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Post by Franck on Jun 2, 2008 18:15:42 GMT -5
I like this on first listen, it's pretty summery.
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Post by RedDragon on Jun 7, 2008 22:39:13 GMT -5
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Post by I'M ON ONE on Jun 8, 2008 11:54:53 GMT -5
Yea, it's kinda mediocre and filler-material, but in a way it works. I hope its just a heater tho, because he can come alot hotter than this, especially on a first single from a new album.
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Post by Grenade on Jun 8, 2008 17:30:03 GMT -5
I usually instantly like his singles, but I don't really like this.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Jun 8, 2008 20:00:43 GMT -5
Typical generic T-Pain. He should stick to just singing hooks. lol
Seriously though, he can make hit after hit for other artists, but his solo stuff usually sucks.
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Post by Jay!Koolie on Jun 8, 2008 23:17:38 GMT -5
I usually instantly like his singles, but I don't really like this. |
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Post by Be Real on Jun 9, 2008 0:17:28 GMT -5
The production is recycled. He has done so much for other artists that he ran out of idea's for himself.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Jul 1, 2008 20:57:58 GMT -5
I just realized the title references different types of Patron. We get it already- you like Patron.
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Post by I'M ON ONE on Jul 2, 2008 0:01:29 GMT -5
Is this the first single? It seems too weak and watered down... and he has a new mixtape called Silver & Gold, which this appears on.
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Post by TotallyEnormousExtinctDinosaur on Jul 2, 2008 6:55:03 GMT -5
Is this the first single? It seems too weak and watered down... and he has a new mixtape called Silver & Gold, which this appears on. I've heard this on the radio once but I really don't think it's the lead single. I think it was meant to be but plans changed when this didn't start to blow up. I'll move it to Album Tracks and we can always move it back if it actually is the lead single. |
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Post by Grenade on Jul 2, 2008 18:19:38 GMT -5
I think they changed the single to "I Can't Believe it."
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Post by I'M ON ONE on Aug 28, 2008 19:38:14 GMT -5
Aug 28 2008 8:00 AM EDT
T-Pain Gets Some Heat For Turning Gospel Song Into 'Alcoholic Anthem'
Singer had to sit down with Kirk Franklin after tequila-soaked version of 'Silver and Gold' leaked online.
By Shaheem Reid
When it comes to knowing what to sing on hooks, T-Pain's word has been the gospel for singers and rappers alike the past couple of years. However, a recent track of his had gospel-music fans thinking he lost his mind.
A Pain cut called "Silver and Gold" leaked to the Internet a few months back, with the Tallahassee, Florida, native singing about the effects of blending clear and colored Patrón tequila together for consumption. "You'll be hanging, swanging, drinking two types of Patrón," he sings. "I done mixed up silver and gold/ I done mixed up silver and gold/ I'mma tryin' to get drunk before this party/ Somebody's gonna have to carry me home/ I done drank the silver and gold."
While Pain's following ate it up, non-secular-music kingpin Kirk Franklin had to put a call into the young singer. Franklin debuted the original "Silver and Gold" on his 1993 Kirk Franklin and the Family album. The gospel version goes: "Silver and gold/ Silver and gold/ I'd rather have Jesus than silver and gold/ No fame or fortune/ Nor riches untold/ I'd rather have Jesus than silver and gold."
"It was never supposed to be on my album," Pain said Tuesday in the MTV News office, wearing a purple top hat and matching shirt. "The record, it got leaked, then me and Kirk Franklin had to talk. He was doing most of the talking. He was saying it wasn't no disrespect. He was saying he knows how songs get leaked. He had it happen to him before. He said he wasn't a saint, and it wasn't like he never did nothing wrong. It's not like [Kirk] said I did something wrong. He said if I was gonna go with it, just change the melody. 'You can still say silver and gold.' He's got a lot of people saying stuff to him: 'How could you let T-Pain destroy a gospel song like that? How could let him talk about alcohol?' I wasn't even doing it for a mixtape or nothing. I was literally drinking and made a song. I was bored in the studio. There was nothing else to do. I made it into an alcoholic anthem, which wasn't good."
Pain said that the first day "Silver and Gold" was leaked, 400,000 people had downloaded it. By then, it was too late. It even caused him some dilemmas.
"It spread so fast," he said. "Everybody thought it was the first single. Somebody was putting it out as 'the first single off of T-Pain's new album Pain or Pleasure.' Somebody was just making up an album name just so they can put it out. That's why my album isn't coming out on [my] birthday no more, because I had to push it back. We had to stop that song."
Pain and his record company sent out cease-and-desist orders to put "Silver and Gold" on permanent pause, but its popularity was even greater than Pain's official first single, "Can't Believe It," during its initial launch.
"That pushed the single back, then we had to push the album back," Pain said. " 'Can't Believe It' was getting overtaken by 'Silver and Gold.' It was just a lot."
"Can't Believe It," which features Lil Wayne, is soaring off the ground now. The video just came out, and it gives us a glimpse into Pain's playfully diabolical mind. The clip features scary-looking clowns who just want to have fun and dance, expensive trips to Aspen and "Wiscansin" and women who can contort their bodies.
"It was all green-screen," Pain explained. "I just came up with it, man. I kinda stole some stuff from the last iTunes commercial. I got the same people to direct it. ... I was like, 'If we can find those people to direct my next video, it will be the best video.' I already knew, just the way I see things.
"We just did a bunch of takes," he added. "Nothing has to be organized. We was like, 'We gonna do it and then see what we got outta that.' It just all came together. It took eight hours. A bunch of takes, six outfits. And the song ain't even four minutes. [The song] is basically a perspective of not settling for what you doing. You can be doing better. Even if you think you're at the peak of your career, you're at the top, it's something else you can be doing. Don't settle into what you been pretty much forced into doing."
Pain's Thr33 Ringz comes out October 28, right in time for Halloween.
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