Keri Hilson update

[credoimprobus]

In a Perfect World may be stuck in endlessly delayed release date limbo (Keri has now joined Cassie and Ciara in having one of the best albums of the year not to be released this year -- this makes, what, the fifth time it's been pushed back this year alone?), but at least late year has given us some new fodder with a top double a-side -- one side per super-producer mentor, innit:

Return the Favor, sparkling electro lushness with Timbo

and Turnin' Me On, basstastic minimal Polow banger (guest spotted by, who else, Weezy)

Both of them were growers for me, but ruddy hell did they grow fast and hard once they got started.


EDIT: that'll teach me to check videos with the sound off -- turns out Return the Favor has been redone for the release; the original version, which is the one I was previously familiar with, has a double chorus (the second half's been dropped in the single version), and is frankly the superior version. You can hear it here in its full, half-minute longer glory!

Comments

[koganbot]

"My ice is albino white/I hope your vagina tight/I go underwater and/I hope your piranha bite"?????

(Was definitely thinking I was at my overdose limit for even wanting to hear Wayne, at this point, but then somehow he caught his voice on the beauty of the environs and delivered a bit of it, making the realness of Keri's real singing seem distanced in comparison.)

Keri's body and voice are both pencil thin. That's my sense of her, someone very precise.

[credoimprobus]

That Weezy verse is WTFtastic freals.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love 'Return The Favor'...the world definitely needed 'The Way I Are' and 'Promiscuous' to mate. There's not even much to it, but just the SOUND is lovely.