![]() ![]() El-Khatib did the artwork, and only two producers worked on the music with PARTY, Neenyo, who was living in Miami with PARTY, and G-Ry who reconnected with them between the release of the debut EP and PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO. Knowing this, there’s no surprise that PARTYNEXTDOOR TWO released with very little contribution from anyone else. He’s pulling all of the strings, he’s doing everything, so you hear his final production exactly the way he envisions it,” In PARTY’s first interview with The Fader in 2015, OVO’s Oliver El-Khatib says, “He’s the rare breed that writes, produces, engineers, performs, sings-all in one artist. He’s reading off a screenshot of the Apple Music R&B and Soul chart that PNDTWO topped.įollowing PND2, the bubbling popularity of Travis Scott (à la Days Before The Rodeo) and Ty Dolla $ign’s rougher-around-the-edges, auto-tune heavy music, there were a few years where nearly every artist was mimicking a combination of the three sounds only to eventually co-opt Migos’ flow a year or two later. ![]() He came in at like six or seven,” Neenyo, long-time friend and PARTYNEXTDOOR collaborator, tells VIBE. “Trey Songz was one of the bigger R&B artists in that style at the time, kind of like Chris Brown. PartyNextDoor is standing out in a crowded market, not so much for his sound, but for his circumstances.Artists like Bryson Tiller and 6lack wouldn’t have a lane to dominate without it. It sets out PND’s stall very well: most of the tracks on P3 skew its way.Īlthough PND’s hasty Instagram arguably nearly sparked a tragedy, the picture here is less of a cad than of a man wrestling with his feelings in an overfamiliar (if wildly successful) sonic bubble. The lead single, Come and See Me (feat Drake), has the production values of the latter, but the bent of the former. ![]() Here, 1942 is a dark sulk about craving aged tequila, and Temptations semi-quotes Marvin Gaye (perhaps unwisely, given how litigious his estate is: “Sexual healing, oh what a feeling,” but against a doomy, woozy, genre-perfect backdrop. Normally, that might count as a lapse in taste, but the track is such a picture of male hurt, it makes perfect sense.īrathwaite’s previous two albums have persuasively married two strands of loverman R&B: the old-school type, eyes-scrunched-up in love, and the 21st-century model, following the Weeknd: ultra-minimal, chasing diminishing sexual thrills (see PND2). “Look what you’re putting me through.” Spiteful, meanwhile, is a ticklish R&B track with a plangent rock guitar cutting through it. “Oh girl, you’re not nice, you’re rude,” sings Party, double-entendre-ing. Not Nice is another catchy slice of skeletal Caribbean pop. ![]()
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