India.Arie Discussion

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India's fifth album and first in four years is due out this year. Lead single is "Cocoa Butter".

[Wave.]

Love her. Little Things,Video & Chocolate High are my favorites from her.

[Caviar]

I love "Good Morning" as well. :)

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Intro
Cocoa Butter
Nothing That I Love More
Flowers
Thy Will Be Done featuring Gramps Morgan
Interlude
Life I Know
Break The Shell
Brother’s Keeper
Just Do You
Interlude
One
Soulbird Rise
I Am Light
Outro

Deluxe Edition
Thank You
6th Avenue
Life Is Good

[SHOOTER]

Out June 25th.

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Revised tracklisting on iTunes. I like "Just Do You" a lot. Should be the next single.

itunes.apple.com/us/album/songversation-deluxe-edition/id659585460

[Me. I Am Justin...]

Love the album cover!

[rosemoor]

Listening now. Love it. I think I need to dig out her old albums too. Her music is always so sincere, soulful and endearing, she's another one of those artists I admire who don't jump on bandwagons to chase the latest trend.

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Her only album I really like as a whole is Acoustic Soul. I like "This Love" and "Just Do You" a lot, but I'm not really into the album overall.

[SHOOTER]

I definitely enjoyed this album a lot more than the last one. I will be supporting.

[Keep’n It Real]

I need another song like Chocolate High from her.

[SHOOTER]

Just Do You
This Love
Flowers
Cocoa Butter
Moved by You
Break the Shell
Brothers' Keeper
I Am Light

[George]

Her album drops to #22 in its second week (after debuting at #7 with 31k sold). Total sales to date are around 45k to date.

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A video for "Break The Shell" was released today. No word on a radio release yet.

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She accused the Grammys of being racist on her Tumblr. While Kendrick was definitely robbed, she's reaching a bit. Why would Nelson Mandela be honored on a music award show? I think this is more of a personal thing. She has 4 wins out of 21 nominations and has the record for biggest shut out, losing 7 nominations in 2002.

@kendricklamar WAS robbed, BUT he was not the only one who was robbed. Personally, I was pleased he was able to perform and they KILLED! IT! One of the FEW moving moments of the night for ME.
Though it’s called “Music industries biggest night” the #Grammys are NOT about the music, it’s a popularity contest. The voting process allows people, to vote on name recognition alone – the music industry politics is a whole NUTHER conversation. Too much to go into here.
The American Music Awards is a show that awards sales and popularity – the #Grammys are SAID to be about the music.
If the hip hop community voted on hip hop – r&b COMMUNITY the same – same for each category – we’d see winners that reflect the MUSIC ITSELF. We all know that’s just not the way it goes.
NOW the BIGGER losers, are ALL of black music. Where was the black music community represented in last nights #Grammy show? Performers and Winners (or not) … Where were the black artists?
And this isn’t the first time the #Grammy’s has had a show all but excluding young black America and black artists in general, although we set the worlds musical trends. Why NOT televise the lifetime achievement awards of the Isley Brothers? SURELY they deserved to be on televised stage LAST NIGHT! While other artists were on stage TWICE?
The truth is in a perfect world diversity would matter, and respect would be rampant, but the TRUTH is, The #Grammys is a television show, and in THAT world ratings reign supreme. So, in general, bigger names take the stage, and sadly the biggest names often times ARE BIGGER drawn along racial lines from the release of an album. i.e. marketing dollars, and just general support. It’s unfortunate.
I don’t even get surprised any more, but, it still hits my sense of fairness, because I KNOW many of the artists who are overlooked. I LIVE in that world. We keep showing up and subjecting ourselves to the game, hoping MAYBE we’ll win. I was so HAPPY to see @kendricklamar take that stage – because it is a FORM of winning, at LEAST, he was SEEN.
Speaking of diversity, congratulations to my PERSONAL favorite albums of the year – @i_GregoryPorter #LiquidSpirit @realsnarkypuppy and @lalahhathaway on your win and THANK YOU! @pharrell for acting RIGHT in the presence of the greatness that is @nilerodgers and #StevieWonder
Love to all #SoulBirdsWorldWide
@indiaarie
P.S. No mention of Nelson Mandela at ALL? … and THIS is why we NEED the Image Awards AND the BET awards.

soulbird-journal.tumblr.com/post/74780046389/the-2014-grammys-open-letter-from-indiaarie

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I think she went way too far including Mandela at the Grammys. If it was racist. .im not even going to go there.

[SHOOTER]

She's still a sore loser.

[marcjm]

Does anyone know how much India.Arie's latest project-Songversation-has sold?

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Apr 10, 2014 17:02:55 GMT -5 marcjm said:

Does anyone know how much India.Arie's latest project-Songversation-has sold?

Right around 100k.

[marcjm]

That is much less than I thought it would have sold at this point.

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Apr 10, 2014 17:21:40 GMT -5 SHOOTER said:

Apr 10, 2014 17:02:55 GMT -5 marcjm said:

Does anyone know how much India.Arie's latest project-Songversation-has sold?

Right around 100k.

105k as of last week.

[stunnedout]

This album was hideous. I really like her but she needs someone to direct her.

[marcjm]

While the CD was not as strong as some of her previous releases, I still think it is higher quality than much of what is being played on R&B radio stations. I think the project could have done better, but it points to the state of the current market.

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Christmas album due out this year.

[stunnedout]

I can't even imagine how horrible it will be.

[George]

Heard "I Am Light" in the movie "Beyond the Lights" this winter. Really loved the song, and looks like I'll try and finally check her album out!

[marcjm]

This is a great song.

[George]

Aug 23, 2014 14:48:09 GMT -5 @jazzysoul47 said:

Christmas album due out this year.

It was released this past Friday.



1. Let It Snow (feat. Joe Sample)
2. Favorite Time of Year (feat. Tori Kelly)
3. Silent Night (feat. Joe Sample & Brandy)
4. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (feat. Joe Sample & KEM)
5. Merry Christmas Baby (feat. Michael McDonald)
6. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (feat. Dave Koz & Trombone Shorty)
7. The Christmas Song (feat. Joe Sample)
8. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (feat. Khristian Dentley of Take 6)
9. Mary, Did You Know? (feat. Gene Moore)
10. Auld Lang Syne (feat. Kirk Whalum)

"Silent Night" with Brandy:

[Ty]

Is she indie now? That cover...

[SHOOTER]

Oct 20, 2015 7:15:45 GMT -5 Ty said:

Is she indie now? That cover...

Still on Motown (for now).