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Post by George on Oct 14, 2014 12:48:29 GMT -5
She did a really good job at Dancing with the Stars with the Bang Bang / Burnin' Up performance... But most importantly I really like her comments and attitude as a guest judge. She's being candid and fun :) Yeah, I didn't realize how fun of a personality she had. With her two performances plus one of the teams dancing to one of her songs, DWTS was all about Jessie last night. I was surprised her album is out this week, as while I've been hearing her singles on the radio, I didn't know the release date was already here. I hope she does well, versus being just a singles-artist, but we'll see.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 14, 2014 13:09:55 GMT -5
Not expecting much in terms of sales but the album is decent.
My Ranking: 1. Seal Me With A Kiss 2. Bang Bang 3. Personal 4. Masterpiece 5. Strip 6. You Don't Really Know Me 7. Burnin' Up 8. Ain't Been Done
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 14, 2014 13:57:10 GMT -5
Ain't Been Done Burnin' Up Sweet Talker Bang Bang Personal Seal Me With a Kiss Keep Us Together
Easily her best album to me but I don't hear anything strong enough to follow up the first two singles and sustain the album. My thought is that she needs to find a producer she has natural chemistry with that can develop a sound tailor made for her voice and personality instead of recording an album full of records that makes her sound like a glorified session singer.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 14, 2014 18:09:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I can see why people are dumping on her in here. She can definitely do better but this is a BIG step up from her debut, IMO. Based on the reactions here, I was expecting much worse though. Seal Me With A Kiss is FLAWLESS. That PFunk interpolation with De La Soul on the song is perfection. I bet other songs will grow on me. Burnin' Up gets better the more I listen to it. Same with Sweet Talker.
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 15, 2014 19:10:10 GMT -5
Projected to debut with 21-24k.
Who You Are debuted at #11 with 34k (237k to date).
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Post by surfy on Oct 15, 2014 19:21:56 GMT -5
This album is trying too hard, and the beginning half (bar the singles) is pretty bad, but the latter half is pretty good!
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Post by Lahey's Lucky Star on Oct 15, 2014 22:11:44 GMT -5
I'll probs do a review of this later but right now this is like her first two albums combined.
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Post by tamed09 on Oct 16, 2014 0:37:37 GMT -5
At this point im interested to see what Republic co head Charlie a Walk does with her....he put a lot into this album campaign.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Oct 16, 2014 9:11:13 GMT -5
I think they should've waited for "Burnin Up" to rise, and "Bang Bang" to fall.
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Post by Live Your Life on Oct 17, 2014 21:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by Live Your Life on Oct 20, 2014 16:52:35 GMT -5
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Post by davidmusiclover on Oct 22, 2014 12:24:14 GMT -5
Please email them, it only takes 2 minutes and if we all do it we can make it happen.
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 22, 2014 13:22:51 GMT -5
OK, so Burnin' Up and Sweet Talker are my new jams. I also rocked out to Personal last night. This album is actually pretty solid. Seal Me With A Kiss NEEDS to be next though. Best song on the album.
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 22, 2014 14:21:41 GMT -5
#9 with 24k per HITS.
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Post by Jack on Oct 22, 2014 14:55:37 GMT -5
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Post by Hussy on Oct 23, 2014 20:14:05 GMT -5
Ouch, that hurts
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 24, 2014 1:11:49 GMT -5
#10 with 25k per Billboard.
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Post by BDGeek on Oct 24, 2014 9:10:14 GMT -5
I feel like this may have opened better had the lead single been Jessie solo. "Bang Bang" is a smash, but Ari and Nicki kinda eclipsed her due to the flurry of press they've been getting these days. "Burnin' Up" wasn't going to do the job either.
At this point, I feel like she needs a genre switch. The generic pop/dance stuff isn't doing it for her. I personally think she'd slay with some bluesy/soulful stuff à la Joss Stone. Or maybe more hip-hop-esque tracks like "Bang Bang."
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Post by SHOOTER on Oct 24, 2014 11:56:25 GMT -5
I feel like this may have opened better had the lead single been Jessie solo. "Bang Bang" is a smash, but Ari and Nicki kinda eclipsed her due to the flurry of press they've been getting these days. "Burnin' Up" wasn't going to do the job either. At this point, I feel like she needs a genre switch. The generic pop/dance stuff isn't doing it for her. I personally think she'd slay with some bluesy/soulful stuff à la Joss Stone. Or maybe more hip-hop-esque tracks like "Bang Bang." I agree with both points. I don't think it helped any that Ariana put BB on the deluxe version of her album. And the few people I know that listened to the album had the same complaint that her material sounded like generic pop when they were expecting something edgier and more soulful considering how powerful her voice is and how often people use her older songs in singing competitions.
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Post by Live Your Life on Oct 24, 2014 13:09:12 GMT -5
I never expected her to sell much, but it was definitely a dumb idea to include her lead single on somebody else's album that was released two months ago. It especially doesn't make sense because Ariana has the bigger name in the states, so most people would pick up her album before Jessie J's anyway.
Anyway, she killed her performance on the MOBO Awards:
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Post by Live Your Life on Nov 4, 2014 19:32:45 GMT -5
She's dating Luke James. Talk about a sangin' ass couple....
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Post by think pink. on Nov 4, 2014 20:38:36 GMT -5
She's dating Luke? Jessie won.
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Post by Live Your Life on Nov 21, 2014 13:05:46 GMT -5
She's also performing at the AMAs this Sunday.
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Post by George on Nov 21, 2014 15:34:03 GMT -5
Even if her album sales don't ignite, I'd love for her to get more Top10s to her career with it!
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Post by Luckie Starchild on Nov 21, 2014 18:19:06 GMT -5
Love the Jimmy Kimmel clips… she's got such great stage presence!
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Nov 24, 2014 14:16:05 GMT -5
Why did I just find out that her and Luke James are dating?! The runs and melisma during sex must be legendary.
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Post by Live Your Life on Nov 25, 2014 23:09:50 GMT -5
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Post by think pink. on Nov 26, 2014 1:52:52 GMT -5
One of the best performances of the night!.
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Post by bat1990 on Nov 29, 2014 23:08:44 GMT -5
They started taking it to church at the end!!!!!
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Post by marcjm on Nov 30, 2014 2:11:44 GMT -5
That's crazy that Jessie J and Luke James are dating. It's funny that they both released their CDs around the same time.
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