Bambi82 said:

bashraka said:

I haven't heard the entire clip, because my connection is shaky, but the music doesn't sound like the way Jon Bream described in his review of the song, unless there is another Rita Ora and Prince duet he heard.

That song is called Champagne Kisses, isn't it?

I actually don't mind this clip.. NPG horns maybe?

-FYI-

Horns by the Hornheads - arrangement by Michael B. Nelson

MrMoops said:

Bambi82 said:

That song is called Champagne Kisses, isn't it?

I actually don't mind this clip.. NPG horns maybe?

-FYI-

Horns by the Hornheads - arrangement by Michael B. Nelson

Dope job you did.. same session as the fallinlovetonite session?

BTW, apparently , there was a behind the scenes video that was tweeted and deleted yesterday.. Folks took the muisic and ripped to the vid u see now which is actually a commercial..

Pleasant and charming song. However, I don't hear this one being a big radio smash in the US, as some are suggesting. I'd love to hear a more sensual vocal on it as well. She's gorgeous but her voice is pretty standard.

lwr001 said:

MrMoops said:

-FYI-

Horns by the Hornheads - arrangement by Michael B. Nelson

Dope job you did.. same session as the fallinlovetonite session?

-

Thanks!

No, it wasn't from the same session as FallInLoveTonite.

funkyhead said:

BartVanHemelen said:

.

This sounds like it could be five, ten or twenty years old. Prince by the numbers. What's the point?

i do agree with you BUT I am sat here listening to Jack Whites new album..totally brilliant BTW BUT there's no radical departure from his last one. It's a difficult one when looking to demand more from an artist..maybe some just run out of ideas & are cruising on air? Defo think this about Prince and as long as he continues to sell out gigs & make shed loads of £$ he has no incentive to really push himself as £$ seems to have been his main priority for years!.

Jack White is not a POP ARTIST. Rita Ora is a pop artist. Prince is writing for her not himself or Jack White.

What is wrong with writing pop music that people may actually want to buy? I honestly do not understand why this is so hard to understand on this board.

SchlomoThaHomo said:

Pleasant and charming song. However, I don't hear this one being a big radio smash in the US, as some are suggesting. I'd love to hear a more sensual vocal on it as well. She's gorgeous but her voice is pretty standard.

everyone on the radio is pretty standard..US dont count; she huge OCONUS

laurarichardson said:

funkyhead said:

i do agree with you BUT I am sat here listening to Jack Whites new album..totally brilliant BTW BUT there's no radical departure from his last one. It's a difficult one when looking to demand more from an artist..maybe some just run out of ideas & are cruising on air? Defo think this about Prince and as long as he continues to sell out gigs & make shed loads of £$ he has no incentive to really push himself as £$ seems to have been his main priority for years!.

Jack White is not a POP ARTIST. Rita Ora is a pop artist. Prince is writing for her not himself or Jack White.

What is wrong with writing pop music that people may actually want to buy? I honestly do not understand why this is so hard to understand on this board.

My future wife has spoken!

BartVanHemelen said:

MaddMaxx said:

I like it, and iti seems to work well for her. It reminds me a bit of She Spoke 2 Me.

Yeah the horn arrangements are very much like She Spoke 2 Me, but the rest of the production sounds very contemporary.

kenkamken said:

Love it, it says "available now" but where? Maybe it's a Roberto Cavalli fragrance?

[Edited 7/9/14 23:17pm]

Hope she knows Prince gon' want them PJs back - damn soon .

It sounds very dry, but the current top 40 is reverb drenched and wet, with huge generic club synth chord stabs. They need to bake it more if they are trying to "fit in".

lezama said:

Yeah the horn arrangements are very much like She Spoke 2 Me, but the rest of the production sounds very contemporary.

.

Yup. And if someone said old Prince with current production techniques, most of us would be excited by that idea.

.

Then again, if you said, it's like old Prince but with out of the box pitch and time effect plugins, I'd worry and then have been real happy with these results.

lezama said:

MaddMaxx said:

I like it, and iti seems to work well for her. It reminds me a bit of She Spoke 2 Me.

Yeah the horn arrangements are very much like She Spoke 2 Me, but the rest of the production sounds very contemporary.

-

MrMoops said:

lezama said:

Yeah the horn arrangements are very much like She Spoke 2 Me, but the rest of the production sounds very contemporary.

-

The "Spoke 2 Me' reference seems to come up everytime a horn arrangement has the trumpets in harmon mutes.

While this is an understandable comparison, the instrumentation on the Rita Ora tune is actually quite a bit different.

"She Spoke 2 Me"

2 trumpets - w/harmon mute

trombone - w/straight mute

tenor sax

bari sax

"Single Most Amazing"

pass 1

flute

clarinet

2 trumpets - w/harmon mute

trombone - w/straight mute

pass 2

2 flugel horns

alto sax

tenor sax

trombone

thank you.. You do know on the org, even thought you were there and recorded said parts some still wont believe you.. don't let that stop your commentary though.

thanks again

Very promising, I'm looking 4ward to hearing the whole songs

MrMoops said:

Bambi82 said:

That song is called Champagne Kisses, isn't it?

I actually don't mind this clip.. NPG horns maybe?

-FYI-

Horns by the Hornheads - arrangement by Michael B. Nelson

Thought so.. thanks.

.

Available where? Are we sure this is a single or is it just a clip for this Cavalli commercial?

Bambi82 said:

MrMoops said:

-FYI-

Horns by the Hornheads - arrangement by Michael B. Nelson

Thought so.. thanks.

.

Available where? Are we sure this is a single or is it just a clip for this Cavalli commercial?

[Edited 7/10/14 12:43pm]

sexy

She talks about working with Prince is the latest issue of Paper magazine.
Here are some excerpts from the interview:



Rita: ''Yeah, we did a few tracks together. I flew to Minneapolis and went to Paisley Park, which is like his iconic studios and we just made music. I was there for a week. It was the best thing I have ever done in my life.''

Oh my God, I bet. What happened? Did you just start jamming with Prince? Was it easy? What's he like?

Rita: ''No, it's so easy. He plays like 50 instruments so you could do anything and he'll fix it. He has an answer for everything. He's a genius. When we connected I basically got a call from my management saying, "Prince would love to speak to Rita." And I was like, "Wait, like the actual Prince? The Prince of Wales?" But I went that night and met him and we listened to music and it was amazing.''


That is so insane. And you never get freaked out? Because if my manager called and was like, "Jay Z's invited you over," or, "Prince has invited you over," I'd be such a weirdo. How do you do it? How are you not freaking out?


Rita: ''You know why? Because I want to be like that one day. They started from nothing and now they are legends and they will be remembered. And I'm all about learning everything--like how they move, how they speak, how they act--and I am so distracted by all of that, by trying to read them like a book, that I don't think about who they are and I just take it in. I'm from West London and never thought anyone would know my name.''

MrMoops said:

lezama said:

Yeah the horn arrangements are very much like She Spoke 2 Me, but the rest of the production sounds very contemporary.

-

The "Spoke 2 Me' reference seems to come up everytime a horn arrangement has the trumpets in harmon mutes.

While this is an understandable comparison, the instrumentation on the Rita Ora tune is actually quite a bit different.

"She Spoke 2 Me"

2 trumpets - w/harmon mute

trombone - w/straight mute

tenor sax

bari sax

"Single Most Amazing"

pass 1

flute

clarinet

2 trumpets - w/harmon mute

trombone - w/straight mute

pass 2

2 flugel horns

alto sax

tenor sax

trombone

Cool. thanks for the explanation. Most of us here don't know much about the the instrumentation behind what we're hearing so its good to get this type of detail.

funkyhead said:

BartVanHemelen said:

.

This sounds like it could be five, ten or twenty years old. Prince by the numbers. What's the point?

i do agree with you BUT I am sat here listening to Jack Whites new album..totally brilliant BTW BUT there's no radical departure from his last one. It's a difficult one when looking to demand more from an artist..maybe some just run out of ideas & are cruising on air? Defo think this about Prince and as long as he continues to sell out gigs & make shed loads of £$ he has no incentive to really push himself as £$ seems to have been his main priority for years!.

I doubt he's run out of ideas. Guessing from his most recent output- 3rdEyegirl or even 20Ten(has it really been four years?) - I don't think he has a cohesive album in mind. Maybe the cd he played for Jon Bream is the one.

Good song by the way, and great vocals.

But something about her look reminds me too much of Rhianna.

She has to break away from that right away or appear to be a spin-off of sorts. The blonde hair is not enough.

Btw. every time I see Prince in the mirror, I shave my nuts clean. Sorry Prince but my balls... are bald. Try again fro-boy !

Sounds dated.I still like NPG horns, but i like them in Prince 90s songs.And they're so randomly thrown into that Rita song, they don't even have a connection with the "song".

I put "song" in quotation marks because i don't really can hear any memorable melody or anything else that would make up a real "song".

Scotsman1999 said:

laurarichardson said:

BartVanHemelen said: -- The point is to get the song on the radio. He was hired to do a job and he did it.

At the moment Rita's farts would be played on the radio.

Then it's quite fitting because that's exactly what this track sounds like. Just a brain fart. It will leave no lasting mark on the musical landscape other than a stain Prince's "artistry". What a waste of valuable studio time that could have been used by someone with new ideas. Just one new idea would have done. In this song all i hear is music by the numbers, stale drums, live horns that somehow sound programmed, the same layering ideas we have heard for 20 years and the thing that really drives me mad these days with Prince music, the stupid breakdowns and segues. Have we really come to the point that there seems to be only one way of segueing between movements in a song? D&P introduced this horrible monster and it hasn't left since.

kenkamken said:

bashraka said:

treehouse said:

I cant' believe that it took two people to "produce" this mess. And one of them is Prince.