sandbox r&b

Prepare for instant revulsion, then gradual, reluctant infatuation. I imagine dudes who crush on Zooey Deschanel feel the way I do about Elle Varner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gk8cjWIdMQ

yes i hate "only want to give it to you"! the line "i want you more than a new pair of shoes" is the most annoying line and most annoyingly sung in history.

new pair of horseshoes otm

it is just trying too damn hard, that song, that line, ugh.

i love anthony hamilton and would listen to him sing anything but the new album is kind of boring. and lex otm about "baby girl."

also i love that k michelle song upthread!!! thank you ilx r&b threads you bring such good things to my life!

relistening, you guys are right about her singing on this! its too bad

i do think the song itself is pretty strong tho; i certainly like the retro vibe of it a lot more than that beyonce / 'swag goo' song

love love love '4am'

thicke's album is kind of disapointingly hit-and-miss imo but "mission" is so great

is it just my copy of the thicke album or does "full time believer" end really suddenly?

also did he just call himself a pterodactyl on "dangerous"?

"Breath Again" is very good, sort of like a sequel to last year's "Skydiver." This other leaked Cassie tune is pretty good as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZC7eJufw8

Like Cassie produced by Justice or somthing, but actually very listenable!

Also been feeling these random songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdcnw8-WjCg
(HELLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR3vRCXCsyY
(new Carl Thomas album is pretty good)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mv9RysqSB4

and the new SWV single is way better than it has any business being:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DyeivNVJk

Yes! Carl Thomas keeping the water drip sound alive.

kind of bummed about the RichGirl breakup, but the solo tracks I've heard from Lyndriette and Seven are pretty good. Here's Lyndriette's single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeB6cbRTJw

new Teairra Mari single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA4OrfnGaKI

"tears on my tuxedo" on the thicke album is kinda ridiculously good

i guess since his music is in a way very conservative and throwback, i don't think thicke gets enough credit for being a weirdo r&b singer like the way that r. kelly or even terius crossed over to non-r&b critics

like this album is really ridiculous but in that way that keeps you on your toes and makes individual songs unique w/o having to be some sonic outlier or something in that way that good kells albums used to, imo

"Love After War is terrific.

have you heard the Hamilton record?

yeah that is one of the best songs on here

yeah idk it kinda bored me but i don't typically get bowled over initially w/ those kinda albums

"all tied up" is my fave off of the Thicke album

robin thicke is one of those people who makes life seem unfair. classically handsome, great voice, great songwriter, probably a great dancer, is rich. damnit

AMAZING taste in women

One of my favorite performances of the year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKP4pDzt2JQ

robin thicke is one of those people who makes life seem unfair. classically handsome, great voice, great songwriter, probably a great dancer, is rich. damnit

― nice catch cuauhtemoc blanco niño (dayo), Monday, December 19, 2011 8:31 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

AMAZING taste in women

― k3vin k., Monday, December 19, 2011 8:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i was gonna say, you didn't even mention gorgeous movie star wife.

j0rdan otm though, there's a lot of character and playfulness in Thicke's music that people don't necessarily pick up on unless he's laying the goofy retro stuff on thick like on parts of Sex Therapy.

the nicki & thicki letterman performance should have put paid to any thoughts of robin thicke being a good dancer

after letting them sink in a bit i think i pretty much agree with shipz on the relative merits of the thicke and hamilton albums

keith sweat!! this is doooope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Y9QMA9LX0&ob=av2n

you guys are fucking up by not having that song in your life

this is pretty lol

http://www.essence.com/2011/12/21/robin-thicke-on-loving-black-women-interracial-dating-and-pleasing-paula/

I have a song on my new album called, “I Don’t Know How It Feels to Be You,” and she and I were in the middle of an argument and she said, “Robin, no matter how hard you try, or how compassionate you are, you’ll never know what it’s like to be a Black woman.” So I got up and I wrote this song in five minutes.

i can't.

Listening to the new Mya album... It sounds very very very sparkly so far.

omg @ that quote

new mya album what? what? where? who? how?

wikipedia says it was released in april?!

would anyone involved in r&b like to do some basic promo at any point? apart from on tumblr

wasn't it only released in japan?

wish I hadn't read that robin thicke interview

wish I hadn't heard of robin thicke

awesome album, y'all

when xmas is over and i have time i intend to tweet the top 5 most lol lines from the robin thicke album

i think now that robin thicke seems fully committed to being completely o_0 beneath the smooveness i can finally appreciate him 100%

http://i50.tinypic.com/8zlor4.gif

he's a treasure

I lol'd at the sam spade line

irl lol

unsure how to explain to my parents what i just laughed at

robin thicke has always been o_O, like ever since "when i get you alone". i mean, have you ever listened to the lyrics of "lost without u" for chrissakes?

this is a guy whose first single contained the couplet "baby girl you the shit/ that makes you my equivalent"

over a fifth of goddamn beethoven

*slowly gets off the robin thicke bandwagon*

j/k he nice