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

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Well actually, thinking about it further, I suppose the really irritating thing is that it actually runs so counter to the rest of the song, you've got Cristina singing "we can make it if we try!", all fired up and the like, and then he comes in saying "yes! we can overcome the obstacles life throws at us like GREEDY MONEY-GRABBING WOMEN!"

I blame Kanye.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kanye did something really special though, something I've not heard much of in hip hop, which is celebrating the gold digger for being resourceful and canny and also hott - the song's totally in love with the archetype it describes.

Young Jeezy, er, does not do this.