Jessica Simpson - "Irresistible" (2001)

[🇯🇲 lucy88 🇯🇲]

Her second album released on May 25, 2001, by Columbia Records. Producers and writers included Cory Rooney, Rodney Jerkins, and Walter Afanasieff. In contrast to her debut album Sweet Kisses (1999), which included more ballads, Irresistible explored hip hop and R&B genres of music. The album was described as "Mariah Carey meets Britney Spears". Her label modified her image and sound in Irresistible, deciding to delve more into the teen pop and R&B genres, as they felt that restyling Jessica to match the image of her contemporaries—Spears and Christina Aguilera—would help rejuvenate her career.

The album debuted at number six on the US Billboard 200 but quickly fell down the charts afterward. Though the album's initial chart placement was an improvement from her previous endeavor, it failed to match the commercial success of her contemporaries, as the album went on to sell only about 900,000 copies in the United States, and over two million worldwide. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies.

Two singles were released from Irresistible. The title track, the album's lead single, was commercially successful, as it reached the top twenty in charts of eleven countries, including number eleven on the UK Singles Chart, and at number fifteen on the US Billboard Hot 100. It was followed by "A Little Bit", which failed to chart in the United States, but reached a peak position of number sixty-two in Australia.

This is personally my fave album by her. I just have nostalgic memories with the singles and seeing the videos on TRL. My fave track from the album is "Hot Like Fire" and I like all the tracks that were produced by Afanasieff. What are your fave tracks from the album?

Irresistible: #15 Hot 100, #3 Mainstream Top 40, #12 U.S. Rhythmic, #5 Top 40 Tracks

A Little Bit: #62 Australia, #15 Netherlands, #21 Poland

[Ginger Spice]

Very clearly an attempt to ride Britney's coattails (she talks at length in her autobiography about how the label basically made her into a Britney clone here), but I'm a sucker for the Y2K teen pop sound, so I love it. I usually listen to about half of it. I like the singles, "Hot Like Fire," "Imagination," and "When You Told Me You Loved Me" (in all it's Afanasieff cheesyness). I enjoy the rest fine, but I never listen to her cover of "His Eye is on the Sparrow." The album ends with "I Never" for me.

[ClevelandRox]

I remember reading they lost "millions" on this album?

Irresistible is still a bop and probably my favorite song of hers, I was never here for A Little Bit though. Hot Like Fire, yaaaaaas.

[Joe1240]

I used to like this album at the time of it's release. "Irresistible" was a great lead single for Jessica back in 2001. "Hot Like Fire" is a great album track.

[Zinc.]

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