tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950850563891440632.post3507653245651664080..comments2023-11-05T03:55:07.437-05:00Comments on Brown Sugar: Oh Jazmine, How I Miss Thee...(Retry)Black Maybehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04069131496323661272noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950850563891440632.post-66993016992076131452008-12-09T10:02:00.000-05:002008-12-09T10:02:00.000-05:00This is big business. Find something you like. Buy...This is big business. Find something you like. Buy it. Tie it down. Beat it. Make it look like the other sh*t you own. Push it out into the marketplace and stand behind in the shadows w/ a switch threatening a fresh beating if it fails to perform. <BR/><BR/>Think about it. You find this cool organic juice. You start buying it, telling everyone about, consuming it like it was an elixir. Soon everyone is talking about how great it is. More stores carry it. It blows up. Then a bigger company buys it out and quickly works to make it taste "similar" to its original flavor, but using non-organic ingredients (to cut costs of course). Before you realize it you're sitting on the subway drinking something called "drink beverage" wondering where your favorite product went. <BR/><BR/>A&Rs spend their lives collecting unique talent and trying to mold it to look, sound and sell like something they just sold two weeks ago. I pray for Jazmine. The new songs, the stylists, the photo shots all seem to molding her into something completely different than what got her here. (I think record execs call it "getting to the next level". Where I am from we call it "letting negros change you".)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7950850563891440632.post-17223842597115873992008-12-03T14:22:00.000-05:002008-12-03T14:22:00.000-05:00Yeeeaah. I know exactly what you mean. Take Over Y...Yeeeaah. I know exactly what you mean. Take Over You, Break My Little Heart, Don't Let Me Get Started, Feel Nice, Resentment...<BR/><BR/>I was <I>so</I> ready for that vibe on her debut album. Don't get me wrong, I do like some of her album material but the older stuff just kills this newer stuff.<BR/><BR/>Maybe next time around!?! <BR/>*fingers crossed*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com