March 2, 201510 yr 1. Animal 2. Turn Around 3. Talking About 4. R U Crazy 5. Vegas Girl 6. Can't Say No Love them all though :wub:
March 2, 201510 yr Turn Around Animal Talking About Vegas Girl Can't Say No R U Crazy So many of his debut album tracks would slot just below Talking About. The album was fantastic for the most part <3
March 2, 201510 yr 1 R U Crazy 2 Animal 3 Can't Say No 4 Turn Around 5 Vegas Girl 6 Talking About Oops.
March 2, 201510 yr 1. 'Turn Around' 2. 'Vegas Girl' 3. 'Talking About' 4. 'Can't Say No' 5. 'Animal' 6. 'R U Crazy' All are amazing though! :wub:
March 2, 201510 yr Author R U Crazy > Turn Around > Animal > Talking About > Can't Say No >>> ... >>> Vegas Girl Vegas Girl is really bad. I wasn't a fan at all during the first two singles but then he managed to turn it around (:magic:) Don't get the hate for R U Crazy. :( I really like this one even though I hate Karen's 'Say Something'
March 2, 201510 yr 1 R U Crazy 2 Animal 3 Can't Say No 4 Turn Around 5 Vegas Girl 6 Talking About Oops. This would be my EXACT top 6, if 'Can't Say No' and 'Turn Around' switched around. :kink: 'R U Crazy' is definitely his best for me, at first it made me cringe a bit lyrically but was a grower, the production is FANTASTIC also. *.* Oh and this one is okay, didn't really excite me upon first listen but I expect it'll at least overtake 'Vegas Girl' in time. Edited March 2, 201510 yr by Jade
March 2, 201510 yr 1. Vegas Girl 2. Turn Around 3. R U Crazy 4. Can't Say No 5. Animal 6. Talking About
March 2, 201510 yr I wouldn't put it as frankly as Calum but i do think some people's view of the song is being tarnished because of the artist, but that could just be me being cynical. This is an interesting point and having thought about it, I don't think that allowing a particular artist's history/trajectory/past material influence your judgement on a new track is necessarily a bad thing. There's different ways you could evaluate a song, or any piece of work, and judging something based solely in its own merits and isolated from the artist in question and wider context isn't always satisfactory. When you feel there's a significant amount of rebranding and trend-chasing behind a comeback single, as it seems a few people do in this case, I think it's fair to take that into account and I guess to allow it 'tarnish' your view of the single campaign to a degree. If this same song was released by Jess Glynne, for instance, it wouldn't feel as contrived to me, mainly because it's the kind of sound she's made her name on and genuinely seems to like (and I know there's such a thing as musical progression etc. but it just doesn't feel like that's as much the case here)! As I said before though, I do think the song itself is good but the overall package seems entirely unconvincing, at least right now. By the way, I'm sort of thinking out loud here and not saying you're wrong with what you said - I just found it interesting and am a bit bored!
March 2, 201510 yr This is an interesting point and having thought about it, I don't think that allowing a particular artist's history/trajectory/past material influence your judgement on a new track is necessarily a bad thing. There's different ways you could evaluate a song, or any piece of work, and judging something based solely in its own merits and isolated from the artist in question and wider context isn't always satisfactory. When you feel there's a significant amount of rebranding and trend-chasing behind a comeback single, as it seems a few people do in this case, I think it's fair to take that into account and I guess to allow it 'tarnish' your view of the single campaign to a degree. If this same song was released by Jess Glynne, for instance, it wouldn't feel as contrived to me, mainly because it's the kind of sound she's made her name on and genuinely seems to like (and I know there's such a thing as musical progression etc. but it just doesn't feel like that's as much the case here)! As I said before though, I do think the song itself is good but the overall package seems entirely unconvincing, at least right now. By the way, I'm sort of thinking out loud here and not saying you're wrong with what you said - I just found it interesting and am a bit bored! That is all perfectly understandable, and i am the same with cinema and considering a director's past works and life etc, but it will never impact on my enjoyment of a song or film. It may do for other people and that is fair enough, but for me, watching a film or listening to a song is instantaneous and while i may pick it apart after and begin to see how it came about or what develpments it has shown from past work, my initial response to it will always be based on me listening or taking in whatever it is. Whether the song seems "convincing" or not, that will never impact on whether i like listening to it, or how much it makes me want to repeat it. What makes me do that is often indescribable and unique to me and my experience of the song. I can understand that this particular song isn't reshaping the musical landscape, but then how many songs do? Frankly that will never impede on my judgement of the song as a piece of music. It may affect how highly i rank it or how highly i talk about it to others, but my own personal judgement on a song is devoid from that. I also think there are some instances where people highly praise an artist rebranding and others where they are shunned for doing that and it's downplayed as them simply "following trends". I feel a lot of that is again subjective to their opinions on the actual artist not the music in question. We are all going to have artists we like listening to and others that we don't, naturally, but i'd like to think people listened to music on a case-by-case basis. I find Chris Brown and Jason Derulo abhorrent as personalities, but that does not come into it when i am jamming to 'Beautiful People' or 'Breathing' but it does come into fruition when i discuss them as artists more generally. If Jess Glyne (lol why is she the example for every scenario on the forum now :lol:) released this i would enjoy it just as much as i do right now. Same for Chris Brown, Pete Burns, Mark Ronson or any artist releasing this song.
March 2, 201510 yr 1. Vegas Girl 2. Can't Say No 3. Turn Around 4. Talking About 5. Animal 6. R U Crazy
March 2, 201510 yr Good God, what is with the constant bitching and complaining about the sound. He's obviously experimenting with what's been hot in the market as of recent. It's no "Animal" (by the way YAAAAAAAS) but it would sound good in the club. My ranking: 1.) "Animal" (original of course) 2.) "R U Crazy" 3.) this 4.) "Vegas Girl" 5.) "Turn Around" 6.) "Can't Say No" In very small margins because this is Slaynard we are talking about here.
March 2, 201510 yr @ Haus I'm the exact same with regard to my basic 'enjoyment' of and tendency to re-listen to a song - that would be unaffected. In this case I don't really have an inclination to listen to the song again as it didn't leave too much of an impression but if it did, the artist or anything else about it wouldn't prevent me from doing so. I guess it could potentially be a guilty pleasure at worst but I'd still listen to it. I had thought you were referring more generally to the criticisms/evaluations when you said 'view' and not just to people's enjoyment of the song being influenced so I may have misinterpreted that. :D Edited March 2, 201510 yr by Noahspike
March 3, 201510 yr 1. Animal 2. Turn Around 3. Talking About 4. Can't Say No 5. R U Crazy 6. Vegas Girl
March 4, 201510 yr 1. Vegas Girl 2. R U Crazy 3. Animal 4. Turn Around 5. Can't Say No 6. Talking About (for the moment anyway)
March 4, 201510 yr 01. Talking About 02. Turn Around 03. Animal 04. R U Crazy 05. Can't Say No 06. Vegas Girl
March 4, 201510 yr 01. Turn Around --- 02. Can't Say No 03. Animal --- 04. Talking About 05. R U Crazy 06. Vegas Girl The last three are varying shades of awful. It's a shame, because the three above them show how much potential he actually has!
March 4, 201510 yr 1. Animal 2.Can't Say No 3.Talking That 4.R U Crazy 5,Turn Around 6.Vegas Girl All are amazing though :wub:
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