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Ari Falcão
Like her colleague MC Pipokinha, Ari Falcão sounds insistent, grabbing, enticing, potentially lacerating.
Ari Falcão (prod. Christopher Luz) - Toma Xota Na Cara [flashing lights]
In addition, though, she's got a rich singing voice that's capable of great gobs of sadness.
MC Pipokinha & Ari Falcão (prod. DJ Glenner) - Sensação
MC Pipokinha & Ari ( Read more... ) -
"Who? Why they *sound* like this? Why she cut..."
"That gotta be the craziest one in the group. Hey! Dat gotta be - She's scary, I'm not even gonna hold ya -- She is scary, and she hardest one in the group. SHE GIVIN HERSELF A CHOP CHOP IN THE VIDEO!" [Max Sigo]
So our rabbit hole today is reaction vids to XG's "Woke Up." I've watched a score of them, but YouTube's got scores more ( Read more... ) -
A Blonde Woman Named Anne (Days Of Future Posts, May 2024)
The in-person day-to-day life has been overwhelming me for several months so instead of a well-wrought well-thought post I've got this catchup, things I hope to write or might write someday, fast thought, not too wrought, we'll see.
(1) Put Pipokinha In It. Making YouTube playlists may be the thing I do online that I care about most these days. ( Read more... ) -
Hoisted from the archives: Athletic R&B comments reconstituted
Am expecting to link my original June 2011 LJ writeup on Miss A's "Breathe" in a couple of days; in the meantime I'm reposting here its original comment thread. This particular thread became very important to me because in it askbask gave me the beginning of a primer on dancers and choreography in K-pop, and he embedded some terrific dance performances - ( Read more... ) -
Boom Boom, Shake Your Boom (Shinsadong Tiger)
Writer/producer Shinsadong Tiger made music that was catchy and excellently danceable. Korea had normalized, and sometimes sweetened, a lot of sounds that had been wilder and more explosive in electronic dance subgenres and in hip-hop.* The results were often just as good, and I felt that with Shinsadong Tiger in particular, the sweetness worked as ( Read more... ) -
What Was THAT? (Black History 1979)
We're doing Black Pop History Month '78-'81 at the People's Pop Polls, and here are three discoveries from '79, the latter two firmly in the category What Was THAT?
Paulette & Tanya Winley - Rhymin' & Rappin'
Tanya's the great discovery here, less grab-you-in-the-face than Roxanne Shanté, but she raps with the same insistent glue, our attention ( Read more... ) -
This isolation booth I'm in is dark and turning cold (Toby Keith)
"That's Not How It Is," my favorite Toby Keith song, from Unleashed: Keith could be really sexy and really funny - this unhappy one's not funny, but he keeps his wits about him, matter-of-fact when the facts are sad. The singing is two-thirds smooth to one-third gruff, the gruffness being used to suggest a reserve of warmth that has nowhere to go ( Read more... ) -
EOY, EOY Oh! (unrepresentative albums poll ballot for 2023)
The last album I really listened to as an album was Taylor Swift's Fearless. Which isn't to say that there've been no albums since then that have had an identity for me, such as a common sound to the whole thing or interesting ways the tracks play off and sometimes against each other. In Babes Wodumo's Crown, for instance, from my 2021 albums list ( Read more... ) -
There's A Riot Goin' On
Embedding a couple of threads I'm proud of. -We've been running Unpolled Bangers From Unpolled Years at the People's Pop Polls (see footnote* for what those words mean). Tom let me have 1954 and I chose the Robins' "Riot In Cell Block #9," which gave me the opportunity to expand a thread I'd initially done for the Soundtracks poll: where the song ( Read more... ) -
The Ministry Of Funny Beats
Funny beats! Tied to riffs that resolutely don't go anywhere, but don't go away, either. There've been several of these recently, all Brazilian funk, all fluttering around the number 10 spot on my 2023 singles list. Each is a combination of funny peculiar and funny ha-ha, at least to my various and peculiar funny bones.
Not the same funny beat on ( Read more... )
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