Video: Ciara f. Missy Elliott, “Work”
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When Ciara’s Fantasy Ride album outtakes leaked in 1847, someone sent us this song in an email with the subject header, “Blue Collar Realness.” As in, Ciara fully made this track for the banjee set, right? This is the song you want playing when you’re killing in a vogue battle. Further evidence: this campy, literal video with some tractor landing pier as a runway and her choreography when she sings “put some snap into it.” She’s inching on that Beyonce tranny territory, we love it!
Schnipper’s Slept On
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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Ciara’s Goodies. Listen to “Hotline” here and read Schnipper’s thoughts on it after the jump.
Video: Ciara and Justin Timberlake, “Love Sex Magic” on Saturday Night Live
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When “Goodies,” Ciara’s first single came out, this is not where we would have expected her to land three albums later. Or two, or four or whatever. Because, exactly, you have a bunch of records? And you are regular famous? Why didn’t you stay weird? Instead, you have a song called “Love Sex Magic” where you say you can make us believe in love sex magic. First two, we’re there. Third, Chris Angel ruined for us. You know what else ruined it for us? The out of sync backup dancers and that split that doesn’t work you do in front of Justin Timberlake’s electric piano. At least he’s a completely lovable dweeb. Who happens to sound like Stevie Wonder. Ciara, take notes.
Video: Ciara f. T-Pain, “Go Girl”
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One of our style editors has an unrelenting obsession with Ce-Ce’s “Like A Boy” video, so any time she has a new one, we have to put it up to see if said style editor will latch onto it or stick with the old crutch. It’s behavioral science, FADER style, and gives us an insight into what we need to do to get free swag out of the fashion closet. Do we play it tough or do we glam it up? We’ll let you know how it turns out. On a more relevant note, “Go Girl” is from the upcoming Fantasy Ride and Ciara has the strongest spine on Earth.
Freeload: Ciara f. Ludacris, “High Price”
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“Oh” by Ciara featuring Ludacris was the best R&B/rap matchup of 2004. Sorry, there is no arguing with us. It just was. Sometimes we wake ourselves up in the middle of the night because we are singing it in our sleep. More often than not, when we are awake, we like to pretend we are Ciara in the “Oh” video and climb on cars to do a little booty pop, just because we can. Cece and Chris B. are the perfect teamsters, ATL scene royalty with copious amounts of attitude and personality, at least when you put a beat in front of them. FURTHERMORE, this track, allegedly from Ciara’s forthcoming third album Fantasy Ride*, is produced by frequent The-Dream collaborator Tricky Stewart, whose D we are unashamedly JOCKING (um, have you heard The-Dream’s album? dude. dude. dude). Ciara sounds like she has been rehearsing with the Metropolitan Opera vocal coach and it is BAD. TO. THA. BONE. Yeah we said it.
*Sidebar: Fantasy Ride is in competition with Lloyd’s Love Spaceship as the best title of 2008. We are waiting to see what Kellz comes up with for his post-acquittal jernt before we make a firm decision (oh nevermind), but we encourage all artists to stay imagineering. Space and fantasy are both preeeetty safe bets.
Download: Ciara f. Ludacris, “High Price”
