Category Archives: Fore & Aft

Fore & Aft: Echoplex II

By Black | Published: March 17, 2010

A few weeks ago, I wrote what might have been an overly academic piece about a musical dialogue between The-Dream and R. Kelly. Soon after, I went in search of tracks on which the two might have collaborated. The most pertinent of what I found is the first track on “The Demo”, from R. Kelly’s [...]

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Fore & Aft: Echoplex

By Black | Published: February 24, 2010

“Ella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay”. Or so goes the biggest line of the biggest single of 2007. The deviously catchy delivery tactic of that echoing artifact sunk its hooks in so deeply that over the last few years, we’ve heard its success replicated far and wide by both the original songwriting team of The-Dream and Christopher “Tricky” Stewart and [...]

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Fore & Aft: Drinking Songs

By Black | Published: February 1, 2010

Fore & Aft is a new series dedicated to exploring the ways hit songs influence other hit songs, for better or for worse. In my household, one of the more polarizing songs from last year was the Jamie Foxx/T-Pain collabo “Blame It On The Alcohol”, a little ditty celebrating drunkenness as an excuse to do [...]

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