Dirty Ways

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The Promise of Music

To much of R&B these days is far to con­cerned with sex. Not the pur­suit, or mak­ing love or the art of get­ting the one you want. Some of the great­est songs in R&B his­tory con­tained straight talk type social com­men­tary. “Tales from the Hood” so to speak. It’s good to hear this type of song from per­form­ers who sound so young. Let’s face it, young kids aren’t expe­ri­enced in love and romance, so it is often amus­ing to hear them sing about the sub­ject. The topic of this song is timely and preva­lent in soci­ety. Every­one would have an opin­ion on this one, and there will be so many dif­fer­ent sides of the issue to be represented.

Now as for the music itself, the clas­si­cally inspired intro and recur­ring theme through­out the piece was a very nice touch. Ele­vate the art form when­ever pos­si­ble. After the open­ing, I knew this wasn’t going to be another SEX song. Although there was the clas­si­cal fla­vor­ing the song itself was not overly com­pli­cated, nice touch, I hate any type of music that is too com­plex. Espe­cially when said com­plex­ity is for complexity’s sake. I couldn’t care less about what you’ve stud­ied if you aren’t enter­tain­ing me with good music. The per­for­mance as a whole was nice but there was still an over­all fin­ish miss­ing, this may be a mas­ter­ing issue. There wasn’t enough clar­ity between the sounds and instru­ments in the song. I’m talk­ing about a very minor adjust­ment here. This was a strong effort. The vocals were ade­quate, I wasn’t blown away but that’s bet­ter than being turned com­pletely off and I wasn’t. Most peo­ple I know, mainly women would feel this song on some level. That is an accom­plish­ment in and of itself.
vincee101 from Oak­land Park, Florida

Impressed

Very, very good. This group knows the feel­ing of being tight. I hear no prob­lems with this group they can accom­plish a lot. I’m impressed.
bar­nettstu­dio from Moses Lake, Washington

Great Pro­duc­tion

The beat in this track is great com­pli­ments the vocals which is great, the vocals are good and well mon­i­tored and the over­all pro­duc­tion work of this track is very good. Every sound in the right spec­trum, which a very hard thing to achieve. Well Done.
Klavar from Portsmouth, Hants, United Kingdom

Keep Going!!

The two vocal­ists have the poten­tial to go all the way. This track demon­strates great abil­ity… orig­i­nal­ity and a true under­stand­ing of pro­duc­tion and beat selec­tion. I espe­cially like the piano and the unique voice that pisses on Tim­ber­lake!! Keep going!!
gfasal from United Kingdom

Wow Vocal!

Vocal are very orig­i­nal, very beau­ti­fully voice. Vio­lins are also very good. Over­all it’s a pro­fes­sional song, with a touch of orig­i­nal­ity, good for this!
Car­bonara from France

One Damn Strong Tune

Con­grat­u­la­tions. This is one damn strong tune. From arrange­ment to instru­men­tal and vocal exe­cu­tion, you have nailed this song rite to the floor. Thanks.
hun­gry­dog from Stras­burg, Virginia

Ste­vie Won­ders Who This Is…

The voice reminds me a lit­tle of Ste­vie Won­der and so do the chord pro­gres­sions. But, that is a good thing. Clas­si­cal piano voic­ing in and through­out the tune are nice. The string thing is nice too. This is a very rhyth­mic track and the bass and drums are nicely exe­cuted. The vocal­ist is top notch and the back­ground vocals really add a lot. Once again that clas­si­cal piano riff and it is cooler each time you hear it. Great har­monies, can you tell I’m excited about this tune.
bassplayer4u05 from War­ren, Michigan

Dirty Ways

Oh the instru­men­tal on this is great. It is a fast tempo track with a stringed orches­tra. I love the vio­lin tracks ris­ing before the vocal­ist opens. There are two vocal­ists inter­act­ing back and forth on this track. They both sound like they may be from the UK.

The key­board on this is very close to be clas­si­cal. It’s like R&B meets clas­si­cal. Real close to an Ali­cia Keys jam.

the acoustic gui­tar slowly picks out the melody. it increases in vol­ume when there is no singing, the decreases when there is. then the solo notes of the piano comes in to enhance the back­ground vocals.

I absolutely loved this track about a woman who needs to mend her dirty ways.

The song is out­stand­ing because the you can also lis­ten to the instru­men­ta­tion with­out vocals and still keep the mean­ing. Very well done.
tlberger from Tal­la­has­see, Florida

Mov­ing Vocals

This is a good song, I dig the vocals and the lyri­cal con­tent. It is arranged well and there is nothin bad about this song. The vocal tones are really mov­ing. Great job; there is noth­ing bad to say about this song.
voodoomoon­shine from Mem­phis, Tennessee

Talk­ing in Tongues

Wow what a fast smooth talker! Nice groove and touch on the beat and whis­pers! This one should go some­where big! Nice mes­sage!
card­slasher from Mount Pleas­ant, Michigan

Per­fect

I like songs that start with the word ‘uh’ and this heads to the top of the list. This is wicked with a great vocal and a really catchy melody. Great, great song well per­formed and pro­duced. You’ve got my vote.
Gee­tan from Man­ches­ter, Cheshire, United Kingdom

3 mil­lion

Ya’ll can sing. You gotta get some bet­ter beats. Your arrange­ment is hot. I like the orig­i­nal­ity of the track. Fuck the Justin Tim­ber­lake style, hone your own thing. You guys got tal­ent, find that niche and get some pro­fes­sional help.
Tim­Cee from Burling­ton, New Jersey

Andrea Hill

I loooove this beat. It’s hot. The piano is so unique. The break­downs where the piano is going down the scale really hypes this beat up. Good Job.
AndreaHill from Med­ford Lakes, New Jersey

Love the Riff

Love the clas­si­cal riff at the begin­ning. It is really nice. Sound is fat and full. Vocals hit the grove and sound nice. Song is good, with well thought out melodies and har­monies. Well done guys.
SMJWORLD from Birm­ing­ham, United Kingdom

Rank

All-time: #1,521 of 2,029 in R&B
Best #98 of 215 on 28 Feb 2006

Awards!

Best Key­boards in R&B, week of 27 Feb 2006
Best Lyrics in R&B, week of 27 Feb 2006
Most Orig­i­nal in R&B, week of 27 Feb 2006

On This Day

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