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poptimistsFucking hell, Nicole Scherzinger!
I was totally hooked on the song already but that video is just OMG amazing, the Beyoncé nods turning into something really rather sinister and entirely Nicole's own. Her eyes in the hot coals scene! Some real The Ring shit there. And her hair flailing around in the brief silhouette scene! She is so, so fierce. I love her coldness + hugely sexual combination, she's like a Jackie Collins anti-heroine or something: on the face of it dislikeable and unsympathetic (cos she doesn't want or need your affection, fools) but you end up totally in her corner, rooting her on. (The key to her other new single 'Super Villain' is that she's pretending to be a nice girl wanting a bad boy but...this is Nicole motherfucking Scherzinger and she is not-so-secretly a super villainess herself).
Also, TI is so hott. And I haven't heard a guest rap which needed to be blanked out so much since Rasheeda's stellar turn on Petey Pablo's 'Vibrate' (warning - do not seek explicit version if you were offended by the Ying Yang Twins, but be aware that this is entirely your loss).
The song also confirms Polow Da Don's status as head'n'shoulders-above-all-others r&b producer du jour, even though it's a shameless retread of that unreleased song he did for Chilli (and for that matter Kelis's 'Blindfold Me') - it's all about those monolithically doomy bass chords over the chorus.
Faster, Lead Pussycat! Kill, kill!
I was totally hooked on the song already but that video is just OMG amazing, the Beyoncé nods turning into something really rather sinister and entirely Nicole's own. Her eyes in the hot coals scene! Some real The Ring shit there. And her hair flailing around in the brief silhouette scene! She is so, so fierce. I love her coldness + hugely sexual combination, she's like a Jackie Collins anti-heroine or something: on the face of it dislikeable and unsympathetic (cos she doesn't want or need your affection, fools) but you end up totally in her corner, rooting her on. (The key to her other new single 'Super Villain' is that she's pretending to be a nice girl wanting a bad boy but...this is Nicole motherfucking Scherzinger and she is not-so-secretly a super villainess herself).
Also, TI is so hott. And I haven't heard a guest rap which needed to be blanked out so much since Rasheeda's stellar turn on Petey Pablo's 'Vibrate' (warning - do not seek explicit version if you were offended by the Ying Yang Twins, but be aware that this is entirely your loss).
The song also confirms Polow Da Don's status as head'n'shoulders-above-all-others r&b producer du jour, even though it's a shameless retread of that unreleased song he did for Chilli (and for that matter Kelis's 'Blindfold Me') - it's all about those monolithically doomy bass chords over the chorus.
Faster, Lead Pussycat! Kill, kill!
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Date: 2007-08-20 10:03 pm (UTC)Polow is one of the more consistent producers out there (he has produced a few of my fave singles this year: Young Buck - Get Buck, Kelly Rowland - Like This, Rich Boy & Keri Hilson - Good Things, Fantasia - When I See U RMX, plus "Promise" was my #1 last year as well and "Bang it Up" by Ciara is crazy as well), but the problem (if you want to call it that) I have with him is that he doesn't really have a signature sound and he really isn't doing anything innovative per se.
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Date: 2007-08-20 11:04 pm (UTC)I kind of like that he doesn't have a signature sound - he has a signature SOMETHING which he puts to really good use in almost mimicking others, but doing their styles even better - most of that list I assumed were by someone else before I knew it was Polow...'Blindfold Me' is crunkish, 'Like This' fits really neatly alongside what Swizz Beats is doing these days, the Ferg tunes are in the general will.i.am style, 'Buttonz' is Scott Storchy...