In an eye-gouging monochromatic color scheme straight out of a 1998 Hype Williams clip, everything about the video for Pretty Ricky’s third single “Love Like Honey,” from the shiny overalls to the laser zap beat, could have been released to BET a decade ago without anyone blinking, while the boys continue to impress the poet in me with their mackadocious middle school come-ons: “Lick your nose/ Your neck/ Down to your bellybutton.” Who could resist? (Also are they saying “you gotta make the sex crunk”? I pray they are.) Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia’s first-ever music video is a little more, how do you say, restrained than Pretty Ricky’s gold experience. A religious ode to staying on the straight and narrow, “Malak Ghair Allah” nonetheless features the protagonist racing motorcycles like it was a Ruff Ryders video and hitting up fly Muslim honeys for their digits:
This clip of Pretty Ricky’s performance on 106 & Park yesterday has transfixed us for the past 10 minutes or so; it’s a jumble of signifiers, from Phantom Of The Opera to “The Hokey Pokey” to Kris Kross. (Sadly, there are no ottomans on stage.) More »
Normally, the AIM interviews on AOL Music are pretty staid affairs; the answers often seem filtered through press-release lingo, or at least typed by some poor intern who’s crouched over a phone, trying to make out what, exactly, Justin Timberlake is going on about. More »
What more can be said about Pretty Ricky, the lascivious Miami quartet who took the top spot on the chart this week? Their latest album, Late Night Special, sold 132,000 copies last week, and that probably still won’t be enough to make them wear shirts under their marching-band jackets. More »
It’s looking like the Shins’ Wincing The Night Away will debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week–the highest-placing first week for an album on an indie label since Thom Yorke’s The Eraser entered the chart at No. 2 in mid-July. More »
According to Hits, Sub Pop’s dreams of having the Shins’ Wincing The Night Away debut at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard chart have been dashed by Pretty Ricky, a sex-obsessed Miami foursome that’s been entrenched in the 106 & Park top ten for a while; their latest album, Late Night Special, is… More »
Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at new releases hitting your local record shops and digital-download outposts on Tuesday. The roster of new releases this week is more robust than in past weeks, although the number of big-ticket releases is pretty slim. After the jump, we look at new albums by Pretty Ricky, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Saliva, and The Shins.
