3.21.12 - 4 Partial Songs, Salt Lake Radio Promo

I.LOVE.THIS.VIDEO! Big thanks!


Just look (and listen) how he moves the hips 0.14-0.22! I have looked at it 1000 times...

Okay--everyone's already said everything so I thought I'd just enjoy the clips in silence, but y'all know I can't shut up plus I have no one to flail with in real life and I just couldn't contain the squeeage! So here are my reactions to the snippets:

First of all, for those of you who feel a little like all or many of these snippets sound a little too radio-y, or mainstream poppy, or too production-heavy, a little too managed, maybe, for your tastes, and maybe find yourselves worrying a little that Adam is moving, whether for political reasons or because of his own taste preferences, in a direction that you like less, I want to just point out that of all the songs on Trespassing (not including BTIKM, of course) these are the ones that RCA clearly thinks have the best radio-single potential. Of all the songs on Trespassing, these are gonna sound the most top-40, the most poppy, the most accessible. I'm sure there are many other songs, other dancey songs even, on the album--say Kickin In, or Shady--that are equally awesome but much less molded to fit into our radios. And then there are all the slower songs, some of which will focus heavily on THE VOICE (I suspect Underneath does, Broken English, OOL, etc etc). So don't worry--There'll be a TON of awesome outside that box Adam on the album, I feel confident! Which makes it all the easier to celebrate the awesome hit-potential of this terrific line-up of snippets. Woooooooooooooo-eeeyyyyy!

I'm so thrilled with what I hear in the snippets.

Cuckoo--all the catchy fun that I expected--the chorus happily soars and the beat is a musical fist in the air. Love a song with a sense of humor (love the high-pitched 'cuckoo'). It's accessible, it's fun, and Adam singing this live will instantly be the most charming thing on TV. WIN.

Naked Love--Honestly, from the fuzzy club snippet I found myself actively disliking this song. Those brief seconds sounded to me like the most annoying bits in Katy Perry (though I like KP). So glad to be wrong! I find this bubbly snippet growing on me more and more with each listen, and I love it. I totally hear the madonna dance sounds people have mentioned, and the MJ--and also, in a way that's perfectly and beautifully nostalgic for the moment, Whitney dance music. This songs seems perfectly timed for the trends of the moment--there's a massive love of this late 80s/early 90s aesthetic right now. I totes wanna bop to this in a jeans jacket, leggings, and neon hightops ;D.

NCOE--I was one of the people who really quite liked the Bruno Mars demo, and so I still like this song. I can understand how the similarity to the demo throws people, but I think it is terrific mood music. I could see it's having significant radio success even w/o the Bruno connection (to my ears it has a similar sonic/emotional effect to "we found love"--another song I quite like that has a lot of detractors here, which I respect, of course). But I do hope for an Adam-penned single next, and I agree this would be the "safest"-sounding option, (made somewhat blah-er and safer by the wonder-doc) and I don't want that. In any case, to me the song is more an atmospheric deeper-album track than a single. It'll be GREAT in the deep sweaty exhausted somewhat drunken dark of a late-concert moment, however. THAT i look forward too.

Trespassing--OH MANNNN. I had liked this song from the first acoustic snippets, but I confess I never saw it as single material. I thought I was solidly on team-Cuckoo for the next single, and it's possible I still am. BUT MANNNNNN. This song is now very much my favorite of the snippets and I worship faithfully of the alter of Pharrell. That dude is a bad ass. I thought this would sound great in the album track but it's so much better than I could have expected. I love the million little details of the production. I love the incredible bass line, the fuzzy big drum sound, the stomps and claps, gong-sound (or is that a clock chiming?), the dirty guitars, the little shimmer with the show-you-what-is-cold line! The rock wailing paired with the incredible, light almost barber-shop harmonies in between. It's unexpected and brilliant and I would SO LOVE to hear this tearing up the radio. A riskier game to play, no doubt, but what a fucking fun one!

And to think that this list doesn't even include Shady and Kickin In and CHOKEHOLD (!!!) and OOL etc etc etc!

Ahem: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Surely not an accident or slip-up that those snippets were out there on March 20th.... ;D love that boy!

Is this it?