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Post by dominika6816 on Oct 15, 2014 21:20:48 GMT -5
Can she release an album? I miss her, I need new music. ;/
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Post by Ginger Spice on Oct 16, 2014 1:22:55 GMT -5
I totally missed The Flaming Lips controversy when it happened. I regret being curious and looking it up. :(
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Post by music89 on Oct 16, 2014 3:44:35 GMT -5
She was busking in Times Square and only made $3.60. i love her!!!
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Post by tae04 on Oct 16, 2014 9:08:56 GMT -5
She's a fool! LOL. Well wasn't even like she was really singing it was more so a joke. She should have just sang one of her own songs Anyway, give us some new music BADU! A retro classic.
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Post by music89 on Oct 17, 2014 3:20:26 GMT -5
Badu As She Wants to BeSartorial wild child Erykah Badu achieves style-icon status as a new face of Givenchy. Though it may have flickered softly while this decade’s meretricious pop princesses paraded in their tinsel, Erykah Badu’s style—lushly nostalgic, glamorously weird—never wavered. Badu’s exalted ragtag of big coats, psychedelic dresses, and winged cuffs
has always matched the languorous tempo of her music, and no one (save, perhaps, Patti LaBelle or Isabella Blow) ever made so eloquent a case for headgear: towering wraps, Seussian hats, and wigs that might be visible from outer space. This spring, Riccardo Tisci selected Badu for the Givenchy campaign. “Seeing myself on giant billboards in Paris—it was eye-opening,” Badu says. “I’ve never followed a lot of brand names.” But there she was, very Givenchy and yet, bejeweled and beturbaned, distinctly Badu. When Tisci and his muse arrived together at the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute gala in New York in May, it was clear that the sui generis music icon had become a style star. “I’ve always been more of a gypsy,” Badu protests over lunch in Hollywood. She is wearing wantonly torn overalls atop fishnet shorts, and several long, brilliantly colored feathers poke out of her head wrap, which in turn pokes out from under a top hat. “But Riccardo wanted to use models of color, and, as a black woman, I felt it was corporate reparations.” The singer-songwriter calls her style “functional art.” She freights her necklaces with charms and talismans—a Mayan calendar, an eye of Horus, an Ethiopian cross—“items with some vibration or frequency that I need.” And her gaze alights on anything with a pattern. “I’m turned on by geometry. My major in college was theater, but my minor was physics.” She also learned a thing or two from her mother, a woman with what Badu calls “champagne taste and beer money,” who knew her way around a thrift store. Badu grew up in Dallas, where she lives with her son, Seven, and daughters Puma and Mars. “I’m not onstage picking groupies. I’m picking babysitters,” she says, adding that her next album, which comes out in early 2015, will be highly autobiographical. “My musical goal is always to be naked.” It may come as no surprise to learn that Badu has other gifts, too. “People don’t realize that I’m a renaissance woman,” she clarifies. “I home-school my children. I’m a cook. I design all my hats. I’m my own manager. I write the songs and direct the band. I’m a DJ. I’m a doula. I’m a Reiki master.”Though like any good Dallas girl she likes the occasional splurge at Neiman Marcus, one thing Badu hopes never to be called is a fashion plate. “Fashion is what’s in,” she says. “Style is what is.”
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Post by damita34 on Mar 20, 2015 16:05:29 GMT -5
Any reason why it's #1 on iTunes R&B album chart now?!
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Post by Rican@ on Mar 22, 2015 16:37:28 GMT -5
Any reason why it's #1 on iTunes R&B album chart now?! The album was featured on the tv show, Being Mary Jane. It was basically centered around the album and "Bad Lady". It was also shown when being played.
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Post by Wave. on Mar 22, 2015 18:31:32 GMT -5
Oh yes, that song was hot during the opening scene.
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Post by music89 on Apr 6, 2015 14:40:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 20:43:41 GMT -5
From her upcoming mixtape But U Caint Use My Phone.
https%3A//soundcloud.com/erykah-she-ill-badu/hot-line-bling-but-u-caint-use-my-phone-mix
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Post by Caviar on Oct 6, 2015 22:02:59 GMT -5
Love that song. Classic Badu. Can't wait 4 the mixtape.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2015 21:46:00 GMT -5
https%3A//soundcloud.com/erykah-she-ill-badu/phone-down-by-erykah-badu
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 10, 2015 1:56:27 GMT -5
https%3A//soundcloud.com/erykah-she-ill-badu/phone-down-by-erykah-badu Love everything about it! *body rolls* Mixtape confirmed for Thanksgiving weekend.
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Post by tae04 on Nov 10, 2015 14:49:40 GMT -5
Looking forward to the Mixtape! I need a new album though.
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Post by music89 on Nov 15, 2015 8:58:08 GMT -5
I'm a huge Erykah Badu fan but i don't like the new song. It's bland compared to her discography. I need the sixth studio album!!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2015 11:00:15 GMT -5
I need a new album from her right now.
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Post by Ty on Nov 22, 2015 11:16:16 GMT -5
Not quite sure about her embracing this trap sound.
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Post by music89 on Nov 23, 2015 15:37:42 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 23, 2015 19:24:04 GMT -5
It wasn't a full performance; she just sat in with The Roots and sang bits of the songs during breaks and when the invited guests came out.
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Post by Live Your Life on Nov 24, 2015 13:42:13 GMT -5
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Post by tae04 on Nov 25, 2015 13:55:24 GMT -5
But You Caint Use My Phone:
01 Caint Use My Phone Suite 02 Hi 03 Cell U Lar Device 04 Phone Down 05 U Use To Call Me 06 Mr. Telephone Man 07 U Don’t Have To Call 08 Whats Yo Phone Number 09 Dial’afreaq 10 I’ll Call U Back 11 Hello
Erykah Badu has revealed the full release details of her new mixtape, But You Caint Use My Phone. The follow-up to 2010's New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh is out this Friday, November 27 as an iTunes/Apple Music exclusive. It will be available via other digital services on December 4. That's the cover art, above.
Per Pitchfork.com
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Post by music89 on Nov 25, 2015 14:40:14 GMT -5
The title of the mixtape is a reference to Badu's 1997 track "Tyrone". According to a press release, "each song makes reference to telephones and our own reliance on staying inter-connected."
Badu recorded the project with producer Zach Witnessin in Dallas. "Surprises" and "guests" are promised.
At the beginning of October, Badu dropped "HOTLINE BLING BUT U CAINT USE MY PHONE MIX", a remix of Drake's "Hotline Bling". It appears on But You Caint Use My Phone under its new title, "Cell U Lar Device". The mixtape also features "Phone Down".
A press release states:
The mixtape expertly weaves Erykah Badu’s trademark soulful vocals with psychedelic soundscapes, hip-hop-inflected beats, smooth R&B, jazz, art-rock and found sounds into a new genre Erykah describes as TRap & B. Badu and Witnessin dedicated a lot of time to precise mixing work, toying with EQs and other filters so that the sound’s frequency and vibration move in tandem to capture a feeling she refers to as “sympathetic vibration.” Badu also used a tuning fork and Tibetan singing bowls to fine-tune these details, with the goal of creating a sound that brings peace and tranquility to its listener. It is a sound that Badu herself referrers to as a “whole new frequency” for fans.
Badu will also host this year's Soul Train Music Awards, airing on BET and Centric on Sunday, November 29. She co-wrote the show and serves as an associate producer. She'll perform "Phone Down" during the show.
"Surprises" and "guests" are promised on phone-themed "TRap & B" release
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Post by Ty on Nov 25, 2015 15:06:39 GMT -5
Love the concept.
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 25, 2015 15:41:54 GMT -5
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Post by tamed09 on Nov 27, 2015 2:06:47 GMT -5
This "Hello" record with Andre is EVERYTHING
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2015 9:16:08 GMT -5
Kind of disappointed with this mixtape. The best song is easily "Hello," and it's a cover.
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Post by tae04 on Nov 27, 2015 15:42:19 GMT -5
The mixtape does not do much for me either. I need much more from her. Not much lyrical content, she seems to love to repeat the same lyrics over and over in songs now. A lot of the songs were only 90-120 seconds at most as well.
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Post by TGAC on Nov 27, 2015 17:20:15 GMT -5
I'm feeling the mixtape but I really need a new album from her.
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Post by music89 on Nov 27, 2015 17:35:30 GMT -5
The mixtape does not do much for me either. I need much more from her. Not much lyrical content, she seems to love to repeat the same lyrics over and over in songs now. A lot of the songs were only 90-120 seconds at most as well. this. I hope she will release the new album next year!
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Post by SHOOTER on Nov 27, 2015 21:41:43 GMT -5
I like the mixtape and appreciate it for what it is: a mixtape.
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