This thread sucks. The 2nd pic was like 3 or 4 years ago now. Where have u been?

He is supposed to release his comeback CD in the Fall of 2009.

Not a big fan, but damn get your facts straight.

Read a profile on him last year that had him getting back into shape. Trim or chunky, Mr. Archer could sing most of us under the table.

Nick715 said:

[Snip - luv4u] Have u seen pictures of him since that one [Snip - luv4u] Just because he has a cd coming out doesn't mean he's back in shape. [Snip - luv4u]

I'm sure he could sing all of us under the table. Too bad the issue here isn't vocal ability, but physique. Questions for all you "This post is old news and stupid" folks.

1.Why is it that there are literally 100's of posts critiquing the physiques of Women, ie, Appolonia, Vanity, Mayte...etc. but the moment a woman says something about a MAN'S BODY other than, "He's so fine. I'd let him hit", there's a problem?

2.Why the hell are all the MEN taking up for him? It's just my opinion. Damn! Ya'll are so sensitive! I bet everyone that had something bad to say is a fatty!

3.Why the hell are ya'll clicking on a post entitled "Sexy ASS D'Angelo" only to say how stupid it is. Were you hoping to see something else? Backshots maybe? If so sorry to disappoint. not really

I'm sure he could sing all of us under the table. Too bad the issue here isn't vocal ability, but physique. Questions for all you "This post is old news and stupid" folks.

1.Why is it that there are literally 100's of posts critiquing the physiques of Women, ie, Appolonia, Vanity, Mayte...etc. but the moment a woman says something about a MAN'S BODY other than, "He's so fine. I'd let him hit", there's a problem?

2.Why the hell are all the MEN taking up for him? It's just my opinion. Damn! Ya'll are so sensitive! I bet everyone that had something bad to say is a fatty!

3.Why the hell are ya'll clicking on a post entitled "Sexy ASS D'Angelo" only to say how stupid it is. Were you hoping to see something else? Backshots maybe? If so sorry to disappoint. not really

GoVenusGO said:

Because it's a MUSIC forum and many of us here are musicians/singers/writers/etc. So, many of us click on a thread about our favorite artists -- especially super-talented artists whose follow-up albums take forever to drop -- regardless of the adjectives being used to modify their names because we can't wait for solid news about those follow-up albums.

You could've titled it "Spaghetti-lovin' D'angelo's new cookbook" and I would've clicked on the thread. And, not that it's relevant, but I'm straight as the day is long. My interest in D is purely musical. Want better reactions to your threads, start better ones.

ThreadBare said:

Ok, so you didn't like it. Guess what? It wasn't for you. It was for people who are attracted to men. Of course you're not going to like it if you're not attracted to men, because it's strictly about his body. So if you're indeed heterosexual, then you could save your weak ass irrelevant comments. CLEARLY this is a music forum, but there are plenty of non music related posts here. Are you the org police now. Do me a favor and log off your computer now please.

I don't think D'Angelo is a great singer, technically. What makes him nasty is the way that he multi-tracks and then harmonizes his vocals, while throwing in all those vocal ad-libs. He's amazing in that regard - his back ground vocals are literally another instrument. He learned that vocal approach from listening to Prince and I think he does a better job at than Mr. Nelson.


However, hearing him live is another matter.

chuckaducci said:

Aww shit, here we go again with this "Anything He Can Do, This Guy Does Better", shit. lol As far as bein better than "Mr Nelson", anyone who's been compared with him or any other icon will tell you that the compliment is appreciated but they could only imagine gettin within a lifetime of what they created.
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GoVenusGO said:

Honestly, with a shave...

BLVR: You were paid as a worker, a session drummer. Not as a writer and producer.

AT: I wasn’t.

BLVR: How much are you owed?

AT: I can’t tell you, Touré. But my point was that I saw him as the chosen one…

BLVR: A lot of people thought that.

AT: I still think it. Even though we’re not cool, I still think it.

BLVR: Was there a fight?

AT: It’s just me becoming a new person, and one of the roles of the old me was my role as enabler. But I can’t control my world and then go do maintenance on his world.

BLVR: Making music with D’Angelo is more than going to the studio and jamming?

AT: It’s so much more than that. It’s a whole lifestyle.

BLVR: Because he’s a genius? Because he’s troubled?

AT: He’s all of that; but more than that, he’s amazingly insecure. I mean, everyone’s insecure, but he’s insecure to the level where I felt as though I had to lose myself and play cheerleader. Some nights on tour he’d look in the mirror and say, “I don’t look like the video [‘Untitled,’ which featured nothing but a chiseled, naked D’Angelo from the waist up.]” It was totally in his mind, on some Kate Moss shit. So, he’d say, “Lemme do 200 more stomach crunches.” He’d literally hold the show up for half an hour just to do crunches. We would hold the show for an hour and a half if he didn’t feel mentally prepared or physically prepared. Some shows got cancelled because he didn’t feel physically prepared, but it was such a delusion.

BLVR: It was the trap women often fall into, thinking they’re fat when they’re not.

AT: Yes. In the world of karma, it was sweet poetic justice for any woman that’s ever been sexually harassed, that’s ever had to work twice as hard just to prove she could work like a man. Literally. When we started this Voodoo project, we were like, “Man, we’re gonna give a gift to the world, and not on a pretentious level. We’re gonna create something that’s totally our world, and we’re gonna bring people to our world and they’re gonna love it, and it’s gonna be art.” But the first night of the Voodoo tour the “take-it-off” chants started not ten minutes into the show. This is a three-hour show. And he had mastered all the tricks from the Yodas. The Al Green Yoda tricks of him giving a wink to the drummer, and all the music stops, and Al Green goin away from the mic and singing to the audience without the microphone. We planned every trick out. But the girls are like, “Take it off! Take it off!” That put too much pressure on him.

BLVR: To be the sex god.

AT: Yep. And by night four he was angry and resentful. He was like, “Is this what you want? Is this what you want?”

BLVR: He was being viewed as a sexual being and not as a genius.

AT: They didn’t care about the art, they didn’t care for the fact that Jeff Lee Johnson was doing the note-for-note “Crosstown Traffic” solo in—

BLVR: They wanted to see the abs, the bod.

AT: They wanted “Untitled.” He hated every moment of that. So… to motivate him past night four became problematic. He’d say, “Well, [frustrated] let’s do ‘Untitled’ earlier.” We’d say, “No, you gotta end with ‘Untitled.’” Then it became just compromise. How can we stop the bleeding so that we can at least get the show out [of] the way before the “take it off” chants come? But no night was unscathed. Three weeks into it, it became unbearable. Absolutely unbearable. So as a result, the cheerleading starts. If we need him to get out of his disappointment, depression thing, you might have to start at four o’clock in the afternoon like, “What’s up, man [with exaggerated happiness]! Yo, let’s go record shopping!” Like, let’s con him into being happy all day! We go record shopping, then it’s like, “Let’s go to Roscoe’s! Oh, that’s right, you can’t eat, so you go exercise. All right, Mark [the physical trainer], you’re it.” Mark comes, trains him. I come back. “Yo, man! I got this new Prince joint!” We watch Prince. We get amped. Rewind it a couple times. “Alright, you ready? I’ma get dressed, and in fifteen minutes we’ll get in the car, go to the venue.” Some nights that would work. Other nights he’d just be psychosomatic. Like, “Yo man, I can’t do it.” I’m like, “What?” He’s like, “I can’t do it.” I’m like, “Just go out there. They love you!” He’s like, “They don’t love me, man.” That’s the respect and love thing. He wants the respect. I want the love.

BLVR: Everyone wants what they don’t have.

AT: He was like, “They don’t understand. They don’t get it. They just want me to take off my clothes.” So every night for eight months it was how to solve this Rubik’s cube in one minute, before the bomb detonates. Every night. And sometimes I failed.

BLVR: And the show did not go on.

AT: The show didn’t go on.

BLVR: How many shows did you cancel?

AT: Maybe three weeks’ worth. We threw away at least two weeks of Japan.

BLVR: That’s unbelievable. What’s going on with him now? Is he retired?

AT: He’s recording. I heard he’s got, like, four songs done. I know him, he’ll stop at song twelve. But what he wants is to get fat. He doesn’t want his braider braiding every nook and cranny of his hair. He doesn’t wanna have to have ripples in his stomach. He doesn’t want the pressure of being “Untitled” the video.

BLVR: So we’ll never get that kind of unbridled sexuality from him again.

AT: I don’t know.

BLVR: Do you think “Untitled” was a mistake? Because I remember when he was shooting that, and he did not want to make that video. They had to coax him into doing it, and maybe he was right to not want that if it created expectations that he wasn’t emotionally prepared to shoulder.

AT: Had he known what the repercussions of “Untitled” would’ve been, I don’t think he would’ve done it.

i googled deangelo, clicked the I FEEL LUCKY button and it took me here. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE

[NSFW] - luv4u]

http://images.google.com/...N%26um%3D1


I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY

DesireeNevermind said:

Now this is going to need a NSFW tag put on it.

morningsong said:

I DID APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE. HAD TO LOOK A COUPLE MORE TIMES THO. WHEW!!!!