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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 2, 2023 19:10:26 GMT -5
Just finished listening to the album. How Does It Feel is honestly the only track I love the most because of the sample, but I do like Pray It Away, I Don't Mind, Feel Me Cry, Body Do (reminds me of Ciara), Cheatback (except Future's part), and In Pieces. Wish Heart On A Sleeve was longer.
It's a huge disappointment that she did not include the pre-releases on the album. Would have made the album so much better and cohesive overall.
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Post by Au$tin on Apr 3, 2023 11:42:22 GMT -5
The best thing this album has to offer is 52 seconds long. I don't get it. The four tracks released before this (Have Mercy, Treat Me, Surprise, For the Night) are all bangers, bonafide bops, cult classics. And everything on this album is a dud.
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 3, 2023 12:09:34 GMT -5
Rated R'n'B gave the album 8/10.
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Post by SHOOTER on Apr 3, 2023 17:09:37 GMT -5
Whoever betrayed her took her creative spark with them.
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Apr 3, 2023 17:12:43 GMT -5
She was able to put out her own work created by her, still happy for her. There's always room for growth!
* she's still very new(SOLO)imo.
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Post by divasummer on Apr 7, 2023 11:36:45 GMT -5
Loving her new track “Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me”. I like it better than a lot of her latest album. However I adored all the pre release tracks that they didn’t include on it….
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Post by Active Aggressive on Apr 7, 2023 19:07:41 GMT -5
Finally listened to this and...umm...the hate is totally unnecessary and, frankly unwarranted. I have heard MUCH worse from mainstream artists. This is her debut. I think she is just having growing pains as an artist and trying to find her direction. Ungodly Hour was much better than this, as an album, but this is also not bad. Just average. I felt the same way about X-Tina, Rihanna, and other debut albums. I think she can improve on some of the things she already explores here, but can't seem to commit to. Also, the album sounds cheap in places. I would give it a C+
1. Told Ya (HOT! LORD, why is no one discussing this!? Missy SLAYS also. WHEW! Reminds me of how I felt about Sweetener. Also, that ending?!) 2. Body Do (FANTASTIC. Deserves to be a hit, honestly.) 3. How Does It Feel (This is actually great. It's unfortunate that Beat Her Down Brown is on it, but, objectively speaking, it's hot. The sample is perfectly deployed too.) 4. Feel Me Cry (this might as well be part two of How Does It Feel, LOL. I thought it was one of those songs like on The 20/20 Experience, where the song just morphs completely.) 5. I Don't Mind (the way this made me move my body...WHEW.) 6. Pray It Away (an interesting song but she should never have put it out there as an album preview. total album track, but it's nice) 7. In Pieces (pretty) 8. Heart On My Sleeve (should have been a full song.) 9. Looze U (weird song, LOL that chorus is just a mess. just amateurish song) 10. Make It Look Easy (I live for the ending, but the rest is the definition of sleep sleep.) 11. Cheatback (what a fail all around, that message especially) 12. Fallin For You 13. Someone's Calling 14. Worried (WTF?? This is trash! Cheap and weird. Sounds like it was made in aquarium water.)
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 8, 2023 9:19:10 GMT -5
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Post by Ty on Apr 8, 2023 9:48:29 GMT -5
Finally listened to this and...umm...the hate is totally unnecessary and, frankly unwarranted. I think she can improve on some of the things she already explores here, but can't seem to commit to. Also, the album sounds cheap in places. I would give it a C+ 10. Make It Look Easy (I live for the ending, but the rest is the definition of sleep sleep.) 11. Cheatback (what a fail all around, that message especially) 14. Worried (WTF?? This is trash! Cheap and weird. Sounds like it was made in aquarium water.)
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Post by Active Aggressive on Apr 8, 2023 9:55:33 GMT -5
Finally listened to this and...umm...the hate is totally unnecessary and, frankly unwarranted. I think she can improve on some of the things she already explores here, but can't seem to commit to. Also, the album sounds cheap in places. I would give it a C+ 10. Make It Look Easy (I live for the ending, but the rest is the definition of sleep sleep.) 11. Cheatback (what a fail all around, that message especially) 14. Worried (WTF?? This is trash! Cheap and weird. Sounds like it was made in aquarium water.) LOL. The truth is the album is average. As you quoted, I gave it a C+, whereas some of the stuff I have read make it sound like it's a complete and total travesty and if you read my review, I didn't say that. It seems like you picked three of the weakest songs that I didn't like (3 out of...14, LOL) to paint a narrative that I was also trashing the album. Not true at all. I literally had good things to say about half the album, LOL.
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Post by Sir Benji on Apr 9, 2023 8:15:13 GMT -5
Chole's issue is not the material imho, it's that she is indecisive. I think it was a mistake to discard all the previously released singles and start over.
I've previewed the album but I haven't listened to all of it. I do like all the pre-release tracks.
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Post by SHOOTER on Apr 10, 2023 10:03:25 GMT -5
Double digits at least. Ungodly Hour debuted at #16 with 24k SPS.
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Apr 10, 2023 10:20:47 GMT -5
See, UH did 24k. The girls aren't that big yet. Successfully Visible, but they are definitely in budding mode imo.
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Post by Choco on Apr 10, 2023 10:57:13 GMT -5
Going from top 30 with her debut song to #119 shows they just wasted her hype.
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Post by HamedM1 💔 on Apr 10, 2023 11:00:00 GMT -5
The hype was definitely there with Have Mercy but we are fooling ourselves if we think it didn't completely fizzle out between then and now. It makes sense though she hasn't really managed to cut an image or identity for herself yet and her debut album did no favors in giving her anything unique sadly.
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Post by wavey.✨️ on Apr 11, 2023 14:59:12 GMT -5
The hype was definitely there with Have Mercy but we are fooling ourselves if we think it didn't completely fizzle out between then and now. It makes sense though she hasn't really managed to cut an image or identity for herself yet and her debut album did no favors in giving her anything unique sadly. Exactly. There's always room for improvement! She's new solo, she'll figure it out eventually.
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Post by Ty on Apr 11, 2023 15:40:20 GMT -5
Had they included the 4 pre-releases, she could've debuted within Top 100...
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 11, 2023 18:56:12 GMT -5
It would be nice if she released a deluxe edition of the album and added the pre releases on there.
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Post by #brayden on Apr 11, 2023 23:30:48 GMT -5
Meh. Artists that scrap material from albums just because it isn't commercially successful enough deserve to flop IMO. If you're gonna be fickle towards your own material, your "fans" will have no problem being fickle towards you as an artist.
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 12, 2023 8:42:25 GMT -5
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 13, 2023 8:40:22 GMT -5
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Post by spiritboy on Apr 13, 2023 11:44:53 GMT -5
This is probably why Normani will never release an album.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Apr 13, 2023 12:09:43 GMT -5
She’ll be able to move past this and spin. New narrative. You can always come back from a flop, especially at her age and with her varied entertainment presence.
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Post by Night Senses on Apr 13, 2023 22:09:05 GMT -5
This is probably why Normani will never release an album. I hate to compare these two young black women in this narrative, but there’s something about both situations that seem mutually exclusive. Something else is going on with Normani. Chloe was always in active pursuit of a release, but she was chasing a “Crazy in Love” sized hit. When the stars didn’t align, she simply adapted to making poor decisions and let delusion lead the way. The fact that her team/label wasn’t smart enough to include the pre-album singles for streaming/digital deluxe as add-ons for a potential gold certification in the future is beyond me. I don’t know what Normani’s strategy or lack thereof is, OR what her situation might be. But I don’t think it’s encouraging to watch a peer bomb when they’ve both been on the same trajectory of chasing a hit to launch their debut albums. The reason why I say it might be mutually exclusive between the two is because I think Normani’s stalling happened way before we were unaware Chloe would take as long as she did. Normani’s work ethic is non-existent and she has been at this standstill for almost half a decade, prior to Chloe going solo. Chloe couldn’t have been the “guinea” Normani was using as a wait and see, until much later. If Normani never releases a solo album, it won’t have anything to do with Ms. Bailey. Any artist who projects their own insecurities on someone else’s success or failure is not the makings of someone who has the thick skin to survive in this business. PS: Autocorrect is hell.
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Post by think pink. on Apr 14, 2023 17:32:11 GMT -5
Chloe knew she was going to flop and still pushed to drop her album. She’s also already on tour and isn’t sitting around waiting for things to happen. She’s consistently out there.
Normani is too scared to drop and thinks taking a selfie every 3 months is work. I don’t think we’ll ever see that album. Not this year anyway. And we’ve been waiting since 2017.
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Post by HamedM1 💔 on Apr 15, 2023 10:10:05 GMT -5
As much as I don't care for the record we got, she is definitely putting in the work on her career. Parkwood dropped the ball hard on their end of things though, which is quite a shame cause Ungodly Hour was promoted extremely well and made the rounds online as a really good album that shows a lot of promise for CxH.
They do definitely need to rethink the type of material they are giving her though cause its seems like they are very confused on what they want Chlöe to be. The first two singles were energetic bops, followed by a laid back sensual R&B cut, ro a midtempo R&B single, and then the actual album is largely balladry or slower R&B songs save for Body Do and Told Ya (which both of those harken back to the same attitude as the first two singles).
The cohesion is nonexistent and I think kts the most important thing cause it helps paint the image of an artist. SZA, Kehlani, and Ari Lennox are all artists who are known for their cohesive music which contributes to why they have cut out their own spots in the industry as recognizable names. It doesn't mean they are repetitive but it does give listeners an idea of what to generally expect from these artists. SZA might give us her brutally honest songwriting paired with alt inspiration or Ari Lennox will give us something more along the lines of a sultry or sensual R&B song with lots of confidence. Is that all they ever give, no but it definitely is the image they have painted for themselves.
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Post by Kishi KCM on Apr 15, 2023 11:04:38 GMT -5
It would be nice if she released a deluxe edition of the album and added the pre releases on there. All of the singles were good to me. Have Mercy is fun, Treat Me is my favorite, Surprise is a bop and For The Night was a nice change of pace. Just because they weren't all big hits doesn't mean they should be discarded. They absolutely all belong on the album. Chloe as an artist as well as CXH have my support and I look forward to seeing the growth and progression in their musicality. I get that people dislike the sexual image, but the criticism is getting ridiculous to me. The marketing campaign for the album and film are great, I do wish it were more spread out over time and consistent...some of these press interviews and promo runs would have been helpful earlier on.
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 20, 2023 8:22:25 GMT -5
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Post by upsidedown on Apr 20, 2023 8:32:46 GMT -5
Chloe knew she was going to flop and still pushed to drop her album. She’s also already on tour and isn’t sitting around waiting for things to happen. She’s consistently out there. Normani is too scared to drop and thinks taking a selfie every 3 months is work. I don’t think we’ll ever see that album. Not this year anyway. And we’ve been waiting since 2017. It also doesn't help that Normani has continually sh*t all over her one solo hit. Likewise, the idea for Chloe to ignore her biggest solo hit (Have Mercy) and scrap it from the album is also mindboggling.
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Post by 🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 on Apr 21, 2023 22:44:32 GMT -5
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