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Foundation - B
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Worship - B
Eyes Shut - F
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Desire - A
Gold - D
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Considering the amount of promo and hype for this I'm a bit disappointed tbh - the production is nice but Olly's voice tends to be a bit grating at some points
Suggestions: Working Girl for next week and Lianne La Havas' album Blood when it's released
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There aren’t many new artists who’ve featured on two multi-platinum UK number 1 albums (Rudimental’s Home and Disclosures’s Settle), collaborated with everyone from Ryan Hemsworth to Goldlink, and who’ve been tapped up by the actual Janet Jackson to work on her new album. Actually there’s only one artist to fit that bill and that’s your new favourite singer, Sinead Harnett. Born in north London to a Thai mother and an Irish father, 25-year-old Sinead’s music is an intoxicating blend of laid-back featherlight soul, 90s-referencing R&B bangers (think Timbaland-produced Aaliyah tinged with UK garage) and delicately swooning slow jams all tied together by a versatile voice that coaxes and teases one minute, and delivers a withering put down the next. The latter can be found in abundance on the percussive stomp of the excellent new single She Ain’t Me, an attitude-heavy change of pace from the cooing collaborations she’s done so far. A sign of what’s to come on her forthcoming debut album I’ll Remain, She Ain’t Me captures an artist stepping up to the next level. “That was one of the earlier tunes I did for the album that featured this new, more feisty side to me,” she explains. “I knew it needed to be on the album and I actually fought for it to be a single. It’s still quite restrained, but there’s attitude in there too. It’s still me but a step up.”
Peppered with low slung grooves, subtly entrancing vocal melodies and lashings of smoky soul, 2014’s N.O.W EP was an introduction to what Harnett could do outside of the features. “The EP was very much me at that time,” she says. “That was where I was at, I was writing my album but I wanted to give people a hint of what was to come. I wanted to share where I was at that time.” It’s a sign of how confident she is in the new material that none of the songs from the EP made the final album tracklisting, especially when you consider that one of the songs, No Other Way, was picked out as a favourite by childhood hero Janet Jackson, whose management, and then later super producer Rodney Jerkins, had been in touch to see if Sinead might like to write for Jackson’s forthcoming new album (talks are ongoing).
Thankfully the subtler side of her musical personality is catered for on the album by the silky soft Enough, the softly devastating title track and the gorgeous swoon of Let You Win, a song recorded in LA after a three day writing session with Beyoncé and Rihanna collaborator, James Fauntleroy. “His way of working is so relaxed and it was such a pleasure to work with him,” she says of the sessions in his studio in Inglewood. “We had three days together, which I still can’t believe. I remember him asking me what I was feeling from the instrumental and to me, instinctively, it was just a sexy song.” Other collaborators on the album include the likes of MOJAM, Two Inch Punch, TMS, Chris Loco and Kendrick Lamar collaborator Koz, each helping channel Harnett’s ideas and songwriting into an eclectic, multi-layered album that showcases more than one flavour. “There are lots of layers on the album and I’ll Remain, the song, is the heart of it. That was the song I’ve put under the carpet for years. I wanted to find peace with the situation it touches on,” she says. “The top layer is the more fun songs and there are also the sexier moments too.” Then there’s the drum clap heavy minimalism of the amazing future single Do It Anyway, a song “about me getting a high out of doing things the way I want to do them and not being influenced by people who maybe don’t have my best intentions at heart.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLXl6tBjA0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t481nPBsenA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWy5aaGSzSU
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can you post pics of it please?
this, pleaseee
Here you go (sorry about the terrible quality by the way - I tried my best )
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Bought the CD on Friday; the acoustic version of Working Girl is nice but the packaging was disappointing to say the least
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Ryn Weaver
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I hate how Interscope always add insult to injury when they announce these "deluxe" versions for the UK
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The album is streaming on Pandora: http://pdora.co/WorkingGirl
At the moment, my favourites out of the "new" songs are The Game and Desire but it's a great album overall; I knew she wouldn't disappoint
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I'm genuinely surprised by how solid this album is
The only song I'm not too keen on is Making the Most of the Night because of the awful mastering of her vocals. It's a shame that the album isn't officially out here for another 3 months though
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Tove Styrke
in Music
Here's the album lyrics and credits taken from the booklet
Ain't Got No
Me be so self-sufficient
Losing all self control
We ain't got the time
While pushing us all around
We ain't got no time to get old
Me ain't got no time, no
Me be my bold ambition
Leaning towards dreams of gold
Me ain't got no time
While pushing my soul around
Me ain't got no time to get old
Me ain't got no time, no
Send it up, send it out
Baby write it on the wall
Send it up, send it out
Do you really wanna know
I just wanted you to see
I just thought that you should know
Me be my own suspicion
Sorry can't save my soul
Me ain't got no time
While pushing my soul around
Me ain't got no time for control
Send it up, send it out
Baby write it on the wall
Send it up, send it out
Do you really wanna know
I just wanted you to see
I just thought that you should know
Send it out to me baby
Baby let go of control
(Styrke / Kask / Ask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced by Calle Ask
Additional production and mix by Johan T Karlsson
Snaren
You're gonna be hit alright
If you don't wanna step aside
Boy you left room for no one I think it's time
You're gonna be hit alright
If you don't wanna step aside
You move those hips alright now step down
3 you know it 2
Just 1 little step or you're through
Boom
Chin up, curtain goes down
Don't be sad, you know you're the man
Face up, take look around
Rest your eyes on somebody else
You're gonna be hit alright, I know you
Don't wanna be hit alright
You need to step aside, mister
Please just step aside
You're gonna be hit alright
If you don't wanna step aside
Boy you, you really need to step aside
i swear it's time
7 you know
6 your group of
5 is not better
4 the crowd
Than 3 of mine
You know it 2 hun
Just 1 little step and you're through
Run
Take a step to the left
No not to the right
You better scootch for a queen b
Out of my sight
Step down from your pedestal, be good
Or else you do need to worry, definitely should
(Styrke / Henriksson / Hallberg)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB / Copyright Control
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson. Additional production by Björn Hallberg
Ego
I've been watching you as of lately
Walking around like you're something to talk about
Like you bought in to your own hype
Used to be just you and me baby
Running around like we had it all figured out
There's nothing left behind those eyes
Why...
You living such a lie...
I wanna hold you but you're untouchable
Too cool, caught up in your ego
I wanna love you but you're making it impossible
Wanna believe in you but you're so far gone
Did you forget where you came from
I wanna love you but you're making it impossible
When did you decide to get shady
I wanna know the moment you changed to someone new
I hate that you've become that type
Holding on to moments of maybe
Thinking about it, there's nothing to figure out
I see you gave in without a fight
(Birgisson / Miriello / Styrke / de Bono)
Aristotracks adm by Kobalt Music Publishing / Universal Music Publishing / APRA / Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson. Vocals recorded by Arnthor at Aristotracks studios
Samurai Boy
I got drums in my galaxy
It sounds like anarchy
I fell down down down
From a coma dream
Into your arms
Oh lord can you hear my voice
Keep looking out for my samurai boy
Oh lord if you hear my voice
Keep looking out for my samurai boy
Falling down a pyramid
Don't you know I'm such a kid
Can't remember what we did
Let's do it again
Oh lord can you hear my voice
Keep looking out for my samurai boy
I get guns in my symphony
It sounds like a melody
I fell down down down
From a cherry tree
Into yoru arms
(Styrke / Kask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson
Borderline
The boys of the empire
They set my head on fire
Pull the plug sire
I'll spit fire
Gents of the empire
Strangle my desire
Pull the plug sire
And I'll spit fire
I'm borderline happy and
I'm borderline sad
I'm borderline good
and I'm borderline bad
And I can't get rid of a tingling fear
You'd sort me out if my head gets clear
I live my life in shackles
but I'm borderline free
I used to be blind and I still can't see
And I won't get around in a change of mind
As long as nobody breaks my stride
Tricks of the empire
Make happy kids aim higher
Higher up they wet fire
Fools of the empire
I went to school in the empire
Learnt the rules from a brat sire
I be a fool of the empire
'Til I break loose spread fire
Burn it down
(Styrke / Kask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson
Who's Got News
Who's got news for who
Who are you to know how to behave
I got news for you
Do you know what it feels like when a heart is breaking
You call yourself a savior but nothing in your behavior is true
Nothing is true
You say you fix what is broken
Do you know what's broken
You don't know what is broken
That's what'll break you
You can close what is open
Do you know what you're closing
You the one that was chosen
But I'd never choose you
(Styrke / Henriksson / Hallberg)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB / Copyright Control
Produced by Björn Hallberg
Additional production and mix by Johan T Karlsson
Number One
Praise cool, I'm sorry but there's no can do
My youth ain't tangled up in bad decisions
Poor you, you thought you could dictate the rules
Bohoo
You're only eighteen
But a killing machine
Drain the noise of the bullshit
With stamps to the beat
Oh my, the world's on fire and maybe I'm just chasing rhymes
Taking is easy and I don't care where it leads me baby
Oh my the more I try the closer I get to wasting time
No one ever wants to give you some
But everybody loves a number one
Hot glam seems far away from where I am
I can neither understand it nor emand it
Your tears don't shake my world like Britney Spears
She's fierce
I don't praise your cool
There's just no can do
And it's that easy
Baby can't you see
You got nothing on me
It's just that easy
(Styrke / Kask / Ask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced by Calle Ask
Mixed by Henrik Edenhed
Even If I'm Loud It Doesn't Mean I'm Talking To You
I think I hit a nerve when I burst solitude
Palooka set in motion and it's drowning you
I know you feel that pop doesn't really have a clue
But even if I'm loud it doesn't mean I'm talking to you
You educated now but you never stand a chance
Sophisticated ain't helping you to do the dance
I think you're stuck in that me myself and I romance
But that's too wild for you mean to understand
You got a true mad deep big crush on yourself
I hope you hit the ground hard when you fell for yourself
You got that cross armed posture such a sorry sight
If you do shit like that I don't need to be nice
I got my half ass rhymes to set me free
That's why you never ever ever can get to me
I sense my loolycommotions like a brick at you
But even if I'm loud it doesn't mean I'm talking to you
Nah can't take it
Imma break it
I'm gonna shake it off me now
Within twenty-seven minutes I'm gonna shake it liek a diva
(Styrke / Ask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced by Calle Ask
Additional production by Johan T Karlsson
Mixed by Henrik Edenhed
Burn
Honey I know that we're in deep
But now I can see clear your tricks are cheap
Baby is gunning for a new friend
Honey I know you're a fine one
Your mother's done good when she raised her son
But now he's out gunning for a new friend
Baby is gunning for a new friend
You better run out like you mean it
Oh no, can you feel it
Now everything's broken so beat it
Tear it apart, burn it up
Well now baby no there's no comeback
Everything's gone and it won't come back
Baby you're outrun you feel it
Burn it up, break it up
Honey you sure where you're heart stays
It's an art to never have the last say
Babe are you gunning for a new friend
And honey I know where you run to
The smell of city haze and something new
Lingers with you like an old friend
Babe are you gunning for a new friend
I need to go right
I have this thing right
I need to leave
You understand right
I'll be back soon
Don't pressure me now
I need to go
I need to leave
Don't pressure me now
(Styrke / Walz)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB / Winter Gang Writers
Produced and mixed by Christian Walz
Decay
I'm at war with nothing in a place that's not around
I will sneak my way in, pass the beeps not make a sound
They will search my bag, find the bullets not the gun
What if they knew that my AK's made of glue and good wishes from my own
Babe I'll take the fast train
They'll be waiting in the black rain
Only thing to kill for is me and you
This city claims the crazy
And there's no one here to save me
Everything decays unless it's true
There's a big bang bombing at a place no one can find
Now I'm on my way to a war I should have left behind
Like the ouches and the aches and mistakes that can't be undone
I'll be there they'll wait for me, my bullets and my gun
And I heard 'em say...
(Styrke / Kask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson
Walking A Line
You a tricky kinda witty little furious psycho
It isn't easy to be breezy with a curious mind no
But when the dummies come around you will give it a go go
Hijack the idea of a girl that obeys
Hahahaha oh my
Laugh it in the face
And I'm biding my time
I'm walking a line
Yeah I'll walk in a line
I'm making it mine
And you stumble sometimes when you walk in a line
You walk in a line
And it's hard ot unwind when you're faking a crie
You walk in aline
You get the feeling they're believing you can trigger the mofos
And when they get you they won't let you have a say if you say so
You wanna roll with it, go with it, bring it to control
Hijack the idea of mysterious ways
Hahahaha oh my
Laugh it in the face
(Styrke / Kask)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB
Produced and mixed by Johan T Karlsson
Brag
I gotta tell, don't mean to be rude
I got it all and nothing to prove
You gotta worry, gotta stand out
I got the fix though turn it up loud
I'm gonna be okay so to say
Gonna be okay
I just gimme something to say and I'll be okay
I don't brag about my great life
Don't brag about sharp style
Just little things that set my head on fire
No need for me to shout it out
I don't brag about my bright mind
Just pointing at my insight
Don't brag about my sweet lalalalalife
No need for me to spell it out
You gotta worry, you gotta care
I got a lot, I'm eager to share
I got the perfect angle at last
I gotta show I'm having a blast
I don't brag about my tricks honey I'm like
I swear I never had the doubts I
Nah I don't brag about the kicks in the limelight
I never talk about the downsides
(Styrke / Walz)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing Scandinavia AB / Winter Gang Writers
Produced and mixed by Christian Walz
Art & Design Direction: Slobodan Zivic :: Studio Slobodan
Photo: Hedvig Jenning
A & R: Petter Eriksson
Mastered by Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound, New York City & Henke Jonsson at Masters Of Audio
Management by Filip Wilén & Micke Hagerman, Bad Fox Management
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Tove Styrke
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Charli XCX
in Music
It's not on US iTunes. Is it the the Wideboys remix and the Brenmar remix?
Just the Brenmar and RIVRS remixes - I can't understand her label's inability to release a proper remix EP...
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Charli XCX
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Tove Styrke
in Music
I need her to drop another song from Kiddo before its release so I'll know if I want to pre-order.
The snippets should convince you...
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New song "Better in the Morning" out on Wednesday:
"Working Girl" album cover and tracks (not in order):
Better in the Morning
Album Intro
Album Interlude
Working Girl
Get Things Done
Paradise
Taste It
Business Pleasure
Desire (Bonus Track)
Heroine
Help Too
Real Girl
The Game
No Pressure
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You can extract the clean version of TB from here
does anybody know if there are other edited versions of songs from QOTC? I think there is only Moments left and I really need it. can anybody share it, please?
The "Clean Love Edit" of Talking Body was released yesterday if you want me to upload it
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Ryn Weaver
in Music
Oh no, it better be at most June 16th :\ We already have half the album.
It's (unfortunately) common for Universal to release albums months later in the UK to promote singles there - I can't see why they're still doing it as most fans (myself included) who want an album will just buy it from the US instead.
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Ryn Weaver
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Are those single covers official?
What are the release dates you've heard? It's been up for preorder here in the US for a while and the release date is set for June, which is really far away honestly.
I'm surprised her team went to the effort of making separate covers seeing as they're only being used on streaming platforms.
iTunes UK has the release date as August 7th (which I'm guessing is the correct one), but iTunes Ireland says August 17th (a Tuesday) and Google Play August 11th (a Monday)
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Ryn Weaver
in Music
The album is now up for preorder in the UK but I've already seen three different release dates for it...
It appears that they're pushing OctaHate as a single aswell as only Stay Low and The Fool are available as instant grat tracks (the EP was removed) - single covers if anyone wants them:
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Charli XCX
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I can't rip the video but here's the audio:
https://soundcloud.com/walkingaline/charli-xcx-mow-the-lawn-live