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QuoteSeats: I think that she knew that she was not the girl to be blended in with the herd. At the end of the day, she chose all of the records that are on that record. She had to give the okay. She had to like them. She was not a push over to where an A&R was going to come and say, ?Baby Girl, you got to put this one on there.? She was running her stuff. Her ear, for her to hear those sounds and say, ?Aha!? that?s what I mean by that. Tim didn?t do that. Static didn?t do that. That?s Aaliyah?s work. That?s her executive mind, so what you hear are the songs that she chose to sing. That makes her a genius, to not play it safe. She didn?t come like that.
Quote"But Aaliyah herself refused to have ?More Than A Woman? come out before ?Rock The Boat.? I remember those couple of weeks, the back and forth with her and Tim and she was like ?No, it?s this one. I don?t care who did what. This one is the next one.? That?s how it got chosen. I remember hearing her saying, ?It has to be next.? She wasn?t aggressive in that way where if she didn?t like something it would be handled, but it wouldn?t be handled in front of 20 people. It?s not her style, but I only know so much about it as a producer. But I know she had to go with Tim and Blackground to make some decisions, but we see who won."
QuoteEric Seats: I did ?Extra Smooth? in my closet one day on my MPC 2000 and I used to do a lot of tracks on that. I put my MPC in the closet because I liked the way it sounded in there. I did ?Extra Smooth? in about five minutes. I love that track. I get a lot of compliments about ?Extra Smooth? still. That was one of Static?s favorites. You know how much he likes something when he dances. That?s when you know he felt it. No words needed. If he starts bopping so hard that you think he?s about to hit his head on the mixing board, then he loves it.
Quote?It?s Whatever?
Seats: That whole track started with those bells and I just did the beat. I asked Rapture to play piano on it. I knew we wanted a simple piano on it so not a lot, not a solo, just the subtleties. I love how basic that track is but it?s so crazy effective though. That?s the one track that we did that had the least amount of tracks. Let?s say there were 56 tracks, ?It?s Whatever? probably had like seven. It was beefy still, there wasn?t a lot going on but we need that space sometimes. That worked. Everybody liked that one. From that first line, ?Just like a bird,? that was a big one. I love ?It?s Whatever.?
QuoteResolution Video- One of the things that she wanted to do, she wanted to obviously dance, and she was really great at it. I felt that the idea behind that connection, we wanted an exclusive peek into her life, so the idea there was to create a sense that every room, every scenario that you?re looking at something that only certain people can see. It?s almost like if you?ve ever seen a celebrity in the airport, they?re going into a first class lounge, or they?re going into a private hallway, they sort of slip past you. The idea was to have this experience where we create these rooms that felt like they were exclusive.
QuoteMTAW Video - Meyers: I?ve always loved lights and dance. I think light shows are a synonymous expression of music and I think you see it in live concerts. Back then and even particularly now it?s very rare that you get the budget to express the light show for a music video the way you once did. Now in video form it tends to be more artificial with post effects or it?s done over a concert, concerts that do 40 cities can afford that, a 12 million dollar light show like the Coldplays, the U2s. It?s really hard to bring that to a video, and that one was a very expensive video where Aaliyah was insistent on hitting that level. I think I was a little bit nervous because the budget was high and she was like, ?No I want to do this right.? She got it approved, and the next thing you know we?re doing it.
QuoteAbout The Cover - Fu: I was sent proofs from so many of the top photographers of the day, including Albert Watson, Jonathan Mannion and David LaChapelle. To be completely honest, my favorite photos of her were from Jonathan Mannion. But of all the photos, there was one photo from Albert Watson that spoke to me. It was a symmetrical composition, with Aaliyah facing directly at you, with a look of confidence and maturity. Perhaps it was a reaction to her being mysterious and aloof behind her sunglasses in previous covers, but this particular photo seemed to say ?Here I am, this is me.? It just felt like her arrival from her adolescent years to womanhood. I think the cover was more of a result of understanding her vibe and stage in her career. The fact that she also picked my favorite cover shows that we were on the same wavelength. I wasn?t sure why I decided to tint the cover photo red at the time. But there is something so bold and celebratory about it, it just felt right.
Quote?I Can Be?
Bud?da: ?I Can Be? was interesting. It started off one way in terms of the process in which that came about. I did the music and I played it for Tank at one point because we were recording something and I don?t know if we were doing a remix or another song for somebody else, but I played it for him and Tank and I did about four songs for her. That?s the only one of mine that ended up going on the record. I think he wrote one for Dub that actually went on the record as well, but he wrote the lyrics to it and where I was going with the music I felt that it changed. I thought that I could bring even more out of what he wrote because what he wrote was incredible. I thought, ?Man, if I go here we?re going to take it to the moon,? in my opinion. He recorded the whole song and I maybe had a four bar loop going, and from that point with his melody, just like we did on his record, he?s clearly one of the best singers I have ever worked with. He laid down the vocals and because his vocals were impeccable, it really charged me to go in directions to merge everything together even more. He did certain things, and I wasn?t even going in the rock direction, not that it?s all rock, but it?s a combination of an early trap and rock.
Praise the KING Budda!
:loose2when: :loose2when: :loose2when:
Aaliyah is cool & stuff too
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 01, 2016, 09:08:49 PM
Quote?It?s Whatever?
Seats: That whole track started with those bells and I just did the beat. I asked Rapture to play piano on it. I knew we wanted a simple piano on it so not a lot, not a solo, just the subtleties. I love how basic that track is but it?s so crazy effective though. That?s the one track that we did that had the least amount of tracks. Let?s say there were 56 tracks, ?It?s Whatever? probably had like seven. It was beefy still, there wasn?t a lot going on but we need that space sometimes. That worked. Everybody liked that one. From that first line, ?Just like a bird,? that was a big one. I love ?It?s Whatever.?
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I read this the other day. Great article!
One of the producers said he hated "U Got Nerve".
Quote from: .betterwiseup on September 01, 2016, 09:21:06 PM
I read this the other day. Great article!
!!!
Definitely a good read
Extra Smooth
What If
The singles>>>>
Aaliyah really did kill this album
Quote from: Real on September 01, 2016, 09:19:57 PM
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 01, 2016, 09:08:49 PM
Quote?It?s Whatever?
Seats: That whole track started with those bells and I just did the beat. I asked Rapture to play piano on it. I knew we wanted a simple piano on it so not a lot, not a solo, just the subtleties. I love how basic that track is but it?s so crazy effective though. That?s the one track that we did that had the least amount of tracks. Let?s say there were 56 tracks, ?It?s Whatever? probably had like seven. It was beefy still, there wasn?t a lot going on but we need that space sometimes. That worked. Everybody liked that one. From that first line, ?Just like a bird,? that was a big one. I love ?It?s Whatever.?
:gorlonfire: :gorlonfire: :gorlonfire:
candy apple
Quote from: .betterwiseup on September 01, 2016, 09:21:40 PM
One of the producers said he hated "U Got Nerve".
Dont blame him :blessed:
Never No More>
I Refuse>
Loose Rap>
This album was her Full Moon. I haven't listened in a while but I'm going to get in tomorrow.
Amazing read
Wait so 3 photographers shot the album package?
Or did i read that wrong?
Oh cause I don't like "u got nerve" either. I means it's not bad but ch
Quote from: FINE. on September 02, 2016, 05:08:46 AM
Oh cause I don't like "u got nerve" either. I means it's not bad but ch
yea the second verse and that "eh eh eh eh" stutter are about the only parts I use.
Quote from: Cartier on September 02, 2016, 05:05:26 AM
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 01, 2016, 09:24:09 PM
Quote from: .betterwiseup on September 01, 2016, 09:21:40 PM
One of the producers said he hated "U Got Nerve".
Dont blame him :blessed:
ggggg U Got God >>> :bvy:
!!!!!!!!!
This is a praise thread so I'll regain from throwing other mess under the bus
I'll have to read this and see what they said about i care 4 u (aka her best mess)
but of course we haven't seen every pic lol . some, like the one in my avy were previously unseen.
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 02, 2016, 06:21:54 AM
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 02, 2016, 06:12:01 AM
Quote from: L0NZ. on September 02, 2016, 06:06:31 AM
Quote from: Capricorn King on September 02, 2016, 05:06:26 AM
Wait so 3 photographers shot the album package?
yea
jdjdjdjd
Have we seen all of them :'(
they picked from the proofs submitted. the booklet features pics from them all
ahhhh ok
I thought they picked only from one photographer for the cover and booklet
I was about to go hunting
(http://i65.tinypic.com/53k5mc.jpg)
Now WAIT
OMF
:gorlonfire:
I have never seen this one before
(http://67.media.tumblr.com/11aeaec3dd22bb3c64c9e9a076e6d1be/tumblr_mz7msjC3TR1sck243o1_1280.jpg)
Quote from: Vonc2002 on September 02, 2016, 06:20:13 AM
I'll have to read this and see what they said about i care 4 u (aka her best mess)
dhdudhdufuf nothing
12 million dollars for a vidya mess. Wait! Lemme go watch that video now.
thst has to be a typo
I could listen to "Its Whatever" all damn day long onight repeat and never get tired of it. Infact, I did that in my last trip to Mexico along the water one day. Amazing.
Quote from: Ulysses on September 02, 2016, 07:37:03 AM
I could listen to "Its Whatever" all damn day long onight repeat and never get tired of it. Infact, I did that in my last trip to Mexico along the water one day. Amazing.
I play it on repeat often