Big Doomy String Samples On RnB Records

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Listened to the Christina Milian ft Yng Jeezy single, and yes I like it, but the talk about Aaliyah and so on yesterday had me thinking back to '00/'01 and all the jittery/ravey/squelchy/odd background stuff that producers were putting into R'n'B then. Those production choices seemed to give access to a much wider emotional range - more vulnerability, swooniness, dread, joy, sass - than sticking another portentiously cinematic string riff on the back of your tune.

No?

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

my favourite thing by her is 'Whatever You Want' altho 'I Can Be That Woman' is a close second.

they both seemed very unexpected of her because they don't adhere to a certain template beloved of Murder Inc. and others. altho Ashanti's 'Only U' is maybe my favourite moody string-laden rnb track of recent times anyway.

i think a lot of this comes down to both Timba and Neptunes going off the boil and no other producers have the same stature as them yet.

i can feel the groove when you're holding me, like to let you think you're controlling me

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Whatever U Want' is a truly magnificent artistic achievement.