Talk:Unshaken

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:03, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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D'Angelo

• ... that American singer-songwriter D'Angelo (pictured) spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song "Unshaken" for its original soundtrack? Source: Rolling Stone — "The company tests its games as they are in progress, and one singer was particularly eager to try it out. 'D'Angelo's actually a massive, massive, massive fan of the game — more than I ever knew' says Ivan Pavlovich ... 'When D'Angelo comes through, he shows up at midnight, and he's playing the game until four in the morning.' ... D'Angelo's enthusiasm emboldened Pavlovich to ask the singer if he was interested in contributing music to the game."

• Reviewed: Richmond Hill station (LIRR)
• Comment: Would it be fine to use a cropped version of the same image on the article for this DYK nomination?

Created by Aria1561 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:39, 23 April 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article is new enough, backed up by sources, neutral, no copyvio issues. Hook is long enough and interesting. Pic is fine. Good to go! mike•owen ^discuss 16:12, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Unshaken/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MarioSoulTruthFan (talk · contribs) 16:06, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Infobox

• Needs alt
• RCA → not on any source
• Electric Garden Recording → not in the body of the article or source

Lead

• American singer-songwriter and musician → American singer-songwriter
• co-wrote the song → wrote the track
• release by Lakeshore Records → released by Lakeshore Records
• It features Brian Blade on drums, Cyril Neville on cowbell, Lanois on guitar, and D'Angelo on Rhodes piano → remove it's already below and the lead should be more concise

Background

• Prior to the release of "Unshaken", the last piece of music that D'Angelo put out was his third studio album...→ already stated in the release. Remove the same sentence from the release section below
• "each time he was just like, 'it's incredible.' It just blows his mind". → the singer found the game to be "incredible".

Composition and lyrical interpretation

• On the music sample remove "D'Angelo sings in his lower vocal register on the track"
• as D'Angelo "crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove" → as "crooning bleak imagery over a percussive groove"
• D'Angelo opens the song singing in an undertone, which The Musical Hype's Brent Faulkner felt matched the "understated nature" of the track → either replace with a reliable source or just remove the sentece (see below)
• the game's soundtrack → year of release in between brackets
• Lanois took an early version of the song to D'Angelo in New York; they added a percussion track with Brian Blade on drums and Cyril Neville on cowbell, while Lanois played guitar and D'Angelo played Rhodes piano, and turned it into a full song. → Lanois took an early version of the song to D'Angelo in New York. They added a percussion track, with Brian Blade on drums, Cyril Neville on cowbell, Lanois playing the guitar and D'Angelo playing Rhodes piano, and turned it into a full song.

Release

• Remove the photo of D'Angelo, no need for it.
• through RCA Records → source?
• Add "CD and vinyl" to the formats in the infobox

Critical reception

• The Musical Hype is a blog with no editoral oversight → remove

Track listing

• Fine

Personnel

• Use {{spaced ndash}}

Charts

• Fine

References

• Musicnotes → publisher
• KZGO → publisher
• Either use publisher and work for eveything or only work/publisher (when its applied)

Overall

• You can now address the issues. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Appreciate the review, MarioSoulTruthFan. I've gone through and addressed your concerns. Let me know if there's anything else. – Rhain ☔ 00:00, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

@Rhain:I made two chages, one as I felt who palyed the drums and the lead up to the creation of the song and the "rock version" along with everything else would be a better fit on the background, the other as the same description it was already in the text and on the sample. Let me know if you are ok with them. MarioSoulTruthFan (talk) 19:18, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

@MarioSoulTruthFan: Both seem like logical changes to me, thanks for checking. – Rhain ☔ 00:16, 3 May 2020 (UTC)