I saw his baby-mama (Angie Stone) on 'Celebrity Fit Club' and it made me think of him. He was so sexy! I miss him...

beret1022 said:

hes in hiding after making Voodoo , officially the worst album evvvveeerrrr

chillin with maxwell and bobby brown in IDLEwild

beret1022 said:

Me to!

TheBoyfromtheBand said:

maxwell and bobby brown are in IDLEwild?

Details details!

Maureen said:

I think it was a joke. "Idle"... get it?

TheBoyfromtheBand said:

No not Maxwell .

Najee said:

Of course, when your two albums are as great as his are, there will always be people waiting for the next one.

AlexdeParis said:

That is very subjective on the greatness of D'Angelo's albums, and he's hardly that prominent or profound an artist that he can afford to go nearly six years between albums. It's career suicide, especially when you have a limited catalog. It's to the point people don't care if acts like D'Angelo and Lauryn Hill ever make an album because they essentially have aged out.
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Najee said:

Of course it's subjective. Music is about opinion. But there's a reason we get "Where is D'Angelo?" threads on a regular basis. There are plenty of people interested in what he does next. That's a fact.

AlexdeParis said:

The interest is becoming more of a case of D'Angelo fighting his personal issues and the fact he has not made an album in years. It's no different with someone like Laryn Hill. The problem is that interest has gone beyond their viability as recording artists and more as curiosity.

Such inactivity kills the momentum of a recording career. To a lesser degree, Aaron Hall's career was killed in no small part by years of inactivity. Musical styles and tastes change over the span of time in question and in some cases a core audience can age out.

nurse said:

i meant they were all IDLE...wow

Najee said:

People were saying similar things before Voodoo was finally released.

AlexdeParis said:

Not entirely true. Taste is a matter of opinion, yes. But most musicians should be able to explain why Beethoven's Symphony no.5 is better than his first, dig what I'm saying? There are certain standards that go hand in hand with all of the arts.


That said, as I'm want to preach, I sincerely hope D'Angelo is in some recording studio - I could care less if he was in the gym or where ever. It seems that sitting his ass down and recording is the best way for him to exorcise those demons.

ACTUALLY he had been crashing at my place for the past few months.

Then last Tuesday night he smoked all my weed and bounced.

chuckaducci said:

Taste trumps any standards. I could also explain to you why "Can't Buy Me Love" is a "better" song than "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," but the bottom line is I can't stand the former and enjoy the latter.

Taste trumps any standard? Now I know you've no earthly idea what you're talking about.


You may enjoy "Can't Buy Me Love" more than "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - an explanation is easy offerings. But explaining why one is better written than the other, well, that would take some work and a thorough education in music - I can wait. Face it, there are such things as high artistic aesthetics - and if art's ultimate goal is to serve truth and virtue, or to praise or honor God, as far as I'm concerned, an intellectual history of art and some good ol' fashioned elbow grease beats crass "taste" any day. Art's rules and bylaws are as clear as the Mississippi River, but only philistines create art guided soley by "taste" - they usually have no artistic discipline and these types of artists usually last in the public's mind for about three months. It take a combination of the two, adhering to established standards and taste (there are some others) to create everlasting art - a balance is most necessary. But to say taste trumps any standard? Go read some Plato and Aristotle, Nietzsche or Rousseau and get back to me.

chuckaducci said:

Yep, still amusing! The list of things you think you know is apparently quite long.


Did I say "arrogant"? "Pompous" is probably a better word. Anyway, I can see why you're confused. Let's back up. Obviously, creation of music isn't dependent on taste alone. What I was saying is that enjoyment of music is primarily about taste. I said that D'Angelo's albums are great, Najee said that was subjective, and my response was meant to say that it was obviously a matter of taste. No, Brown Sugar and Voodoo probably won't be played by people hundreds of years from now, but that's irrelevant to me. I love them. The End.

chuckaducci, what are you smoking?

The analysis of a piece of music does not validate it or bestow greatness upon it. I could also look at a piece and detail the ways in which it's been well structured from a technical point of view, but it may not move me at all. I don't think that a musician's opinion on what is "good" music is any more valid than your average person in the street. You're completely missing the point.

AlexdeParis said:

"Brown Sugar" had a much longer shelf life than "Voodoo," not to mention D'Angelo was active in the music scene between albums. In this case, D'Angelo literally has had no presence in the industry for more than five years. So there is a big difference.