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Post by DJ General on Jun 10, 2016 13:19:39 GMT -5
I'm listening now. Still have a handful of tracks left but not super impressed. Not bad though. Just haven't heard a track yet that I'm like DAMN
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jun 10, 2016 14:13:16 GMT -5
Good Girls - Features Big Sean I believe but is not credited in title #FalseFacts. All 4 featured artists (I'm talking about the Target version, btw) are featured prominently in the titles. If anyone has this physically yet, can you tell me if there are lyrics in the booklet? Indeed, there are. The booklet was relatively thick so I was hoping it was filled with a bunch of nudes. No such luck. :'(
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Post by Night Senses on Jun 10, 2016 17:09:24 GMT -5
I wonder if Nick is, too.
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Post by phillip12bluelov on Jun 10, 2016 17:11:15 GMT -5
with Last Year was Complicated out, my actual top 10 albums are:
1 Teenage Dream- The Complete Confection: Katy Perry 2 Born To Die- The Paradise Edition: Lana Del Rey 3 Nick Jonas X2:Nick Jonas 4 Last Year Was Complicated-Target edition Nick Jonas 5 Who You Are- Platinum Edition: Jessie J 6 Prism - Deluxe Edition: Katy Perry 7 Moon Landing-Apollo Edition: James Blunt 8 Ultraviolence- Deluxe Edition: Lana Del 9 Alive- Deluxe Edition: Jessie J 10 Sucker- International Edition: Charlie XCX
After the album come out, Unbroken by Demi was in my top 10 in 10 position, but now it dropped to 11.
And You guys, did Lywc entered your top 10 albums?
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Post by McCreerian on Jun 10, 2016 17:26:32 GMT -5
Shawn Mendes and Nick talking on Twitter today.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2016 17:40:58 GMT -5
Under You, holy s**t why was this not the lead single?And I LOVE Close but this just fire I feel like there's maybe something to the strategy of releasing a more risky single first and follow it up with the money song. It seems like maybe Ariana Grande did the same thing. If the song hits, awesome... but if it doesn't, they've got an even better option in place to launch the album. With time to get it on the radio before the album drops. Provided the second single is truly the best the album has to offer commercially, it's really the best case scenario to release the second best song as lead single. Maybe a lead single today isn't necessarily what it was before. I don't know, I think they're trying different strategies to help avoid totally bombing out and losing all their money. Cuz if your lead single bombs, and that's the best you've got... you're screwed, you know? That's why so many albums get shelved and we have all these one-off songs floating around by big names. Anyone feel me on this or nah?
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jun 10, 2016 17:47:57 GMT -5
with Last Year was Complicated out, my actual top 10 albums are: 1 Teenage Dream- The Complete Confection: Katy Perry 2 Born To Die- The Paradise Edition: Lana Del Rey 3 Nick Jonas X2:Nick Jonas 4 Last Year Was Complicated-Target edition Nick Jonas 5 Who You Are- Platinum Edition: Jessie J 6 Prism - Deluxe Edition: Katy Perry 7 Moon Landing-Apollo Edition: James Blunt 8 Ultraviolence- Deluxe Edition: Lana Del 9 Alive- Deluxe Edition: Jessie J 10 Sucker- International Edition: Charlie XCX After the album come out, Unbroken by Demi was in my top 10 in 10 position, but now it dropped to 11. And You guys, did Lywc entered your top 10 albums? Of all time? LOL. I highly doubt it. I can probably think 100 better off the top of my head and I haven't even heard anything other than Close and Champagne Problems.
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Post by karatekid on Jun 10, 2016 18:14:22 GMT -5
I think Touch would be a huge hit for him.. Gives me "Love Yourself" and "Hands to Myself" had a baby vibes. Diggin it.. Definitely a more solid album for me than his debut.. I don't really visit his debut much anymore but I feel like this will hold up better which I see as a big improvement. Hope they pick the singles correctly to keep it afloat.. I would do "Touch" for the summer then follow with "Under You" then "Chainsaw" over the winter.
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Post by Dylan :) on Jun 10, 2016 18:23:34 GMT -5
I have listened to bits and pieces of it so far. I really like Under You. It sounds a bit like Style 2.0 to me.
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 10, 2016 20:10:15 GMT -5
Based on the previews, "Voodoo", "Touch", and "Good Girls" feel like they could be good sized hits this Summer. I really want "Under You" but perhaps any one of those should come first.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 10, 2016 23:24:53 GMT -5
Voodoo Close Bacon Good Girls Don't Make Me Choose Under You Unhinged
Those are my favorites but I can seriously let the whole album play. Such a confident step forward from his debut that sounds more like an album than an album built around singles. I hope Republic sticks it out.
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Post by HEADOFTHEPACK on Jun 11, 2016 8:48:04 GMT -5
Hmmm this is sort of a non-album. Pretty much just a current pop album with no significant merit. I enjoy a handful of this guys stuff, but I have to be honest - the main reason I listen to his music is because I want to fuck him.
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Post by phillip12bluelov on Jun 11, 2016 10:02:43 GMT -5
I'm afraid about the album reviews in metacritc, by now we have Rolling Stones: 70 Allmusic: 70 Theguardian: 60 Ibtimesuk: 50 Pressplayok: 40
It means that by now we have a 58 avarege for the album with 5 reviews!!! We need billboard, new york times, slant magazine and entertaiment weekly for save him to stay in mixed reviews, and go to favorable ones!
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Post by Dreams on Jun 11, 2016 13:03:15 GMT -5
I prefer this album to his debut (even though I enjoyed that one a lot). I don't know if it will have great longevity for me, but for the time being it has lots of bops I could see myself listening to for a while. Highlights:
"Under You" "Bacon" "Comfortable" "The Difference" "Voodoo"
I like "Close" but I have no idea why they went with that when he has tracks much more viable as singles on the record.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 11, 2016 14:28:13 GMT -5
Projected to debut with 42-47k (52-57k SPS); the Tony Awards are tomorrow so Hamilton will most likely block him from #1 on the sales chart.
Nick Jonas debuted at #6 with 37k (225k to date).
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Jun 12, 2016 1:10:38 GMT -5
Champagne Problems Chainsaw Touch Bacon Don't Make Me Choose Under You Unhinged Comfortable
I wanted another Falsetto track that I could really dive into like Push but I still like this album all around. It's grown, confident, and cocky as hell in some places and I like that.
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Post by Enigma. on Jun 12, 2016 5:24:22 GMT -5
Hmm after 1 listen not impressed, the album just flows but doesn't really go anywhere... will listen further
Under You is fantastic though
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Post by Unhinged on Jun 13, 2016 15:05:08 GMT -5
"Under You" is such a fuck jam. Love it.
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 13, 2016 20:21:11 GMT -5
I really love the album. Every single track is solid. There are many great single choices. This album is great to dance and/or fuck to. It's one of the best albums released this year.
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Post by maine on Jun 14, 2016 8:37:45 GMT -5
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 14, 2016 14:32:59 GMT -5
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 14, 2016 15:53:29 GMT -5
Nick was on Jimmy Fallon and he told this naughty story
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Post by Unhinged on Jun 14, 2016 16:25:47 GMT -5
Cool! His helmet says Avid on it and my real name is David. We're meant to be. I mean, he even has a song on the album named after me. EDIT: As for the new album, I really like it. Haven't had a chance to listen to it all but what I've heard so far has been very good.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jun 14, 2016 23:43:20 GMT -5
Hamilton didn't get as big of a boost as expected so he'll be #2 behind Drake with 60-65k SPS, #1 on the Sales chart with 45-50k.
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Post by B****BetterGetNOSL333P on Jun 15, 2016 23:45:15 GMT -5
I'm so happy for Nick and the videos for Voodoo & Champagne Problems are coming soon!
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 16, 2016 1:39:48 GMT -5
Nick talks about his sexual fetishes including being spanked, feet, furries, public sex, watching others have sex, and having his hair pulled/pulling someone else's hair
Nick in Essential Homme magazine
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2016 11:20:16 GMT -5
Album has clear standouts. A few issues with clichéd, sometimes awkward writing. Vocals are good, but aren't supported by the right material. He nails it on 'Close', 'Under You', 'Bacon' and 'Comfortable'; those set the standards for this album, which is fine. He's going to need to do better if he wants to make a serious impact, though.
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Post by कामसूत्र on Jun 17, 2016 0:31:24 GMT -5
Justin Luke Zirilli has written this open letter to Nick in response to an incident which occurred when Nick was asked to speak briefly about the Orlando tragedy, however, many in the LGBTQ community were incensed and upset that a straight, white male was asked to do it instead of an actual member of the LGBTQ community. Dear Nick Jonas: I’m Sorry
Hello Nick. I am writing this to you because I feel it is long overdue.
I wanted to apologize to you for the behavior of a segment of the LGBT community of which I am a part. I wanted to put these words down to let you know: you truly are appreciated by many of us, even if it does not seem like that is the case.
To many of us you very much are an ally to our cause and community. One who has continuously come back to us despite how we alternately objectify you when we are horny, and then viciously attack you when we are feeling righteous. This past week I was mortified to hear that you were booed and jeered when you got up to speak at the Orlando Pulse Nightclub attack vigil held in New York City.
Given the way that the loudest voices on Twitter and Facebook have described your appearance, one would think that perhaps you spoke for thirty minutes before throwing flyers out into the crowd, tearing off your shirt, flexing, and asking everyone in attendance to buy your album.
But you didn’t do this. You spoke for a grand total of 2 minutes and 20 seconds. You didn’t speak for us. You merely spoke from your heart. Meekly. Quickly. And then you shuffled away.
Within ten minutes of your brief words, the Deputy Editor of Huffington Post’s Queer Voices posted that he yelled out and called you a “f**,” and asked when you were going to come out. He further said that the organizers of the event should “suck his dick” for booking you.
The ugliness has only grown from there. And I don’t think much of it needs repeating. So, instead, I’ll repeat: I am sorry.
I don’t understand what is happening here, where you are concerned. Why the gay community is so angry to have a straight, sexually comfortable, attractive male who cares about us.
You are accused of “gay-baiting,” and “anointing yourself a Gay Icon.”
It’s funny. You don’t do that. Our very own gay media does.
Out Magazine just this past month called you a Gay Icon. The writer admitted in the opening paragraph: “While planning my rendezvous with Nick Jonas, I am hell-bent on getting him to do something totally, apocalyptically gay. Comeuppance, I think, for him jamming my social-media feeds with all those sexy photos.”
You didn’t say or do any of that. He did.
Despite you saying that you are heterosexual, you are endlessly hit with a barrage of questions pertaining to all sorts of gay matters. It’s almost as if we are pushing you as far as we possibly can just to see if we can get you to scream “No Homo!” and run away from us in horror.
We shoot you shirtless and splash your images on our gay magazine covers. We ask you, over and over again, questions to try and get you to say that you are gay. And any time you say something non-committal, or non-confrontational, we surgically chop it up and splash it across our gay blogs and websites.
But, instead of blaming the media, our community has somehow turned this on you.
Why?
People say you aren’t gay, and that’s a problem.
Ironically, openly gay male musicians receive no special favor from the LGBT community, either. Artists such as Rufus Wainwright and Adam Lambert and Sam Smith are often ignored. They are not championed. We do not treat them too nicely. As a gay nightlife promoter, I watched on in amazement when we would bring openly gay male musicians to a club to perform. The crowd would yawn. They would roll their eyes. They would walk out the door. They only cared when we brought in a fierce female diva. They loved those.
Those openly gay musicians all now no longer pursue their passions due to being ignored by their own community. They were torn down with catty remarks. They were laughed at. They were not supported or given any sort of loyalty.
Conversely, I’ve been at two gay parties that you came to appear at. One where you performed, and one where you did not. You came dressed plainly, a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. You were shy, soft-spoken.
All around you on big screen televisions were slideshows created by the club of you. In these photos you were shirtless. In your underwear. Dripping wet and staring all sexy at the camera.
I stood in the crowd as the host of the night, and the capacity crowd, screamed for you to take off your shirt. Take off your pants. To flex for them. You did not wink and smirk. You said nothing to inspire us to say any of that.
You finally gave in after five minutes of screaming from hundreds of gay guys. You lifted your shirt just a little to show your torso. The room erupted in screams and cameras flashed like strobe lights.
The same people who were screaming for you to strip and taking those pictures were criticizing you the very next day. Calling you a tease. Saying you were a gay-baiter. Like you were some sort of evil mastermind.
As if your attention paid to our community in addition to the attention you pay to your heterosexual fans is a crime. As if it is wrong.
Despite the backlash, you continued touring clubs. Despite being objectified, and then torn down for the fact that you simply gave in to what the crowd asked for.
Despite our treatment of you, you keep on coming back to us.
You visit our clubs and bars. You go on our television shows. You accept gay roles that many straight actors would run screaming from, so afraid they are of ever seeing their careers crash and burn because they will be seen as gay.
You are accused of becoming this gay-baiting grand deceiver because it’s helping your solo career. As if your millions in album sales are even barely effected by a community that seems to so loudly hate you in the first place. (A community, I might add, that also notoriously torrents most of its music and refuses to purchase even a single song on iTunes.) Despite the way we treat you, you keep coming back.
Few seem to remember, or know, or care, that you spoke alongside Michael Urie all the way back in 2012 at the New York City AIDS Walk. That was four years ago. Before your solo career even began. You’ve been with us at least that long. And yet we still hate you. Still say you’re fleecing us and this is some grand plan.
It doesn’t make sense to me. So all I can do is apologize.
Let me also thank you.
Thank you for being an ally to all of us. Thanks for doing so despite our media constantly trying to get you to admit that you’re gay, and our community constantly attacking you because you aren’t, or might be, or might be pretending you are or aren’t.
I do not envy your situation. You are literally screwed in any direction you choose. You’re damned if you do. You’re damned if you don’t.
It seems that your only peaceful course of action would be to abandon our community entirely. To stop showing up at our clubs and bars. Not show up at our rallies and vigils and AIDS Walks.
It seems as though our community is screaming at you to ignore us like so many other popular actors and musicians and politicians already do. We want you to walk away and never come back.
I pray that our community will gain other allies and supporters like you. Other popular, successful, caring men and women who will love us even when we won’t let them.
We are fighting for equality here. I, for one, will happily accept anyone who will stand by our side in that fight. I will proudly take the attention and respect of anyone who is willing to give it.
Thank you for sticking with us, Nick. It doesn’t make sense, really. It certainly doesn’t seem worth the effort to keep trying to support our community considering we will tear you down every time you do.
I think that’s exactly what makes you one of our better allies. You could walk away. Hell, you probably should walk away.
But you haven’t. At least not yet.
Thank you so much.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jun 22, 2016 18:26:20 GMT -5
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Post by Unhinged on Jun 23, 2016 14:00:12 GMT -5
May have been mentioned somewhere in this thread already (I just get so distracted by all his hot pics) but has "Chainsaw" been announced as the next single?
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