New R&B Releases RD: August 2024 (Due September 30th)

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#15 (Trajectory)

Ty : 18
singingrulebritannia : 20
back2blk : 15
LBTrocks : 16
Sambalada : 16
wavey.✨️ : 18
Soulsista : 18
#LisaRinna : 14
.indulgecountry : 17
jtd Thee Stallion : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 21
@io : 22
stallie : 22
castleoblivion26 : 19
@antigonerising : 17
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 17
GP : 16
kimberly : 15

#15 had a rough ride and finishes with the 10th-lowest SD.

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@antigonerising : 2
back2blk : 3
#LisaRinna : 5
castleoblivion26 : 6
GP : 7
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 10

LBTrocks : 11
Sambalada : 11
kimberly : 14
SHOOTER : 14
Soulsista : 15
stallie : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 18
singingrulebritannia : 19
@io : 19
jtd Thee Stallion : 19

Out of Hand Sanitizer
.indulgecountry : 20
Ty : 21
wavey.✨️ : 22

Why Don't You Touch Me was the third release from Leon Bridges' third album Gold-Diggers Sound (which is honestly his best work yet and needs to be heard by everyone ASAP).

"Shout-out to the undefeated, badass songwriter Kaydence. This was a tune that we worked on remotely during the pandemic and just felt like it was a cool angle to write about love diminishing in a relationship from a man’s perspective. And just the crippling feeling of being physically close to someone but emotionally distant. It’s an angle that you don’t really hear often from a man’s perspective, and so that’s kind of the inspiration behind that." - Leon Bridges (Apple Music, July 2021)

[singingrulebritannia]

it hurt to put Leon so low but this song was a subpar effort for him imo

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#14 (Trajectory)

Ty : 14
singingrulebritannia : 17
back2blk : 19
LBTrocks : 17
Sambalada : 18
wavey.✨️ : 17
Soulsista : 14
#LisaRinna : 17
.indulgecountry : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 12
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 13
@io : 13
stallie : 12
castleoblivion26 : 14
@antigonerising : 14
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 13
GP : 13
kimberly : 14

4th-highest SD here; three tanked it while another five put it top-5.

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jtd Thee Stallion : 2
stallie : 2
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 5
.indulgecountry : 5
Ty : 5
Soulsista : 6
GP : 8
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9

wavey.✨️ : 11
LBTrocks : 13
Sambalada : 13
back2blk : 17
castleoblivion26 : 18
@io : 18
#LisaRinna : 19
SHOOTER : 19

Bag on the Floor
@antigonerising : 21
singingrulebritannia : 21
kimberly : 21

In My Bag was a promotional release from Justine Skye's "bad bitch manual" a.k.a. her third album Space & Time. Her second indie release, the album was executive produced by Timbaland who reached out to collaborate after seeing a clip of her on Instagram singing Crosby, Still & Nash's Helplessly Hoping. She suggested doing a cover of Nelly Furtado's Say It Right; he suggested creating an original song and their virtual sessions became a weekly online drop that culminated in this full album.

[Ty]

This is a bop!! 🔥🔥

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#13 (Trajectory)

Ty : 5
singingrulebritannia : 7
back2blk : 8
LBTrocks : 11
Sambalada : 14
wavey.✨️ : 15
Soulsista : 15
#LisaRinna : 13
.indulgecountry : 13
jtd Thee Stallion : 13
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 11
@io : 12
stallie : 10
castleoblivion26 : 13
@antigonerising : 13
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 14
GP : 14
kimberly : 13

9th-highest SD; a trio put it top-3 while a pair had it bottom-3.

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.indulgecountry : 1
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 2
Ty : 2
@io : 9
SHOOTER : 9
Soulsista : 10
stallie : 10

CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 11
kimberly : 11
back2blk : 12
GP : 13
#LisaRinna : 14
jtd Thee Stallion : 15
LBTrocks : 16
singingrulebritannia : 17
@antigonerising : 19
wavey.✨️ : 19

Frigid Coochies
castleoblivion26 : 20
Sambalada : 21

The Shindellas are a Nashville trio brought together in 2018 under the guidance of Louis York (a.k.a. R&B producers Chuck Harmony and Claude Kelly) via their Weirdo Workshop - their Nashville-based label and music hub. Their debut album, Hits That Stick Like Grits, is set for release later this year.

[.indulgecountry]

Nooooooooooooooooo! This was AMAZING! Not even top 10?! 😭😭😭

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Jul 26, 2021 21:39:45 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Nooooooooooooooooo! This was AMAZING! Not even top 10?! 😭😭😭

I honestly thought Pulse's general hard-on for female vocalists would work in their favor.

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

The Shindellas should have definitely made it onto the top five, at least. Most of the good ones are going out early. that sucks.

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#12 (Trajectory)

Ty : 15
singingrulebritannia : 9
back2blk : 6
LBTrocks : 10
Sambalada : 8
wavey.✨️ : 10
Soulsista : 9
#LisaRinna : 9
.indulgecountry : 9
jtd Thee Stallion : 9
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 9
@io : 11
stallie : 13
castleoblivion26 : 10
@antigonerising : 11
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 9
GP : 12
kimberly : 12

#12 was almost a top-10 lock until the tail end of submissions and finishes with the 10th-highest SD; just two bottom-3 ranks for this one.

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castleoblivion26 : 2
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 3
Soulsista : 3
back2blk : 5
singingrulebritannia : 5
#LisaRinna : 9
Sambalada : 10

jtd Thee Stallion : 11
Ty : 11
.indulgecountry : 12
@io : 13
SHOOTER : 15
stallie : 15
@antigonerising : 17
LBTrocks : 17
wavey.✨️ : 17
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 19

Y'all Stranded
GP : 20
kimberly : 20

We Made It is the opening track on H.E.R.'s long-awaited debut album Back of My Mind. The song samples singer-songwriter Carole Bayer Sager's 1978 song It's the Falling in Love.

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#11 (Trajectory)

Ty : 3
singingrulebritannia : 3
back2blk : 5
LBTrocks : 3
Sambalada : 5
wavey.✨️ : 6
Soulsista : 8
#LisaRinna : 10
.indulgecountry : 10
jtd Thee Stallion : 11
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 8
@io : 10
stallie : 8
castleoblivion26 : 9
@antigonerising : 8
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 10
GP : 11
kimberly : 11

#11 started off strong and wound up missing the top-10 by just four points.

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LBTrocks : 2
@antigonerising : 3
SHOOTER : 5
stallie : 5
singingrulebritannia : 6
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 6
Ty : 6
kimberly : 8

Sambalada : 12
@io : 12
jtd Thee Stallion : 12
Soulsista : 13
castleoblivion26 : 15
wavey.✨️ : 15
GP : 17
.indulgecountry : 17
back2blk : 18
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 19
#LisaRinna : 20

Albanian-American singer-songwriter Njomza Vitia started her career in 2010 as the frontwoman for alternative band Scarlett. After they disbanded, her cover videos on YouTube led her to Mac Miller who signed her to his REMember Music imprint via Warner; she has since released three EPs, the latest - LIMBO - dropping last month.

If unfamiliar with her music, you may recognize her name from being one of the co-writers on 7 rings and thank u, next.

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Bonus: The Shindellas - "Happy to See You (Live)"



Maybe a live setting will impress some of y'all more!

[back2blk]

Solid top 10, don’t even care how y’all arranged them now

[Soulsista]

SHOOTER you posted the rankings for "Volcano Love" twice.

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Jul 26, 2021 23:40:34 GMT -5 Soulsista said:

SHOOTER you posted the rankings for "Volcano Love" twice.

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Solid top 10!

I'm kind of surprised We Made It...didn't make it (/corny puns), but then kind of not? I like the sound but with some of those lyrics it felt more salty than celebratory which kind of killed the mood she was going for.

I constantly find myself wishing I liked Justine Skye more than I do. I just cannot connect to her for some reason.

[singingrulebritannia]

1 3 4 7 8 9 10
13 14 18

So I'll mention now that the only credited men I put in my top 10 were a feature and producers (and members of Hiatus Kaiyote if it counts). That wasn't even intentional, it just turned out that way lmao

[kimberly]

1 2 3 4 5 7 9
12 17 19

glad to see my entire top five make the cut. my 17 and 19 were quite basic imo, but to each their own I guess.

[SHOOTER]

Oh, yes, congrats to Otis Kane and Majid Jordan for surviving the male purge! 🥳🥳

[CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker]

Jul 27, 2021 2:08:07 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Oh, yes, congrats to Otis Kane and Majid Jordan for surviving the male purge! 🥳🥳

There's no reason Been Through That should've missed the Top 10. It's that good

[#LisaRinna]

NOT frigid coochies!

[Ty]

That mass disrespect for the masterpiece that is "Volcano Love" is uncalled for. Heauxes don't know how to handle a 7-min R&B song these days.

[.indulgecountry]

Jul 27, 2021 10:24:53 GMT -5 Ty said:

That mass disrespect for the masterpiece that is "Volcano Love" is uncalled for. Heauxes don't know how to handle a 7-min R&B song these days.

I somehow KNEW it was gonna get unjustly tanked when I saw that timestamp!

[Kanenrá:ke]

Sad I missed this but just gave all of these a listen and most are fantastic! What lies in the top 10?!

(also I'll do next month!)

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Jul 27, 2021 19:21:35 GMT -5 Kanenrá:ke said:

Sad I missed this but just gave all of these a listen and most are fantastic! What lies in the top 10?!

(also I'll do next month!)

pulsemusic.proboards.com/post/7954447/thread

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#10 (Trajectory)

Ty : 7
singingrulebritannia : 11
back2blk : 13
LBTrocks : 13
Sambalada : 12
wavey.✨️ : 13
Soulsista : 12
#LisaRinna : 11
.indulgecountry : 12
jtd Thee Stallion : 14
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 : 14
@io : 14
stallie : 14
castleoblivion26 : 12
@antigonerising : 12
CagedJuggalo The Third Tanker : 11
GP : 9
kimberly : 10

Knocking out the next 5. #10 made the top-10 by just 4 points and finishes with the LOWEST SD!!