What I'm Listening To - 8.31.07

"Make It Hot" by Lil Mama.

The best 17 year old female on the market, Lil Mama, who produced the viral single, Lipgloss, has since released three more songs. "GSlide/Tour Bus" is her second single. Then "On Fire, " and then "Make It Hot." I love love love this song. Her ghetto voice flows over synth horns, she sings the chorus boistrously, over added clinking percussion "I-I came to put it down/Straight from New York to the A Town/ Haters wanna see me down/I ain't even put put put it down."

"It's Lil Mama, voice of the Young People" she boasts, mentioning the title of her album, and she couldn't be more correct. If she's the voice for the young people my age, i'll take it. She's better than any female MC since Missy. She puts it down HARD on this track, and I couldn't be happier.

Take a listen. Love it. It's a medium-quality rip.

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What I'm Listening To - 8.30.07

1. "Gimme More" by Britney Spears

"it's Britney, bitch!" the track calls out at the beginning, and y'know...it's good to hear her again in the studio, purring away as the pop sex kitten she was.

and, finally, something comes of britney that isn't total shit. i'm glad for it. it's a pretty nice single, but i don't know if it's going to revive her career, but out of the three singles that have leaked so far, this one's the best. is that saying much? i don't know. you decide. supplementary single, "Cold As Fire"




2. "Good Life (Explicit)

my favorite track off of Graduation so far. i think graduation will definitely be the album to put 50 cent outta the solo world. (you know, he said if Kanye's Graduation sold more than his Curtis, he was going to quit his solo career) well, I look forward to no more magilla the gorilla records.

now, about the single. he samples "P.Y.T." from Thriller by Michael Jackson, which is one of my favorite singles of all time and it is a complete earbug. love it. love this single. Also, Kanye finally gets T-Pain to guest on a track where T-Pain doesn't sound like a robot Cher wannabe. Congrats on releasing your inner talent, T-Pain. Not bad. Commendable, even.

m.i.a. billboard news

AAAAAAAH!!!


So, Kala, the latest album from my current favorite artist, M.I.A., sold 29,000 copies during its first week in sales, and is now at #18 on the Billboard top 200 albums and is #8 on Top Rap albums.

So, I'm stoked.

edit: update! Kala is also #1 on the top Electronic Albums chart

What I'm Listening To - 8.29.07

today from my vault, i bring you the tale of unwarranted, unaccepted love by The Little Folksinger, Ani DiFranco. one of my biggest inspirations, if you've never heard Ani before, this is the time. She's releasing a greatest hits err...artist's 18 album-encircling string of songs entitled Canon, and it deserves a listen. So i offer you Shameless, from her 1996 album, dilate, which is one of her best albums.

shameless

i cannot name this
i cannot explain this
and i really don't want to
just call me shameless
i can't even slow this down
let alone stop this
and i keep looking around
but i cannot top this

if i had any sense
i guess i'd fear this
i guess i'd keep it down
so no one would hear this
i guess i'd shut my mouth
and rethink a minute
but i can't shut it now
'cuz there's something in it

we're in a room without a door
and i am sure without a doubt
they're gonna wanna know
how we got in here
and they're gonna wanna know
how we plan to get out
we better have a good explanation
for all the fun that we had
'cuz they are coming for us, babe
and they are going to be mad
yeah they're going to be mad at us

this is my skeleton
this is the skin it's in
that is, according to light
and gravity
i'll take off my disguise
the mask you met me in
'cuz i got something
for you to see
just gimme your skeleton
give me the skin it's in
yeah baby, this is you
according to me
i never avert my eyes
i never compromise
so never mind
the poetry

i gotta cover my butt 'cuz i covet
another man's wife
i gotta divide my emotions
into wrong and right
then i get to see how close i can get to it
without giving in
then i get to rub up against it
'til i break the skin
rub up against it
'til i break the skin

they're gonna be mad at us
they're gonna be mad at me and you
they're gonna be mad at us
and all the things
we wanna do

just please don't name this
please don't explain this
just blame it all on me
say i was shameless
say i couldn't slow it down
let alone stop it
and say you just hung around
'cuz you couldn't top it

© 1996 ani difranco / righteous babe music

What I'm Listening To - 8.28.07

well, now that this blog is taking shape in my mind, i'm starting out with my first 'what i'm listening to.' click on titles to check out the songs.



1. "Model (Sinden Remix)" by To My Boy.



I found this awesome little remix, which quips "this weekend I constructed a model for the answer. it wasn't very easy, but these things never are i suppose!" what is to my boy answering? the question of life's purpose? hm. left me wondering. awesome house/techno beat with great production backing and remix by Sinden, a great British DJ that's worth checking out.

2."No One" by Alicia Keys

New midtempo love song from her forthcoming album, As I Am. Adequate lyrics, great instrumentation as always, but you can tell her voice has aged in the years since her last album. Slurred runs, overexertion, pitchiness. But still, a good track to brighten a day. It's all about that feeling one gets in an ideal relationship. Sure, it's trite, but it's cute. "No one/can get in the way of what i feel for you." Makes me feel lacking in the relationship area. sigh.





from my seemingly endless vault of music comes one of the first techno pieces i ever listened to and became addicted to when i discovered columbia house and signed up as a rebel 10 year old member. included in my first shipment was urbal beats, which i had chosen due to my love for the band the prodigy and their album, the fat of the land. but that's another story. track sixteen just happened to be

"Busy Child" by The Crystal Method


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