist, dancing, overall theme.
I had an okay time, with some drinks. Would have been totally fine keeping the $200+ I spent total on the outing!
Oh and I got to get backstage for free which was cute. Seeing Asia for some reason was more cool and interesting than Gaga, whom was dressed up in one of her costumes and only gave us a quick picture before we were booted out.
First of all, if you are in the GA, you will quickly realize how much this stage and catwalk fucking suck. There is only nowhere you can stand and be able to see everything, especially for me being close to the main stage area - she spends most of the time further out on the catwalk / by the piano area.
The setlist is the most disappointing part of the show. Almost all of the songs it seems are cut short. There is a clear distinction in the crowd reaction to ARTPOP songs and non-ARTPOP songs; being that no one seemed really here for the ARTPOP stuff (rightfully). The only ARTPOP song that garnered a huge reaction was G.U.Y., for whatever reason. I was thankful she played a song from her best album that wasn't acoustic, Judas, so I was able to get my life briefly to it.
The show in general is a huge step down from the BTWB, in terms of staging, outfits, setlist, dancing, overall theme.
I had an okay time, with some drinks. Would have been totally fine keeping the $200+ I spent total on the outing!
Oh and I got to get backstage for free which was cute. Seeing Asia for some reason was more cool and interesting than Gaga, whom was dressed up in one of her costumes and only gave us a quick picture before we were booted out.
Nemesis_
Member
hmm okay
I haven't been yet but I agree with you re: the setlist, I already know that's going to be the most disappointing aspect for me.
As for your complaints about GA, I don't really know how you didn't know the best place to stand considering that you run a fansite and I've even posted the ideal positions here too. It doesn't surprise me she spends more time near the people who paid the most, though.
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
OMGGGG I finally found out what this amazing song is I've been hearing every morning!
Disclosure - Latch feat. Sam Smith. As a bonus, the background music reminds me of the amazing OST from the original Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES <333
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ASUImTedo
on an unrelated note....
UMMM random compliment time!
Is that you in your avi roy??? LOVE the pink shirt
Disclosure - Latch feat. Sam Smith. As a bonus, the background music reminds me of the amazing OST from the original Donkey Kong Country games on the SNES <333
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ASUImTedo
on an unrelated note....
UMMM random compliment time!
Is that you in your avi roy??? LOVE the pink shirt
and the face and the hair
Soulscribe
Member
Yes Roy is flawless. Too bad he's been claimed sis.
MINE
enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
haha that's fine!
I'm not sure if I've said it before but I love your avi too Soulscribe!
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