Snowywilderness says,
Have you heard of The Dream? "Shawty Is A 10"?
Because he was an early adopter of MTV Jams, our screenwriter friend Fataz stays up on all the ghetto fabulous hip hop and R&B, so he was able to croon "Shawty you a tiiiiiiiin" while we were still up on the Island this summer, but I didn't get to hear it until I, too, started spending mad time watching MTVJ, a development of the last couple weeks.
I love R&B songs like this--humming, dreamy, the Missy and Timbaland/R. Kelly formula, and it's damn near psychedelic: waterfall background choirs with lead vocals in a funny falsettoish voice over the bare-bones of a track made of nothing but drum machines, synthesizers, and weird noises. I guess we have T. Pain to thank for this particular drank, too, and the rapper Fabolous even has a hippie-psychedelic line in his verse: "Shawty is a Pisces/I heard they are feisty..." Om mani padme hum!
Also, I had a wonderful time with Allen last night at an industry party for Mr. http://nickverrreos.blogspot.com/ of Project Runway fame, and we made a game out of singing the chorus, "Shawty right there is a tiiiiiiin" whenever we saw a cute AND fabulous boy or girl in the crowd, and we met quite a few of them.
A little patient research on the song revealed that the original, pre-record deal "street" version of the song was called "Shawty Is The Shit", not a ten, which puts this song in that interesting group of songs that are actually improved by self-censorship because the new combination of words the artist splices on top of the offending crass language actually fits better. "Shawty is a ten" is so much more mellifluous than her being "the shit", trust me.
Anyway, which one of ya'll is feeling The Dream?
Click to viewBecause he was an early adopter of MTV Jams, our screenwriter friend Fataz stays up on all the ghetto fabulous hip hop and R&B, so he was able to croon "Shawty you a tiiiiiiiin" while we were still up on the Island this summer, but I didn't get to hear it until I, too, started spending mad time watching MTVJ, a development of the last couple weeks.
I love R&B songs like this--humming, dreamy, the Missy and Timbaland/R. Kelly formula, and it's damn near psychedelic: waterfall background choirs with lead vocals in a funny falsettoish voice over the bare-bones of a track made of nothing but drum machines, synthesizers, and weird noises. I guess we have T. Pain to thank for this particular drank, too, and the rapper Fabolous even has a hippie-psychedelic line in his verse: "Shawty is a Pisces/I heard they are feisty..." Om mani padme hum!
Also, I had a wonderful time with Allen last night at an industry party for Mr. http://nickverrreos.blogspot.com/ of Project Runway fame, and we made a game out of singing the chorus, "Shawty right there is a tiiiiiiin" whenever we saw a cute AND fabulous boy or girl in the crowd, and we met quite a few of them.
A little patient research on the song revealed that the original, pre-record deal "street" version of the song was called "Shawty Is The Shit", not a ten, which puts this song in that interesting group of songs that are actually improved by self-censorship because the new combination of words the artist splices on top of the offending crass language actually fits better. "Shawty is a ten" is so much more mellifluous than her being "the shit", trust me.
Anyway, which one of ya'll is feeling The Dream?