Discuss.

:-D

lame-o?

Don’t really care...if I wanted to hear that type of album, I’d just go listen to Emotional Technology.

Worth noting though, that Blake is about as non-mainstream as you can get with American Idol. He’s a Seattle native, and some of his own stuff was played on the local radio stations. It’s impressive, and should be a decent matchup. I just hope it doesn’t give me painful flashbacks of Nsync ruining a perfectly good breakbeat.

I for one cannot wait for this!

Rageous - 30 July 2007 03:56 PM

Worth noting though, that Blake is about as non-mainstream as you can get with American Idol. He’s a Seattle native, and some of his own stuff was played on the local radio stations. It’s impressive, and should be a decent matchup. I just hope it doesn’t give me painful flashbacks of Nsync ruining a perfectly good breakbeat.

If you listen to POP it is quite possibly the most popular “breakbeat” esque track to hit the mainstream radio.. granted it was still “fluff” I really truly believe that Blake Lewis is gonna come out with some crazy ass shit I just HOPE that it isnt so glitchy and stuttetttettteteterrrrrrrrrrrrrr eddddddittted to the point that I want to stop listening.  I want SONGWRITING and PRODUCTION with some “special fx” not all CG Special Effects you know!? 

Cheers!

^^ I know just the right album for you.  Rageous would concur.

So, did Blake win?  Sorry, I don’t poke my head out from around my cave-covering rock for American Idol. 

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Glad the man’s gettin paid.  Like the track or not, “Pop” was very tightly produced and you all love that BT got some big mainstream notice for awhile.  I still wonder how many OH oh OH OH OOOOOOOOOOOHs were on the check for that beat tho…

Actually, the only mainstream coverage I cared about was that for “Never Gonna Come Back Down” The rest, good for him but I didn’t love it by any stretch.

I think its pretty cool. It will be interesting to see how BT goes back to pop-ness, after Pop, ET, TBU....

no great surprise really.....  we got the US version of American Idol here (surprisingly in oz it was called Australian Idol) but didn’t really watch any of it, so i will hold my judgment until i actually here some of Blakes stuff, although he is pretty damn lucky to have someone with BT caliber & experience producing his first album

3pmusic - 30 July 2007 05:24 PM

Rageous - 30 July 2007 03:56 PM

Worth noting though, that Blake is about as non-mainstream as you can get with American Idol. He’s a Seattle native, and some of his own stuff was played on the local radio stations. It’s impressive, and should be a decent matchup. I just hope it doesn’t give me painful flashbacks of Nsync ruining a perfectly good breakbeat.

If you listen to POP it is quite possibly the most popular “breakbeat” esque track to hit the mainstream radio.. granted it was still “fluff” I really truly believe that Blake Lewis is gonna come out with some crazy ass shit I just HOPE that it isnt so glitchy and stuttetttettteteterrrrrrrrrrrrrr eddddddittted to the point that I want to stop listening.  I want SONGWRITING and PRODUCTION with some “special fx” not all CG Special Effects you know!? 

Cheers!

If it were not for his contribution to that song/his work with N SYNC I probably would not have discovered him![yes I was a huge NSYNC fan, but I was like 9, what do you expect? ]

I’m a little excited for Blake’s album. I’m expecting PARIS/Somnambulist-ish stuff which is not that bad

Paris was ruined, fact.

Curious what sort of style they might work on for this album. If it is “pop”, it will definitely have that razzle-dazzle. but I think back to JC work on ‘Force of Gravity”, that was something very unique. Wasnt aware Blake was a Seattle-ite. heh a neighbor gone “pop"ular neat. I havent listened to the radio lately because of the ad-nauseam. i might look into it sometime though. definitely looking forward to this.

vin9 - 30 July 2007 06:04 PM

Actually, the only mainstream coverage I cared about was that for “Never Gonna Come Back Down” The rest, good for him but I didn’t love it by any stretch.

A bit off topic I know, but Never Gonna Come Back Down was back in the time the first BT track I really didn’t care for that much. I can live with the Paul DeCarli and Hobird mixes, but the original, Timo Maas and Eric Kupper mixes still make me yawn.

Back on topic I certainly hope Blake Lewis’ album isn’t overproduced as in being too stuttery and glitchy etc.

Well you just raised my old skool by one.  I can’t buhlieve I was beat.

And on the contrary, the Original and Timo Maas Mixes were great....the rest well, you said it best, “yawn.”

i like the Lawler mix too.

raven848 - 31 July 2007 04:31 PM

i like the Lawler mix too.

Forgot about Steve Lawler’s mix. Not too shabby actually, but I remember it took some time for me to get into it.

Now we need someone to get this back on topic… Don’t know much about Blake Lewis - just read the Wikipedia entry on him and noticed he auditioned for American Idol with Seal’s “Crazy” and seems to have a knack for beatboxing amongst other things.

BioTracer - 31 July 2007 04:04 AM

vin9 - 30 July 2007 06:04 PM

Actually, the only mainstream coverage I cared about was that for “Never Gonna Come Back Down” The rest, good for him but I didn’t love it by any stretch.

A bit off topic I know, but Never Gonna Come Back Down was back in the time the first BT track I really didn’t care for that much. I can live with the Paul DeCarli and Hobird mixes, but the original, Timo Maas and Eric Kupper mixes still make me yawn.

Back on topic I certainly hope Blake Lewis’ album isn’t overproduced as in being too stuttery and glitchy etc.

Aww come on.  The original always gets me up and gonig. I’ve listened to this track for two years and never gotten tired of it once.

So, did Blake win?  Sorry, I don’t poke my head out from around my cave-covering rock for American Idol. 

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Glad the man’s gettin paid.  Like the track or not, “Pop” was very tightly produced and you all love that BT got some big mainstream notice for awhile.  I still wonder how many OH oh OH OH OOOOOOOOOOOHs were on the check for that beat tho…

Im suprised no one answered this, no he didnt win, he came in 2nd.

vin9 -

Paris was ruined, fact. 

I dunno...the original Paris before the rewrite was too soft, and kind of boring in that par-for-the-course Way Out West sort of way.  After the rework it had confidence and punch, hooky as all get out, not to mention the darker and more detailed intro and outro.  A lot more interesting than that orginal which just stacked up to be another pseudoprog house trancer. 

I mean, if that’s what you were referring to.

Yep, it had a flow and wasn’t all schizo’d out like that final version, which didn’t need the egomaniacal “BT” MC lines nor did it need the additional whiny BT vocals.  The inane bouncy bassline utilized instead was also a downgrade from the syncopated smoothness of that early version.

What you heard that leaked was unfinished anyway.  What you call boring, I call deep and building.

In point of fact, when I heard the leak I thought it was otherworldly, and evidence of the pre-album buzz that said it was full of stuff we’d never heard before. The bassline was a big part of that. As soon as went blocky bass with six breakdowns and an MC, the magic was gone. Paris is the track I love and hate at the same time. The album’s most glaring victim of overproduction.

I like both versions of Paris. I think the WOW mix is just deep and soothing and the BT one is all BTified goodness.

Pshaw, common ground is overrated.

/rant

The music that is spawned from American Idol is a joke.  There is no integrity in it.  It is just something for fat Americans to watch while their country withers away.  I can’t believe anyone who takes “musical integrity” so seriously would work with anything so bland and pop-esque.  If money is the issue, work with Celldweller, NIN, or any other number of other artists who are successful and respected.

Let’s have a look at the word integrity shall we?

integrity
Main Entry: in·teg·ri·ty
Pronunciation: in-’te-gr&-tE
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English integrite, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French integrité, from Latin integritat-, integritas, from integr-, integer entire
1 : firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : INCORRUPTIBILITY
2 : an unimpaired condition : SOUNDNESS
3 : the quality or state of being complete or undivided : COMPLETENESS
synonym see HONESTY

/end rant

Yeah.. Does this end up like the Britney Spears or Zoolander work where a few select record/movie execs have way to much say in what the end product will be and subsequently it is crap or not finished properly?

Maybe he has learned and can work the contract accordingly to avoid that kind of situation.  But I seriously doubt any of the contracts for the finalists from american idol give away much of the final decision of what the album sounds like from the producers of american idol. 

Haven’t most of the previous finalists dumped their first record deal once they could to get out from under the sound that the AI producers wanted them to put out?