I said it

Not as much as the NPGMC. There, I said it.

then e-mail your beloved npgmc and tell them your dislike for ol' girl, lamont.

there, i said it.

I said it...

MaggotBrain said:

Whoops, no I didn't.


"Then she can blow me..."

There, I said it.

What did Nikka Costa ever do to anyone, sheez.

I kinna like her, but..whatevs

Anxiety said:

You are right...!
Does it have to do with the fact that the dvd would only be 60 min and time was better spent with just Prince ?

Oh come on...

And Lamont, this is your second thread on it ?
[This message was edited Sun Aug 3 16:50:58 PDT 2003 by dawntreader]

Nikka is the shit, she's just underrated and underground as hell.

okaypimpn said:

She is the shit and talented, her album "everyone has there something" was underrated, considering that same year Alicia Keys had a hit album. Nikka's album was far better
She's not really underground, she wants to be mainstream
her manager is Randy Jackson from American Idol, not sign of someone really wanting to be underground
[This message was edited Mon Aug 4 8:57:56 PDT 2003 by twink69]

True. She's more underground to the public because of the lack of promotion. While TRL is so busy hyping Avril, Justin, Pink, X-Tina, and everybody else, they forget about real artists like Nikka.

theblueangel said:

i know that's right!

there, i said...well, no actually, theblueangel said it! but i agree with it!

See her live and then have an opinion.

Wouldn't go as far to say "she blows" but I also didn't get what all the hype was about.

'everybody got their somethin'

LaMont said:

As if your opinion is of any worth...

Neversin.

LaMont said:

U blow NIKKA IS THE SHIT!

NIKKA





bitches don't undastan...

CALHOUN!!! Glad to see ya back sweetie!!!


IMO, Nikka has mad potential, if only she would decided what genre of music she wants to perform. On her initial album, too many times I felt as if she was mixing genres awkwardly (example: singing a soul song on a rock tune, etc)

codshort said:

but isn't that what made prince so special in the beginning?

No...IMO, P might have changed genres from song to song, but Nikka's stuff at times sounds like she's mixing styles IN the song (just sorta felt off...)

codshort said:

oh, my friend, please take a listen to:
head
when u were mine
anything from 1999
uptown
controversy

heck, anything pre-1989

the man blended new wave, punk, funk, rnb, and rock in most of his songs...thats why many of us have been so disappointed in his current offerings.

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

Before you posted this (before I saw it), I decided to re-listen to the disc on my trip home. Maybe I'm not correct about her changing styles in the songs. The album itself is to varied in style/genre from song to song. She does funk/rock/soul/hip-hop (beats)/folk/etc all in 7-8 songs. It makes for an uneven listen to my ear.

Maybe it's because she doesn't have the greatest voice, that I'd like to see her focus her efforts more. She does all the styles pretty well, but too many in one package just messes it all up for me. I do stand by my opinion that she has MAD potential, just she's not quite there. Now let's hope she get the chance to grow musically before she fades away (in the biz).

Trust me...P's ability to mix genres is one of the things I love about him. I still hear a mixture of genres in his music, their just not "new wave, punk, funk, rnb, and rock". In NEWS, he mixes jazz, funk, new age, & rock, etc. Xpectation was a mix of jazz, funk & classical. TRC was Jazz-funk-gospel-rock-soul-musical based. It's not a matter of he's no longer mixing musical styles, he just not doing the styles that you (and many others) like and expect. No longer is he doing disco-punk-newwave-rock-pop based music, now it's mainly jazz-funk-soul-gospel.

That doesn't disappoint me in ANY way, because those are the styles he's tried that have intrigued me more than the pop-rock stuff.

codshort said:

i don't think p does jazz too well. i love his funk-soul-gospel fuses, but his jazz attempts leave me running for some coltrane, davis, armstrong and monk. i think his jazz sounds a bit too much like "lite" jazz...or, dare i say, kenny g.! i do enjoy east and west, but only at moments are they truly exciting. i want him to focus more...i think that's it...just focus more.

when he was hungry he was focused. now, he's just performing musical masturbation...getting himself off, but no one else, in the process.

imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

While he's not a jazz legend, he's definitely not a poor jazz musician. Are you like some of my harder-core jazz fiend friends, where any jazz album short of a Mingus Ah Um, and it's crap? I too love jazz, but have never held that traditional jazz is the only true jazz. For me jazz has always been about interpretation, so Bob James & Joe Sample jazz doesn't get compared to Monk. Grover doesn't get held to a Coltrane standard, etc. I just open my ears and mind and enjoy real musicians playing real music (the fundamentals of jazz).

BTW, my friend, ...for the Kenny G./P comparison, you get a chair shot for that! U AINT RIGHT!!!
[This message was edited Tue Aug 5 22:25:43 PDT 2003 by codshort]

codshort said:

Coddie I'm like you baby, MIA up in this mutha...