"Jealous" is my favourite song not to get a vote.
― Tim F, Monday, 30 November 2015 02:14 (eight years ago) link
Haha classic early adopter ilx poll results
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 30 November 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
i think i forgot, i woulda voted for 'be alright' : /
― j., Monday, 30 November 2015 03:18 (eight years ago) link
no wait 'bright'
the empowering one
grammy nominated
― J0rdan S., Monday, 7 December 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
RIGHT HERE
― j., Monday, 7 December 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kehlani-tore-up-new-song.1967554.html
― Spottie, Monday, 7 December 2015 20:39 (eight years ago) link
Great piece, Tim (though disagree somewhat about Beyonce as universalist: think she gives this innocent/simple country boy mind the grand illusion of seeing through *her* eyes, feeling the rush and massive skyscraper impact of *her* outsized experience, sometimes anyway). Also other comments on this thread got me going, will check alb.
― dow, Monday, 7 December 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
didn't vote in this but i've been feeling Bright lately
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 15 December 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
Jealous is the earworm on here for me
― pplasma, Tuesday, 15 December 2015 20:34 (eight years ago) link
new song "Did I" is def a step closer to the mainstream
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 December 2015 07:53 (eight years ago) link
heh i too once eagerly invoked nivea to sell this (or perhaps the prev one idk) to someone before sternly reminding myself that irlx is not a thing
looking forward to her going a bit more pop if so, feels right now. maybe someone oughta hook her up with some y2k 'he loves u not'/ 'no matta what' spazz beats just cos she can
― r|t|c, Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:10 (eight years ago) link
Omg yes
― Tim F, Thursday, 17 December 2015 10:43 (eight years ago) link
almost too cruel to invoke that possibility when it will never happen
i think she'll be great at going pop in whatever era though, albeit not with this new one specifically, which feels a bit trudging compared with her own stuff
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
relistening to "he loves u not" now (<3) and the first girl really is a dead ringer for kehlani!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
maybe the pop & oak connection is polluting my thinking here but the way the sample is used in the "did i" hook is a little too reminiscent of "say it" for me
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
the rap part of the verses remind me of drake's big rings hook
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 December 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
good bridge
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
which actually reminds me of "FWU"
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 17 December 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
what the fuck is going on
― j., Tuesday, 29 March 2016 07:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2016/03/29/kehlani-suicide-attempt/
Always so sad to hear about anyone reaching this place.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 29 March 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
new songhttps://soundcloud.com/kehlanimusic/24-7a
― Spottie, Tuesday, 3 May 2016 21:52 (eight years ago) link
this one's dope, way better than 'did i' IMO
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 23:43 (eight years ago) link
THE EAST COAST AINT GOT NO LOVE FOR KEHLANI ?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHoonuZ8og
― Spottie, Monday, 18 July 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link
Not as into that one as the other new one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGky5MaSLs
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 25 July 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
something very swv about "distraction", i love it (and "24/7" is also such a necessary song)
― lex pretend, Saturday, 30 July 2016 11:26 (eight years ago) link
I love it too but it's about 45 seconds too long? idk
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 July 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
"The Letter" is so brutal.
― Tim F, Friday, November 20, 2015 11:16 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally. really exemplifies what makes her songwriting so effective for me - it's so unflinching, she doesn't sugarcoat any word or emotion (and her relatively plain style of singing accentuates this), but really elegant in the way she pieces together a situation and its consequences via so many details that bring the entire song into focus
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 24, 2015 12:08 PM (nine months ago)
it's kind of fucked to put it even as early as trk 9 / 8 (w/ intro), since it wrecks you and then the next few songs can just pass by in a daze
― j., Sunday, 4 September 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
"crzy" is getting those payola spins
― dyl, Sunday, 4 September 2016 20:51 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CtjoPDgUEAErbq-.jpg:large
― Spottie, Thursday, 29 September 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
can we initiate hype proceedings for the ilm aoty 2017 or what
'undercover' is perfect
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
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― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 17 December 2015 17:48 Bookmark
lowkey close!!
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:06 (seven years ago) link
I'ma save your name under somethin' elseI'ma keep your things deep in myselfI'ma tweet our inside jokes to the outside worldForget you, go awayI'ma pick you up from the back in trainsKept you in the world when it's all pretendYou're just you, I'm just meThere's no us, it's nothin'
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:13 (seven years ago) link
'undercover' is perfect― r|t|c, Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:02 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― r|t|c, Thursday, January 12, 2017 6:02 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeh it is.
― Spottie, Thursday, 12 January 2017 16:58 (seven years ago) link
i loooove "undercover" and basically all of the other songs i've heard from this record
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
it's not even like chance x tlc blew my mind or anything but as soon i saw the cover and title i had this v relaxed certainty that yes this album will be a happening
now it feels like being in the airfield tower watching the career plane approach smoothly for landing
still quite opaque to locate the moment when/why her tide rose. to say it was the incident is reductively cynical but also pretty wrong i think
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
weirdly i think it was the grammy nom? like, them getting her singer-songwriterliness
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
omg "undercover"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 12 January 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I've listened to "undercover" about 20 times today
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
ha same
― Spottie, Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:51 (seven years ago) link
this album is too long but there's tons to like... i listened to you should be here today and i think that is still better but this album has some of the best songs she's ever written, some stuff that feels purposefully experimental that she really pulls off
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
the first track sounds like one of the upbeat songs on southern hummingbird, she does one song that is like fka twigs that is great, and this also has probably the most faithful and best aaliyah homage i've heard
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
there's no way I can get away with this in a review but "distraction" is both really good and like an R&B "bright yellow gun"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:47 (seven years ago) link
"piece of mind" is crazy good
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 26 January 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I'm listening now. Sounds good.
katherine, that's an amazing description.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 January 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
why is this album 62 minutes long lol
― monotony, Friday, 27 January 2017 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I don't care for the last third, or at least it hasn't clicked yet, but "Do U Dirty" to "Too Much" is my favorite sequence.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 January 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
it's def too long, there's like 4-5 songs i'd cut to make it an easier and better listen, and i think most people will feel that way, but with different songs
― J0rdan S., Friday, 27 January 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
"grieving" is so good i'll even endure the unwelcome yodel of james blake
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/kehlani-can-i-music-video-tory-lanez.html
Lanez wasn’t in the video, but it still featured his verse. “Full transparency cuz i believe in that with my following,” Kehlani tweeted. “His verse is still on the song, the video is solo. new verse on the deluxe.” In a since-deleted tweet, she added, “The album came out months ago i can’t remove it, doesn’t work like that. can only move forward.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
get lanez off this and it might be my fave track on the albumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDDyKoNG2Q
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 31 July 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
there's a new album out???
― Nourry, Friday, 29 April 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
Indeed.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 April 2022 16:25 (two years ago) link
It's pretty good
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 29 April 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link
i think shes slipped quite a bit.
― jammin on the dud (Spottie), Friday, 29 April 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
this is solid, hope it sticks with me better than the last one
― ufo, Monday, 2 May 2022 08:04 (two years ago) link
kind of an odd record... it seems like she wanted to make an intimate, minor-by-design sort of album? i think it gets better at the end, starting w/ "altar." i like "tangerine" a lot. the gestures towards tempo (the slick rick sample, the bieber song) don't feel very realized. some of the production and vocals are pretty but idk how much any of the songs really stick w/ me.
the last album was great to me. this album is missing songs like "change your life" and "hate the club" ... and even "bad news" and "everybody business" does the sound of this album better than this album. will give this one a few more tries but it may just be a write off for me.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
pitchfork has this rated as the best kehlani album... i'm yelling "objection" at the judge
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:50 (two years ago) link
this is her weakest to my ears
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
easily
― he was eating Vaseline like it was bunch of cheeseburgers (Spottie), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 19:37 (two years ago) link
I feel like if she waited a bit longer between albums and gathered up the best material she had, instead of doing random singles and mixtapes, she would have a better strike rate. Six albums (or album-length projects) in eight years is a lot.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
"after hours" is ahh... hmm...
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 18:17 (four months ago) link
horrible
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 18:21 (four months ago) link
sigh.
i hated it immediately :(
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 19:03 (four months ago) link
i think it's fine if undistinguished and obvious
― dyl, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 23:32 (four months ago) link
same but as a direction i like it a lot better than that last album which was by far the most forgettable of her career
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 17:55 (four months ago) link
this is certainly the first time I've become aware of a new Kehlani video by reading Al Jazeera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpI7ekFG8A0
― rob, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 20:51 (three months ago) link
i actually like “after hours” a lot, good summer record. there is a yearning & longing that i think plays off the sample really well the rest of the album however
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 11 July 2024 14:59 (two months ago) link
I like the album better than anything she's put out since 2019. I do not like the Christina Aguilera interpolation or the Jill Scott number.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 July 2024 15:14 (two months ago) link
After hours is a gem, yes
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 11 July 2024 17:40 (two months ago) link
new mixtape is about a billion times better than the new album, you hate to see it but it happens
― ivy., Saturday, 31 August 2024 20:12 (three weeks ago) link
i like the song named after her that she remixed lol
― dyl, Sunday, 1 September 2024 03:03 (two weeks ago) link