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R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 10:53 pm
by LoathedVermin72
"Smooth" by Santana ft. Rob Thomas



VERSUS

"Gold Digger" by Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx


Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 10:58 pm
by LoathedVermin72
absolutely loathe Smooth and always have

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:01 pm
by BurtReynolds
Couldn't make it passed the opening notes of Smooth.

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:12 pm
by Jorge
MAN

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:12 pm
by Jorge
IT'S

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:12 pm
by Jorge
A

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:13 pm
by Jorge
HOT

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:13 pm
by Jorge
ONE

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Tue April 14, 2020 11:50 pm
by chewm
Gold Digger is great

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 12:02 am
by Norah
Gold Digger is objectively better. But like Jorge said, man it's a hot one.

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 1:14 am
by wease
LoathedVermin72 wrote:absolutely loathe Smooth and always have

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:14 am
by Jorge
Fun fact: in place of the now-iconic "man it's a hot one," the opening line to the demo version of "Smooth" was "it is very hot today"

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:16 am
by Jorge
A lot of people don't know it, but Santana is actually the name of the band. It is led by legendary Mexican-American guitarist Freddy "Santana" Guzmán.

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:18 am
by Jorge
I actually really like the vocal harmonies in the pre-chorus, especially during "this life ain't good enough".

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:19 am
by Jorge
When Rob Thomas sings about being from "the barrio," the barrio that he is referring to is located in Landstuhl, West Germany, where he was born.

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:20 am
by Jorge
If you're only familiar with the ever ubiquitous single mix and you've never heard the album version, do yourself a favor and seek it out. It is a whole 4 minutes longer.

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:30 am
by Jorge
If you've never read the oral history of "Smooth" on RS, I highly recommend it: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... ry-841189/

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 2:58 am
by BurtReynolds
please stop this, plat

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 3:09 am
by Jorge
Wow!
On Billboard magazine's rankings of the top songs of the first 50 years of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Smooth" was ranked as the number-two song overall (behind only "The Twist" by Chubby Checker) and the number-one rock song in the history of the chart

Re: R2: Smooth v Gold Digger

Posted: Wed April 15, 2020 3:57 am
by i got bugs
And it's just like the ocean under the moon.. oh, it's the same as the emotion that I get FUCKKKKK YOUUUUU