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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 15:19:13 GMT -5
Well now this is just confusing since Jordin herself was hyping this up while simultaneously talking about her new single which is supposed to come this month. I would guess this means "Before It Breaks" with Jason is still the likely lead, but the way this was communicated is sloppy. Very sloppy. idek who to blame for that.
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Post by dbhmr on Aug 1, 2013 15:45:43 GMT -5
smdh. This is all very reminiscent of "I Am Woman." Who puts an Excedrin-sponsored bore of a song online via email sign-up to preview the sound for an unannounced, unnamed album?
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Post by 🅳🅸🆂🅲🅾 on Aug 1, 2013 15:49:08 GMT -5
This feels so generic and ordinary. Jordin's vocals are the only good thing about it.
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Post by jdanton2 on Aug 1, 2013 16:38:59 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2013 16:47:26 GMT -5
No, i signed myself up for a bunch of excedrin emails just to download that song - well okay, it was the fake email address i made using my cat's name, but still! the effort i had to expend just to download the song was enough that i no longer care to actually pay for it. give me the REAL single and album, we can talk $$ then.
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Post by Jay on Aug 1, 2013 17:10:47 GMT -5
The production sounds fine to me (maybe it's my headphones that are making it sound better than it is? idk). Glad to hear this is not the lead single though. It's cute and Jordin's vocals are great, but I agree with everyone saying she should pick a more proper surefire song.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Aug 1, 2013 19:32:21 GMT -5
@ the tactics being used to sell songs and albums nowadays. Gaga x CVS Taylor Swift x Papa Johns I can't.
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Post by 3mshaw on Aug 1, 2013 19:40:44 GMT -5
Well now this is just confusing since Jordin herself was hyping this up while simultaneously talking about her new single which is supposed to come this month. I would guess this means "Before It Breaks" with Jason is still the likely lead, but the way this was communicated is sloppy. Very sloppy. idek who to blame for that. I'm pretty sure this song is just a buzz single to re introduce her name and introduce the more Urban sound! Which is a great idea!! She never said it was the official single and everything leading up to now shows that!! But I love the new sound .... just with a better song!! This is totally an album filler, but a nice song.
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Post by johnm1120 on Aug 2, 2013 9:04:01 GMT -5
I put on Hot 995 when I got to Lirton and the first thing I heard was them playing a clip of this song
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Post by Active Aggressive on Aug 2, 2013 10:27:12 GMT -5
I think this will be the single. Anyway, I love it. I've always supported Jordin and this is definitely my favorite lead single of hers to date. I hope it does well for her.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 12:50:36 GMT -5
I burned this to a mix cd and it surprisingly sounded really good in the car, so maybe there is some potential for this song after all. (i'm also listening to it on the headphones at school and it sounds good here too...so maybe the song is just not meant to be listened to on factory laptop speakers.)
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Post by Sir Benji on Aug 2, 2013 13:16:55 GMT -5
Yeah. I think this one's gonna be a grower. It sounded better to me the 2nd time around.
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Post by Jack on Aug 2, 2013 13:40:09 GMT -5
This song is such a nothing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 16:00:22 GMT -5
I like it. The light, breezy throwback Rhythmic sound is right up my alley, but I don't see this doing much for her. Pop isn't going to go for this, and it's too Pop for Urban. Rhythmic is the only format I can see latching on to this, and I don't see it making any serious impact there without some CHR/Pop support.
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Post by brad4560 on Aug 2, 2013 18:31:21 GMT -5
lol i love how the metadata has the image art of the single using her debut cd cover? great song though!!!! took a few listens
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Post by 3mshaw on Aug 2, 2013 20:00:32 GMT -5
Once again I say I dont think this is the official single, Jordin and NO ONE on her team has called this the lead single and last night she tweeted this is only the tip of the ice berg. And her manager tweeted that Before It Breaks and Magic are coming soon. Everything has pointed to this being a buzz single.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2013 20:57:11 GMT -5
This song is such a grower. The dum-dum-da-da hook is infectious!
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Post by jdanton2 on Aug 4, 2013 5:18:34 GMT -5
Jordin's manager has confirmed it will be on itunes Tuesday.
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Aug 4, 2013 5:28:25 GMT -5
The first verse isn't so bad if you ignore some of the craptastic lyrics (which is 90% of it, but at least she sounds nice!), but then we get to the messy ass chorus (pre-chorus? idfk) and it just turns into noise. She should have just kept "The Way" for herself if she was going this route. I agree that it sounds like a demo. She missed the boat on "Who Says" too, but she's so insistent on passing up on hits. sigh. What she could've been...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2013 9:27:05 GMT -5
I don't think it's Jordin herself passing up these hits though. I get the sense that she's always losing them to someone else for some reason and it is frustrating. I am pretty sure she said she wanted to keep "Who Says," she also had recorded "Skyscraper" first, and she was supposed to get "Complicated" but she was hoarse the day she was supposed to record it, so it went to Rihanna instead (which made no sense b/c anyone could have told you it had no chance of being a single with Rihanna; with Jordin it could have been a lead). I believe "Don't Hold Your Breath" was pitched to her in some form before going to Nicole Scherzinger. I was looking at the wiki for "The Way" a few weeks ago and the way Ariana got the song is kind of fishy to me...I get the feeling the producer didn't want to wait on Jordin so he pitched the song to Ariana. That this is a recurring theme in her career is not cool.
I'm glad she missed out on "Who Says" though. I was never here for that song and if she'd gotten it, it would have hindered her attempt to seem like a more 'grownup' artist.
"Freeze" was indeed a lost opportunity. It should have been the lead! :'( but I doubt she had any real say in what the singles would be. I still don't understand why they cut the era short after only three hits, there was clearly still momentum and "Freeze" would have slayed.
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Aug 4, 2013 17:00:22 GMT -5
I'm glad she missed out on "Who Says" though. I was never here for that song and if she'd gotten it, it would have hindered her attempt to seem like a more 'grownup' artist. honestly, idts. Nothing about the song says "immature" other then it being sung by a Disney girl. other than that, it seems like the standard self-empowerment songs that were dominating (or about to dominate) at the time. ftr, I'm not the biggest fan of the song either but, at the time, Jordin was in a better place in her career than Selena Gomez (and the Scene ) were.
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Post by horchata on Aug 4, 2013 17:16:12 GMT -5
"Freeze" is still her best song to date imo and very well screamed make me into a single. "Skipping A Beat" isn't bad or anything, but it just doesn't do much as a whole. She sounds great which is to be expected, but the production is lacking. It's a ton better than "I Am Woman" though, but that probably isn't saying much.
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Post by jdanton2 on Aug 12, 2013 15:27:34 GMT -5
going to itunes Wednesday . it was mentioned earlier today when Jordin was on Ryan Seacrest this morning and also just tweeted.
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Post by Air Jordin on Aug 13, 2013 11:37:13 GMT -5
This is on iTunes now! For those of you who complained about the production, it is MUCH STRONGER in the final HQ version! The version on soundcloud must have just been the demo! It sounds fantastic!
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Aug 13, 2013 12:04:48 GMT -5
This is on iTunes now! For those of you who complained about the production, it is MUCH STRONGER in the final HQ version! The version on soundcloud must have just been the demo! It sounds fantastic! that's one way to bribe people into buying it.
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Post by Air Jordin on Aug 13, 2013 12:08:11 GMT -5
This is on iTunes now! For those of you who complained about the production, it is MUCH STRONGER in the final HQ version! The version on soundcloud must have just been the demo! It sounds fantastic! that's one way to bribe people into buying it. haha fair enough, but the production is actually significantly different in this version--it sounds much more polished and full.
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Post by Jay on Aug 13, 2013 13:31:35 GMT -5
Is this considered her lead single or a promo single? Jordin is confusing the hell out of me.
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Post by Air Jordin on Aug 13, 2013 13:57:03 GMT -5
Is this considered her lead single or a promo single? Jordin is confusing the hell out of me. Jason just tweeted that this is just a buzz track
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Post by jdanton2 on Aug 13, 2013 15:26:44 GMT -5
buzz single though still a great song.
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